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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 26, 2020 20:14:59 GMT -5
John Saxon the white dude in Enter the Dragon and the cop from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is dead at 83. If you watched a lot of shlock in the 70s, 80s and beyond you probably saw about 9000 other movies this dude was in. This bums me out.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Jul 26, 2020 20:23:34 GMT -5
Clear the track, it's Eddie Shack!
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 27, 2020 11:39:23 GMT -5
Denise Johnson from Primal Scream, her voice especially enlivening Screamadelica and Give Out But Don't Give Up.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 27, 2020 16:42:26 GMT -5
Denise Johnson from Primal Scream, her voice especially enlivening Screamadelica and Give Out But Don't Give Up. I see The Guardian did her proud. Here's the final paragraph of the obit. For those not aware of her, I'll quickly point out that she was black. This will become germane as you read on: • This article was amended on 27 July 2020 to replace the main image. A captioning error in photos supplied by an agency led us to publish a picture that was not of Johnson as claimed. It was further amended to correct the incorrect assertion that Johnson sang on Higher Than the Sun, to remove a video showing that song, and to correct Johnson’s age and date of birth.Maybe if they'd gotten rid of some of their shitty centrist columnists instead of the backroom lads and lasses recently, there'd be less of this shit. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2020 10:13:02 GMT -5
John Saxon the white dude in Enter the Dragon and the cop from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is dead at 83. If you watched a lot of shlock in the 70s, 80s and beyond you probably saw about 9000 other movies this dude was in. This bums me out. Recently watched Battle Beyond the Stars (where Saxon plays the villain) for the first time and, for a John Sayles-scripted Corman epic, I was surprised at how flavorless and boring I found it. For cash-ins in the wake of Star Wars, give me Starcrash any day. But yeah, one of those guys that, for schlock-fiends, we were always delighted to see. |
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 30, 2020 9:16:23 GMT -5
Malik B! Get on the mic, get on the mic -
Like that y'all, and yo I'm flowin, my part of the song
It's going
It's going
It's
Gone
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 30, 2020 9:41:17 GMT -5
I mean, he died of it, not like "COVID-19" was his band or something.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 30, 2020 10:17:51 GMT -5
I mean, he died of it, not like "COVID-19" was his band or something.
I mean... karma’s a bitch. It’s sad for his family but, dude, he went to a trump rally without a mask on in a pandemic. |
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Post by Hachiman on Jul 30, 2020 19:59:31 GMT -5
Malik B! Get on the mic, get on the mic -
Like that y'all, and yo I'm flowin, my part of the song
It's going
It's going
It's
Gone
Damn. This one hurt. Going to be a long weekend listening to the Roots. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 1, 2020 22:34:11 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 3, 2020 19:34:35 GMT -5
Reni Santoni, at 81. This year has not been kind to the cast of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 4, 2020 0:17:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 10:40:11 GMT -5
The United States.
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 9, 2020 23:24:17 GMT -5
Pro-wrestle man, Kamala the Ugandan Giant. There were a couple different Kamalas and Kimalas about but this was the one that wrestled in the WWF in the 80s.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 13, 2020 22:06:07 GMT -5
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 21, 2020 14:58:45 GMT -5
I'm a month late to this, which makes it doubly crushing that I didn't find out about this the day it happened, but a belated R.I.P. to Tim Smith from Cardiacs. Uber-talented guy with an uber tragic life. Would be reductive to call him a "musical madman" but I would definitely put him in the same stratum as the likes of Beefheart and Zappa.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 21, 2020 15:06:29 GMT -5
Frankie Banali, the drummer and only constant member of Quiet Riot, dead at sixty-eight. Another victim of bad metal healthcare.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Aug 23, 2020 11:51:39 GMT -5
Sir Ken Robinson, advocate for education reform and creator of one of the best TED Talks on the subject, from cancer. He was 70.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 24, 2020 14:19:03 GMT -5
Alt-Country (I guess--subgenre labels aren't really my specialty) singer/songwriter Justin Townes Earle (son of Steve Earle) died yesterday at age thirty-eight. I liked that guy.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Aug 24, 2020 15:43:40 GMT -5
Alt-Country (I guess--subgenre labels aren't really my specialty) singer/songwriter Justin Townes Earle (son of Steve Earle) died yesterday at age thirty-eight. I liked that guy. I did too. This really bums me out. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 25, 2020 4:50:16 GMT -5
Punk rock guitarist Walter Lure, dead at seventy-one from cancer. His story was kind of interesting--he somehow managed to hold a decent dayjob as a broker on the stock exchange while playing with Johnny Thunders' various bands and surviving a pretty nasty heroin habit.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 28, 2020 21:21:55 GMT -5
In a real shock, Chadwick Boseman, 43, of colon cancer. He’d battled it for 4 years.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Aug 28, 2020 21:59:39 GMT -5
In a real shock, Chadwick Boseman, 43, of colon cancer. He’d battled it for 4 years. Jesus |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 28, 2020 22:07:13 GMT -5
Minor correction, he was 42. I am genuinely shook over this.
imdb must have had it wrong because everywhere says he was born in 76 now. Regardless, far too young.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 28, 2020 22:50:49 GMT -5
Minor correction, he was 42. I am genuinely shook over this. Me too. And I think I have to start getting colonoscopies. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Aug 29, 2020 9:08:13 GMT -5
I woke up to the Boseman news. WTF. This is awful.
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Post by Hachiman on Aug 29, 2020 23:26:24 GMT -5
I just don't even have the words to explain how I feel right now about Chadwick Boseman. This is just terrible.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 1, 2020 21:18:01 GMT -5
Erick Morillo, the guy behind that Jock Jams classic, "I Like to Move It," dead at 49. He was also scheduled to have a court hearing on sexual battery charges later this week so I don't really feel all that bad about it but goddamn if that song wasn't everywhere in my youth. pitchfork.com/news/erick-morillo-i-like-to-move-it-dj-dead-at-49/ |
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 3, 2020 19:12:11 GMT -5
Economist and activist David Graeber dead at 59. He was known for helping coin the term "We are the 99%," helping to launch Occupy Wall Street, and his works such as "Bullshit Jobs: A theory" which I highly recommend to anybody with a job.
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Post by moimoi on Sept 3, 2020 20:25:47 GMT -5
Economist and activist David Graeber dead at 59. He was known for helping coin the term "We are the 99%," helping to launch Occupy Wall Street, and his works such as "Bullshit Jobs: A theory" which I highly recommend to anybody with a job. Aw man, I read Bullshit Jobs this year for my Louder Than Bombs reading challenge. I was really impressed and I added more of his stuff to my reading list. |
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