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4:34 pm - 09/13/2009

Jim Carroll Has Died



Jim Carroll, the punk rock poet has died of a heart attack at age 60 in New York. He wrote the Basketball Diaries about his adolescence. It starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Mark Wahlberg, if you need someone more famous to recognize who he is.

Basketball Diaries Trailer

He also had a band, named unsurprisingly, The Jim Carroll Band. Their most well known song was People Who Died. Guess what it's about.

Say goodbye to an original and a artist.

NYT Obit
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[info]craftacular 13th-Sep-2009 11:57 pm (UTC)
Oh my god, I saw him live, he was amazing. Kind funny cool. Rest easy.
[info]mardiness 13th-Sep-2009 11:57 pm (UTC)
Whoa. 60?

RIP
[info]livesamantha 13th-Sep-2009 11:58 pm (UTC)
:[ r.i.p basketball diaries was so disturbingly good especially to an 11 year old which is when I saw it first haha
[info]fscottfitzteddy 14th-Sep-2009 12:08 am (UTC)
omg, you were 11, bb? I was, like, fifteen and it creeped the hell out of me.
[info]livesamantha 14th-Sep-2009 12:20 am (UTC)
yea I started movie loving young and I was into the creepy messed up ones lol
[info]trendpimps 14th-Sep-2009 12:09 am (UTC)
Really? I rented that movie when I was like 12 because I was crushed out on Leo DiCaprio, saw all the horrible drug usage scenes and haven't seen it since. I hate needles. Didn't he blow some guy for money or something?


[info]htothem Too sad! — 13th-Sep-2009 11:58 pm (UTC)
R.I.P.
[info]skullset 13th-Sep-2009 11:59 pm (UTC)
only 60? how'd he die?
[info]velocityofsound 14th-Sep-2009 12:05 am (UTC)
The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html
[info]jesusbitches 13th-Sep-2009 11:59 pm (UTC)
no way! i loved the basketball diaries even if it wasn't 100 percent true to his life.
[info]jaydestarlight 14th-Sep-2009 12:00 am (UTC)
that sucks
RIP!
[info]lovewalk 14th-Sep-2009 12:00 am (UTC)
RIP :/
[info]guccipostagurl 14th-Sep-2009 12:00 am (UTC)
the basketball diaries is one of my favorite movies ever
[info]shouldbehome 14th-Sep-2009 12:52 am (UTC)
Same :\
[info]flirflir 14th-Sep-2009 01:27 am (UTC)
same
[info]nowt 14th-Sep-2009 12:00 am (UTC)
I honestly thought that was Tilda Swinton at first (though I don't mean that as an insult to either one).
[info]fractalerrors 14th-Sep-2009 12:06 am (UTC)
me too haha
[info]fscottfitzteddy 14th-Sep-2009 12:08 am (UTC)
lmao, I thought it was Bowie.
[info]silken_floss 14th-Sep-2009 12:18 am (UTC)
LOL I thought I was BOTH Tilda, then Bowie
[info]applejane 14th-Sep-2009 12:17 am (UTC)
MTE
[info]zzzzoya 14th-Sep-2009 02:26 am (UTC)
me too!
[info]clubland 14th-Sep-2009 03:14 am (UTC)
Me too. I only came in here to see if anybody else said it.
[info]la_sikka 14th-Sep-2009 04:51 am (UTC)
me too when i scrolled past really fast
[info]bravetoaster42 14th-Sep-2009 05:36 am (UTC)
me too
[info]honeynutcherri 14th-Sep-2009 12:01 am (UTC)
R.I.P. sir.
[info]thatsaid 14th-Sep-2009 12:01 am (UTC)
oh my god, that's terrible. i loved both the book and the movie. :( but how did he die?
[info]silver_soul 14th-Sep-2009 12:01 am (UTC)
woah woah woah

NO WAY.

:(
[info]eyes_thatlie 14th-Sep-2009 12:01 am (UTC)
I've never seen the Basketball Diaries. RIP. so young.
[info]thesouls 14th-Sep-2009 12:05 am (UTC)
omg you have to, its sad but amazing and Leo's acting is just incredible in it.
[info]miss_pants 14th-Sep-2009 12:21 am (UTC)
the book is amazingly good, especially considering it was his diaries that he wrote at like age 15-17.
[info]morant_bay 14th-Sep-2009 01:03 am (UTC)
i recommend you read the book.
[info]yougetajob 14th-Sep-2009 12:01 am (UTC)
his books were great.
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