The Final Bow

Loved him in Moonstruck.

 

Saw earlier this week where Marie Fredriksson, vocalist in Roxette, passed away earlier this week. You couldn't hide from those two's music back around '89 to '91.

 

John “Trapper” Tice

 

Claudine Auger

 

Don Imus.

He and I spent many an hour together as I drove the back roads of Tennessee in my job as a traveling salesman.

 

Name I haven't heard in years.

 

Yeah, seems like “nappy headed hoes” was kinda the last we heard from him in the mainstream.

 

Junior Johnson

 

Former NBA commissioner, David Stern.

 

Sam Wyche, brother of Bubba Wyche.

 

Neil Peart

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

 

[uck fay] YOU CANCER

 

This one hurts me

 

I am sitting in my car I a parking lot crying

 

Listening to "Time Stand Still" on repeat

I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath,
Before I start off again
Driven on,
Without a moment to spend
To pass an evening
With a drink and a friend
I let my skin get too thin
I'd like to pause,
No matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim
Who learns to transcend
Learns to live
As if each step was the end
Time stand still
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
Time stands still
See more of the people
And the places that surround me now
Time stands still
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
Time stands still
I turn my face to the sun
Close my eyes,
Let my defenses down
All those wounds
That I can't get unwound
I let my past go too fast
No time to pause
If I could slow it all down
Like some captain,
Whose ship runs aground
I can wait until the tide comes around
Time stand still
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
Time stands still
See more of the people
And the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Make each impression
A little bit stronger
Freeze this motion
A little bit longer
The innocence slips away
The innocence slips away
Time stands still
Time stands still
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
See more of the people
And the places that surround me now
Time stands still
Summer's going fast
Nights growing colder
Children growing up
Old friends growing older
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
The innocence slips away

 

I didn’t realize JRR Tolkien was so old when LoTR was released. Or that his son was so involved.

RIP Christopher Tolkien
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95

 

He did a lot of freaking work to get his dad's notes in some sort of order to be put out as multiple books on the evolution of Middle Earth. And the Silmarillion is one of my favorite books.

 

I’m ambivalent on Rush and didn’t know who this was when I heard of his passing. But I heard an interview with him the other day, and was surprised at how obviously intelligent and soft spoken he was. He talked about growing up with two white-collar and quite conservative Canadian parents, and despite desperately wanting the same for him, still supported his dream to be a musician. When he was a young kid, maybe 10-12 or so, his Dad fronted him the money for his first kit, but only after he agreed to pay him back at $34 a month and which he’d earn by doing odd jobs for the neighbors. It was only after he had repaid the debt that his Dad would believe him serious enough to begin paying for his drum lessons. Later, as a young adult and mightily struggling to get started as a musician in Canada (Toronto, maybe?), he asked his Dad to front his moving to London, and where he believed he’d have a better opportunity to make it. His Dad gave him three months to raise as much cash as he could, and that’d he’d match it. He remembered how feverishly he worked to make each of those payments on his kit and later for those three months, and basically. He talked about only later realizing that his dad was looking out for him, both by teaching him to do the work the dream required, and how important it was to feel supported by his parents throughout, even knowing that the path he chosen wasn’t one which they preferred.

I know nothing of him / Rush / their music, but he struck me as being an incredibly genuine and good person.

 

I have never cared for Rush but that's just due to not liking the lead singer. He was an unreal drummer

 

Terry Jones of Monty Python.