HOLY SHIT.

Joe Strummer... Dead.

I'm just kinda a little numb now - what is this, only the good die Middle aged? Is John Lydon scheduled to go in 2004, completing the triad of Joey Ramone, Joe Strummer and John Lydon?

Just... wow. You have no Idea how beyond pissed off I am right now that I passed up a chance to see the Mescaleros a few months back. Strummer is one of the 8 gods as far as I'm concerned musically - the remainder being the Rest of the Clash and all of Fugazi. His music lives on...

And to think, he would've made the Rock Hall in a few months. Same thing did happen to Joey Ramone after all...

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. - Soren Kierkegaard

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Originally posted by Captain Psyko:

Joe Strummer... Dead.

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Wow. I just read that on another Board and I just made a phone call and I guees it hit the news; I'm very depressed. I always loved the Clash and I have to say that I always had a major crush on Joe Strummer; he was just SO COOL. If I'm ever suffering from artist's block all I have to do is throw on London Calling and wham! inspiration comes calling.
He was only 50.
I'm off to have a bit of a cry now...
Elizabeth

Hopes drift in higher places
It's easier above the gloom

The Clash had the greatest photo in rock and roll history. London Calling topped a poll in Q Magazine not long ago.



thanks Joe.

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Gonna be a dirty punk
Gonna rock your neighborhood
Do the sound of rebel funk
Turn it up loud like it should

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By order of the Prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin, they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

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the sun won't shine my way again
lucky moon was on the wane
oh I'll never see a star again
in the pouring pouring rain

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~baraka, merkaba, in lak'esh, namasté~

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I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality

I wasn't born so much as I fell out
Nobody seemed to notice me
We had a hedge back home in the suburbs
Over which I never could see

I heard the people who lived on the ceiling
Scream and fight most scarily
Hearing that noise was my first ever feeling
That's how it's been all around me

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality

I'm all tuned in, I see all the programs
I save coupons from packets of tea
I've got my giants of discoteque album
I empty a bottle and I feel a bit free

The kids in the halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company
Long distance callers make long distance calls
And the silence makes me lonely

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality

It's not here
Disappeared

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality

I'm All Lost
I'm All Lost

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. - Soren Kierkegaard

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. - Soren Kierkegaard

Well, I see the news has already hit here, too. I think I literally had my stomach drop to my knees last night after reading this on the yahoo news page. I generally give a glance at the headlines but this was like an icy finger on my spine. I read it and just sat here saying "No. No. No." I admitted before to crying (big belly cry, even) when Joey Ramone died. Never before had any kind of "unknown" person made me cry. Well, looks like it's a twofer, now. Just so wrong. Like others, I had a freaky "Clash" moment yesterday. I was driving around doing my last minute Christmas shopping and got behind a white Bronco-type truck with a single sticker on the back window - "The Clash" just the old block letter logo. I thought "Wow, that's damn cool. I guess if you're only going to put ONE sticker on your car that's pretty damn telling that you've got good taste." I drove behind them for a while, grinning and reached for my London Calling CD. Just a few hours later I got home and was hit by this. I've been trying so hard to get into the Christmas mood, too. This ain't helpin', folks.

So, not to be morbid, but now it's looking to me like we've got to get a bubble put around Mike Watt, John Lydon, Jello, Lee Ving...ohh my, this list is really getting small. I remember the feeling when D. Boone died and that was too young, too soon, too fast. Shocking, yes. Heartbreaking, yes. But, Joey and Joe are just killing me with the timing and the wrongness in such a different way. Can't explain, but I too am doing the cheesy thing and cranking up all things Clash today (even Sandinista AND The Story of The Clash...then must watch "Straight to Hell"...hardly Christmassy, but it must be done cheesy or no).

-April

Well, I went home Monday and blasted London Calling and Sandanista and had a good cry and I'm still blue; but it helped a little, at least. But true to my history, listening to London Calling inspired some great art again...and that's a pretty good tribute to one of my biggest heros, I think.
That's a really cool picture that you posted, Captian Psyko!

