Love this:
"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."
Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Pathos and lols all at once:
The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Survived by his wife Custard Pie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
can i call you HOTS for short?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
sure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
But then his soul would belong to Satan.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
worth it imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
paul fussell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”
Patron saint of IA thread?
Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:
"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg
rip
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Monday, 4 June 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
Dag
― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
Ray Bradbury
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Mars is heaven. RIP
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
announce the passing of
also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
ha, exactly.
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
already discussion of this on his thread.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
A week late w/this, but:
Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
^Two major car films there
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
Of course I mean The Small Back Room.
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
Frank Cady
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562
ethnomusicologist and writer
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 June 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
wiseguy Henry Hill
http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness
and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
Rodney King
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html
― nickn, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Victor Spinetti
and
Brian Hibbard
Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link