atomic
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
January 28, 2014 at 03:18 PM UTC
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gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
pete seeger
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
Very sad. I got to see him perform at Newport Folk Festival 3 years ago. He was probably the highlight of thtat festival. He got evereyone to sing along for the songs he performed: "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Where have all the flowers gone".
Evidently he got blacklisted by refusing to testify to congress during McCarthyism and taught Martin Luther King Jr "we shall overcome". Seems he had quite a life.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
January 28, 2014 at 03:51 PM UTC
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PS - a rare man who actually walked the walk and talked the talk…with a killer banjo lick to boot
he will be missed, but surely never forgotten
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
January 30, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
January 31, 2014 at 12:00 AM UTC
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at least, we still have . . . lil bub.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
January 31, 2014 at 03:37 AM UTC
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Got Haggis?
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 06:31 PM UTC
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jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 07:22 PM UTC
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He was my favorite living actor. Amazing filmography.
Fucking heroin.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 08:06 PM UTC
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people just can't stay away from heroin… so fuckin lame.
Brian_Walalce
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 09:17 PM UTC
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Julian, wrote:
He was my favorite living actor. Amazing filmography.
Fucking heroin.
Ugh. You're my Player on the Other Side:
I HATED him as an actor. So self satisfied. So smug. So fat. Weak apparently. Are we really supposed to be sad when a celebrity dies over any run of the mill junkie? Phillip Seymour Hoffman is s celebrity cypher. "That guy" was a real person.
Why couldn't it have been Alec Baldwin or Sarah Jessica Parker? I've never hated a movie like I hated "State & Main."
Brian
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 10:57 PM UTC
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Do you ever have thoughts you just want to keep to yourself? Or is pretty much diarrhea of the month with you…
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 02, 2014 at 11:57 PM UTC
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Hey Rhett - Brian's stealing your schtick.
atomic
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 12:14 AM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
Got wrote:
phillip seymour hoffman
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878.html
http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/phillip-seymour-hoffman-dead-apparent-overdose/
fucking heroin. that drug is making a serious comeback. in my area of nowheresville, it is a serious, serious problem. just the other day in the "arrest records of the week" of the local paper, out of the twelve indictments, seven were for heroin.
I don't understand why people still do heroin. So many people die from it. You would think people would learn. Anyway really sad that Hoffman has died. I wish he did more movies like Along Came Polly. He was also in the Big Lebowski, arguably the best movie of all time.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 12:32 AM UTC
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what I don't understand is why people try it in the first place..
once they try it they are hooked….its a real bitch to kick… if not impossible… Hoffman was an addict.
kiedis' book really goes into heroin addiction in depth…
i thought Hoffman had some great performances but lately I started to think he was a bit uni-dimensional in the types of characters he played…but I'm not sure if that is true..
its always the Hoffman' s and Ledger's that seem to go…
a real bummer…
I must admit I have trouble relating to a man with three children who does heroin..
atomic
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 12:50 AM UTC
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It is as if they have never seen "Trainspotting" or "Basketball Diaries".
James Ford
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 01:21 PM UTC
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The greatest actor of our time has perhaps pulled off the greatest acting feat of our time. He laid down his life (in such dramatic fashion!!!!! NEEDLE STILL IN ARM!!!) for the sake of Woody. He knew, brilliant man that he was, that if he kicked the bucket in the most dramatic fashion possible, it would transfer the collective focus of Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., and Facebookers around the world off of the Woody Allen scandal and onto something else.
So the world's greatest actor is now the world's greatest martyr. And Cate Blanchett still has a hard on for Woody.
ggw wrote:
Hey Rhett - Brian's stealing your schtick.
flagos
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 02:04 PM UTC
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Brian_Walalce
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
February 03, 2014 at 02:58 PM UTC
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kosmo wrote:
Do you ever have thoughts you just want to keep to yourself? Or is pretty much diarrhea of the month with you…
Heroin's a horrible drug. Almost impossible to fully get clean from. That's not the sad part. There are non-celebrities out there who get addicted to junk and have no resources and no money to fight their addiction. Phillip Seymour Hoffman had the money and the resources that 100 junkies didn't have. Supposedly he was able to be clean for 20+ years. Do you and I have that option? No. Also, when you or I OD no one is penning heartfelt Twitter tributes to our "genius talent". So forgive me if I cry no tears or have "diarrhea of the mouth".
Brian
P.S. However, if you have diarrhea of the MONTH, kosmo, I'd see your doctor. You may be eating too much fiber.
Brian
