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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 11, 2024 19:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 11, 2024 20:41:40 GMT -5
Marcia Clark; I think Simpsons brain has permanently affected the minds of everyone here. |
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Post by Jimmy James on Apr 12, 2024 10:42:00 GMT -5
Marcia Clark; I think Simpsons brain has permanently affected the minds of everyone here. I've been calling her "Crandall"! Why didn't somebody tell me? |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 19, 2024 8:16:36 GMT -5
RIP to bassist Steve Kille of the excellent stoner/psych band Dead Meadow. Their 2005 album Feathers is a definite top 10 desert island disc for me and there's not a bad record in the entire discography. Kille's bass playing is a big part of that: |
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 21, 2024 14:48:54 GMT -5
Daniel Dennett, 82. Philosopher. Big book was Consciousness Explained.
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Post by Dellarigg on May 1, 2024 2:06:44 GMT -5
Paul Auster, novelist and essayist, 77. One of my favourites over the decades, with a long string of good stuff to his name, not just The New York Trilogy. I really liked what turns out to be his last book, Baumgartner.
Him, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis about a year ago - it’s been a punishing time for my writers.
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 1, 2024 9:11:36 GMT -5
Paul Auster, novelist and essayist, 77. One of my favourites over the decades, with a long string of good stuff to his name, not just The New York Trilogy. I really liked what turns out to be his last book, Baumgartner. Him, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis about a year ago - it’s been a punishing time for my writers. I remember liking the '93 feature adaptation of The Music of Chance, partially due to one hell of a cast (James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Samantha Mathis, M. Emmett Walsh, Charles Durning, Joel Gray). |
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Post by repulsionist on May 2, 2024 14:53:25 GMT -5
Duane Eddy, dead at 86.
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Post by Dellarigg on May 5, 2024 9:59:45 GMT -5
Actor Bernard Hill, 79.
You may know him as the captain in Titanic, and that dusty old king in LOTR, but for Brits of a certain age he'll forever be the unemployed nutjob Yosser Hughes in the TV series Boys From The Blackstuff. His catchphrase ('gissa job') and his habit of headbutting people made him an indelible character during the Thatcher years.
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 5, 2024 20:33:39 GMT -5
Actor Bernard Hill, 79. You may know him as the captain in Titanic, and that dusty old king in LOTR, but for Brits of a certain age he'll forever be the unemployed nutjob Yosser Hughes in the TV series Boys From The Blackstuff. His catchphrase ('gissa job') and his habit of headbutting people made him an indelible character during the Thatcher years.
Aw. He was an excellent King Theoden in LOTR.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 7, 2024 18:56:01 GMT -5
Artist Frank Stella, native of Malden, MA whose early work was one of the forerunners to minimalism in its emphasis on paintings as they are, as physical objects but considered himself a “maximalist” because he was still concerned with the physical sense of presence and power a painting can convey and links to its heritage. Part of that was his attempt to transition his art—and modern painting as a whole—into a “baroque era,” which led to inventive but sometimes bizarre compositions, in communication not just with the spatial techniques of Baroque painting, architecture and music. Frank Stella claimed he was inspired Domenico Scarlatti, but I see a convergence with street art and popular rhythm in them too. Aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, who designed the Voyager, first plane to travel non-stop around the world, SpaceShipOne, which accomplished first privately-funded crewed spaceflight, and a bunch of other aviation milestones. I’m not positive, but I think he’s the engineer with the most aircraft/spaceships in the Air & Space Museum. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 8, 2024 12:01:28 GMT -5
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Post by Trurl on May 8, 2024 14:39:38 GMT -5
*holds hat over heart, cues up "Songs About Fucking"*
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Post by repulsionist on May 8, 2024 16:42:24 GMT -5
Kinda broken up about Steve Albini. Had his Big Black records since 15. Read various articles of his in Forced Exposure as a teen and twentysomething. Heartily enjoyed owning the issue of The Baffler with his "The Problem with Music" essay, often re-reading its precise vitriol time and again while I had it. Aside from watching various YouTube content with his articulate "no bullshit" words and voice, I looked forward to his pieces in The Guardian. Mad poker skills in that dude, too. See ya, Steve.
