ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.
the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".
― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
Alias, the anticon guy
There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link
damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
rip my tv watching in high school & college :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
Winnie Mandela
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/03/janka-nabay-bubu-music-sierra-leone
The 54 year-old Nabay was back in his homeland of Sierra Leone when he became ill and died. He had been living in recent years in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and DC .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
oh shit, he played here just a couple of months ago. man had some jams, rip janka
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Ray Wilkins
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we have learnt that former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has passed away, aged 61.The thoughts and condolences of everyone at the PFA are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/pr0JBahJgQ— PFA (@PFA) April 4, 2018
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
I'll go for the "if you haven't got anything good about the departed, then stfu" post!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Isao Takahata, director of Graveyard of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Tale of Princess Kaguya etc etchttps://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
Eric Bristow!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
that's big!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
only 60 wtf? thought he was much older than that
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
also i'm surely not the first person to think that he's gone out on a single and double top
180 was never on. RIP Eric nonetheless.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
pianist - composer Cecil Taylor, one of the most important and influential figures in western music.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
shit
― omar little, Friday, 6 April 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
wtf no
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
Wow
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
It's weird - Cecil is the third major avant-jazz figure, after Bill Dixon and Ornette Coleman, who seems to have given his last big interview to me (all for The Wire). I've always wanted to interview Anthony Braxton and Pharoah Sanders, but in a way I kinda...don't?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
yeah man, steer clear!
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
Omg no...gutted
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Speaking of Sanders, has anyone seen him play recently? Is he still bringin' it? He's scheduled for a local festival in June, and that might make me go.
xp sorry be be a little crass.
― nickn, Friday, 6 April 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
He's playing here NYC in about two weeks. I've heard he's still good, if obviously slightly mellowed with age, so I might check it out.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Saw him maybe seven years ago and he was great. Last time I saw him two-three years ago he hardly overblew, maybe not at all, was too inside for my taste.
― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 April 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
Last time I saw Sanders he was barely there, really disappointing. But I don't want him to die!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 April 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Jeez, RIP Cecil
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 April 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
Soul songwriter and Holland-Dozier-Holland collaborator who also worked with George Clinton Ron Dunbar, died April 4 at 77. https://www.soultracks.com/story-ron-dunbar-dies
― eddhurt, Friday, 6 April 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
Susan Anspach
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-anspach-dead-five-easy-pieces-blume-love-actress-was-75-1100288
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
oh shit not cecil
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 6 April 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
So sad about Cecil. RIP.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 April 2018 06:18 (six years ago) link
RIP Cecil. I had a bad feeling that thread revive would be a shit one :(
― calzino, Friday, 6 April 2018 06:21 (six years ago) link
Aw, Isao Takahata. Our son has had Totoro, Ponyo and Kiki on rotation since we bought some Ghibli DVDs last month.
― Madchen, Friday, 6 April 2018 12:17 (six years ago) link
I'm sad about that one too. It reminded me that I should watch Grave of the Fireflies at some point if I can take it.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 6 April 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah, same here.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
I lasted 25 minutes. If you’re a parent the thing is an emotional shotgun.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 6 April 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
Takahata and Taylor in one day. This world is hurting.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 April 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
Only Yesterday got a new English release in 2016 and is excellent.
― jmm, Friday, 6 April 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
I'd heard of Cecil Taylor for long time but never really checked him out until we decided to name our son Cecil, and he was adopted from a woman named Taylor. She was the only person we told the name to before he was born.
I mentioned him to her after we told her the name we'd chosen and she, a 20 year old in a very chaotic period of her life, gave me most amazing "what the fuck kind of old man music nerd shit about 'free jazz' are you telling me right now?" look which still makes me laugh whenever I think about this.
― joygoat, Friday, 6 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
never knew Anspach had a child with Nicholson.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
I missed Susan Anspach. Have mentioned her many times on this board. She sure left a lasting impression based on the four films she did between '70 and '73. (Actually, it's been a while since I saw The Landlord, so I can't remember how big her role is.)
― clemenza, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
French singer/songwriter Jacques Higelin: http://en.rfi.fr/20180406-jacques-higelin-obit
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
Sad about Ron Dunbar (x-post above) who co-wrote Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” plus P-Funk songs
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
RIP-Funk Ron :(
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Yvonne Staples
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link