David Gulpilil was an Australian actor best-known for his part in Walkabout.
RIP Vladimir Naumov (1927 – 2021)
Vladimir Naumov was a Russian film director, best-known in my universe for Legend of Thiele. This film is an episode in the Till Eulenspiegel legend.
I’ve known Eulenspiegel since my youth but I recently stumbled upon him again in that wonderful history of irreverence: Critique of Cynical Reason (1983) by Peter Sloterdijk.
RIP Peter Weiermair (1944 – 2021)
Via fellow erotomaniac Hans-Jürgen Döpp it came to my attention that German art historian and curator Peter Weiermair has died. He is the author of such books as The Nude. Ideal and Reality.
What was interesting, just after he died, I googled him and I switched to Google images. I found photo books of Ann Mandelbaum and one of Roger Ballen. The one by Mandelbaum had a human with a vegetable in his or her mouth.
The one by Ballen was called Outland, and the cover photo depicted two very dirty feet with a hand stuck between them which is holding a puppy it seems.
Ballen’s photo is called “Puppy between Feet”, I learn afterwards.
RIP Antonio Escohotado (1941 – 2021)
Antonio Escohotado was a Spanish philosopher and writer. I discovered him through his A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age which was written in Spanish in 1989 and translated to English in 1996.
On the cover of one Spanish edition is The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck (photo).
RIP Marilyn McLeod (1939 – 2021)
Marilyn McLeod was an American singer-songwriter known for such compositions as “Love Hangover” (1976).
RIP Stephen Sondheim (1930 – 2021)
Stephen Sondheim (1930 – 2021) was an American composer and lyricist known for such compositions as “Send In the Clowns” (1973).
On a personal level, his connection to the farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) is also of note: a funny farce my father drew my attention to.
RIP Mick Rock (1948 – 2021)
Mick Rock was a British photographer known for such portraits as Iggy Pop on the cover of Raw Power (1973).
RIP Jimmie Durham (1940 – 2021)
Jimmie Durham was an American sculptor and pretendian.
He is known for such works as Still Life With Spirit and Xitle (2007).
It features a 1992 Chrysler Spirit smashed by a 9-ton boulder of red basalt from the Mexican volcano Xitle.
Durham gave the stone a cartoon-like face afterwards. As of 2021, it was located at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
RIP Graeme Edge (1941 – 2021)
Graeme Edge was an English songwriter and drummer known for his work with The Moody Blues.
The Moody Blues are known for their song “Nights in White Satin” (1967), which is not one of my favorite recordings from that year.
RIP John Goodsall (1953 – 2021)
John Goodsall was an American-British rock guitarist known for his work with Atomic Rooster and Brand X.
Goodsall worked in the jazz fusion and prog rock idioms, genres which can be quite boring, except when compiled on such albums as Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (2005) by Andy Votel.