This is the fifteenth year of the death list, which is a sort of anniversary I suppose. Every year I look over my running list of celebrity passings, scan wikipedia for a few nights to confirm I didn't miss too many, and put it all together. I've been doing this long enough now that friends send me notice when someone famous dies, as do coworkers. It feels a little more pointless this year, and I'm not sure why. It may be the general feeling I've had recently, where every goal is put on hold, and I keep putting one foot in front of the other. I can't help feeling that every time I react emotionally to a stimulus, it's an act, and I can view it objectively while still responding in an expected way. I guess I'm maintaining. So as we enter this, our fourth year of pandemic, I adjure you all to do your best to stay healthy; I knew several people on this list personally.
Bret Hoekema
Siegfried Fischbacher
Phil Spector
Hank Aaron
Larry King
Dustin Diamond
Christopher Plummer
Larry Flynt
Chick Corea
Carmen
Rush Limbaugh
Barnaby Struve
Jessica Walter
Beverly Cleary
G Gordon Liddy
Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
DMX
Rena deJong
Bernie Madoff
Tawny Kitaen
Charles Grodin
Ned Beatty
Donald Rumsfeld
Biz Markie
Joey Jordison
Dusty Hill
John Orr
Ron Popeil
Chuck Close
Charlie Watts
Ed Asner
Norm Macdonald
Bob Dole
Colin Powell
Anne Rice
Stephen Sondheim
Joan Didion
Betty White
John Madden
Next up are a few albums I listened to heavily at one time or another, all of which were originally released in 2001.
Azure Ray - Azure Ray
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Ani DiFranco - Revelling/Reckoning
Thursday - Full Collapse
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Tool - Lateralus
Weezer - Weezer (green)
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Big Wreck - The Pleasure and the Greed
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
The Strokes - Is This It
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
The Faint - Danse Macabre
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
System of a Down - Toxicity
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
Yann Tiersen - Amélie Soundtrack
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Bush - Golden State
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
As a sidenote to many of the longer lists in this post is a list of albums I bought this year:
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (LP)
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires
New Order - Movement
The books I read this past year are as follows:
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Craig Thompson - Space Dumplins
Brian Jacques - Redwall
Victoria Sweet - God's Hotel
Peter Bagge - Hey Buddy! Vol 1
Ryan Andrews - This Was Our Pact
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ursula K Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K Le Guin - The Farthest Shore
Robert C O'Brien - Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
Ursula K Le Guin - Tehanu
Peter Bagge - Buddy Does Seattle
Mikhail Bulgokov - The Master and Margarita
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Svetlana Chmakova - Crush
Richard Jensen - Be a Champion in Life
Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
Padriac Colum - The Golden Fleece
ed. Kevin J Anderson - Tales From Jabba's Palace
Ursula K Le Guin - Tales From Earthsea
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
C S Lewis - The Silver Chair
Timothy Keller - The Prodigal God
Jeff Smith - Bone
Patrick Morley & David Delk - The Dad in the Mirror
John Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
Brian Paulson - Hatchet
ed. Charlie Burns - The Best American Comics 2009
Mark Sten - All Ages: The Rise & Fall of Portland Punk '77-'81
Joe Hill - NOS4A2
Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Rudyard Kipling - The Just-So Stories
Ursula K Le Guin - The Other Wind
Alan Moore - Neonomicon
Ursula K Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Herodotus - The Histories
Alan Moore - Providence Act I
Alan Moore - Providence Act II
Alan Moore - Providence Act III
Frank Miller - 300
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
C S Lewis - The Horse and His Boy
Frank Miller - Xerxes
Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
I bought more games this year, really I did. Looking back, I can't believe 1) I bought so many more and 2) I bought these only a year ago. Many of these games have already moved on to new homes. The churn is real.
Tiny Towns
Brass: Birmingham
Kanban: Automotive Revolution
Pandemic: Legacy Season 1
Flamme Rouge
Innovation
Innovation Echoes of the Past
Arboretum
The Gallerist
Grand Austria Hotel
Dominion: Seaside
San Juan
A Feast for Odin
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
The Quest for El Dorado
Brew Crafters
Welcome To... Your Dream Home
Food Chain Magnate
Arkham Horror Card Game
Decrypto
Through the Ages
Through the Desert
Chinatown
Patchistory
Raiders of Scythia
Monopoly Deal
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Heaven & Ale
Modern Art
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