Hopes drift in higher places
It's easier above the gloom

Herb Ritts, just 50 years old, from pneumonia.
He was one excellent photographer and made some of the best music videos ever. He was self-taught as an artist; and he was damn good at what he did.
Love to you, Herb.

Hopes drift in higher places
It's easier above the gloom

Just read about Herb Ritts in the paper. Wow, what a shame. On the few occasions when I bought Vanity Fair I always looked forward to his portraits. He was one of the few who could still pull off old-school hollywood glamour, often with a sense of humour.

Will be missed.

"You're just jealous because the voices talk only to me"

Just got this months SFX and there is an obituray for Glenn Quinn (Doyle from Angel) who died on 3rd December aged 32.

How did this information pass us by for nearly a month or have I missed a post somewhere?

Details of his death were not fully known at the time of SFX going to press but a drugs-overdoes was suspected.

apparently there's more info at his web-site www.glenn-quinn.com

Joe Strummer... Jeez...
At least this thread shows people on this board have good taste (apart from Neil I mean).
I just saw it on CNN. A small thingy bottom of the screen, didn't even give his name, it just said, Clash singer.

When they knock at your front door
How you gonna come
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun...

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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
-Tom Waits

"Ian MacNaughton, a television director who helped bring the anarchic ``Monty Python's Flying Circus'' to the screen, has died at the age of 76.

MacNaughton died Dec. 10 in Munich, Germany as a result of injuries sustained in a 2001 car accident, Monty Python member Terry Jones said."

we lost a TV person of uncommon taste and courage.

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Fail with consequence
Lose with eloquence
And smile.
-The Notwist

Maurice Gibb.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=501&e=4&u=/ap/20030112/ap_on_en_mu/obit_gibb

Deaths are always a thought provoking experience for the living. The strangest for me apart from family deaths, was when Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died in something close to the same week.
What does it mean when people die? Could it mean that their soul is either too heavy or light for
this world?

Argh! No battle Royale 2, it seems

"Director of BATTLE ROYALE & THE GREEN SLIME Passes! Japanese Master Kinji Fukasaku dies..."

Article by Harry Knowles here: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=14176





excerpt:

"....Then of course there is BATTLE ROYALE... Indeed, BATTLE ROYALE is a startling work of super-genius. The film that needed the support of every American Film Critic to bring it to the public's attention... that needed an American Distributor with the balls to risk the money to bring what would assuredly be a SIGNIFICANT film to the United States - that would be culturally discussed in every level of society... It would've and still could be a phenomenon in this country. It is the great film that needs to be released in the United States!"



- Michael

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Originally posted by Nandanee:
Deaths are always a thought provoking experience for the living. The strangest for me apart from family deaths, was when Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died in something close to the same week.
What does it mean when people die? Could it mean that their soul is either too heavy or light for
this world?

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That was a weird week for me as well, because a third person, Rich Mullins, died right around the same time. The deaths of all three affected to me to some degree, each in a unique way that I hadn't expected.

Good, my dog found the chainsaw.
-Lilo

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Originally posted by Nandanee:
What does it mean when people die? Could it mean that their soul is either too heavy or light for
this world?

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Maybe it's just random.

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"You're innocent when you dream"
(anonymous graffito at the Someday Cafe)
Circus' Mask: http://circusmask.diaryland.com

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:

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Originally posted by Nandanee:
Deaths are always a thought provoking experience for the living. The strangest for me apart from family deaths, was when Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died in something close to the same week.
What does it mean when people die? Could it mean that their soul is either too heavy or light for
this world?

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That was a weird week for me as well, because a third person, Rich Mullins, died right around the same time. The deaths of all three affected to me to some degree, each in a unique way that I hadn't expected.

Good, my dog found the chainsaw.
-Lilo

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Sir Georg Solti died right around then too. Meant more to me than the princess and the nun combined.

Maure.

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