The Goat Boy Rises (1993)
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The Goat Boy Rises (1993)
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#2Died in Feb 1994
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#3Died in Feb 1994
Less than 2 months after his last performance. Cancer is a horrible thing.
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#4As it said on Tool’s Aenima liner notes: another dead American hero.
Arizona Bay is a widely available introduction to his work for anyone who is interested.
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#6Bill Hicks was right about advertising.
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#7Bill Hicks was the first person to make me really think. It took a few years of listening to him and regurgitating his talking points in my head while I was a teenager until I learned to really understand the world through his eyes -- a brutally honest critique. Thank you for posting this reminder that one man searching for truth can survive the censorship of "liberal" media. Bill Hicks was an avowed leftist, and yet a critic of the American "left". He was "Chomsky with dick jokes".
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#8I was lucky enough to catch Bill Hicks at the Punchline SF in '90 or '91.
It was a great show, but it would be a few years before I could fully appreciate how fortunate I was to have been there.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less than 2 months after his last performance. Cancer is a horrible thing.
It'd be real surprising if he'd died before his last performance. But he was a tricky fucker. I wouldn't have put it past him.
Well, more of his stuff was released after his death, than before.
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#10Sometimes I find these kinds of link submissions pretty baffling. "Here's a nearly 30 year old article about a dead comedian!"
Thanks, I guess. But also: why?
Why this arbitrary New Yorker article, as opposed to any other article written in the last three decades?