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?
― soref, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
Ah, okay,
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
that's the one I thought it was.
ohhhhhhhhh THAT GUY
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
the most obnoxious element of that piece is the obviously misleading clickbait URL which I presume led to this conversation in the first place!
― ulysses, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
Observer US is owned by Trump's son iirc
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5K9j7xIEAAkolG.jpg
l-r: Crumb, Hyzagi
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 09:43 (eight years ago) link
arnold wesker
― conrad, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link
I have a very powerful reaction reading that piece, but the repugnant fuck is courting his own destruction; he is best left
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:27 (eight years ago) link
NY Observer owned by Trump's son-in-law.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
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)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
oh dammit
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
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
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
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-_4IThis is a big deal for me, somehow. Many deaths of Icons this year, but this one seems a bit closer to home.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
Gareth Thomas who played Blake in Blake's 7
http://www.blakes7online.com/news.php
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
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
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
xp just found outRIP
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
London Underground's 'mind the gap' man Phil Sayer dieshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36052363
― Madchen, Friday, 15 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 April 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
doris roberts, grandma from grandma's boy and bunny from the honeymoon killers, dead at 90
― balls, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
^ v chilling in A New Leaf
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
also unintentionally chilling in that fucking Raymond sitcom
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh, so that's who she is.
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Victoria Wood
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/victoria-wood-dies-aged-62-comedian
― soref, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Oof.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
can't remember the last time I felt this gutted by a celebrity's death. RIP
― soref, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
that's v sad. great/underrated eye& ear for Real England (non-grotty wing)
totally missed that Jock Scot had died too, wack
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
she was a proper genius, as both writer and performer.
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
What?!?!?
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
dwayne 'pearl' washington
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Joanie "Chyna" Laurer
http://ktla.com/2016/04/20/wwe-legend-chyna-found-dead-in-her-home-at-age-45/
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 April 2016 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Ronit Elkabetz, actress and co-director of Gett
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ronit-elkabetz-israeli-actress-dead-885465
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Guy Hamilton
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/james-bond-director-guy-hamilton-dies-aged-93
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
"No Mr Hamilton, i expect you to DIE!"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
TMZ reporting Prince...
https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/723192305587490819
― ailsa, Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
My god! No one is gonna make it outta this year alive, are they?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
No matter how we struggle and strive
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
What the fuck. What the absolute fucking fuck.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
no one but TMZ and Daily Mail as yet... let's see...
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Yup:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/prince-estate-death/index.html
'Police investigating death in singer Prince's estateUpdated 12:57 PM ET, Thu April 21, 2016(CNN)Police are investigating a death at the estate of superstar Prince in Carver County, Minnesota, according to Carver County Sheriff spokesman Jason Kamerud.
"We are not releasing any information regarding the identity of the person who died until next of kin is notified," Kamerud said.'
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
I literally feel like someone just punched me in the solar plexus.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Stone and CNN are reporting it now.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
And in other news Richard Lyons of Negative has died, also at 57, from cancer.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
Lonnie Mack
http://blogs.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/pop-noise/46490-rip-blues-guitar-great-lonnie-mack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ta5T8cg3c0
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 April 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
:( RIP
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 April 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
Can't we impose a moratorium on dying in May and June of 2016 or something?
― StanM, Friday, 22 April 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Patton Oswalt's wife, writer Michelle McNamara:
http://www.startribune.com/michelle-mcnamara-writer-and-wife-of-patton-oswald-dies/376795131/
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 23 April 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link