Passages

[jesus the mexican boi]

I don't remember this being posted here.

Stacey Tendeter of Truffaut's Les Deux Anglaises passed away in October 2008.

[domino harvey]

Frequent X Files director Kim Manners

[jesus the mexican boi]

John Updike

[kaujot]

God, that hurts.

[HypnoHelioStaticStasis]

Ray Harryhausen's producer, Charles H. Schneer

[Dylan]

Met Schneer years and years ago when I was a kid, though never Harryhausen (not yet, anyway). The films they made together basically defined my childhood, and they're all pretty wonderful in their own unique way.

[Zazou dans le Metro]

John Martyn

[zedz]

Very sad, if not exactly surprising. Out comes Stormbringer, yet again.

[HerrSchreck]

swimminghorses rufflemao.

[der_Artur]

swimminghorses rufflemao.

How did that happen? Did he suffocate on one of the dicks in that bag of dicks Matt ordered him to eat?

[Mr Sausage]

swimminghorses rufflemao.

How did that happen? Did he suffocate on one of the dicks in that bag of dicks Matt ordered him to eat?

I was looking through the moderator logs and came across this, which was just too funny not to share:

Banned user for reason “evidence of crippling mental illness”
» swimminghorses

[lubitsch]

Marie Glory one of the very last silent stars.

[Saturnome]

Am I wrong to think that there's only (big word I know) Barbara Kent left? I'm thinking this because I've seen Lonesome not so long ago (in some kind of horrible print), and it was kind of special to think this woman is 100-something now, and maybe all that is left from a era.

[tavernier]

Composer Lukas Foss.

(And a shocking one I missed from November: conductor Richard Hickox, who recorded tons of neglected 20th century British music on Chandos.)

[MichaelB]

(And a shocking one I missed from November: conductor Richard Hickox, who recorded tons of neglected 20th century British music on Chandos.)

Vernon Handley died a couple of months earlier - which is very bad news as he and Hickox were arguably the most tireless champions of British music.

(Well, there's Ken Russell too, but his appreciation is more reactive than proactive, and I don't fancy his chances in dealing with a full orchestra!)

[tavernier]

Yes, Handley was a big loss too (his Chandos recordings are also keepers)--but Hickox was only 60, so that to me was a shocker.

[GaryC]

One from January not mentioned yet: composer/arranger Angela Morley, formerly Wally Stott.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Watership Down and Scott Walker - how appropriate. I didn't even know Stott was still alive until recent. RIP.

[zedz]

Watership Down and Scott Walker.

and Peeping Tom and The Goon Show! I'd never connected all those particular dots before.

[Matt]

Only soap fans will recognize the name, but Clint Ritchie (Clint Buchanan on One Life to Live) is dead.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Lux Interior RIP

What a bummer. Coincidentally, I was listening to the Misfits this morning. I'll have to throw on some Cramps for more craziness in memorium. "TV Set" was my favorite song.

[devlinnn]

Lux

Hard to believe The Cramps are no more. One of the first gigs seen, and like anyone young and tender in those days, you realised your life was broken down to BeforeTheCramps/AfterTheCramps. Few bands change lives.

The short Billboard obit. claims 'Bad Music for Bad People' sold 95,000 copies. I'm presuming that's US sales, as they were huge in Europe and Australia back then. I guess 95,000 Americans can't be wrong....

[Matt]

Lux

Oh god. I was having such a good day until I clicked on this thread. I feel very fortunate to have seen them live--in Cleveland--when they were still worth seeing. One of the greatest musical experiences of my life, and I remember it like it was yesterday. By the end of the show, Lux was wearing nothing but a black bikini and a pair of red pumps, humping the top of a stack of Marshalls.

[Matt]

James Whitmore

[flyonthewall2983]

He will be missed.