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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 6, 2024 9:52:31 GMT -5
Didn't he do that terrible "boot in your ass" song? I don't follow many country artists, but I associate him with some amount of jingoism. Still, 62 and stomach cancer is a terrible way to go. I will personally always associate Keith with "Beer for My Horses," which is certainly the funniest title for a pro-lynching anthem. I don't thiiink he was a MAGA chud? Well, the song in question was a response to 9/11, so warhawk, but not necessarily MAGA. He apparently called himself a conservative Democrat at one point and seemed to like both Obama and Sarah Palin, but also played at the pre-inauguration concert for Trump.
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Post by Celebith on Feb 6, 2024 10:30:22 GMT -5
Toby Keith, 62.
Saw him in concert in the early 90s, but other than Shoulda Been A Cowboy, I don't remember much he's done Didn't he do that terrible "boot in your ass" song? I don't follow many country artists, but I associate him with some amount of jingoism. Still, 62 and stomach cancer is a terrible way to go. Oh, he did! There was some ' let's kick some terrorist ass' preamble to that in the live version, but it was a separate track, and you reminded me that while exercising at a gym one day, I heard that followed by ' This One's For The Girls' or some similar girl-power country anthem, which was a cute bit of dissonance.
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Post by Jimmy James on Feb 6, 2024 10:33:22 GMT -5
Rock icon Wayne Kramer, guitarist and founder of the criminally over-rated MC5*, dead at 75. *"Kick Out The Jams" is a undeniable classic song, the rest of their catalog cannot even remotely live up to its reputation “American Ruse” is secretly the best MC5 song, but yeah I feel like they’re probably right up there with the New York Dolls in terms of “bands who are way more fun to talk about than to actually listen to” "Kick out the Jams" rocks, I liked some of his solo tracks when they appeared on Epitaph compilations- just a great, snarling rock-and-roll sound on that guitar. I knew he did the soundtrack for Eastbound and Down but just now learning he worked on other Will Ferrell productions like Step Brothers and Talladega Nights.
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Post by Celebith on Feb 7, 2024 21:18:42 GMT -5
Mojo Nixon - don't know much about him outside of having a bunch of weird-even-for-the-format stuff on Dr. Demento. The article cuts off without a subscription, but I assume that he's survived by his two-headed love child.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 8, 2024 10:58:18 GMT -5
Mojo Nixon - don't know much about him outside of having a bunch of weird-even-for-the-format stuff on Dr. Demento. The article cuts off without a subscription, but I assume that he's survived by his two-headed love child. When I had Sirius XM I used to listen to his political talk show, which had possibly the most accurate and appropriate title of any show about politicians ever, "Lyin' Cocksuckers".
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 8, 2024 11:02:36 GMT -5
Mojo Nixon - don't know much about him outside of having a bunch of weird-even-for-the-format stuff on Dr. Demento. The article cuts off without a subscription, but I assume that he's survived by his two-headed love child. About the 8th weirdest thing about the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is that he pops up in it (and gets transformed into the film's version of the Goombas).
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 8, 2024 11:09:15 GMT -5
I sort of feel like the world missed out by never having a Mojo Nixon / Johnny Knoxville road trip movie.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Feb 8, 2024 11:58:42 GMT -5
Mojo Nixon - don't know much about him outside of having a bunch of weird-even-for-the-format stuff on Dr. Demento. The article cuts off without a subscription, but I assume that he's survived by his two-headed love child. He don't work here.
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 8, 2024 14:08:37 GMT -5
Jeez, Mojo. I saw him perform at least 3-4 times in my teens. Loved his exuberance.
Jeez, Wayne. Sure, he was a reckless and dangerous kid who treated women poorly, but MC5 songs still have power. Fie to those who opine that "Kick Out the Jams" is their only worthy song.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Feb 8, 2024 16:36:12 GMT -5
Mojo Nixon - don't know much about him outside of having a bunch of weird-even-for-the-format stuff on Dr. Demento. The article cuts off without a subscription, but I assume that he's survived by his two-headed love child. He don't work here. Your store could use some fixin
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 10, 2024 14:52:06 GMT -5
The anarchic Damo Suzuki of Can (although saying he was “of Can” rather than of himself and he just happened to align with them for a while may be more appropriate)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 10, 2024 18:06:36 GMT -5
The anarchic Damo Suzuki of Can (although saying he was “of Can” rather than of himself and he just happened to align with them for a while may be more appropriate) The only singer the band could've had in their classic years (I'm probably being Voltaire-ian here) and probably the greatest parodist of the English language of the 20th Century. I loved him so much.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 11, 2024 13:35:42 GMT -5
Stunt performer Mickey Gilbert. That's him falling off the cliff in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid as Redford's double.
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Post by Jimmy James on Feb 12, 2024 16:18:21 GMT -5
Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, at only 24. Previous record holder Eliud Kipchoge has been untouchable in the last two Olympic marathons, but is getting on in years. The Paris Olympics would likely have been the first head-to-head match up between the two of them- it's sad to miss that possibility and everything else he might have done.
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 19, 2024 15:20:31 GMT -5
Dexter Romweber, dead at 57. Guitarist of Flat Duo Jets. Fella nearly busted my hearing at shows in Florida and North Carolina.
