Wall of Mouths

Good man Crazy Horse - from first glance your list looks kosher!!

Right, seems I missed as trick in not putting Etta James down… a few of you had her. My lead was short lived!

1st Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
2nd Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
3rd Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
Realityfuck 7 (Etta James)
5th Everyone Else - 0

Boom *tsch*! :-D

Phew! Thanks for the reassurance guys ;-)

That’s what I fear Gav!!

Hope so Chr1s! :-)

Come on peeps… there’s half as many entrants as last year!

Don’t tell me that Death Race is dead itself?? :-(

Wow… that’s class! They’ll be playing ATP and Primavera next! ;-)

Exactly… you snooze, you lose! ;-) My first points in years!

1st Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
2nd Everyone Else - 0

Come on people… that’s 7 entries so far… we have to beat the 19 we had last year!!

I’m gonna resist the temptation to listen to the previews I think… would be too much of a tease!

Only a month to go!!

Here’s my effort… got rid of about half of last year’s:

1) James Molyneaux
2) Doris Lessing
3) Murray Walker
4) David Coleman
5) Michael Douglas
6) Jean-Luc Godard
7) Ian Paisley Sr
8) Jeanne Moreau
9) Don King
10) Ian Brady
11) Ariel Sharon
12) Jack Charlton
13) Prince Philip
14) Fidel Castro
15) Margaret Thatcher - JOKER
16) Jimmy Carter
17) Pope Benedict XVI
18) Nadine Gordimer
19) Billy Bingham
20) Bob Holness

I’ve updated the Hall Of Fame here as I’ve been told Lola and Ci? are in fact the same person!

I think one or two other usernames might have changed as well… “sp” is now “msd” I believe. I miss Sam from these threads… he was always good value for death race dedication!

I’ve also included the points totals for the years we’ve had the current format :-)

2005: Deadsetgav
2006: Ci? (Lola)
2007: sp
2008: The Autosurgeon
2009: Caffinebomb
2010: Jobrok (with 22 points)
2011: Lola (with 38 points)

Ah right, didn’t know that! Doubly well done then!! Will have to amend the intro to the 2012 thread for ye :-)

Death Race 8 - 2012 Edition

Rules:

1) Pick TWENTY celebrities who you think are going to pop their clogs in 2012.

2) The only restrictions are that they have to be real people, 18+, and can’t be on death row / scheduled for execution.

3) The score you get for a death depends on the celebrity’s AGE as follows:

18-29 years: 12 points
30-49 years: 10 points
50-59 years: 9 points
60-69 years: 8 points
70-79 years: 7 points
80-89 years: 6 points
90-99 years: 5 points
100-109 years: 4 points
110+ years: 3 points

4) BONUS points are awarded as follows:

Unique pick: +3 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.
Unlucky 13: +2 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month.
Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not State executions).
Party pooper: +5 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or Xmas Day (date of death is that of the region where they died).
Joker: Nominate one of your celebs as joker - if your joker dies you get double points for that person.

5) They must be famous enough to get a major news website obituary or to have a wikipedia entry that isn’t a stub

6) In the event of a tie, the following criteria is used in this order:

a) The most correctly-chosen deceased celebs.
b) The youngest average age of hits.
c) The first to score points that year.

7) The deadline is 28th Jan (but we won’t be too strict with that)

8) Remember to check that your entrants aren’t already dead

9) Committing murder is cheating

10) Good luck! :-)

HALL OF FAME:

2005: Deadsetgav
2006: Ci?
2007: sp
2008: The Autosurgeon
2009: Caffinebomb
2010: Jobrok
2011: Lola

Yeah, I think we’re onto a winner with the format all right. Right, will get the 2012 thread up now… lets see if anyone can beat Lola & Pip’s “20% hit rate” ;-)

Had a really good look through everyone’s there, but there wasn’t anyone we missed out.

So well done Lola - you said you were in it to win it - and you duly did :-)

Jobs as joker was a shrewd move.

Well done again and I’ll start the 2012 Race with a thread in a day or 2! Cheers!!

Albums

1) Grouper - A:I:A / Dream Loss
2) Real Estate - Days
3) The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
4) John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
5) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo

Films

1) Drive
2) The Killer Inside Me (Think it was released in 2010 but only saw it this year)
3) The Skin I live In
4) Paranormal Activity 3
5) Bobby Fisher Vs The World

Books

Think I only read 2 that were published in 2011:

The Pale King by Dave Foster Wallace
Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes

Both of which were fairly good.

