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ChompChomp said:
Three Dog Night’s Chuck Negron Dead at 83.

This one sucks. I was on a recent kick of TDN, "Old Fashioned Love Song."

Just look at the charisma oozing out of Chuck in this video.


RIP Chuck!
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Cheesegirl78 said:
My childhood is dying off.
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Mine too. Every few days it’s another one and that’s gonna continue indefinitely as these icons age.

‘Shambala’ brings back memories of hitchhiking across the country, getting stuck for hours in the middle of Iowa with cornfields as far as the eye could see, before someone finally stopped for us.
 
Um... said:
Shambala’ brings back memories of hitchhiking across the country, getting stuck in the middle of Iowa with cornfields as far as the eye could see, before someone finally stopped for us.
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We were living in Omaha, and it brings back memories of living on base, hanging out at the pool, and riding bikes with my friends. Fuck, I'm old.
 
Cheesegirl78 said:
My youngest grandson was born two months after my mother died, and he will never know her.
I most likely will be gone by the time he has children.
What's the saying, after two generations you're forgotten?

I will be 63 in a couple of months. At my age, you don't really worry about death.
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I never knew or remember my dad's parents. If I ever have kids, they'll never know my parents.

Last night my mom was in my dream. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I called out to her and realized she was gone for seven years.
 
Um... said:
‘Shambala’ brings back memories of hitchhiking across the country, getting stuck for hours in the middle of Iowa with cornfields as far as the eye could see, before someone finally stopped for us.
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For me, the song evokes memories of summer days turning into summer evenings at the pool, eating garbage food, playing rag tag, and generally not giving a shit.
 
Cheesegirl78 said:
My childhood is dying off.
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For me, it's more like the world my parents lived through is dying off, and I'm stuck with these secondhand memories through the media I've listened/watched from childhood.

Overwritten Tapes said:
I never knew or remember my dad's parents. If I ever have kids, they'll never know my parents.

Last night my mom was in my dream. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I called out to her and realized she was gone for seven years.
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It'll be almost 19 years for me with my mother. (:_(
 
Trilby said:
For me, it's more like the world my parents lived through is dying off, and I'm stuck with these secondhand memories through the media I've listened/watched from childhood.


It'll be almost 19 years for me with my mother. (:_(
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How do you function after that? I'm lucky that both of mine are still around, but sometimes I think about how little time they may have left, and it's impossible to imagine a world without them.
 
Trilby said:
For me, it's more like the world my parents lived through is dying off, and I'm stuck with these secondhand memories through the media I've listened/watched from childhood.
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You have just described my whole life. I was thinking how, when I was a kid, legends still walked the earth. People like Joseph Cotten, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Glenn Ford, Ray Milland, Katherine Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and John Wayne. That's just to name a few. And then there were a slightly newer crop of legends, like Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Roddy MacDowall, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Ernest Borgnine, and Don Knotts. Raymond Burr, Ricardo Montelban, Lorne Green, James Arness, Leonard Nimoy, so damned many.

Most were from my grandparents' day. Others from my parents day. I absorbed them all through reruns and old movies, and I'm glad I still remember them walking this troubled earth at the same time I was, even if they just appeared in a guest spot on "The Love Boat" or "Fantasy Island". But they're gone, and there's no one to replace them. And that list will only grow as the years move on. William Shatner is in his 90's. Same for Clint Eastwood. Morgan Freeman, too. Christ, even stars I associate with the 1980's are in their 70's now. Tim Matheson is pushing 80! How the hell did THAT happen?!

And who do we have these days? Taylor Swift? Morton Downey, Jr.? Benedict Cumberbatch? Cate Blanchett? George Clooney? Pretty small list. As cool as some of them are, they're not a patch on some of those old school stars we've lost. And Gen Z will have even less because they themselves are lesser. Timothy Chalomet, maybe? Not much to choose from.

Entropy sucks.
 
Sometimes I will watch channels from the people that clean old, forgotten tombstones. A few of them will find information about the person and post that as well.

I'm glad they clean the stones, but it's depressing in a way. Entire families buried and forgotten.

Scatter my ashes in the ocean off the Mendocino coast.
 
Troonos said:
How do you function after that? I'm lucky that both of mine are still around, but sometimes I think about how little time they may have left, and it's impossible to imagine a world without them.
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Somehow I managed to pull through that, even after my older brother's suicide last year.

