Browsing the archives for the death tag
1938-2012 A True Legend My wife introduced me to the music of Etta James, back in 2000. She always played Etta’s Live from San Francisco CD, in her car when we were out. Over the years I’ve heard a good deal of her catalog, mainly her later career, from 1980 onward… and it’s all amazing. [...]
Thirty years, Youdopia. That’s a long time. John Bonham died at the age of 32. That’s ten years younger than I am now. If I had died ten years ago, I would have missed out on the best part of my life. John Bonham was so good that he’s one of the very few rock [...]
Well, Youdopia, I have been hard on Ol’ Doc lately. I haven’t read him, thought of him… I thought I even outgrew him for awhile. That’s not true, though. I was mad. Mad at him for blowing his brains out. Well, I’m older and perhaps wiser, and I must say that I seem to lack [...]
I made a friend today. Her name (here in the floating world) is the Butterfly Temptress, and she’s sweet, funny, kind, and ill. She has stage 4 cervical cancer, and it’s travelled through her lymphatic system throughout her body… including her brain stem. Kiki spent some time online with her yesterday, picking out caskets. When [...]
The quill from a buzzard, blood writes the word. I want to know am I the sky or the bird? Hells boiling over, and heaven is full. We’re chained to the world, and we all gotta pull. (We’re all gonna be just dirt in the ground) – Tom Waits It’s a wild life. I’m at [...]
