I love The Cramps, and I just found out their lead singer, Lux Interior, died yesterday.
You can read an awesome obit here. Or just watch this ass-kicking 1978 performance at CBGBs and respect the madness.

Damn.
FOR 25 weeks in 2004, I’m Still in Love by deejay Sean Paul and singer Sasha sat in the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts. The song peaked at number 14 and was another hit from Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock album, but it also gave the man who did the original version his first ‘taste’ of [...]

Dead at age 71. He’ll be missed.
“I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,” he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.
Read on
UPDATE: Here’s stuff from his last interview.

Can we please have a moment of silence?
Royal Canadian Air Farce, the sketch comedy show that introduced a generation of comedy buffs to the Chicken Cannon — unlikely ammo fired at worthy targets — will be grounded for good following a New Year’s Eve special on Dec. 31.
Like millions of Canadians, I will really [...]

Condolences to his wife and family. Didn’t always love his music, but I loved his love of music.
Canadian rock musician Jeff Healey has died, according to his publicist.
His website says the 41-year-old succumbed the cancer that he had fought since birth and that claimed his eyesight at the age of one.
Healey’s distinctive guitar playing style [...]

I can’t think of a more fitting tribute to his legacy than this clip of him getting roundly PWND by Noam Chomsky almost 30 years ago.
Here was a man who never let simple, documented facts get in the way of a pithy, condescending and ultimately empty pronouncement about what was best for America, and for [...]

UPDATE: NBC still sucks. Looks like this clip has been removed by yesterday’s men.

Because frankly, this sounds like a lot of people I know.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to [...]

Sad news.

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died yesterday in Austin. She was 62.
Ms. Ivins waged a public battle against breast cancer after her diagnosis in 1999. Betsy Moon, her personal assistant, confirmed her death last night. Ms. Ivins died at her home [...]