Midnight Media Cafe - People Who Died

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Yet another untimely death this weekend. Man, what a fucking DAY!

People Who Died - Jim Carroll

Those are people who died, died
They're all my friends
And they died...


Poet, writer, singer, musician Jim Carroll died on Friday night.

I remember being stunned by the power and honesty of this song. It was 1995, my life was in upheaval - a mini-breakdown led to my leaving my job in Santa Cruz and moving back to L.A. Somehow this loud, desperate paean to lost friends energized and amazed me. Life can be so fucking unfair - "she gives awards to some and penitent's cloaks to others," in the words of Luis de Gongora. And yet the other side of the coin is the beauty, intensity and energy of it. This song is not a mournful ballad, but a pounding in-your-face FUCK YOU to Death, the great leveller.


RIP, Jim. Your voice still amazes.

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That song was the first thing I thought of when I heard that he died...died.