that is a great band name
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
D.A. Pennebaker, 94
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
The Celibate Rifles were great, RIP (check out The Eastern Dark as well btw)
― StanM, Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78
I saw Buoniconti play back in the '70s at the no longer existing Orange Bowl in Miami. He was an awesome linebacker. Didn't realize that post-NFL he was the president of the U.S. Tobacco Company (!)
― Josefa, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
I was surprised Pennebaker's The War Room didn't place in the political-film poll--whatever you think of Clinton, it's pretty great in laying out that election. I love Monterey Pop, too, and about half of Don't Look Back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7OKxjObNo
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
The War Room rules, feelings about Clintons aside of course, it's not about them - how in the world did that not even place? So bummed I missed that poll.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
I'd heard that too. For many reasons it is my absolute keeper from him.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
Joe Longthorne, tho he made a right fight of it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49219270
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 4 August 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
Oakland Raider wide receiver Cliff Branch
Cliff Branch, one of the Raiders' career-leading receivers who won three Super Bowls, has died. He was 71. https://t.co/EXE38cBNaI— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) August 4, 2019
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.avpress.com/news/phil-hymes-who-lit-snl-dies-at/article_3984196a-b66d-11e9-9835-7fd5a51244c2.html
Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with “Saturday Night Live” for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.
His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.
“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”
Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.
He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.
Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 August 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
Tim Dundon, aka Zeke the Sheik, local counterculture guy in Altadena, Cal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWk6wdCf51s&fbclid=IwAR0E68crD43t42Xwb5hLdPehCf_FurHaxl2qK44V4iHN86UC8GB5gxGGpT4
― nickn, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
Toni Morrison
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Oh no. :(
― Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
Damn. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
RIP Toni Morrison.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
oof that is a loss
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Seems cruel she had to pass with Trump still in power
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Henri Belolo, the writer of Y.M.C.A., In The Navy and Go West
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
(For NYC people): Lucien Bahaj, the head honcho of the French bistro Lucien, in business since 1998 at 1st Ave and 1st St. Also opened the bar Pink Pony on the Lower East Side.
It would be too much of a task to list every celebrity who passed through Lucien - their photos are on the wall. Among the regulars were Jonas Mekas, and from the old Andy Warhol crowd, Gerard Malanga and Taylor Mead. Lucien was always a mensch to me, and always a lovely conversationalist (that means a good listener also) and I will miss him like family.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/08/remembering-lucien-bahaj-creator-of-the-french-bistro-that-became-nycs-last-cultural-salon/
― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
David Berman
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
We couldn't be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today. A great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we've ever known is gone. Rest easy, David. pic.twitter.com/5n5bctcu4j— 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@dragcityrecords) August 7, 2019
aw man :(
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Fuck!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
Nicky Wonder, Brian Wilson and Wondermints Guitarist, Dead at 59
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nicky-wonder-brian-wilson-wondermints-guitarist-dead-at-59-obituary-868888/?fbclid=IwAR0Gh3rya7SNAMaq7jw8pUk7fnQbY3ZghmAEeMxVLUODxhitwoqWBtxKE-4
― nickn, Thursday, 8 August 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon fraud
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Jeffrey Epstein, "suicide"
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
Well then.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
somebody find Bubba and Dershowitz
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
I mean you don't need to theorize that hard
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Most convenient suicide ever
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
His death comes just days after he was found unconscious in a Manhattan jail cell with injuries to his neck, US media had reported, citing unidentified sources.It was not clear how he suffered those injuries. Two anonymous sources told New York’s local NBC News 4 that Epstein’s injuries may have been self-inflicted, while another said an assault by another inmate had not been ruled out.After the incident, Epstein was placed on suicide watch.
It was not clear how he suffered those injuries. Two anonymous sources told New York’s local NBC News 4 that Epstein’s injuries may have been self-inflicted, while another said an assault by another inmate had not been ruled out.
After the incident, Epstein was placed on suicide watch.
... uh right.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
stoked for the nah not really I don't much care
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
they meant the other kind of suicide watch
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
I have little doubt someone watched him commit suicide.Killing child predators is like the get out of jail free card for people already in jail.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Hey Morbius, do you still have the password to the "Clinton Body Count" page on Geocities? Time for an update.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
you're so funny. An all-timer.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Most convenient suicide everFor my own convenience 1959 would have been a pretty handy time for him to go, but nobody asked me
― mick signals, Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
New Debate Question: Would you go back in time and kill baby Epstein?
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed all the secrets you kept about the child sex ring you ran for rich and powerful men
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Peter Fonda dies of lung cancer aged 69
https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/16/peter-fonda-dead-dies/
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 16 August 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
dang RIP
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 August 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
he's great in a handful of classics and I don't really like Easy Rider that much but Wild Angels, The Hired Hand, Dirty Mary/Crazy Larry, The Limey are all great
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 August 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
rly need people my parents' age to not be dying, "lol"
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Fonda died at the age of 79, not 69 - my mistake.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 16 August 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
oh phew, my parents will never die, is what you're saying, great
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
Terry Valentine, R.I.P.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
Tell Bruce Langhorne I’m coming!
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
He took that whole ‘60s Southern California zeitgeist and ran with it.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 August 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link