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fuck that. Mark Linkous, sole driving force of Sparklehorse, and collaborator on the Dark Night of the Soul Dangermouse project with David Lynch, has taken his own life. fuck that. seriously. FUCK. THAT…… you had much more to offer this world, Mark. regardless, thanks for the music, and peace be with you… i guess you needed it. pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all. (if you’re not familiar with Sparklehorse, It’s A Wonderful Life is one of the best albums ever made, and it’s a more than fitting requiem.)

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now that i’ve seen so much of Alexander McQueen’s work post memoriam, i’m pretty blown away by his sadly wasted talent. check out Björk’s requiem words for him here. pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all. by the way, i have completely forgotten how utterly amazing Björk is. (and how amazing Michel Gondry USED to be.)

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Jay Reatard was right, it ain’t gonna save him… no word on the cause of death yet, but what a god damn shame… he was only 29 and everyone and their mother is guessing overdose. at least for someone so young, he left behind a surmountable volume of music. pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all… what a blow to the indie world. (*update – couple touching-ish tributes from Los Angelenos – Beck here with Jay’s cover of Gamma Ray – and Amoeba Records with a tribute here and photos from his Hollywood Amoeba show here.)

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sadly, MTV hasn’t released their classic game show Remote Control on DVD, and it’s pretty hard to find elsewhere, so in a way this is kind of a double obituary. host Ken Ober brought a goofy dynamic to game show hosting (on purpose), and he and Remote Control helped to launch the careers of a variety of love ‘em or hate ‘em comedians, including Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, and Colin Quinn (not to mention scream queen Kari Wuhrer. hotcha! she even made eighties clothes look good!). tragically, Ober passed away this week at the ripe young age of 52 (no word on why yet). pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all… i’m sure Ober is resting comfortably in that La-Z-Boy in the sky, remote in one hand, bag of salty snacks in the other.

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rest in peace, Captain Louis Vincent Albano. the eighties wouldn’t have been the same without you, and your rubberbands will be strangely missed.
also, in reference to the PSA below, it sure seemed like you did a LOT of drugs, so hopefully you’re not in hell. of course, if heaven won’t have you, then why would anyone want to go there anyway? pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all…

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Irving Penn died yesterday. he was an amazing photographer at the center of the fashion industry for decades, and his simple, graphic style contrasted beautifully with complex subject matter and theme. plus he did a lot of nudes. there is an Irving Penn retrospective right now at the Getty (1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, 90049. (310) 440-7330) through mid-January if you would like to mourn surrounded by his art. pour one out 4 tha homiez y’all, and dedicate the next time you’re vogueing to him. (more images after the jump.)

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honestly, i’m not too sure why i care, but Patrick Swayze has died from his battle with cancer. although he was pretty amazing in Donnie Darko. Road House kind of ruled, too. and actually i really liked Next of Kin when i was a kid. oh shit! he was in The Outsiders?!?!?!? how could i forget Point Break?!?!?! whaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! Patrick Swayze died!!!! whaaaaaaaaa!!!! whhaaaaa!!!! pour one out 4 tha homiez, y’all.

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Jim Carroll, a consummate New Yorker, died of a heart attack on Friday, September 11th…a somewhat fitting date for the local legend. He was made famous by his book-turned-movie, The Basketball Diaries, in which a scrawny young Leo DiCaprio played the lead. The film tells his story of decline from high school basketball star to strung out addict who finds himself through poetry and then music. His 1980 album, Catholic Boy, is considered a punk rock landmark.

“Jim Carroll is one of the very few authors who convincingly brought his work from the printed word to the rock & roll stage, growing into a passionate and commanding rock singer as well as a tough, intelligent songwriter…” – Mark Deming

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DJ AM, a motherfucking plane crash survivor, was found dead in his NY apartment. Ridiculous Final Destination mouse trap death IN 3D!? ….Or crack overdose? The world may never know…or we’ll know like, next week.

If I were Travis Barker, his musical cohort, I’d watch out for loose screws, sketchy knife collections, faulty wires, log-hauling trucks, old rollercoasters, umm… hot coffee, glassware, plants, spoiled donuts… uhh, stay away from escalators, bathrooms, tall buildings, old houses, new houses… you know, pretty much everything.

Pour it out for the homiez kid.

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Lets blow the dust off the old Hip-Hop Feud folder for a minute and insert a new, more dangerous page of street music warfare being executed around the mean streets of Myspace. The prodigious co-front man of independent NY hip-hop label Def Jux (oops… Definitive Jux) El-P has responded rather poetically to a rambling, CAP LOCKED Vast Aire (see Cannibal Ox) Myspace rant, who was in turn responding to a vicious, apparently unwarranted Myspace attack from Cage as well as Vast’s own little F.U. to El-P and the Def Jux family as a whole. The feud is tied together by the payment of respect to the memory of Camu Tao. In a former life El, Vast,  Camu and Cage were all, at one time or another, members of the legendary supergroup Weathermen with individually dope artists Jakki da Motamouth, Copywrite and Aesop Rock, amongst others. Money, greed, a 1 year memorial post for Camu Tao by Cage and all that corrupts the otherwise irreproachable world of underground hip-hop eventually led to this…. which eventually led to the “Crossover Ambassador” EL-P’s poetic summary of a family of amateur Weather forecasters who couldn’t predict their own individual fates.

The face of a vegetarian Weatherman... EL-P

To make it easier for the discerning Wreck The Tape Deck reader, hit the jump for a transcript of the events as they unfolded…

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