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RIP Julee Cruise (1956 – 2022)

“Falling” (1989)

Julee Cruise was an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her interpretation of “Falling” (1989), a musical composition by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch.

RIP Jim Seals (1942 – 2022)

“Summer Breeze” (1972)

Jim Seals was an American musician known for his work with Seals and Crofts and The Champs.

As a songwriter he is best-known for the composition “Summer Breeze” (1972), famously covered by Jackie Mittoo. “Summer Breeze” is in the Jahsonic 1000.

RIP Ken Kelly (1946 – 2022)

Ken Kelly was an American fantasy artist in the style of Frank Frazetta.

Kelly is best-known for his rock and heavy metal album cover artwork, as well as his illustrations for American horror magazines.

RIP Grachan Moncur III (1937 – 2022)

Evolution (1964)

Grachan Moncur III was an American jazz trombonist known for such albums as Evolution (1964).

RIP Russ Kick (1969 – 2021)

This happened in 2021, but I only found out today.

Russ Kick (1969 – 2021) was an American writer and publisher, founder of The Disinformation Company and editor of such books as You Are Being Lied To (2001) and Everything You Know Is Wrong (2002).

RIP Walter Abish (1931 – 2022)

Walter Abish was an Austrian-born American writer known for such novels as Alphabetical Africa (1974) and How German Is It (1980).

RIP Ray Liotta (1954 – 2022)

Ray Liotta is Ray Sinclair, the violent ex-convict husband of Melanie Griffith in Something Wild (1986).

Ray Liotta was an American actor known for his parts in films such as Something Wild (1986) and Goodfellas (1990).

He was noted for his pockmarked face.

RIP Bo Hopkins (1942 – 2022)

“Legalize marijuana”, says the side of the van at the fourth second of this clip of White Lightning (1973). In this film Hopkins is Roy “Rebel Roy” Boone.

Bo Hopkins was an American actor known for secondary roles in films such as The Wild Bunch (1969), American Graffiti (1973) and Midnight Express (1978).

RIP Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945 – 2022)

T.A.Z. (1994)

Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945 – 2022), also known as Hakim Bey was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. He also coined the term pirate utopia, released books such as Immediatism (1994) and recorded with Bill Laswell on the album T.A.Z. (1994).

RIP Jeffrey Escoffier (1942 – 2022)

Jeffrey Escoffier was an American author, activist, media strategist and pornosopher.

“Pornography is the most important discourse about sex and sexuality”–Jeffrey Escoffier

Escoffier has long been an active participant in the American LGBT community. He is the editor of Sexual Revolution (2003).