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beloved and respected comrade leader kim
beloved and respected comrade leader kim, looking at death
Don’s been & gone
Don Van Vliet, Captain Beefheart January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010 Don Van Vliet by Anton Corbijn, 1993 ‘Yeah, but you’ve gotta wait until I say, “—also, a tin tear-drop…”…’ Trout Mask Replica, 1969 (pic via antoncorbijn)
links for 2009-12-30: Vic Chesnutt
Boogie Woogie Flu: Of Loss and Longing and Sloppy Satori This is the best of the tributes to the late Vic Chesnutt that I've come across… (tags: Vic-Chesnutt RIP music)
Mac Tonnies R.I.P.
UFOMystic: Nick just called to tell me that our friend and colleague Mac Tonnies was found in his apartment this (Thursday) afternoon, apparently dead of natural causes. There was no evidence of foul play or suicide according to a close … more…
Michael
Michael Jackson, 1958-2009 Well, I could never imagine him getting old, and the escalating weirdness seemed to have hit a plateau of some kind. Nowhere else to go, I suppose… guardian (via Twitter – the first major news story that … more…
JG Ballard, 1930-2009
J.G. Ballard My plan for 31st August, 1997 was this: I would finish up an interview transcript I’d been working on, and in the afternoon, I would travel in from Harrow to the Everyman in Hampstead, where I was going … more…
John Martyn, 1948-2009
John Martyn died this morning. If you don’t already know and love Solid Air, One World and Grace and Danger, you should obtain all three without further delay. JM cropped up two years ago in a post about the Skip … more…
Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
Studs Terkel [via] Studs Terkel [WP, WQ], oral historian, broadcaster, activist, has checked out at 96. I never knew, until just now, that Terkel was amongst the first few radio personalities to be referred to as a “disc jockey”: …in … more…
Ken Campbell 1941-2008
The day I came closest to meeting Ken Campbell was sometime in early 1977. A friend and I had gone along to the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun, to see what I believe was the final performance … more…
Deborah Kerr 1921-2007
Deborah Kerr in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943 Considered the very model of English gentility (despite being Scottish), DK could smoulder like nobody’s business. Star of The King and I, From Here To Eternity, The End of … more…