Sean Walters
@sean_write
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Cynical Canadian writer/bibliophile guy into music, sports (Lifelong Caps/Jays supporter), foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2012
Actor Tony Roberts and Novelist Tom Robbins have died in the last few days. If things happen in threes, does that mean self-help guru Tony Robbins is next? 😳 #RIPTonyRoberts #RIPTomRobbins
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Cuban-born artist Waldo Diaz-Balart has died at age 93. A friend of Andy Warhol, his paintings often explored colour and light in geometric shapes. #RIPWaldoDiazBalart Untitled (2015) and Orden axiomático 1.2.3; Proposición: Nudo transversal 60º 5.2.2.4, (2019)
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Graphic artist David Edward Byrd has died at 83. With his firm Fantasy Unlimited, the rock posters designed for Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead and Bill Graham’s Fillmore East ballroom helped visually define the late 1960’s music scene. #RIPDavidEdwardByrd Some of his work:
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Mike Ratledge, British musician and founding member of Canterbury Scene band Soft Machine has died at 81. He was the band’s longest lasting member. Soft Machine live in Belgium in 1971. Length: 1:03:32. #RIPMikeRatledge
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1972 song "Stay" by Pink Floyd. From the album Obscured By Clouds, the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée.
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British neo-psychedelic space rockers Spiritualized perform "Lay Back in the Sun" live in January 2009 concert in Sydney, Australia. Song from the band's second studio album, 1995's Pure Phase.
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1993 song "Shipwrecked" by London indie jangle pop band East Village. From their lone studio album Drop Out, which was re-released in a multi-LP deluxe edition last year. #IndiePop
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The Stranglers performing "Punch and Judy" live on Norwegian TV in 1995. Song from the 1984 album Aural Sculpture.
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Latest book finds: The Biographer’s Tale (2000) by A.S. Byatt The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus The Ways of White Folks (1934) by Langston Hughes Moloch: Or, This Gentile World (1928) by Henry Miller The Jungle (1906) by Upton. Sinclair Time of the Toad (1949) by Dalton Trumbo
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