Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Yes, she was very good, RIP Mavis.

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Jonathan Tjarks

Devastating news: We lost our friend Jonathan Tjarks to cancer last night. He was a fantastic basketball writer and thinker, and an even better family man and friend. He elevated everything we did.

His wife Melissa wrote about him here: https://t.co/wM6dC4PPFg

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) September 11, 2022

Gwyneth Powell AKA Mrs McClusky, she would have been a good queen.

Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, 92. I've only seen Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 and In the White City, both of which were very good, balancing clear-eyed investigation with deep feeling.

He had a great run there for a while. RIP.

I’d also recommend La Salamandre and The Middle of the World.

Photographer William Klein. Apparently he's got a big NYC exhibit that closes tomorrow, if anyone's in the neighborhood.

RIP. Wonder if anyone else has seen his Little Richard doc.

Ramsey Lewis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmlJd6WZMo

Damn. A giant. RIP

aw fuck it

I had been working on setting up an interview with him, too. Oh, well.

Time to break out Mother Nature’s Son.

Venezuelan guitarist Aquiles Báez.

Philly rapper PnB Rock, 30

Brother Cleve, one-time keyboardist for Combustible Edison and the Del Fuegos and a leading light in the Boston cocktail scene. Drinks writer Robert Simonson wrote a nice tribute in his newsletter.

⚫ Jean-Luc Godard est mort https://t.co/gDLynUc7Ta pic.twitter.com/LQ5DXWPgap

— Libération (@libe) September 13, 2022

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Whitewater prosecutor, rape coverup artist, and general piece of shit Ken Starr.

The Clintons Strike Again!

Good riddance to bad garbage.

Ken Starr and Godard, jammin’ in heaven.

Irene Papas ;_;

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/obituaries/irene-papas-dead.html

Love this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_GJucf-bI

Never a bad time to repost a link to Little Orange Tree

I didn't realise there was a video clip for that song. I remember being slightly disappointed with the album, because it has a really bombastic beginning - but that track comes on and all is forgiven. It's like a distant ancestor of a lot of the stuff on 4AD that came out later on, e.g. Dead Can Dance etc. She had a very small but fascinating musical career.

Those records with Vangelis are absolutely unique to both artists. RIP

Rommy Hunt Revson, a former nightclub singer who created the Scrunchie, has died at age 78. In the summer of 1986, she taught herself to sew, combined fabric and elastic to avoid damaging hair, and made an early prototype that she named after her poodle. https://t.co/SE7eOmtoP4

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 14, 2022

Eddie Butler ☹️

We're saddened to bring you the news that our friend and colleague, former Wales international Eddie Butler has died aged 65

— BBC ScrumV (@BBCScrumV) September 15, 2022

Pour out a box: Fred Franzia, 79, Dies; Upended Wine Industry With Two-Buck Chuck

*pukes one out in his his honor*

good lord, i barfed to his wine for an entire summer and more

everyone did. our barf covered the lawns, that summer, and the gas station were filled to the brim with franzia boxes

the trash cans, that is. unexplainable diapers and emptied franzia sacks

Henry Silva, Distinctive Actor in ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ ‘Manchurian Candidate,’ Dies at 95

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/henry-silva-dead-oceans-eleven-1235375327/

Saul Kripke

https://dailynous.com/2022/09/16/saul-kripke-1940-2022/

Person I didn't know. etc. RIP.

Wow, Henry Silva was still alive.

(xxp) Gee philospher Kripke... RIP

always disorienting to find out the sage and revered philosophers whose essays i was being set as a student were in their thirties at the time, when i had them all filed as like maybe a decade younger than heraclitus (ie the age i am now)

anyway rip saul k, i am fairly certain i didn't get it and my own essays were all terrible

good lord, i barfed to his wine
for an entire summer and more

everyone did

our barf covered the lawns, that summer
the gas stations were filled to the brim
with franzia boxes

the trash cans, that is

unexplainable diapers
and emptied franzia sacks

those were the best days of my life
back in the summer of two-buck wine

hate to be petty here, but "franzia boxes" were produced by his father I believe.. this guy's big gift to the world was Charles Shaw, via Trader Joe's

Report from Twitter that Dave Foreman - founder of Earth First! and later the Rewilding Institute passed. Age 74. True one-of-a-kind human. A much needed militant voice in the 80s when ignoramuses like James G. Watt were propagandizing about how trees cause more pollution than cars. Any conversation with him left you feeling optimistic and motivated - a rarity!

Per Syd Straw, Anton Fier

https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Xb6ifcJ1tW7PWh47dPpuDVNeydMFJTN3s6qghMt4kWkS1GhZ9Da7P9gtkmTpt1Ul&id=542674938&m_entstream_source=permalink&ref=m_notif¬if_t=close_friend_activity

Oh wow... legend

Glenn Kenny remembers

https://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2022/09/i-remember-anton-fier.html

Country singer Luke Bell, dead from an "accidental fentanyl overdose."