in memory of Bruno S.

courtesy discowitch

NYT obit seen linked on Singer-Saints.

Dennis Hopper could work the shadows

courtesy NinjerAttack

Like no other.

Thanks for that & rest in peace.

BBC obit.

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunfighter . . .

PCL LinkDump.

dammit, that's *Sir* Gary Coleman . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_coleman

If the Simpsons count for anything, he is.

Rest in peace, Sir Gary.

the one & many Chiltons to which we listen

courtesy goodfeelinggs

For more & better reasons than any one favorite song or era taken on its own, losing Alex Chilton has been an esp. hard kick in the teeth. Maybe with Spring on its way or something . . .

Deferring now to these many fans/proponents/mourners:

mrdantefontana and Donna Lethal of PCL LinkDump

Kicksville 66

If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger . . .

Pathway to Unknown Worlds

Singer-Saints

And Now the Screaming Starts

Monster Movie Music

While thinking about the wraiths of Chilton and Dickinson cavorting in a spectral Trans Am.

And of other people/places/things gone way on up & out.

Brittany Murphy will be missed

courtesy freshMOVIEZ02

She shows up 9 minutes into this long time favorite.

Other posts in her honor at:

kindertrauma (which led to . . .)

Final Girl

Synthtopia

Vic Mizzy, musical mastermind

What do you say about a composer who wrote the theme to Green Acres *and* the music for The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?

Frankly, I dunno. The dude rocked our worlds with bass harmonicas and fuzztone guitar motifs and now he's gone.

But Magic Carpet Burn takes a step in the right direction with the aforementioned primo Don Knotts comedy.

Around 8:38, dig the creepiest organ music ever . . . (thanks, Vic)


courtesy DonKnottsFan

in a full bird Trans Am to Valhalla, Mississippi

An old friend just sent me this obit for Memphis music maker/record producer Jim Dickinson.

If in no mood for the greatest craziest damn music cranking from the Jensen coaxials of post-life, one might rejoin the living in the least likely of ways: via cell.

Mobile soundscapes, that is, presented by the good folks at Disquiet.

how high the tiger

courtesy TUBESUCKE


courtesy ExactlyLikeYou

Les remembered on FABULON and Waveformless.

More bits of wizardry on airform archives and PCL LinkDump.

I'll Be There

courtesy pajinka

Farrah. And now Michael.

damn

courtesy chucho860

David Carradine is gone.

PCL LinkDump.

Deadlicious.

FABULON.

...:::kindertrauma:::...

Rather than Kung Pao radio, been listening to this recording made with a Buddha Machine. Posted on Disquiet.

Another funereal bit: Emerson the Vamp Slayer? Prob. better than non-Buffy Buffy.

Bea, we hardly knew ye

But we'll miss her all the same.

As evidenced at Kindertrauma.

On FABULON, she's addressed as Dame Beatrice.

On And Now the Screaming Starts, said form of address should most certainly be used by a pack of raptors.

Or else . . .

my cathode youth vol. 5 1/2

My buddy Al Mundy's at it again. This time on a death flight where heedless scientists die on cue.

God, I totally remember seeing this as a kid.

John Colicos, whose misanthropic heavyosity has graced the likes of Star Trek and Battleship Galactica, comes on just a little lighter than usual to serve in the screenwriter's bully pulpit as a villain with a righteous cause.

Think of it as a kinda Malthusian/eco-terrorist rip of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.

a piece of your own death

One of my favorite characters from one of my favorite movies.

Warning: mature language, surliness, cigarette smoking, humor . . .

Tho' different in many ways, he brings to mind an old acquaintance.

my cathode youth vol. 5

Again with It Takes a Thief.

That old episode I remembered is now on Hulu. Marilyn McCoo and the whole damn 5th Dimension guest star.

Advice: beware of glass sculpture and duck behind the couch. Or that "One Less Bell to Answer" (with the tacked on space trumpet coda) will toll for thee . . .

Dedicated to an Al of my own acquaintance.

scenes from the banks of Denial

(courtesy tonnerrro)

Just saw the bad news on PCL LinkDump. But will say: Lux lives, dammit.

And present these as evidence.



(courtesy mambofable)

way too many dead folk

Pat Hingle . . .

Eartha Kitt, on Christmas Day, of all days . . .

Now Patrick McGoohan. Remembered on PCL LinkDump. And on Deadlicious with plenty of Prisoner related & other follow up.

Don't anyone else go dyin' if you know what's good for ya . . .