Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries’, Dies at 60

[FSogol]

Source: NYT

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.

The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=3&hp

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Jim was a great writer, poet, and musician. I'll miss him. :cries:

[Teaser]

1. He is one of those

People who died

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4LqjVtXUvE&feature=related

[Wickerman]

2. Sad

gone before his time.

Catholic Boy was a staple on my turntable in the 80's.

R.I.P.

[ArnoldLayne]

7. Mine too it was one of my favorite albums from the Punk or New Wave

era of the late 70's and early 80's.

[Maccagirl]

3. Larry Gelbart, Patrick Swayze and now Jim Carroll

Damn-it's been a bad week so far. Condolences to all their loved ones.

[medeak]

4. seems like everyone I know died this summer... n/t

[endless october]

5. RIP Jim Carroll.

[fascisthunter]

6. he had a tough life

but lived it

[greyghost]

9. Indeed! eom

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. I spent a wonderful 2 hours with Jim, once upon a time.

I found myself sitting across the aisle from him on a bus from Santa Rosa to san Fran. A local bus. With a lot of stops. We talked the whole way. I was absolutely gobsmacked to be sitting next to the guy who wrote "All The People Who Died" and he was equally gobsmacked to be talking to one of Sammy Hagar's roadies. We talked about everything, including the song, which fascinated me and still does.

Jim was a wonderful guy. Warm, fiercely intelligent and just a gas. We are poorer for his passing, by orders of celestial magnitude.

[DainBramaged]

10. Jeeze no wonder I was hearing his songs today

and how true today, lots of people died, died. What a shitty day. :cry:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Sorry to hear that.

Have two of his albums "Catholic Boy" and "Dry Dreams".

Him and Patrick Swayzee passing remind one of their own mortality.

[Zookeeper]

12. Time to pull out my old copy of "Catholic Boy" and put it on...

the turntable.

RIP, Jim.

:(

[Soylent Brice]

13. .

:kick:

[paulk]

14. RIP

One of my all time favorites