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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 6, 2024 13:05:27 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. Thanks Floyd, great remembrance. Why we still subscribe to the Great Man Theory of history instead of the women and men who understand technology is such an idiotic path and one I think will die in the 21st Century. |
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Post by repulsionist on Mar 12, 2024 14:06:57 GMT -5
Karl Wallinger, dead at 66. World Party and his work with The Waterboys were great.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 13, 2024 20:24:20 GMT -5
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 15, 2024 18:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 15, 2024 19:59:48 GMT -5
"Sang CCR after huffing gasoline, threw up potato salad on the karaoke machine" - Birdcloud, "Springwater"
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 16, 2024 11:15:13 GMT -5
"Sang CCR after huffing gasoline, threw up potato salad on the karaoke machine" - Birdcloud, "Springwater" Confirming at least one person here gets your obscure reference. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 16, 2024 13:07:08 GMT -5
Hey now, "stupidest device ever" is a very competitive category. |
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Post by repulsionist on Mar 17, 2024 12:24:44 GMT -5
Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, aged 73.
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Post by Celebith on Mar 19, 2024 10:56:00 GMT -5
I wonder how often people were expected to sing at group outings before karaoke. Having attended many events where people sang in front of a group acapella, the karaoke machine actually seems like a bit of a godsend. Between rugby on-afters/third-halves, hash circles, campfire sing-alongs and post-work 'teambuilding', there are a lot of events where people are forced encouraged to entertain the group through song, story / joke telling or interpretive dance. It seems like such an essential part of most Asian cultures, and undoubtedly many others. Sometimes it's easier to find something on the machine that I want to sing, but if the reverb is too much I'll get the crowd to clap or stomp along to something like The Scotsman or another borderline NSFW rugby song and ignore the mic. Generally speaking, I'd rather hear someone caterwaul through My Heart Will Go On when they have a backing track to cover things up a bit. ETA: Frequently, when I'm at karaoke, I think of Lorne, on Angel, and his whole prognosticating / aura reading thing. Not that there's anything mystical about it, but you do tend to learn a bit about people by what they perform, and how they do it. Sometimes you learn that they come from a whole family of Debbie Downers who can't read a room, but that's not nothing. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 19, 2024 11:39:15 GMT -5
I wonder how often people were expected to sing at group outings before karaoke. Having attended many events where people sang in front of a group acapella, the karaoke machine actually seems like a bit of a godsend. Between rugby on-afters/third-halves, hash circles, campfire sing-alongs and post-work 'teambuilding', there are a lot of events where people are forced encouraged to entertain the group through song, story / joke telling or interpretive dance. It seems like such an essential part of most Asian cultures, and undoubtedly many others. Sometimes it's easier to find something on the machine that I want to sing, but if the reverb is too much I'll get the crowd to clap or stomp along to something like The Scotsman or another borderline NSFW rugby song and ignore the mic. Generally speaking, I'd rather hear someone caterwaul through My Heart Will Go On when they have a backing track to cover things up a bit. ETA: Frequently, when I'm at karaoke, I think of Lorne, on Angel, and his whole prognosticating / aura reading thing. Not that there's anything mystical about it, but you do tend to learn a bit about people by what they perform, and how they do it. Sometimes you learn that they come from a whole family of Debbie Downers who can't read a room, but that's not nothing. Still irritated that I didn't get the chance to visit one of those "karaoke rooms" in Korea when I was there for my brother's wedding. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 20, 2024 17:49:22 GMT -5
