Celebrity Deaths

[Rubin Farr]

[caze]

god they were fucking awful

[Joyrex]

On 12/8/2019 at 7:08 PM, yekker said:

 

Is Big Bird really dead???  

 

To be fair, Carroll hasn't played Big Bird for about a year now I think... he's got a new puppeteer.

32 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:

She was older than I thought! Sad

[Rubin Farr]

On 12/8/2019 at 11:22 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Rapper Juice Wrld dead at 21:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rapper-juice-wrld-dead-21-153656585.html

Sounds like Juice WRLD overdosed on opioids, also:

"Law enforcement sources told the Tribune that 41 "vacuum-sealed" bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9-mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets were among the contraband found."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/codeine-41-bags-of-marijuana-found-in-luggage-when-rapper-juice-wrld-collapsed-report-203909722.html

[dr lopez]

being a shitty rapper is hard!

[Braintree]

On 12/8/2019 at 4:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Always in threes.  Rene Auberjonois, known from shows like Benson, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, passed away at age 79.

Damn. He was one of my favorites on DS9. RIP.

[Nebraska]

r.i.p. danny aiello

[Rubin Farr]

I always loved him in Harlem Nights. 

"Who the fuck is Jim?  Does he measure the fucking air?"  Classic.

 

[iococoi]

sad

 

[ignatius]

He was great in so many roles. The chiropractor in Jacobs Ladder. All the spike lee joints. He has a supporting role in Moonstruck that’s hilarious

Rip.

[Joyrex]

Synth pioneer Gershon Kingsley dead at 97:

 

[Nebraska]

r.i.p. anna karina

[marf]

Rip Ram Dass. Zero news on his death

[Limo]

Dave Riley, bass player for one of the greatest bands of all time: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dave-riley-big-black-dead-at-59-931315/

 

 

[Rubin Farr]

Neil Innes, star of The Rutles, and the "Seventh Python" has passed at 75:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

[Limo]

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

 

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

[dr lopez]

i always hated those pixies covers lol

 

nevertheless, rest in peace vaughan oliver. also neil innes. brave sir robin ran away

Edited December 30, 2019 by dr lopez

[azatoth]

rip syd mead

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/syd-mead-1933-2019.html

 

[milkface]

4 hours ago, rhmilo said:

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

 

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

Head about this. It'll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil is one of my favourite album covers.

[Braintree]

35 minutes ago, azatoth said:

rip syd mead

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/syd-mead-1933-2019.html

 

86 isn't a bad age to go out on. Truly a legend. RIP, Syd.

[joshuatxuk]

Syd Mead is my favorite futurist visionary. His influence via Blade Runner, Tron, Alien, etc. is beyond well known, for me his interior concepts and more utopian oriented stuff is what I find perpetually inspiring. His work has a far more timeless and ageless feel to it compared to many other retrofuturism peers.

Here's to Mead and a brighter and better future.

[joshuatxuk]

18 hours ago, dr lopez said:

also neil innes. brave sir robin ran away

 

21 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

Neil Innes, star of The Rutles, and the "Seventh Python" has passed at 75:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

Man, Innes' passing is one of those that reminds me of how old I'm becoming. I wore out a VHS copy of the Rutles as a kid. I didn't realize how core he was at the songwriting of that was until years later, some of his Rutles tunes are as good if not ironically superior to the Beatles originals he was both satirizing and paying homage to. He's def an underappreciated collaborator of Monty Python, as is his work with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

 

 

[joshuatxuk]

20 hours ago, rhmilo said:

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

 

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

Yeah, holy fuck I had no idea just how many covers he designed until I looked it up on discogs

[chim]

Edward Holmes aka Optiv from Cause 4 Concern and other DNB acts has passed. Sad day for bassheads 

[Zephyr_Nova]

Neil Peart, drum legend, 67, brain cancer.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

Edited January 10, 2020 by Zephyr_Nova