The Anthony Bourdain thread

They need to take the facade and put it in the Met.

Not to chase conspiracy theories, but I hope the police etc. covered both erotic auto-asphyxiation and Black Cube.

wow you’re firing up the fan fiction machine early

sometimes a guy hanging himself in a hotel is just a guy hanging himself in a hotel

if there's something fishy I'd have thought chantix would be involved.

let's not do this

seriously!!

Sorry but it's an honest issue and one he's talked about before.

do you expect to learn anything by hypothesizing? you'll get an autopsy result etc soon enough.

i feel like you should all stfu unless youre posting sweet and touching rememberances

this is more like a thought exercise & not technically “about” Bourdain but i think it hews pretty close to something that feels true imo

https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/10/randazza-trying-to-make-sense-of-bourdain/

i have been thinking a lot about how shattering it must have been for Eric Ripert to find him :(

do you expect to learn anything by hypothesizing? you'll get an autopsy result etc soon enough.

There's a great Maron WTF podcast with Bourdain from 2011. Regardless of what you think of Maron, it's a great discussion.

<3 Ripert, hope he’s doing ok

I seriously cringed the other day when my mom kind of tapered off after half-postulating about past drug use and what it does to your mind

the truth is there are a million things that can be contributing factors, sometimes specific things you can point at, but suicide isn’t something where finding a factor you can point at and decide the case is closed. like so many things in life, it’s something where attempting to rationalize it is a somewhat greedy act on behalf of those of us still here, because we can’t know another person’s mind

it’s not a space shuttle explosion where you point at a faulty gasket and say “hmm yes, this was the cause”. and that’s the human condition right there, we’re not knowable

I love Ripert. I just don't know. It's a lot right now and all this internalized hypothesizing that is human nature. I would hope people try to think about those they are leaving behind with the brunt of discovery.

Regardless, NYC should make a permanent memorial. He was important and quintessentially part of the oxygen and fever of NY.

xxpost mh yeah that is very true
anyway like i said, that dude’s piece seemed more like a thought exercise than insight, i just was kinda moved by it

Watched some of the "CNN Remembers..." thing and, outside of Fox & Friends, there may not be a dumber, more shallow, person to get a reaction from than Wolf Blitzer. I mean, I already knew this, but it was thrown into sharp relief here.

yeah i dunno why but i didnt realize that it was literally going to be *cnn anchors* remember Bourdain

like who are half these clowns to him anyway except people he said hi to in the hallway

i watched a bit & turned it off. i’d rather hear from his crew etc

it’s not a space shuttle explosion where you point at a faulty gasket and say “hmm yes, this was the cause”.

otmfm

honestly I want to see the Wolf Blitzer memorial speech because, man, that would have really irritated Tony

I've been to the Hot Corner in Havana.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/rip-anthony-bourdain-passionate-baseball-fan/

honestly I want to see the Wolf Blitzer memorial speech because, man, that would have really irritated Tony

yeah, if ever there was a reason to keep living...

David Simon:

http://davidsimon.com/tony/

Holy shit at the CIA stuff!

Now that's a hell of a read. Especially said stuff, yeah.

awesome

good piece

man i hope the cia show gets made one way or another

it is a sad state of affairs in the world of television that a David Simon/Anthony Bourdain series about the CIA can't find backing.

“I can read a fucking book. Same as the rest of you fucks.”

A couple of direct, unfussy pieces by 2 travel writers for the NY Times on what Bourdain meant to them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/travel/anthony-bourdain-jada-yuan-lucas-peterson.html

<3 love those

i just watched the s4e5 ep in Hue, Vietnam & my
god it was beautiful. i cried. more and more I see the difference in episodes between the places he’s just sort of carried along by, and places he loves and/or where he connects with the people. when he really connects with place & ppl the way he does over and over again in vietnam, it’s like a magic spell. incredible tv.

Perfect:

When @MeredthSalenger and I honeymooned in Paris our friends & family put together lists of places to eat and things to do. Then I sent those lists to Anthony Bourdain for his input. This was his response. I love and miss him: pic.twitter.com/1YFI7zScz0

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) June 10, 2018

sorry for shitposting

idk if this was posted upthread bit this 2016 interview covers some good ground & yielded the phrase “some fucking Mumford & Sons IPA” which will liive forever in my heart

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/anthony-bourdain-interview-appetites-cookbook

I kind of remembered why I fell off on watching the show. Whatever dumb conservative hack made the point that he'd hook up with an American celebrity/musician/writer in another place was right. It's completely down to my own biases, but the new Berlin episode, he met with a local Berlin musician I really like (Ellen Allien) but the segment was really short. Then he met up with, and I'm not going to drop the name here, an American living in Berlin who was relatively affable that dropped this little rockist rant and admitted while he lives there, he's not playing shows in Berlin!

I might be projecting, but those moments always seemed like a mix of playing to type and bridge-building: here's this guy who is on the surface like me, but here's what he's doing that's more globally conscious. I just never really saw Bourdain as that guy anymore and those dudes are what I kind of left behind.

Not much to say other than this still makes me feel terribly sad and I think about AB a lot.

Netflix in the UK have recently thrown up most (if not all) of Parts Unknown which is great. On top of that, I've been catching later episodes of No Reservations on YouTube and they look great. I'm not a foodie, although I have a peripheral interest in cooking and the episodes don't all work for me especially the ones in the USA for some reason, but as travelogues when they get it right, it's sublime, compulsive. I realised that it's possibly because there's very little of the numbing repetition or redundancy within the episodes which, for a lifestyle channel show, I imagine they had to fight to resist.

I've had the last interview with Bourdain open for a week in a tab on my browser. I can't bring myself to read it yet.

oh jesus

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html

Carrie Goldberg, her lawyer who handled the matter, read email messages from The Times, according to two people familiar with the case, but she has not responded.

As the NYT article notes, that's this Carrie Goldberg, feminist lawyer extraordinaire, who's made a big name for herself representing victims of revenge porn. That's a striking detail.

really curious who anonymously leaked this to the times...

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/08/asia-argento-says-accuser-payoff-was-anthony-bourdains-idea.html

Watching the series finale, it’s clear that Bourdain drew a lot of cultural inspiration from the art and music produced on the Lower East Side during that era. Over the course of the episode, Tony chats with a number of influential musicians (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Richard Hell, Harley Flanagan), artists (Joe Coleman, Kembra Pfahler, John Lurie), and filmmakers (Jim Jarmusch, Amos Poe, Fab 5 Freddy). And he visits an array of East Village and Lower East Side institutions with these local legends, including Veselka, John’s of 12th Street, and Ray’s Candy Store. The Zero Point Zero Production crew did an amazing job paying homage to the punk and no wave scenes with the editing and musical cues in this episode, and the incorporation of archival footage.

That’s from Eater.com re the recently aired Parts Unknown final episode. I found it interesting to watch Tony and the others struggle with themes of nostalgia versus the present. He seemed very subdued . John Lurie making him two hard boiled eggs was a nice touch.

Elegiac Far West Texas episode is worth watching too (it aired just before the East Village finale). Without Boudain's v/o I'm seeing just how great the cinematography is.

Oh, missed that West Texas one. Will look for it.

i enjoyed this

https://www.gq.com/story/anthony-bourdain-men-of-the-year-tribute

Thanks for posting that. I teared up reading it.