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swo17
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Re: Passages

#3301 Post by swo17 » Fri May 04, 2012 1:35 pm

Terrible news, I don't even know what to say.

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#3302 Post by SpiderBaby » Fri May 04, 2012 1:40 pm

Sad news.

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matrixschmatrix
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#3303 Post by matrixschmatrix » Fri May 04, 2012 1:44 pm

Horrible. At least he managed to cram several lifetimes' worth of accomplishments into his 47 years, though.

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#3304 Post by HypnoHelioStaticStasis » Fri May 04, 2012 1:55 pm

God....dammit... I coulda sworn it went into remission.

The Beastie Boys were one of those bands that got me through my roughest, most awkward years, a source of unflinching good vibes and incredible rhymes.

A truly sad day.

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swo17
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Re: Passages

#3305 Post by swo17 » Fri May 04, 2012 1:56 pm


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domino harvey
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#3306 Post by domino harvey » Fri May 04, 2012 2:14 pm

Jesus, how sad and how scary

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The Narrator Returns
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Re: 100 Beastie Boys Video Anthology

#3307 Post by The Narrator Returns » Fri May 04, 2012 2:44 pm

R.I.P. MCA

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#3308 Post by bearcuborg » Fri May 04, 2012 2:55 pm

Yeah, sad news. I met him once after a show, he was a cool guy - his Oscilloscope company put out some great stuff.

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#3309 Post by hearthesilence » Fri May 04, 2012 3:00 pm

swo17 wrote:A good time to revisit one of Criterion's best celebrity top 10 lists.
10. Sometimes I get free DVDs from Criterion, but not always. I wanted to get one of each, you know, like the whole collection, but they said, “No, Adam, we don’t do that.”

LOL....RIP MCA.

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Re: Oscilloscope Pictures

#3310 Post by FilmFanSea » Fri May 04, 2012 5:29 pm

Matt wrote:Oscilloscope folks, I think I speak on behalf of everyone here when I offer my condolences for your immense loss.
Adam Yauch crammed a lot of life into 47 years. A mindful visionary. RIP.

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#3311 Post by ianungstad » Fri May 04, 2012 6:15 pm

Terrible news. Adam did great things with Oscilloscope and I hope the company continues to thrive and make available great world cinema, which was obviously a passion for Adam.

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#3312 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 06, 2012 6:45 pm

Jimmy James' legal defense team just lost its key witness: George "Goober" Lindsey dead at 83

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#3313 Post by Polybius » Mon May 07, 2012 3:11 am

I will never, ever get tired of this.

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knives
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Re: Passages

#3314 Post by knives » Mon May 07, 2012 9:56 pm


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Re: Passages

#3315 Post by antnield » Tue May 08, 2012 8:33 am

Maurice Sendak

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Re: Passages

#3316 Post by Jeff » Tue May 08, 2012 10:07 am

antnield wrote:Maurice Sendak
Loved him for his own irascible personality as much as I did for his books. Oddly, my copy of Tell Them Anything You Want arrived yesterday -- one of a handful of Oscilloscope titles I purchased in the wake of Adam Yauch's death. Guess there's no better time to watch it than now.

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#3317 Post by knives » Tue May 08, 2012 11:19 am

That's like a freight truck. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who had Where the Wild Things Are as their first not Seuss literary experience and how important that was for me. Without question he's one of the most important literary figures of the past fifty years and at least he had a hell of an impact to leave on.

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#3318 Post by jbeall » Wed May 09, 2012 12:20 am

Sendak was great not just for Where the Wild Things Are, but also Little Bear, which I read so many times I think I had some of those books memorized by age five.

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#3319 Post by knives » Wed May 09, 2012 12:22 am

Don't forget Pierre. Though I don't care. :o

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matrixschmatrix
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#3320 Post by matrixschmatrix » Wed May 09, 2012 12:26 am

antnield wrote:Maurice Sendak
Jesus, that's two Spike Jones collaborators in a few days. Sendak was amazing at creating a whole world in a few pages, more than almost any other children's book writer I can think of.

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#3321 Post by knives » Wed May 09, 2012 12:34 am

He'd have probably punched you for that compliment though. He hated to be thought of as a children's author and certainly he did much more than that though I think that he felt that designation for his books was insulting.

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#3322 Post by matrixschmatrix » Wed May 09, 2012 12:44 am

Hmm, I can see that, though obviously that's not how I intended it- certainly, there are rewards to a book like In The Night Kitchen that apply as much to an adult as to a child. There's an energy to his art that invariably makes me remember childhood, though, and I feel like a child when I look at it.

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#3323 Post by knives » Wed May 09, 2012 12:50 am

I certainly think his genius was providing a catharsis for children (and adults in a different way) by allowing them to an honest view of their experience. Childhood doesn't become this sweet little thing of nostalgia, but rather this big thing filled with fear and violence where the reaction to it sometimes can only be that.

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#3324 Post by matrixschmatrix » Wed May 09, 2012 12:54 am

Absolutely, and I think that's something the Jones movie got across wonderfully well- not the sugary conception of childhood from someone who's safely decades removed from it, but the raw and fragile state of being totally unable to control your own emotions and unable to understand how things work and how one is expected to fit oneself in with them. Jones got that across in an hour and a half or so, and his movie is remarkable because of it. Sendak got it across in 48 pages.

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#3325 Post by knives » Wed May 09, 2012 1:08 am

Most definitely. I'm going to steal a quote from Sendak (who was really one of the greatest interview subjects ever) and say that it is impossible for someone removed from their childhood to write for children, but he succeeded because he wrote from subjects that could actually enthrall children and stick with them because the situation is so interesting. In a weird way I think that a lot of his work takes on new dimensions for adults because he knew to write as an adult even when kids are the intended absorbers.

This really deserves a listen if only because I'm pretty sure this was his last interview (either that or the Colbert ones) and is just an emotional roller-coaster. He was an amazingly complex man.

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