M. Emmet Walsh, one of the all-time "this guy elevates everything he's in" ones.
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Post by Jimmy James on Mar 20, 2024 18:01:14 GMT -5
M. Emmet Walsh, one of the all-time "this guy elevates everything he's in" ones. Half of Roger Ebert's "Stanton-Walsh Rule" ('no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.') Slap Shot and Blade Runner are the first ones I think of, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn he was still getting work when he popped up in The Righteous Gemstones. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 20, 2024 18:19:38 GMT -5
M. Emmet Walsh, one of the all-time "this guy elevates everything he's in" ones. Half of Roger Ebert's "Stanton-Walsh Rule" ('no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.') Slap Shot and Blade Runner are the first ones I think of, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn he was still getting work when he popped up in The Righteous Gemstones. Ebert rescinded that rule after seeing Walsh in the Tim Allen holiday vehicle "Christmas With The Kranks." |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 20, 2024 18:36:23 GMT -5
Half of Roger Ebert's "Stanton-Walsh Rule" ('no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.') Slap Shot and Blade Runner are the first ones I think of, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn he was still getting work when he popped up in The Righteous Gemstones. Ebert rescinded that rule after seeing Walsh in the Tim Allen holiday vehicle "Christmas With The Kranks." Will the violence inflicted upon the world by Kranks never end? |
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 20, 2024 21:24:55 GMT -5
M. Emmet Walsh, one of the all-time "this guy elevates everything he's in" ones. No! Well, hell - rest in peace, sir. |
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 20, 2024 21:37:01 GMT -5
M. Emmet Walsh, one of the all-time "this guy elevates everything he's in" ones. Half of Roger Ebert's "Stanton-Walsh Rule" ('no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.') Slap Shot and Blade Runner are the first ones I think of, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn he was still getting work when he popped up in The Righteous Gemstones. I always think of Blood Simple: 'Gimme a call whenever you wanna cut off my head. I can always crawl around without it.' |
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Post by Celebith on Mar 21, 2024 11:27:35 GMT -5
Sci-Fi author (among other things) Vernor Vinge, 79He was probably most famous for A Fire Upon The Deep and related works, but one of his early works, True Names was pre-internet cyberpunk. Hackers kept their real-life identities secret in order to avoid persecution / prosecution, SWATting or outright murder, in much the way wizards might in order to keep their power (at least in some magic systems). A definite predictor of later online trends. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 24, 2024 13:17:56 GMT -5
Famous Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died yesterday, age 82. He was famed for his incredible technique, which allowed him to play anything. Because he was such a master at this, a lot of classical listeners complained that his performances were too "cold". I did not find this, though he was not my favorite pianist. He was incredibly good at Chopin. I highly recommend seeking out some of his Chopin performances. He was definitely an intellectual, and it was apparent from his interpretations that he had done deep score study. What he came out with were often radical interpretations that some people said were devoid of emotion. But I didn't find this. I think his mastery of technique allowed him to unlock different ways of playing, which then struck people as odd.
I heard him play live in 2017 in Vienna, Austria. He did a recital of Debussy and Chopin. I was amazed at his incredible ability to play such technically demanding pieces at his age. The Debussy pieces were fantastic, but the Chopin pieces were otherworldly sublime.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 27, 2024 17:53:58 GMT -5
Narcissistic Conservative politician Joe Lieberman, at 82. He'll be denying people health care in hell, I guess.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Mar 29, 2024 9:38:23 GMT -5
Louis Gossett, Jr., at age 87 - the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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Post by ABz Bđź‘ąanaz on Mar 30, 2024 19:11:27 GMT -5
Chance Perdomo, 27, from a motorcycle accident. He was in Netflix's Sabrina series and Gen V.
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 2, 2024 7:37:37 GMT -5
Trevor Griffiths, 88.
He was a politically engaged playwright (Comedians is very good, from what I recall - about trainee stand-ups giving in to the orthodoxies of doing racist material), and also co-wrote the script for Warren Beatty's excellent Reds.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 2, 2024 8:27:09 GMT -5
Lou Conter, 102, last surviving sailor of the USS Arizona.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Apr 2, 2024 8:51:20 GMT -5
Joe Flaherty, 82, best known for SCTV, Happy Gilmore and Freaks & Geeks. (I have seen it confirmed in several spots but not an official obit yet.)
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Apr 2, 2024 11:54:20 GMT -5
Also Dead at eighty-two: John Sinclair, Detroit-based sixties radical best known as the title subject of a terrible John Lennon song.
Had one past encounter with him and found him pretentious and boring. He was throwing an event somewhere--I did not stay long.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 10, 2024 6:19:18 GMT -5
Peter Higgs, namesake of the Higgs boson "God Particle" |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 10, 2024 17:40:01 GMT -5
Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal, the Dutch primatologist who was one of the pioneers in studying animal cooporation, empathy and moral behavior and ended scientific self-censorship about bonobo sexuality. From the article: 
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 11, 2024 9:55:58 GMT -5
Murderer, spouse abuser, and overall terrible human being OJ Simpson at 76.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Apr 11, 2024 10:16:04 GMT -5
Murderer, spouse abuser, and overall terrible human being OJ Simpson at 76. It wasn't cancer and I will spend the rest of my life hunting down the real disease that killed OJ. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 11, 2024 10:50:16 GMT -5
Murderer, spouse abuser, and overall terrible human being OJ Simpson at 76. I've always found it incredibly irritating that I'll go to my grave knowing names like Johnnie Cochran, Marcia Wallace, Lance Ito... |
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