|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 23:09:41 GMT -5
And we can add Umberto Eco to the list for today. It's been a horrible day for the literary world. Just saw that as I got home form work and checked my newsfeed. Eco's work on Foucault's Pendulum wasa huge influence on me when I started my graduate work. He will be missed and honored. -M |
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Feb 20, 2016 1:17:32 GMT -5
I hate seeing this thread updated when I sign in...
|
|
|
|
Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 20, 2016 5:30:05 GMT -5
And we can add Umberto Eco to the list for today. It's been a horrible day for the literary world. Just saw that as I got home form work and checked my newsfeed. Eco's work on Foucault's Pendulum wasa huge influence on me when I started my graduate work. He will be missed and honored. -M Oh no! One of the few writers I can say I've read everything from, and indeed the Foucault's Pendulum is one of the greatest novels i've ever read as well, As if Sartre had written the Da Vinci Code, hahaha. Eco was a comic book enthusiast and wrote about superheroes as well, superman specificaly. A modern and sophisticated man. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 9:54:30 GMT -5
RIP to Vi Subversa of Poison Girls, whose best-known song is half of what I regard as the best 45 ever released (though Joy Division's "Dead Souls"/"Atmosphere" & Throbbing Gristle's "United"/"Zykon B Zombie" are, just off the top of my head, very strong contenders as well ... at the very least, it's certainly the best split 45 ever, with Crass' "Bloody Revolutions" on the other side).
|
|
|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 23, 2016 7:16:45 GMT -5
Just saw that as I got home form work and checked my newsfeed. Eco's work on Foucault's Pendulum wasa huge influence on me when I started my graduate work. He will be missed and honored. -M is indeed a masterpiece. I didn't like everything Eco wrote, but he was a brilliant and incredibly knowledgeable man. Without a doubt one of the contemporary writers I admired the most. |
|
|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 23, 2016 7:18:49 GMT -5
Just saw that as I got home form work and checked my newsfeed. Eco's work on Foucault's Pendulum wasa huge influence on me when I started my graduate work. He will be missed and honored. -M Oh no! One of the few writers I can say I've read everything from, and indeed the Foucault's Pendulum is one of the greatest novels i've ever read as well, As if Sartre had written the Da Vinci Code, hahaha. True. Foucault's pendulum is The Da Vinci code done right, fifteen years earlier. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 16:48:04 GMT -5
RIP to Vi Subversa of Poison Girls, Oh damn  Though she must have been getting on a bit, I think she was 50ish when I became aware of them in the early 80s. The 'Girls contributed one of my all time great TV WTF moments - off sick from my first job, and seeing them perform "Soft Touch"* at around 2pm on network TV in the UK, on the "women's houseparty" show that was all that was on at that time of day. Still makes me grin thinking about it. (* which, for those of you unaware of the song, is a sensitive ditty about shyness, lack of sexual confidence, erectile dysfunction and the pleasures of mutual oral sex) |
|
|
|
Post by Rob Allen on Feb 25, 2016 19:21:41 GMT -5
RIP Sonny James, "The Southern Gentleman", who released his first #1 hit a few weeks before I was born and later had a string of 16 consecutive #1 country hits. I saw him on TV numerous times in my country music phase. He earned his nickname because he was genuinely polite and congenial www.sonnyjames.com/hof/ |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Feb 26, 2016 8:26:15 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 10:39:04 GMT -5
Tony Burton off the "Rocky" films , dead at 78. He's one of my favorite supporting actors in the Rocky films and I just can't believe that he died ... he and Carl (Apollo Creed) Weathers had good chemistry together. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 13:07:35 GMT -5
RIP Sonny James, "The Southern Gentleman", who released his first #1 hit a few weeks before I was born and later had a string of 16 consecutive #1 country hits. I saw him on TV numerous times in my country music phase. He earned his nickname because he was genuinely polite and congenial. I believe his was the version of "Running Bear" I bought on 45 as a kid, after hearing him perform (or, probably much more accurately, lip-synch) it during one of the big holiday parades circa 1969 -- probably the Rose Bowl. (Even if I bought another artist's version, James' performance definitely marked my introduction to the song.) Didn't realize till the '90s, I guess, that the Big Bopper wrote it ... the "Richardson" credit underneath the song title would've meant nothing to me at that age. |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Feb 29, 2016 21:31:14 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 29, 2016 23:10:43 GMT -5
George Kennedy dead at 91. That's a shame but he had a long life and waited for the winter to be over so the snow won't pile up at the airports |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 3:32:01 GMT -5
One of my favorite parts in Airport 1970 Film of which he was arguing with a Pilot! .... George Kennedy ... R.I.P.
|
|
|
|
Post by marvelmaniac on Mar 2, 2016 6:33:22 GMT -5
|
|
