Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

oh, he's talked about his mental illness quite a bit - in the graun once i seem to remember - and must be only in his mid 40s. shouldn't speculate i suppose but sad in any case

https://pitchfork.com/news/tiger-merritt-vocalist-guitarist-of-morning-teleportation-dead-at-31/

Pete Cashmore on not being the other Pete Cashmore. RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/nov/21/pete-cashmore-successful-namesake-twitter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Shawn Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpbPiu8xpA

former Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, 97, opponent of both civil rights legislation and "porn rock"

what is porn rock and where can I find it

it's all around you

Porn rock landed on us

...in 1985. (thx to Tipper Gore)

Senator Hollings began the proceedings by noting that the only redeeming social value he detected in “porn rock,” as he called it, was that its words are “inaudible.” “It’s outrageous filth,” he went on, “and we’ve got to do something about it…. If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would.” He said he had asked “the best constitutional minds” around to see if the stuff could be legally outlawed.

“The framers of the First Amendment never considered broadcast airwaves that could pipe this stuff willy-nilly into homes,” Hollings said.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-censorship-big-brother-meets-twisted-sister-100136/

(icymi, he was a Democrat)

porn rock piped willy-nilly

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way" – Classic or Dud?
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly

is anyone itt surprised to learn that a conservative nut senator from south carolina, first elected in 1949, was a democrat?

Wait until Dnesh Dsouza finds out

well Doc some ppl may not have the historical background

he ran for prez in' 84, dropped out after NH... and endorsed Gary Hart!

also a fair number of Dixiecrats had switched parties by the '80s

So the PMRC and “porn rock” were a Democrat thing? WTF were they thinking???

Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.

see also three strikes, "super-predators," welfare reform etc.

Shocked to learn that Okwui Enwezor died on March 1. He one among the preeminent art curators in the 21st century, and his projects and writings are responsible for vastly expanding discourses on post-colonial and global politics in art: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/okwui-enwezor-dead.html

actor seymour cassel

RIP. I used to have a gigantic poster from Faces on my wall for years.

"Guitarist Slash (real name Saul Hudson), who was childhood friends with Cassel's son, credited Cassel with giving him his nickname, because he was always zipping from one place to another and never sitting still.[5]"

shit, seymour cassel, a classic "that guy"

^^^literally said this aloud when i saw the news

really thought he was gone already

I used to think he'd died after shooting Rushmore, but then I saw him on a Boston Public ep in 2000 or so playing a teacher who'd faked his death, which was a funny way to be set straight on the matter.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp/

A cool, neat footnote in Cassell's career is his appearance--alongside Alex Rocco--as a henchman in the Batman/Green Hornet episodes.

Had one of these as a kid:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0758/8457/products/029_0387e290-aebe-4786-88cc-951def1ca03f_large.JPG?v=1463100113

He’s the guy who sets up Ben Gazzara in Killing of a Chinese Bookie right?

RIP Seymour. Thought he was long dead tho.

Richard Cole - last surviving Doolittle Raider
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html

Sandy Ratcliff, actress, best known for Eastenders but best remembered for "Family Life" and "The Final Programme".

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/sandy-ratcliff-dies-aged-70-eastenders-fans-pay-tribute-as-soap-airs-following-actresss-death-a4113726.html

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X_WqXOJbJf8/XKzy6RueTVI/AAAAAAAAzXE/QpsCqImE-ywVx9Zq858404LdmCohwMTvgCLcBGAs/s640/sandy-ratcliff-schaut-ernst-und-raucht.jpg

You can add "mother of the guy who runs Iron Fist magazine" to the résumé.

"Twenty-One" stooge Charles Van Doren

Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.

Bonus spoonful of "write rules that say your competitors shouldn't be allowed to compete" on the last one.

Earl Thomas Conley

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/04/10/country-singer-earl-thomas-conley-dies/3425157002/

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp🕸/

Ian Cognito, probably one of Britain's most challenging comedians and peer with Sadowitz, died onstage (literally) in Bicester last night. Won awards in the late 90s but seemed happy to just be a comedian's comedian.

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/7036/news-ian-cognito-dies

The video down the bottom doesn't suggest he'll be missed!

(Does Jimmy Carr have 'risky brutal humour'? What does he do with it?)

other comics who died onstage: Dick Shawn and Parkyakarkus (Albert Brooks' father)

tommy cooper, too

Blimey, used to see him back in my "Comedy Gig-Going" days - he was really good!

I dunno, what can you do? The price of staying alive, I guess.

tommy cooper, too

Appropriately enough Jerry Sadowitz had a routine about this - and some horse that died running the Derby.

(american) football player and coach (bengals, packers) forrest gregg

Tommy Smith, Liverpool FC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47913937

virulently racist piece of shit who leaves the world a richer place for his having left it

I did not know about that. But yes, checks out :(

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/03/howard-gayle-being-liverpool-first-black-player-was-difficult