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

poor val

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

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

I wonder who he’ll regenerate into this time.

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

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

Cool

i've really got into post/punk recently.

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

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

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!

Oh no, Brian Wilson. Weep

Yes.

Very weeep

brian wilson or lionel messi: a quiz

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.

yes. weeep

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!

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.

Celebrity is shit

weep

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

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

ves

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

but weeeep nonetheless

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

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

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.

Oh no Tebbit dead. Why is it always the good ones who are taken from us too soon.

Fuck

Yes. Poor old ozzy

Didn't he play a gig like really recently?

Also - RIP

Two weeks ago.

wheeled out one last time

*winces*

I hope everyone connected to that decision is happy.

too busy counting their millions

Hulk Ho-gone

Tom Lehrer.
Pigeons are celebrating I guess.

Terence Stamp. weeeep

weep indeed

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.

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

Yes. Terrible. I’m so sorry.

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

*hugs*

Thank you, everyone.

Big hugs. I'm so sorry

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

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

Thank you again.

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.

oh no, weeeep