Re: RIP v2 - still no cure for death
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:00 pm
Requiescat Teresa Taylor
RIP.
Sobering. Teresa was a little less than a year older than I am. I used to smoke like a chimney -- currently trying to keep it to a bare minimum -- and I'm on disability for depression; but I don't really watch TV (I read stuff on screens and type into boxes on screens, instead) and, obviously, I wasn't in the Butthole Surfers. Again: RIP.The New York Times wrote:Ms. Taylor, also known as Teresa Nervosa, addressed her long battle with what she called an “end stage” lung condition, which she did not identify, in a 2021 Facebook post.
Cheryl Curtice, her partner and caregiver, wrote on Facebook that Ms. Taylor “passed away clean and sober, peacefully in her sleep, this weekend.”
“She was so brave, even in the face of her horrible disease.” [...]
“I don’t have cancer or any harsh treatments,” she wrote, detailing her daily use of an oxygen tank in a small apartment that had a television mounted on a swivel fed by “mega cable,” and that she lived with her cat, Snoopy. “I know I smoked like a chimney and this is to be expected,” she added. “My spirits are up." [...]
Ms. Taylor left the band after experiencing seizures she attributed to the strobe lights the band used onstage. In 1993, she had surgery for a brain aneurysm. [...]
As the years rolled by, her rock star swagger may have faded, but not, it seemed, her sense of irony. “I am the ultimate slacker,” she told The American-Statesman. “I’m on disability for depression, I get a check every month and I watch a lot of TV.”
R.I.P. Firebreathing Brötzmann. Never missed a chance to catch his "scandinavian" trio with Peter Uuskyla (yay!) and that other guy when they played live here over the years... some of the heaviest concerts I've been to