Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
wolf_garcia"A cowardly and insulting way for an absolute egomaniac to check out.." Yes, coward way. Plus, being a killer will put him in a completely different league. Entertaining guy he was...what else he would’ve been. |
I though this was a good blog from madinamerica dot com As “When Noel Hunter said, 45,000 people a year would rather die than live in this world any longer, it might behoove us all to consider what is happening in the world to cause this.” What is happening in the world. One of the main stories we repeat to ourselves is that mental illness causes suicide. We perpetuate this idea that people who take their own lives are sick, perhaps as an unconscious way of attempting to avoid feelings of guilt or regret about what we could have done or who we could have been for the people we’re losing to this public health crisis. It’s almost like neuroscience hasn’t shown us how harmful isolation is for human beings. We then turn right around and express shock that Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams, etc., were feeling so awful — “they were always so happy” say the people “closest” to them…………….. This from (mad in america .com) |
Yes Igolar, his mental state during the Berlin episode is evident. It is probably the darkest episode of this series. The silences after the comments of these troubled/depressed individuals is deafening. I can’t imagine how much it might have contributed to an increasingly, isolated and lonely person away from loved ones dealing with his own personal demons . In any case quite dark and sad. Most telling a quote at the end of the episode by Samuel Beckett "You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on". |
My comment in the NY Times on the passing of Anthony Bourdain: If we're lucky, once or twice in our lifetimes we are exposed to the words and ideas of someone who, for whatever reason, speaks to our souls. For me, one of those few voices was that of Anthony Bourdain. He was witty, flippant yet sincere, and in many ways, more adventurous than we normal mortals. His hard living drug use as a younger man morphed into him becoming a chain smoking alcohol consuming curmudgeon that surprisingly became a father at 50. His appreciation of everyday people and what they ate led him around the globe on a seemingly unending journey of food and drink almost beyond what one man alone could consume and live very long to talk about. A simple meal of noodles and a cold beer with Barack Obama meant as much to him as any meal offered to him by the lowliest of home cooks in the dozens of countries he visited, many more than once. And ironically, for someone who literally worshipped the Asian continent and its cuisine and cultures, the last true love of his life was also named Asia - the #metoo icon Asia Argento. But what spoke to me was the one thing that would describe him: he was no bullshit, no spin, nothing hidden - Anthony Bourdain was real, which is rare these days. And he would never tell you he deserved to be on that pedestal we put celebrities on - instead he would tell you how lucky he was to get to do what he did. Soul/R&B singer & saxophonist Jeff Hendrick perhaps said it best: "At a time when dark forces want to divide us, he showed us how food, fellowship, and culture unite us... he took us to places most of us will never get to see in our lifetimes, and he showed us the love & humanity the world offers." |
