Figured we'd lump these together especially when the celeb doesn't warrant his/her own thread.
RIP to Bobby Fischer, a chess great and an, er, quirky human being.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fis...bit/index.html
Figured we'd lump these together especially when the celeb doesn't warrant his/her own thread.
RIP to Bobby Fischer, a chess great and an, er, quirky human being.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fis...bit/index.html
I have much respect for Fischer as a chess great, but as a human being he held some fairly shitty views.
He was only 64. But he looked like he was well into his eighties. Poor fellow, I really think there was something deeply unbalanced about him mentally.
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Holy crap...Heath Ledger died today.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Roy Scheider died today. That sucks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/mo...1scheider.html
Damn
Complications from a staph infection? That's awful.
RIP.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Bo Diddley has passed away.
:sad:
R.I.P.
Tim Russert dead at age 58 from an apparent heart attack.
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
Holy crap!
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Wow. Because this was wikipedia, I thought someone was playing a prank for Friday the 13th. But it's on all the news sites.Quoting iosos (view post)
R.I.P.
I really don't like it when people my parent's age die. Even though people die all the time, it gives me a vicious twinge.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Seinfeld on Carlin.
Really good stuff.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
I like Carlin's early work, but he got too angry later on.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Comic book artist Michael Turner died.
He was 37.
:cry:
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Don S. Davis aka Major Harland Briggs died
R.I.P.
aww.
this is appropriate: in memoriam
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
My favorite character in Twin Peaks.
Dean Smith, head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, 1961-1997. Aged 83.
Sad day for us Tar Heels today.
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
"The Catalyst" was still easily Linkin Park's best single they ever released:
Still a damn shame it only received a week of radio time before being pulled from the airwaves in favor of their same old same old. :\
Last Seen:
Flow (G. Zilbalodis, 2024) ☆
Arcadian (B. Brewer, 2024) ☆
Hit Man (R. Linklater, 2023) ☆
The English (H. Blick, 2022) ☆
Notorious (A. Hitchcock, 1946) ☆
Horizon: An American Saga ? Chapter 1 (K. Costner, 2024) ☆
The Manchurian Candidate (J. Frankenheimer, 1962) ☆
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (J. Sargent, 1974) ☆
Rocky (J. G. Avildsen, 1976)
Die Hard (J. McTiernan, 1988) ☆
First time ☆
Jesse Helms is dead.
I cannot say anything nice, so I will not say anything at all.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
I just wish it had taken place on another holiday. National coming out day would have worked for me.
Very sad news indeed:
Thomas Disch is gone.
Yeah - just posted in the SF thread.
Suicide...sucks.
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