Archive for the 'Deaths' Category
Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, dead at the age of 47 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart.
This is terribly sad news. It’s A Wonderful Life is still one of my favorite albums and it will never be the same for me in light of this horrible tragedy.
Legendary musician and producer, Jim worked on some of my favorite music, from playing piano on The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” to production and piano work on The Replacement’s “Pleased To Meet Me” to piano work on Slobberbone’s “Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today” to just a huge amount of ridiculously good shit. You will certainly be missed.
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Former Wilco member Jay Bennett, dead at the age of 45.
J.G. Ballard
This is truly sad, as I’ve spent my entire adult life reading Updike. Not a month goes by where I don’t think of Nicholson Baker’s book length rumination on Updike, U and I: A True Story
Fred singing Coldplay’s “Fix You”
Young@Heart’s Video for “I Will Survive”
Young@Heart@Fenway
RIP Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
George Bush, The Reader (via The Literary Saloon)
National Book Award acceptance speech for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (via Conversational Reading)
Things aren’t much better in the U.K. The Guardian’s top 10 bestsellers in fiction.
VHS is officially dead.
Play Doom And Heretic in your browser.
Man Booker prize sponsor caught in Madoff scandal.
I wish the Mac Vs. PC adds were really like this
Deep Throat, RIP
