Jim Carroll Died

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Friday. I just happened upon this when looking up Patrick Swayze. At age 60 of a freaking heart attack. How bad does that f*cking suck.:(

[Canesluver]

Who's Jim Carroll?

[kermelbar]

Most recognizable is that "The Basketball Diaries" with Leonardo DiCaprio is based on his youth.

Jim Carroll dies at 60 (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jim-carroll15-2009sep15,0,7425211.story)

[Convert]

And, sadly, his great song, "People who died"

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[Canesluver]

I guess I've been living in a cave. I have never, ever heard of this man. I clicked on the link above. Read it. Not a clue.

[kermelbar]

I wouldn't have known if there hadn't been a "Basketball Diaries" reference and I only knew that because post-"Titanic," I watched just about everything DiCaprio did.

If you haven't seen "BD," it was semi-famous for having a fantasy school-shooting scene that the Columbine kids -- specifically an image that may have inspired the (possibly never existed or graduated pre-shooting) Trench Coast Mafia. When school violence started to become such a nationally covered issue, the scene was often pointed to in the media as being fodder for such kids.