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 8, 2024 16:52:22 GMT -5
Kinda broken up about Steve Albini. Had his Big Black records since 15. Read various articles of his in Forced Exposure as a teen and twentysomething. Heartily enjoyed owning the issue of The Baffler with his "The Problem with Music" essay, often re-reading its precise vitriol time and again while I had it. Aside from watching various YouTube content with his articulate "no bullshit" words and voice, I looked forward to his pieces in The Guardian. Mad poker skills in that dude, too. See ya, Steve. That resume, goddamn. Rid of Me, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Things We Lost in The Fire, Yanqui U.X.O., Pod... |
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Post by Nudeviking on May 8, 2024 21:00:37 GMT -5
Kinda broken up about Steve Albini. Had his Big Black records since 15. Read various articles of his in Forced Exposure as a teen and twentysomething. Heartily enjoyed owning the issue of The Baffler with his "The Problem with Music" essay, often re-reading its precise vitriol time and again while I had it. Aside from watching various YouTube content with his articulate "no bullshit" words and voice, I looked forward to his pieces in The Guardian. Mad poker skills in that dude, too. See ya, Steve. Same. This bums me out. Between bands he was in and bands he recorded the dude ended up soundtracking a huge percentage of my younger years (and if we're being honest continued to do so up until the present). I also dug his food blog from a time when blogs were things that people had. |
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Post by ganews on May 8, 2024 22:33:27 GMT -5
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Post by Prole Hole on May 9, 2024 5:52:44 GMT -5
Very much in the, "wait, he was still alive?" category but a sad one nonetheless. Not quite my style of music but his importance and influence are impossible to deny. |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on May 11, 2024 21:35:03 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 11, 2024 23:56:01 GMT -5
Dammit, this hurts. I believe that Corman was as important to independent motion pictures and video as Stan Lee was to comics. Still, 98 is a pretty good run. Somebody do a wellness check on Lloyd Kaufman. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 12, 2024 15:07:11 GMT -5
Susan Backlinie, actor and stuntwoman who, among other things, didn't make it out alive from the opening Jaws scene. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 12, 2024 19:37:22 GMT -5
The “coaching tree” of Corman is truly without comparison.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on May 17, 2024 17:24:47 GMT -5
Dabney Coleman at age 92. I mostly remember him from small parts here and there, and Cloak and Dagger as a kid. I actually thought he was the dad in A Christmas Story for several years until corrected that it was Darrin McGavin.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 17, 2024 18:13:13 GMT -5
Dabney Coleman at age 92. I mostly remember him from small parts here and there, and Cloak and Dagger as a kid. I actually thought he was the dad in A Christmas Story for several years until corrected that it was Darrin McGavin. There's a pretty good documentary about him floating around somewhere. I started watching it a few weeks ago, got interrupted, and haven't got back to finish it. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 24, 2024 9:41:22 GMT -5
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on May 24, 2024 9:57:01 GMT -5
Oh wow, I was just talking about how much of a lie that documentary was last week. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 26, 2024 15:18:52 GMT -5
Richard Sherman of Disney songwriters The Sherman Brothers. Next time you get stuck in your head "It's a Small World" or songs from Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, etc., you can rue his name.
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Post by Celebith on May 27, 2024 20:53:33 GMT -5
Throw it down for Bill Walton, 71. Definitely know him more from broadcasting, the Dead and Dan Lippert's version of him on multiple podcasts. Between him and OJ, CBB is losing popular characters left and right this month. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 5, 2024 6:20:35 GMT -5
William Russel, one of the first three Doctor Who companions and the first person ever to say, "Doctor Who?" on screen has died at the age of 99. His last appearance in the show was in Jodie Whittaker's final story, "The Power Of The Doctor" in 2022 where he broke the world record for the longest time between playing the same character on screen. He had previously played the character in 1965. www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituaryA lovely man by all regards and a huge passing for fans of the show, of course. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 13, 2024 23:58:55 GMT -5
Françoise Hardy, renowned French singer and cool girl from John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix
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