i should be astonished but i must have heard this somewhere and processed it unconsciously or something. because i spent all christmas thinking about him and listening to mystikal because i don't have any james brown on my ipod. it really was a shoddy substitute.
fuck. this bothers me.
first syd barrett and now james brown, it's been a shitty year for amazing fucking musicians and humanity.
yes i was thinking about him dying on saturday too.
On christmas day my friend texted me to tell me this news and also that a day or so before he had found my copy of 'james brown is dead' by la style which i had lent him ages ago.
i do worry about people who i admire alot dying, it's probably a default against worrying about really important people close to me dying, which is really troubling.
agreed about musicians, arthur lee, barrett, dilla, james brown and loads others all left the planet.