RIP someone or another

[skullguise]

Wow, I was wondering what your sad face in the "listening now" thread meant....

RIP, one of the pioneers!

[Laowei]

RIP Cassini. Job well done. 

[skullguise]

Fuck.....Grant Hart, ex of of Husker Du

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/arts/music/grant-hart-husker-du-drummer-dies.html?mcubz=1

I always wished he and Bob Mould could have worked together more, so much great stuff came from that band.

And.....Fuck Cancer.....

 

[Dusty Chalk]

fuck cancer

[Voltron]

RIP Grant. Fuck the fuck out of cancer. Seeing Bob Mould in a few weeks at Hardly Strictly. Gotta play some Hüsker Dü in the meantime. Here are Bob's words from FB yesterday :

It was the Fall of 1978. I was attending Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. One block from my dormitory was a tiny store called Cheapo Records. There was a PA system set up near the front door blaring punk rock. I went inside and ended up hanging out with the only person in the shop. His name was Grant Hart.

The next nine years of my life was spent side-by-side with Grant. We made amazing music together. We (almost) always agreed on how to present our collective work to the world. When we fought about the details, it was because we both cared. The band was our life. It was an amazing decade.

We stopped working together in January 1988. We went on to solo careers, fronting our own bands, finding different ways to tell our individual stories. We stayed in contact over the next 29 years — sometimes peaceful, sometimes difficult, sometimes through go-betweens. For better or worse, that’s how it was, and occasionally that’s what it is when two people care deeply about everything they built together.

The tragic news of Grant’s passing was not unexpected to me. My deepest condolences and thoughts to Grant’s family, friends, and fans around the world.

Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember.

Godspeed, Grant. I miss you. Be with the angels.

[Hopstretch]

Harry Dean Stanton.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/actor-harry-dean-stanton-known-repo-man-others-dies-91-n801871

[EdipisReks1]

What a legend. 

[skullguise]

Oh, man, another strike to the heart....RIP Harry Dean Stanton.....agree, Jacob, a legend.

91 years is better than 56.......

[Voltron]

"The life of a repo man is always intense." RIP HDS

[Torpedo]

RIP Mr Stanton

[Craig Sawyers]

Yeah - RIP Mr Stanton.

Another one, which won't be commonly known, is Nikolaas Bloembergen. He was one of the pioneers of non-linear optics, which was one of the topics of my research degree. In fact he was one of three recipients of the Nobel prize for Physics in 1981. I'd kind of lost track of the years, because he got to the fine old age of 97 (which means that he was younger than I am now when I was at University; which is very sobering).

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/sep/12/laser-spectroscopy-pioneer-nicolaas-bloembergen-dies-at-97

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Another one which isn't commonly known, but I heard this story because cold war tensions with the Soviet Union was a thing with my dad:  Stanislav Petrov

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-saved-world-1983-nuclear-catastrophe-just-died/

[guzziguy]

RIP Harry Dean Stanton and, especially, Stanislav Petrov.

[skullguise]

I had heard of the Petrov story, but not the details around....RIP, hope someone like him is still around!

[EdipisReks1]

42 minutes ago, skullguise said:

I had heard of the Petrov story, but not the details around....RIP, hope someone like him is still around!

If you are interested in nuclear insanity, I strongly recommend The Head Hand. https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous-Legacy/dp/0307387844

[mikeymad]

Also I just watched this on Netflix -

American-Experience-Command-Control

pretty good tale about an oops

RIP Stanton and Petrov 

 

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP Petrov - the man whose calm action saved us all from Armageddon.

Another cold war movie worth watching is By Dawn's Early Light.

[Mario_Fpolis]

Thanks Craig for this, otherwise I had never known.

Stupid times then, stupid times now, I guess we have to blame the humans...

[ironbut]

Harry Dean Stanton has been one of my favorite character actors. I can remember him in all the tv westerns like Gunsmoke and The Rifleman.

Paris Texas was a big one and when he sang Borderline with Ry Cooder I found a new dimension to him.

RIP

[TMoney]

^ it was really nice to see HDS in the new season of Twin Peaks as well. Sadly so many of the older actors/actressess that were in that season have since passed.

HDS

Catherine Coulson - The Log Lady

Miguel Ferrer

RIP to all of them.

[Dusty Chalk]

Charles Bradley -- also of Daptone Records (Sharon Jones was late 2016, I think, although it still feels recent)

 

[Hopstretch]

John Ashbery, noted American poet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/arts/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html?

One of his finest works, I think, reproduced here in light of current trends.

 

[Grahame]

RIP Hugh Hefner, you know, for the articles.

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/531884820/-playboy-founder-hugh-hefner-who-championed-free-speech-and-smut-dies-at-xx

[Voltron]

RIP Hef 

[skullguise]

RIP HH.....