Oh bloody hell I am reading Lanark again at the moment, prompted, I have to say, by the thought that he couldn't be long for this world. Massive RIP
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Very sorry to learn about the mural. I didn't know about that.
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Oh no, now Vaughan Oliver
Desperately sad to announce that Vaughan Oliver died peacefully today, with his partner Lee by his side. Great loss of friend and design hero. Vaughan Oliver (1957—2019.— Adrian Shaughnessy (@AJWShaughnessy) December 29, 2019
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Oh fuck no, he was my friend.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
I'm very sorry, suzy x
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Wow, pretty young ... rip.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
The first time I met him, the Guardian sent me to interview him at 4AD the morning after the Jarvis moons Jacko Brits, both of us had stinking hangovers and had to drink about a gallon of tea each to get through the task at hand. Still delightful and intelligent in an inclusive way, had zero side. Latterly he’d been head of the design department at UCA Epsom (and was posting absolutely as normal on FB on Thursday, so this must be sudden, which makes it worse).
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Yeah just running through the classic covers in my head he did — what an achievement.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Alasdair Gray was maybe my first favourite author and a very important formative influence on my tastes and sense of humour. Was so good to visit Glasgow, my ancestral town, with my dad this summer and to see his murals RIP
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
RIPs. Trying to remember that Anthony Burgess pull-quote on the cover of Lanark. Something like “Heaven needed a shattering work from Scotland in the modern idiom. This is it.”Interesting interview with Vaughan Oliver here: https://www.longlivevinyl.net/cover-star-vaughan-oliver-interview/
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Simon Raymonde just now on Oliver:https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10158151851003714&id=502913713
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
For a split second I thought Simon died, too ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 December 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
RIP Jack Scott , rockabilly singer who did “The Way I Walk”
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Norma Tanega, folksinger and songwriter (including "You're Dead" the What We Do In The Shadows series theme). It seems she ended up teaching in Claremont, California, and knew a friend of mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega
― nickn, Monday, 30 December 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
Simon Raymonde just now on Oliver:
is this publicly readable anywhere?
memorial threads by J0hn D4rnielle:
this is hard news. I will tell you a story https://t.co/4vdrQzvEro— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) December 29, 2019
and Emma Anderson:
Absolutely gutted to hear about Vaughan Oliver. Someone asked me recently if working with him had been ‘claustrophobic’ as he seemed to thrust his ideas onto the artists and he didn’t seem to care what they felt about his designs. Well, I’ll tell you what happened.. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/hckA503rbe— Emma Anderson 🇪🇺 (@evjanderson) December 29, 2019
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 30 December 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
Warren Defever:
he was a beast he used to send me naked selfies before it was cool. he put a wedding photo from his first marriage on the back of our single the b-side was called Your Word Against Mine. when i slept in the apt above the 4ad office you could hear him howling late into the night pic.twitter.com/3M8mgp2NsA— Warren Defever (@hisnameisalive) December 29, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 December 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
Nice focus on Alasdair gray in the National today, if you can find it
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 30 December 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
Neil Innes
Deeply saddened by the death of Neil Innes. I fell for Neil’s humour and humanity with the Rutland Weekend Television album in 1976. Big fan ever since and saw/met him many but not enough times. Loved his brilliant witty music, loved him. Mankind will miss his wry sagely wisdom.— Mark Lewisohn (@marklewisohn) December 30, 2019
― Alba, Monday, 30 December 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
Ugh. RIP :(
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
:(
great story-teller as well as a songwriter whose pastiches i often prefer to the original
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
RIP, but at least he’ll live on in the form of all the money Eric Idle ripped him off for over the decades
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
Oh fuck, what a way to end the year.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
RIP Neil ;_; The Rutles are only the band the Beatles could have been.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lplGAiqgPwQ
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Sad news, he could probably have been a successful mainstream singer-songwriter if he'd so chosen, instead of being fleeced by the least popular member of Monty Python. Still, maybe Eric Idle could chip in for the funeral costs?
― AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Monday, 30 December 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Horrible news. The Rutles yes, but he was brilliant in the Bonzos too. RIP.
F Eric Idle forever. I bet Innes never outed himself as a Tory either.
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 30 December 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Is this where I mention his "Silver Jubilee" single?
Apparently, it was someone else's idea...
― Mark G, Monday, 30 December 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
Seeing reports that legendary industrial artist/designer and film designer Syd Mead (BLADE RUNNER, TRON, ALIENS) has died but no confirmation.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
I read there's confirmation on his Facebook but I can't see it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
News was first reported by John McElroy, the publisher of Autoline, who has interviewed Mead on his webcast in the past. pic.twitter.com/e0ymc3SQzX— cartoonbrew.com (@cartoonbrew) December 30, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Jazz guitarist Vic Juris.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
Norma Tanega
Wow, I like her music. I'd only heard the song from the tv show before. Definitely up there with E-40 among the great artists from Vallejo CA.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Former NBA commissioner David Stern
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
I made a new one.
Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_b3410680-2677-11ea-a4a7-e3253f3bf2f5.html
Obit for Haitian vodou percussionist Daman FanFan Louis who died earlier in December. He lived in Haiti, then NYC, and for the past 8 years in New Orleans. He received a second line sendoff.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
listening to david klion and others discussing norman podhoretz's MAKING IT (1967) on their stitcher podcast know your enemy and looking up to check when norman p died (he didn't yet, he's 90!), when midge decter died (ditto, she's 92!!), when gertrude himmelfarb died (30 dec 2019 aged 97, hence relevant to this thread's interests if not ilx's politics)
if you want to live for nearly ten decades be a neocon :0
― mark s, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
By coincidence, I too had cause to Google Norman Podhoretz recently. after reading Janet Malcolm's piece about the MAKING IT reissue, excerpted here https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/22/norman-podhoretz-making-it/
I do like this review Malcolm quotes (by 'Wilfred Sheed, a prominent critic and novelist of the time'):
In this mixture of complacency and agitation, he has written a book of no literary distinction whatever, pockmarked by clichés and little mock modesties and a woefully pedestrian tone…. Mediocrities from coast to coast will no doubt take Making It to their hearts and will use it for their own justification…. In the present condition of our society and the world, I cannot imagine a more feckless, silly book.
Besides seeing Podhoretz's name in things like MAD magazine, I had no idea who or what he was (maybe a figure like Lionel Trilling, who seems equally obscure in the UK?) so the right wing politics were something of a surprise.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
the podcast is good and even (very briefly) mentions lionel trilling
― mark s, Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
I only know about Podhoretz, Decter, and Himmelfarb from reading Gore Vidal.Does this mean John Podhoretz and William Kristol are going to be around another 30 years? Greeeeaaaaaat.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
N Podhoretz's rag Commentary was skewered regularly in Woody Allen films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link