RIP Neil ;_; The Rutles are only the band the Beatles could have been.
― 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