The Future Carking Thread

[Keith Houchen]

36 minutes ago, Big'Olympic_Hero'Pete said:

Osborne will also be ones that will get me. 

Said by every disabled and sick person predicting their death after the 2010 general election. 

[HarmonicGenerator]

Attenborough is a good shout. It’s going to be a sad sad day when it happens. 

[DavidB6937]

They'll probably replace him with AI. Or Homer Simpson.

[SuperBacon]

12 hours ago, Steve Justice said:

Any of the 'It's Always Sunny' crew

Love each and every one of them immensely. Even the bit part actors/reoccurring characters. Just an amazing and lovely bunch of people. 

Danny especially. That's going to be a proper gut punch. I hope I get offered an egg in that trying time when it happens.

[Merzbow]

David Lynch is the one obvious choice for me, not only is he my most beloved director I still feel like there's so much more he could do but that time will eventually come.. We'll never find out what really happened to Laura Palmer.

[deathrey]

21 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Danny especially. That's going to be a proper gut punch. I hope I get offered an egg in that trying time when it happens.

A slight aside, but my brother requested some art work for his house for Christmas and on my search, I found ou there is a surprising amount of Frank Reynolds influenced artwork available, I highly recommend Googling it.

[SuperBacon]

1 minute ago, deathrey said:

A slight aside, but my brother requested some art work for his house for Christmas and on my search, I found ou there is a surprising amount of Frank Reynolds influenced artwork available, I highly recommend Googling it.

There are some excellent Frank tattoos and I saw a video where Danny's daughter I think, is showing them to him and he loves it.

I adore that man.

[Onyx2]

Getting to a thread too late means you miss all the good ones: Michael Palin is the nation's favourite uncle and feels thoroughly decent in every way, and the thought of no new John Williams music makes me very sad - every year since they've done it Spotify have told me he's my favourite artist. I've wanted to write a book about John Williams for ages but I lack the technical music knowledge to fully get across the connections in his work ("it gets loud here like this other song, do you understand?!")

Fully on-brand for me but Heston Blumenthal will shatter me for days. I have had the suspicion he's not been well for a while but I hope I'm wrong.

[RIDDUM_N_STYLE]

Mark Hammill, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones and Anthony Daniels would crush me being a huge Star Wars fan

Same with the core 4 The Simpsons voice cast, the show ultimately dies the minute one of them do

[CharlesTuckerTheThird]

Tom Lehrer. His humour and willingness to speak truth to power very much shaped my own humour and political views, but in my heart I know he's 95 and it's pretty much a matter of time.

[cobra_gordo]

Schwarzenegger and Attenborough are both going to be tough losses. Billy Connolly dying is probably going to destroy me for a few days. 

[gmoney]

12 hours ago, CharlesTuckerTheThird said:

Tom Lehrer. His humour and willingness to speak truth to power very much shaped my own humour and political views, but in my heart I know he's 95 and it's pretty much a matter of time.

 He goes in the "Thought They Were Dead" file for me. 

[BomberPat]

Not wanting to get morbid and think about younger people, and just stick to those who have had a good innings, a lot of my heroes and inspirations have already gone, but Tom Waits has been mentioned, and that's one that would definitely really hit me hard. I don't think many musicians or artists of any kind had a bigger inspiration on me, or did more to kind of open my eyes.

Another, in the same kind of boat as the likes of Tom Lehrer in "just a matter of time" and having already largely accepted it, is Marshall Allen. He's the bandleader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, and a wonderful musician that I've been lucky enough to see several times over the years - the last time I saw him was, if memory serves, a week before his 98th birthday. He's now 99, and is having to miss the next European tour as he's been advised not to fly, so I expect I won't see him again. 

Hayao Miyazaki will be a big one, too; I always get upset at the idea of somebody extremely creative passing away, or otherwise being unable to work any more, because there's a feeling of the world becoming a little less magical, and of art and creativity becoming a little more bland and standardised in their absence. 

It's hopefully a long, long way off, but I won't be able to cope with losing Bob Mortimer from the world. 

[Jazzy G]

Paul McCartney. Ringo to a lesser degree, but if anything happened to Sir Paul it'd be hard to take. Band On The Run is a heck of an album. 

[Loki]

12 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

Marshall Allen. He's the bandleader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, and a wonderful musician that I've been lucky enough to see several times over the years - the last time I saw him was, if memory serves, a week before his 98th birthday. He's now 99, and is having to miss the next European tour as he's been advised not to fly, so I expect I won't see him again. 

Oh man.  For me it will be Roy Ayres.  When I was starting out in a band I absorbed his work, I still listen to his stuff all the time.  I saw him in Bournemouth back in the 90s and again at Ronnie Scotts in *checks notes* about 10 years ago, Christ, and he looked frail then.  Like with you, I know I'll never see him play over here again, so like with Fats Domino and Chuck Berry I'm just waiting for the news headline to find out a bit of history has gone