A few of us have serial killers… but not this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16242235

Aw, thanks Crazy Horse… how could I forget you! ;-)

There’s actually a few of us I’ve discovered… I’ve pasted us all into our hall of shame here:

1st Lola - 38 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Betty Ford 5, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18, Kim Jong Il 8)
2nd Pip - 33 (Garret Fitzgerald *UNIQUE* 9, Betty Ford 5, Christopher Hitchens *UNIQUE* 11, Kim Jong Il 8)
3rd Theng - 28 (Marie-Rose Morel *UNIQUE* 13, Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE* 15)
RoyBatty - 28 (Diana Wynne Jones *UNIQUE* 10, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18)
5th Gav - 21 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Jimmy Saville 6, Kim Jong Il 8)
6th Mr Hoppy 17 (Steve Jobs 9, Kim Jong Il 8)
7th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself - 15 (Osama Bin Laden *UNIQUE*, *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Silverginger - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Wyrd - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
10th Realityfuck - 8 (Betty Driver *UNIQUE*)
Jobrok - 8 (Kim Jong Il)
Caffinebomb - 8 (Kim Jong Il)
13th Man-Fish 6 (Walter Breuning *UNIQUE*)
Chr1s - 6 (Jimmy Saville)
15th ChrisDavies - 0
Crazy Horse - 0
Cuchulain - 0
Dermot - 0
Fatboy - 0

Ooohh - an exciting end of year flurry. This is what I like to see!!

Some hard decisions to make too - Wikipedia says Kim Jong Il died at either 69 or 70, according to different sources. But “official state sources” say 69, and that’s what the BBC and Guardian are quoting, so that’s what we’ll go with:

1st Lola - 38 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Betty Ford 5, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18, Kim Jong Il 8)
2nd Pip - 33 (Garret Fitzgerald *UNIQUE* 9, Betty Ford 5, Christopher Hitchens *UNIQUE* 11, Kim Jong Il 8)
3rd Theng - 28 (Marie-Rose Morel *UNIQUE* 13, Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE* 15)
RoyBatty - 28 (Diana Wynne Jones *UNIQUE* 10, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18)
5th Gav - 21 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Jimmy Saville 6, Kim Jong Il 8)
6th Mr Hoppy 17 (Steve Jobs 9, Kim Jong Il 8)
7th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself - 15 (Osama Bin Laden *UNIQUE*, *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Silverginger - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Wyrd - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
10th Realityfuck - 8 (Betty Driver *UNIQUE*)
Jobrok - 8 (Kim Jong Il)
Caffinebomb - 8 (Kim Jong Il)
13th Man-Fish 6 (Walter Breuning *UNIQUE*)
Chr1s - 6 (Jimmy Saville)
15th Everyone Else - 0

So Lola, stretches her lead a bit, Pip moves in to second, Gav claims his 3rd scalp of the year, Mr Hoppy moves into a UEFA Cup spot, and Jobrok and Caffinebomb draw first blood.

I think I’m the only person on ‘0’ now :’-(

Well done Pip for Christopher Hitchens. Surprised only one person had him:

1st Lola - 30 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Betty Ford 5, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18)
2nd Theng - 28 (Marie-Rose Morel *UNIQUE* 13, Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE* 15)
RoyBatty - 28 (Diana Wynne Jones *UNIQUE* 10, Steve Jobs *JOKER* 18)
4th Pip - 25 (Garret Fitzgerald *UNIQUE* 9, Betty Ford 5, Christopher Hitchens *UNIQUE* 11)
5th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself - 15 (Osama Bin Laden *UNIQUE*, *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Silverginger - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
Wyrd - 15 (Amy Winehouse *UNNATURAL CAUSE*)
8th Gav - 13 (Elizabeth Taylor 7, Jimmy Saville 6)
9th Mr Hoppy - 9 (Steve Jobs)
10th Realityfuck - 8 (Betty Driver *UNIQUE*)
11th Man-Fish 6 (Walter Breuning *UNIQUE*)
Chr1s - 6 (Jimmy Saville)
12th Everyone Else - 0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-dies-aged-62

Lamacq just played Therapy?’s cover of “Teenage Kicks” there as part of his “lost 45s” series. Read out the press release insert too together with the fact that Merry Fucking Christmas was given out to the first 250 people at Belfast and Dublin. Cool (and obscure!!)

Awesome!!

^True, I suppose time is against you now. Just 3 weeks to go

PS I did a quick scan through people’s the other day and as far as I can tell there’s been no more deaths. I *do* think RoyBatty has made some pretty shrewd picks though… a lot of them are “old” and “unique” and I’d be very surprised if all of them lasted the year!!

Socrates died yesterday. Drank and smoked the whole way through his career:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16017071.stm

Ken Russell died today - Stuntbelly had him back in 2007 but no one had him this year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/28/ken-russell-dies-aged-84

Very sad news today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8918628/Wales-boss-Gary-Speed-found-dead.html

Was talkin to a guy who told me LMS stands for “Larne Main Street” and they supported Therapy? a lot when they were starting out - they were often touted as being “the next Therapy?” etc.

Indust were part of the same scene too so they must be different from that French band

^I doubt there’s gonna be one Fiona seein as they just played the Ulster Hall. Having said that, I see The Answer are playin Belfast again in March 2012.

If Therapy? don’t announce a Belfast date I think I’ll be headin down to this one