The weeping thread

Post by **dng** » Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:43 am

how the hell was val kilmer only 5 years younger than my dad

Post by **vom** » Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:36 pm

poor val

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:52 pm

I'm going to rewatch Top Secret! in tribute.

Post by **Pual** » Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:43 am

They seem to have killed off the pope by making him do Easter.

I wonder who he’ll regenerate into this time.

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:58 pm

JD Vance did his best Liz-Truss-meeting-the-Quen impersonation.

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:04 pm

A lot of people won't have noticed this or really understand who this is, but David Thomas of Pere Ubu has died. That's not Dave Thomas the Canadian actor and comedian who's appeared in loads of films and sitcoms, nor the Dave Thomas who founded Wendy's, and he also wasn't the David Thomas who is currently head of Barratt Homes, or David A. Thomas the Canadian programmer, who should not be confused with the other David Thomas who is another programmer.

The Pere Ubu David Thomas was born in Miami, and died in Hove. Somehow this is quite appropriate for reasons I can't even begin to explain. "Cantankerous" was very much the word to describe him, and he was reportedly a rather odd and difficult man to get on with. Nevertheless he made some extraordinary rock music from the 70s onwards, particuarly once punk / post-punk got going.

I had the reissue of his band's first LP "The Modern Dance" in my twenties, and this remains the most extraordinary "cut" from it, a song called "Non-Alignment Pact".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax63ullPE

Post by **endar** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 8:47 pm

Cool

i've really got into post/punk recently.

Fucking Joy Division, man. I want that dark, moody shit. Give it to me

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:01 am

The first thing I heard of theirs (Pere Ubu) was Love Love Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JmvL8KWWDo

On The Chart Show, mebbe?

I thought the vocals were nuts, but in a good way.

RIP DT

Post by **blombluss** » Thu May 08, 2025 8:05 pm

Pual wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:43 am They seem to have killed off the pope by making him do Easter.

I wonder who he’ll regenerate into this time.

Pope Americuss!

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sun May 11, 2025 4:38 am

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:17 pm

Oh no, Brian Wilson. Weep

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:37 pm

Post by **vom** » Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:51 pm

Very weeep

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:04 pm

: brianwilson.jpg (185.94 KiB) Viewed 9445 times

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:05 pm

brian wilson or lionel messi: a quiz

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:27 am

dng wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:17 pm Oh no, Brian Wilson. Weep

And Sylvester "Sly" Stewart, the namesake and creative force behind the mercurial psychedelic funk band Sly and the Family Stone.

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:32 am

yes. weeep

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:53 pm

dng wrote: Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:05 pm brian wilson or lionel messi: a quiz

Hehehe!

Or Will Forte in the US sitcom Last Man on Earth!

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:58 am

Brian Wilson went through so much insane shit it's unbelievable. At least he seemed to reach some sort of peace in his later years.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:25 am

Celebrity is shit

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:13 pm

weep

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... dsen-death

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Jul 03, 2025 11:36 pm

R. Dogs was the best Tarantino film (due to Madsen, rest of cast, story, and no fetish shots)

Post by **dng** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:36 am

Post by **vom** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:52 am

not for me, I like most of the others more I think

but weeeep nonetheless

Post by **endar** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 12:34 pm

The Madonna discussion in the diner at the start is a wonder

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:36 pm

I don't like any Tarantino films except for From Dusk Till Dawn!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Jul 07, 2025 10:53 pm

I have managed not to see a single one, although this has required zero effort. I sometimes think it's easier to talk about gaps in my cultural ignorance.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 08, 2025 8:27 pm

Oh no Tebbit dead.

Why is it always the good ones who are taken from us too soon.

Post by **endar** » Tue Jul 22, 2025 8:03 pm

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:46 pm

Yes. Poor old ozzy

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:23 am

Didn't he play a gig like really recently?

Also - RIP

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:02 am

Two weeks ago.

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:03 am

wheeled out one last time

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:50 am

*winces*

I hope everyone connected to that decision is happy.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:40 am

too busy counting their millions

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:27 pm

Hulk Ho-gone

Post by **Pual** » Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:42 pm

Tom Lehrer.
Pigeons are celebrating I guess.

Post by **dng** » Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:43 pm

Terence Stamp. weeeep

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 17, 2025 11:50 pm

weep indeed

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 1:45 am

My mum.

She passed away last Friday afternoon, during an operation. Been very strange since then... I've been keeping going with distractions. I don't know what you'd call this part of the grieving process. A weird state between numbness, anger, and the deepest sadness you could imagine. There's a sense that a major link to the past has been cut, entirely unexpectedly.

All the while I've been making music, playing games, going food shopping in the usual places, pretending that everything's fine despite the fact that my mum is gone. I remember waving goodbye to her the evening before the operation. Genuinely didn't think it would be the last time I would see her, at least alive. Why wouldn't it go fine? Well, it didn't. I don't know.

So for now I'm off work. There's so many things to do in the wake of someone dying. I kind of already knew that, but I'm in the thick of things at the moment. Thankfully I have my dad, my sister, and my brother-in-law as well. There's so many reminders of her around the place it's like a grotesque practical joke. I found one of her old coats in dad's car boot the other day. And an old nightie she used to wear. The clothes looked sad somehow. How can a shirt or a coat or a nightie or something like that look sad? All lost and abandoned.

Post by **vom** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 8:13 am

Oh god, how awful. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Post by **dng** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 8:49 am

Yes. Terrible. I’m so sorry.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 4:03 pm

I'm really so sorry to hear that, Michelle. That is just awful.

*hugs*

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:13 pm

Thank you, everyone.

Post by **endar** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:34 pm

Big hugs. I'm so sorry

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:48 pm

Really sorry to hear this, Michelle - my thoughts are with you and your family.

Post by **Pual** » Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:50 am

I’m sorry to hear that. Losing parents is horrible.

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Mon Aug 25, 2025 10:30 pm

Thank you again.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:20 pm

Alas, Maru, the world's squodgest and most eccentric cat, died yesterday at the very respectable age of 18. I am really rather sad about this.

Post by **vom** » Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:33 am

oh no, weeeep