Bob Moore, founder of Bob's Red Mill, dead at 94. If anyone has ever stepped into a whole foods', niche grocery, or even Whole Foods, they've seen this gent's products. He made me a fool for gruel. A dunderhead for whole meal flour bread. A tough for teff.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 19, 2024 15:27:35 GMT -5
Dexter Romweber, dead at 57. Guitarist of Flat Duo Jets. Fella nearly busted my hearing at shows in Florida and North Carolina. Bob Moore, founder of Bob's Red Mill, dead at 94. If anyone has ever stepped into a whole foods', niche grocery, or even Whole Foods, they've seen this gent's products. He made me a fool for gruel. A dunderhead for whole meal flour bread. A tough for teff. Just used some of Bob's farro last night in a carrot casserole. Remarkably consistent quality in their products.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 20, 2024 19:35:22 GMT -5
I missed this one from earlier this month. Seiji Ozawa, classical conductor, died on Feb 9th, age 88. He was a Japanese conductor with a great sense of style and interpretation. He helped spread the popularity of Western Classical music throughout Asia. He led the Boston Symphony for 25+ years. Haruki Murakami has a great book with interviews and conversations with Ozawa about music called "Absolutely on Music". www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 21, 2024 16:47:01 GMT -5
David Irving, the Holocaust denier, was reported to have died a couple of days ago. Since then, these reports have been, uh, denied.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 21, 2024 22:32:59 GMT -5
David Irving, the Holocaust denier, was reported to have died a couple of days ago. Since then, these reports have been, uh, denied. Is he not the same guy as David Icke? I can't keep my insane David I.s apart, apparently.
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Post by Celebith on Feb 22, 2024 8:43:09 GMT -5
David Irving, the Holocaust denier, was reported to have died a couple of days ago. Since then, these reports have been, uh, denied. Is he not the same guy as David Icke? I can't keep my insane David I.s apart, apparently. No. Despite his political views, he's decidedly less Ick-e.
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 22, 2024 8:56:28 GMT -5
David Irving, the Holocaust denier, was reported to have died a couple of days ago. Since then, these reports have been, uh, denied. Is he not the same guy as David Icke? I can't keep my insane David I.s apart, apparently. Fun fact: David Icke was the first famous person I ever saw. In the before times, he was a football reporter for the BBC, and he pulled up in his car at the local stadium just as me and my dad were arriving. I was about 9. My love for football was not fostered that day, I might add. What a boring load of shit all sport is, without exception.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 22, 2024 10:30:41 GMT -5
Is he not the same guy as David Icke? I can't keep my insane David I.s apart, apparently. No. Despite his political views, he's decidedly less Ick-e. Icke is the lizard person guy. Strikes me as more of a combination of stupid and gullible than evil. Irving is evil.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 22, 2024 10:33:49 GMT -5
Is he not the same guy as David Icke? I can't keep my insane David I.s apart, apparently. Fun fact: David Icke was the first famous person I ever saw. In the before times, he was a football reporter for the BBC, and he pulled up in his car at the local stadium just as me and my dad were arriving. I was about 9. My love for football was not fostered that day, I might add. What a boring load of shit all sport is, without exception. Fucking. This.
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 22, 2024 12:10:27 GMT -5
As for David Irving, Martin Amis said of him that, whether by accident or design, he looks more like Hitler every year.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 26, 2024 16:41:04 GMT -5
No Icke is decently evil too, though the lizard people-French kids’ animated SF film April & the Extraordinary World is a lot of fun (though I think its inspiration was more 50s b-movies).
Late but dying around the same time as Damo Suzuki was fellow Japanese-musician-in-the-west Seiji Ozawa, long-time directot of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and one of the last century’s biggest promoters of classical music. Although a lot of his artistic decisions were odd, he was essentially the face of classical music when I was a kid and basically the default choice for recordings so he was my first exposure to the field.
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Post by nowimnothing on Feb 28, 2024 16:31:03 GMT -5
He has looked ill for a while, but Richard Lewis still got a gasp out of me. He was just on Curb last week joking with Larry about who was going to outlive the other.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 28, 2024 16:55:13 GMT -5
He has looked ill for a while, but Richard Lewis still got a gasp out of me. He was just on Curb last week joking with Larry about who was going to outlive the other. I thought he died a while back. maybe i was thinking of thinking of Richard Belzer.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Mar 1, 2024 20:21:11 GMT -5
Seeing Lewis in the recent Curbs it’s good to see that his symptoms were not too advanced when he died. My grandmother died of Parkinson’s and she lived a long time as it advanced further and further, and I’m glad Lewis found peace before that happened.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 2, 2024 20:36:24 GMT -5
Richard Bordwell, film historian and writer of roughly a billion books and incredibly thorough blog posts about filmmaking as a visual medium, at 76. If you find the why and how of visual storytelling interesting but you’ve never gone down the rabbit hole of the blog he and his wife maintained, I can’t recommend it enough. www.davidbordwell.net/blog/
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 5, 2024 22:10:01 GMT -5
R.I.P Bob HeilI had the pleasure of meeting Bob Heil at a home satellite dealers convention in St. Louis back in the late 80's or early 90's. Bob was a pioneer in creating the the modern concert music sound as a former sound man for such bands as The Grateful Dead and The Who, and an inventor and innovator of products for the amateur radio and sound industries. The sound of today's live music would not be the same if not for the innovations of Bob Heil. Bob was a mentor and friend to fellow satellite dealers and ham radio operators, and Bob was also one of the nicest persons I ever met, always willing and eager to help someone out with lots of useful information, helpful suggestions, and plenty of encouragement. The world would be a little quieter if not for him, and we all are a little poorer for his loss.
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