Mickey242 wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:41 pm Iggy Pop is dead right?

Nine lives, that one.

Bill Conway, drummer for Morphine

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/morphine- ... onway-rip/

Vibracobra wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:16 am Bill Conway, drummer for Morphine

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/morphine- ... onway-rip/

Sad to hear. That band had one hell of a sound.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:05 pm As the essence of queer, I think of Tim Dean’s work on being queer and queer not as being about who you’re having sex with – that can be a dimension of it – but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and it has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live

bell hooks

This is cool. I like the word queer for myself because it feels suitably ambiguous. I have been things, I am other things, and I have no reason to believe that I will eventually become something and remain there. Or really truly being, precisely and unambiguously, anything particular at all.

bell hooks RIP

enframed wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:16 am

Mickey242 wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:41 pm Iggy Pop is dead right?

Nine lives, that one.

Ok, so he's a "day walker" like blade or at lest some type of Ghoul.
If you get bite by a Iggy Pop do you move to Germany to record a album?

Desmond Tutu.

Giuseppe Drali died yesterday. He was a master frame builder for Bianchi’s racing division, following and assisting his father in making frames that carried some of the greats, including Coppi and Baldini.

Today everyone wants carbon fibre, because it’s lighter… technology moves forward, arriving at incredible levels, but it has lost the great art of brazing. For me a bicycle is like a painting … Every detail has to be attended to and refined and nothing can substitute the hand if you want something that is truly beautiful and unique.

Janice Long. One for the pop-crazed youngsters.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:22 pm Janice Long. One for the pop-crazed youngsters.

This hit me surprisingly hard. Just seemed such a happy presence in my childhood.

Also <grinding gear change> E. O. Wilson died yesterday. Up there with David Attenborough in promoting our understanding of biodiversity and warning the world about the environmental destruction in progress.

pldms wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 9:18 am

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:22 pm Janice Long. One for the pop-crazed youngsters.

This hit me surprisingly hard. Just seemed such a happy presence in my childhood.

Indeed. I used to listen to her shows fairly frequently as a teen, and whilst she did also have a bit of a penchant for dodgy goth bands, she turned me onto Nick Cave, Julian Cope's solo stuff , Felt, Momus and a few others.

Plus, I have to give her credit for giving me my first exposure to the Fall, even if it was based on a misunderstanding. She played what I thought was "Oh! Brother" - their most recent release at the time - so I bought it the next weekend. Although I grew to like it after a few listens, my initial reaction was "What is this poppy shit? This isn't the song I heard on the Evening Session!".

Turned out I'd misheard the title, and that the track she'd played was actually "An Older Lover Etc.", as I discovered a year or so later after Buying "Slates".