Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

David, who appeared on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother, was set to begin a UK tour 'David Gest Is Not Dead, But Alive With Soul' in July.

The show must go on!

It probably seems kind of ghoulish - in fact (I'm assuming) it's incredibly ghoulish since it refers to the scene where he was asleep in the Celebrity Big Brother house when Angie Bowie heard that her ex-husband was dead. She told a US reality TV show star "David's dead", and before she could clarify, the younger lady ran off to tell everyone else that Gest was dead.

Reminds me of Joan Rivers' sadly unfulfilled 'Before They Close The Lid' tour

Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac

nytimes not really beating around the bush there

Hearing R Crumb, hoping not so.

maybe in reference to this?
http://observer.com/2016/04/robert-crumb-is-dead/

thankfully i'm not seeing anything else.

omg plz no

^ xp this is an immensely shitty profile btw

Sorry - false alarm

also yeah wtf at that piece totally terrible, near incoherent

Jesus Christ that profile!

He spends his days looking at his old comix and fucking that disgusting wife of his which might very well explain why every man over 70 is looking for his Tadzio.

His wife, Aline the star fucker, is vile. She is what you would imagine the screaming brunette standing at the stage door on 53rd of the Ed Sullivan theater on that chilly 9th of February 1964 who left with one of them would look like today. She hated me on the spot. Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

Maybe Crumb is indeed a nasty antisemite, but what has Aline Crumb done to deserve this?!

ffs, that piece is beyond horrendous.

Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind.

he accuses Crumb of anti-semitism and then literally drops an anti-semitic insult on his wife a few sentences later!

Aline's Jewish btw (not sure Tuomas was aware of that)

I wasn't, but apparently the writer is too. So he thinks Aline and himself are both "vermin"? I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

the line about Howard Stern being the embodiment of the jock ethos in a reject's carcass is otm, though.

he's an ex-hebdo guy doing the "gonzo" thing by way of being a generally embarrassing writer
recently kicked up a lot of dirt and created an internet kerfuffle over a spiked piece for Elle
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/how-to-alienate-everyone-in-your-industry.html

profile reminds me of this: http://www.sparehed.com/2014/03/05/high-times-r-crumb/

I thought the Observer was some kind of a quality paper, why would they publish self-centred, misogynist "gonzo" shit like that?

this is a different Observer from the UK newspaper the Observer, I don't know if that is the one you were thinking of?

Ah, okay,

that's the one I thought it was.

ohhhhhhhhh THAT GUY

the most obnoxious element of that piece is the obviously misleading clickbait URL which I presume led to this conversation in the first place!

Observer US is owned by Trump's son iirc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5K9j7xIEAAkolG.jpg

l-r: Crumb, Hyzagi

arnold wesker

I have a very powerful reaction reading that piece, but the repugnant fuck is courting his own destruction; he is best left

NY Observer owned by Trump's son-in-law.

http://bigdipper.no/Media/Cache/Images/2/7/WEB_Image%20Jock%20Scott%20My%20Personal%20Culloden%20(LP)%20-413800947.Jpeg

Jock Scott, apparently (not famous enough for a Wiki page)

oh dammit

I have vague sort of fond memories of My Personal Culloden, even though they are very hazy memories of listening to it stoned. Was he possibly an influence on Morris's Blue Jam or influenced by it? I notice the poor bugger got the dreaded kiss of death Irvine Welsh patronage back then, that's probably why there is no wiki.

Anyway RIP.

RIP, My Personal Culloden is an immense statement that I need to revisit, Nectarine No. 9 all over it iirc. I remember him compering for Nick Cave in Prince Street Gardens some years ago, taking great pleasure winding up the abusive Birthday Party type crowd down the front as the evening wore on and Cave got increasingly late.
Farewell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzIjLizm-3I

Dammit can't find My Personal Culloden in my house, tomorrow I shall have to visit My Mother and make up some excuse to scuttle around her attic. I did find "Going Off Someone" from that album on a Nectarine No.9 compilation (cannae find it on youtube tho), and, on a Creeping Bent sampler, their cover of Rocket No.9 with the Jock Scot intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cicq7tA-_4I
This is a big deal for me, somehow. Many deaths of Icons this year, but this one seems a bit closer to home.

Yeah, I need to have a wee revisit of My Personal Culloden. Got into it off the back of Nectarine No 9's Saint Jack, which I also haven't listened in years. Both of them appear to be on Spotify, so that'll be rectified v shortly.

Gareth Thomas who played Blake in Blake's 7

http://www.blakes7online.com/news.php

Anne Jackson, veteran stage/screen actress (and spouse of Eli Wallach) no doubt best known to most of you from The Shining

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-jackson-dead-eli-wallach-883838

xp just found out
RIP

London Underground's 'mind the gap' man Phil Sayer dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36052363

James Redd mentioned this over on ilm

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/salsa-great-ismael-quintana-dies-at-78-116041800074_1.html

He sang with Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta band in the '60s and with others

doris roberts, grandma from grandma's boy and bunny from the honeymoon killers, dead at 90

^ v chilling in A New Leaf

Made some pretty prominent films in the early '70s too: Little Murders, A New Leaf, Such Good Friends, The Heartbreak Kid, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Hester Street. (She plays Charles Grodin's mother in The Heartbreak Kid...don't remember her at all in that.)

also unintentionally chilling in that fucking Raymond sitcom

Oh, so that's who she is.

Victoria Wood

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/victoria-wood-dies-aged-62-comedian

Oof.

can't remember the last time I felt this gutted by a celebrity's death. RIP

that's v sad. great/underrated eye& ear for Real England (non-grotty wing)

totally missed that Jock Scot had died too, wack

she was a proper genius, as both writer and performer.