Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died from COVID-19. FaceTiming with his family kept him alive

[DBoon]

As Mark Mothersbaugh lay in a Cedars-Sinai hospital bed in early June after contracting the novel coronavirus, a ventilator tube snaking into his throat to help him breathe, the Devo cofounder and acclaimed film and TV composer came to believe that he was recovering from a vicious beating in downtown Los Angeles.

“There’s a bookstore I love there where I get stationery supplies, and in my mind I had been there,” Motherbaugh, 70, said Thursday afternoon, sitting on the patio of the Hollywood Hills home he shares with his wife, Anita Greenspan, and two teenage daughters. “I was convinced for about two weeks that I had been hit by a brick by somebody in Little Tokyo.”

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For Mothersbaugh, the message he most wants to convey is: “If you have anyone that you know who’s in ICU with COVID, contact them and keep them in touch with the outside world, because it’s easy to lose track of where you are and why you are. I had no idea I was on a ventilator for 10 days. Time meant nothing.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-08-31/mark-mothersbaugh-devo-covid-19-coronavirus

[Leith]

1. Dang! This is the first I've heard about this

That poor man. I'm glad he's getting better.

Now for the lame jokes. That's good! It looks like he whipped it - whipped it good! That gives us satisfaction. Just a gut feeling, but apparently the species Jocko Homo is Mr. DNA!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Thumbs up for the song references.

I didn't know about him getting Covid either. Glad he survived!

[crickets]

10. Same here. I had no idea he'd been ill.

I loved DEVO back in college :waves cane: and have enjoyed seeing Mothersbaugh's name in TV and movie credits since. I am so glad to hear he's recovered.

[Brainfodder]

2. He whipped it, good!

Peekaboo!



They still hold up!

[CaptainTruth]

4. As an Akron-area boy (BSEE Akron U) how did I not know this????

I remember when DEVO played at The Bank on Main St in Akron, down the street from Akron Music. I still use some of the things I bought there in my studio today.

I'm so glad he's recovered!!!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

5. Don't know him, and I'm sure he's a nice man, but

70 years old with two teenage daughters? Why do all wealthy old men seem to “deserve” much younger women?

[ProfessorGAC]

6. His Daughters Were Adopted

His wife is 56, so she's only slightly younger.
The two girls were adopted from China when they were very young.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

8. Glad to hear it in this case, but I see it all th time

And for some reason, it gets under my skin.

Trump is an obviously disgusting example. Versus Biden, who didn’t need a trade-in.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I'm With You

It is very common.
Biden is with his second wife, but Jill wasn't the result of a trade-in.
His first wife died in a car crash when she was 30. Happened in 1972. He was around 30, too.
Pretty different than PINO!

[rickyhall]

7. And we are witnessing the DEVOlution of the GOP in real time.