UtopiaGuy said:
You have just described my whole life. I was thinking how, when I was a kid, legends still walked the earth. People like Joseph Cotten, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Glenn Ford, Ray Milland, Katherine Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and John Wayne. That's just to name a few. And then there were a slightly newer crop of legends, like Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Roddy MacDowall, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Ernest Borgnine, and Don Knotts. Raymond Burr, Ricardo Montelban, Lorne Green, James Arness, Leonard Nimoy, so damned many.

Most were from my grandparents' day. Others from my parents day. I absorbed them all through reruns and old movies, and I'm glad I still remember them walking this troubled earth at the same time I was, even if they just appeared in a guest spot on "The Love Boat" or "Fantasy Island". But they're gone, and there's no one to replace them. And that list will only grow as the years move on. William Shatner is in his 90's. Same for Clint Eastwood. Morgan Freeman, too. Christ, even stars I associate with the 1980's are in their 70's now. Tim Matheson is pushing 80! How the hell did THAT happen?!

And who do we have these days? Taylor Swift? Morton Downey, Jr.? Benedict Cumberbatch? Cate Blanchett? George Clooney? Pretty small list. As cool as some of them are, they're not a patch on some of those old school stars we've lost. And Gen Z will have even less because they themselves are lesser. Timothy Chalomet, maybe? Not much to choose from.

Entropy sucks.
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For me, it's like having these memories still flooding my head at specific times of the day, especially at work, like the guy in the HBO series "Dream On". It's how I think the world works when it really doesn't.

Cheesegirl78 said:
Sometimes I will watch channels from the people that clean old, forgotten tombstones. A few of them will find information about the person and post that as well.

I'm glad they clean the stones, but it's depressing in a way. Entire families buried and forgotten.

Scatter my ashes in the ocean off the Mendocino coast.
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I'm still holding onto a percentage of my brother's ashes. I didn't want to lose him, forever. :'(
 
Trilby said:
For me, it's more like the world my parents lived through is dying off, and I'm stuck with these secondhand memories through the media I've listened/watched from childhood.


It'll be almost 19 years for me with my mother. (:_(
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12 years for me and my mom.
 
Trilby said:
I'm still holding onto a percentage of my brother's ashes. I didn't want to lose him, forever. :'(
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My sister had heart-shaped pendants made for all of us with some of moms' ashes.

We both have some boxes with her things in them, but neither one of us have been able to go through the boxes, and it's been almost two years.
It's the last of my mother in those boxes, and I don't know if I will ever be ready to sort through her things.
 
Trilby said:
For me, it's more like the world my parents lived through is dying off, and I'm stuck with these secondhand memories through the media I've listened/watched from childhood.
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Same. I'm experiencing what my parents probably has to go through when their inspirations, their idols, their favorite icons in media are dying left and right. Soon they'll join them. Here I am, I'm aching when I read people like Kevin Conroy, Catherine O'Hara, Ozzy Osbourne .etc pass away. People who have helped define my and other people's childhoods and have lasted long enough for us to get to know them and their work as we grew up with them. Now they're dying before our eyes and it just hurts, hurts just as much when our parents saw their favorite musicians, actors/actresses .etc pass away.

It fucking sucks.

The generations after us, they're going to have it worse. Because, their role models are in people who are just snakes who manipulate and take advantage of others through their popularity. Not saying nobody in the past has done that either, but it's more apparent now in today's age, judging by the amount of streamers and youtube personalities get themselves in hot shit all of the time. Those generations after us are going to be left with those people.
 
nycifer said:
Same. I'm experiencing what my parents probably has to go through when their inspirations, their idols, their favorite icons in media are dying left and right. Soon they'll join them. Here I am, I'm aching when I read people like Kevin Conroy, Catherine O'Hara, Ozzy Osbourne .etc pass away. People who have helped define my and other people's childhoods and have lasted long enough for us to get to know them and their work as we grew up with them. Now they're dying before our eyes and it just hurts, hurts just as much when our parents saw their favorite musicians, actors/actresses .etc pass away.

It fucking sucks.

The generations after us, they're going to have it worse. Because, their role models are in people who are just snakes who manipulate and take advantage of others through their popularity. Not saying nobody in the past has done that either, but it's more apparent now in today's age, judging by the amount of streamers and youtube personalities get themselves in hot shit all of the time. Those generations after us are going to be left with those people.
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True. I don't envy any of 'em, just pity their gullibleness.
 
My mother liked to sit and look at the water, so I scattered her ashes at the tip of a jetty in the ocean.

My father traveled a lot for business in his career but never got to visit Maine. That's where his ashes are scattered. In all of the connected oceans, I hope some portion of their remains meet. What memories would they then share.
 
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