RIP Thread... pile them up in here

I was 15

 

23

Damn. And it doesn't seem to be all that long ago.

 

Life is a short trip, too bad we can’t figure that out till it’s too late

 

yeah i don't wanna live to 120. i just wanna slow down my aging process and be young forever!

 

Cokie Roberts

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/media/cokie-roberts/index.html

 

Gotta love that first-name/nickname.

 

Late 70s/Early 80s brought us what is now Classic Rock, Glam (Bowie/The Dolls), birth of Metal (Ozzy/Rhoades), Funk (Prince/Parliament/Rick James-BITCH), Punk/Post-Punk (Sex Pistols/The Clash/Fear **LA was hot on the punk scene**), Reggae (Marley/Tosh) and New Wave was revving up. Then there's the other radio warble and the pop standards that everyone was still rolling with .

 

Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy, 1955 Heisman Trophy winner. Age, 85.

 

Sid Haig dead at age 80.

Blaxploitation actor. Did some work in Kill Bill V2, Jackie Brown, The Devil's Rejects and he was Captain Spaulding in House of a 1000 Corpses.
A true classic and will be missed.
https://www.thewrap.com/sid-haig-actor-in-house-of-1000-corpses-and-jackie-brown-dies-at-80/

 

I'm big into 80s movies. The more over the top and layered with cheese the better. I can drink some drinks and laugh my ass off pretty much all evening at most of the stuff that Cannon produced on it's own, so when I went through Sid's credits and found this gem from TWE, well, it will be on the viewing list for this week -



The fact that it has William Smith, Brian Thompson and Toni Nero in it is just icing on the fucking cake.

 

Do you dig the Troma Films too?

 

Troma earns a like just for 'Toxic Avenger', but these definitely give them a boost -

 

Women in Prison.... now we're talking.

 

Sid Haig, 80.

 

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

 

Is he still grateful?

 

Nope, just Dead.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rob-garrison-karate-kid-actor-192814969.html

he's the one with the annoying line "get him a body bag yeahhhhhhhhh." and that maniacal laugh. before that he has the best line in the movie "i really like your car Mrs. Larusso!" haha.

Ironic his character had the same fate in the Cobra Kai tv series on You Tube.

 

Legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker dies at 80

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/06/entertainment/ginger-baker-obituary-intl-gbr/index.html

 

Baker was one of the best ever...