The Notable Death Thread
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Okay. Been a minute since Ive read Helter Skelter. He's the one who drowned, right?
Surfer Girl is one creepy ass song. I wrote a scene in a script with a couple making out in their car with that in the background. And alien was hiding in the backseat and killed them. Blood splattered across the radio.
Hmm. Now I have to go back and listen to it again.
If Surfer Girl wasn't creepy, it is now! Slasher Sci-Fi song
It's got some janky, croony-y, almost yodel-y harmonies in it. Typical Beach Boys but warped through a funhouse mirror. I think they hit a couple of major 7ths in spots, but it's difficult to tell with the way they're always climbing or sinking through the register. Maybe it's just me but I've always found the song a little unsettling.
I've never paid much attention to it because it's one of my least favorite BB songs, but now that I actually listen to it, it is a bit stalker-y, isn't it?
Along those same lines, I disliked the movie Phantom of the Opera despite a couple of fine songs because a) it's too long and boring, and b) it romanticizes a creepo stalker. (Too many years on the victim response unit may have warped my view of cinema)
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran - in all its dozen variations - was often sung during the Iran hostage situation.
Frederick Forsyth passed away 9 June.
Famed for being the author of: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File ... and other books.
Famed for being the author of: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File ... and other books.
And also famous for teaching a whole generation of people how to get a false identity in the aforementioned Day of the Jackal.
Frederick Forsyth, author of Day of the Jackal (and others) has joined Mr. Stone.
Frederick Forsyth, former spy and Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86
Approached by Britain’s MI6 while reporting on Nigeria’s Biafra War, he mined his experiences for literary inspiration.www.aljazeera.com
Which probably won't work anymore, since birth and death information is in a common database now.
I wondered about that line, too. A friend told me that there was a photo of him lying on a bed, and so overweight that he appeared to be a bloated corpse. The picture spawned a bunch of "Brian Wilson is dead" rumors, sort of like the ones about Paul McCarney's demise back in the day.
Mick Ralphs, aged 81, passed away.
Guitarist for: Mott the Hoople & Bad Company.
Guitarist for: Mott the Hoople & Bad Company.
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Bobby Sherman, whose winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop hits like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me,” has died. He was 81.
Only thing I know about him is Marge Simpson had a crush on him, which Lisa thought was hilarious.
I'm old enough to remember hearing his music on the car AM radio, not my music genre, but he was a heart throb for the girls. My wife's name is Julie and I used to sing to her a few lyrics from his song.
I mostly remember him as the youngest Bolt brother on Here Come the Brides
