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The Days of Our Lives clip included in that Arleen Sorkin obit is truly something else

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

They definitely don't make them like that anymore...

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:05 (two years ago)

https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/

― rob, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:38 (two years ago)

Whoa

― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:39 (two years ago)

oh fuck no

― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:43 (two years ago)

I like the Winnipeg weather update in the clip-- I assume -12C is a typical April day

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:43 (two years ago)

I just Kranky post the news of Brian McBride. A sad shock.

― brain (krakow), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:49 (two years ago)

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:56 (two years ago)

Fuck

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:00 (two years ago)

Just miserable

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:09 (two years ago)

Hate unexpected early exits. The world’s a lesser place without him.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:48 (two years ago)

John Kezdy of the Effigies?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:05 (two years ago)

I know this may be an easy tee for some, but still:

John Kezdy was a hero of mine. Effigies were the first great band from Chicago's scene, his stern, declamatory style influenced a generation and he helped me in material ways. Not overstating to say that without John and the Effigies, I would never have made any records.
🎈
— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) August 27, 2023

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:14 (two years ago)

Music Producer & Strangelove Bob Feldman

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bob-feldman-dead-songwriter-producer-1960s-1235400747/

Feldman is survived by his two daughters, Kyle and Mahri. He is also the biological father of actor Corey Feldman, who emancipated himself from Bob and his mom Sheila as a teenager.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 August 2023 00:15 (two years ago)

RIP 2 THIS GR8 SONG WRITER...WHOS NOT MY FATHER! HOWEVER MOST OF MY LIFE ITS BEEN INCORRECTLY WRITTEN AS IN THIS LONG OBITUARY ARTICLE WHERE IT AGAIN ST8S HE WAS MY DAD...HE WASNT! RIP 2 DUDE WHOS WRITING PARTNER WAS GOLDSTEIN MY MOMS LAST NAME. SO BIZARRE https://t.co/dNy1CGUEpA
— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) August 26, 2023

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 14:05 (two years ago)

In fact his father was Morton Feldman

― look i'm not sally fucking rooney (Matt #2), Monday, 28 August 2023 14:11 (two years ago)

Clearly his father was Marty Feldman, you can see the resemblance:

https://resizing.flixster.com/PCAYCeoRPcIdNcsK6RtksWxbEpc=/218x280/v2/https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/156713_v9_ba.jpg

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 August 2023 14:14 (two years ago)

but his dad's name is pronounced "fieldman"

― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 14:15 (two years ago)

You're thinking of Marty Friedman.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 August 2023 14:17 (two years ago)

lol, was wondering why, with those songwriting credits, he would have had to live off his kid's earnings.

― bulb after bulb, Monday, 28 August 2023 14:20 (two years ago)

You can't pass on that Goonie money

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 14:25 (two years ago)

I guess he's saying he's not his dad because he emancipated himself from him but that means he also wants the news to report that Bob isn't and never was his father or something

― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 14:43 (two years ago)

Joe the Plumber

― omar little, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:45 (two years ago)

Read that to Bowie's "Joe the Lion"

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:46 (two years ago)

The insane thing about "Joe the Plumber" is that he was apparently 49 when he died, but if you look at this video still that's been running with the news, he looks 55:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4kopyyWoAEdfUZ.jpg

― read-only (unperson), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:52 (two years ago)

Alex Jones effect, pumped up with rage and ignorance.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 August 2023 17:57 (two years ago)

Now he's gunning down fantasy home invaders in hell

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:02 (two years ago)

in 2008 this man was only 35 years old. this is what happens when you're trying to buy a small business.

― mh, Monday, 28 August 2023 18:10 (two years ago)

His last words were, "Tito the Builder still lives..."

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:13 (two years ago)

Gábor Medvigy, cinematographer on Béla Tarr's 'Werckmeister Harmonies' and 'Sátántangó', aged 66.

https://index.hu/kultur/2023/08/28/medvigy-gabor-operator-meghalt-satantango-tarr-bela-makk-karoly-jeles-andras/

― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 02:38 (two years ago)

caleb southern died six weeks ago at 53

he was a local dude in chapel hill. produced the first archers of loaf record, plus several ben folds things. went on to become a computer science lecturer at georgia tech before dying in july.

obviously not a big name, but he (like gary young) was the kind of guy who made scenes happen. RIP

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:02 (two years ago)

Medvigy shot Damnation too. Such an important member of that filmmaking team, because you have the time to observe the patterns of light and shadow so intensely in those films.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:04 (two years ago)

xp oh sad news about Caleb Southern. His name was definitely all over a bunch of cds I owned in the 90s.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:24 (two years ago)

William MacKaye, a Washington Post editor, dies at 89
A former Episcopal seminarian, he left the politics beat to join The Post’s religion desk as a way to combine his spiritual and journalistic interests

Father of Ian , Alec. And other Mackaye s in music

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 05:09 (two years ago)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/28/william-mackaye-journalism-dead/

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 05:10 (two years ago)

Portland street poet Walt Curtis, 82. Wrote Mala Noche, which eventually became Gus Van Sant's first film.

"He was also the city’s most accomplished heckler. “Banned from more readings by more open mic hosts than anyone else,” wrote fellow poet Gary D Aker on social media over the weekend. “That’s doing it right.”"

https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2023/08/28/walt-curtis-portlands-iconoclastic-street-poet-dies-at-82/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 07:42 (two years ago)

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780688090128-us-300.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yvUAAOSw-T1h9FaE/s-l1600.jpg

Children's book illustrator Gale Owens, 84
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansascity/name/gail-owens-obituary?id=52018309

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 August 2023 03:27 (two years ago)

rip legend <3

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 03:33 (two years ago)

(doh! meant to write "Gail")

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 August 2023 04:05 (two years ago)

poet Gboyega Odubanjo, 27

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-66668998

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:06 (two years ago)

So heartbreaking.

― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:48 (two years ago)

Mohammed "Al" Fayed!

― do I really have to quote bowling for soup at you? (Matt #2), Friday, 1 September 2023 21:15 (two years ago)

Never knew he was related by marriage to Jamal Khashoggi

― do I really have to quote bowling for soup at you? (Matt #2), Friday, 1 September 2023 21:17 (two years ago)

I have a giant Harrods bottle opener

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 September 2023 22:35 (two years ago)

Sakevi of G.I.S.M.! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/g-i-s-m-vocalist-sakevi-yokoyama-has-reportedly-passed-away/

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 September 2023 22:41 (two years ago)

Curtis Fowlkes, jazz singer and trombonist, 73.

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 2 September 2023 09:34 (two years ago)

Jimmy Buffett

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 September 2023 09:48 (two years ago)

https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/jimmy-buffett-dead-margaritaville-1235711632/

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 September 2023 09:49 (two years ago)

RIP guy whose music I've never heard and I always use as an example of an artist who seems to be an exclusively American phenomenon.

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 September 2023 09:55 (two years ago)

heard for the first time last year, don't think I can remember how it went though.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 September 2023 10:09 (two years ago)

Curtis Fowlkes was cool. Buffett ... nah, but RIP.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 September 2023 13:05 (two years ago)

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