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(NYPost)   Sly Stone is living in a van   ( nypost.com) divider line
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Bonanza Jellybean
2011-09-25 01:13:23 PM  
Don't call me homeless, wealthy.
 
FloydA
2011-09-25 01:29:31 PM  
Thank you
Fellate me
I peed myself
Again
 
douchebag/hater
2011-09-25 01:32:43 PM  

Highway61Revisited: Kyro: -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through. Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.

The tag is appropriate. He's a national treasure.


So...he's NOT responsible for his actions?
Seriously?
I bet you voted for Obama.

And he's a musician and an unemployable one at that, NOT a 'national treasure'; just a another guy who started to believe his own hype.
 
wiredmaverick
2011-09-25 01:54:29 PM  

douchebag/hater: Highway61Revisited: Kyro: -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through. Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.

The tag is appropriate. He's a national treasure.

So...he's NOT responsible for his actions?
Seriously?
I bet you voted for Obama.

.


Your name is really appropriate.

There's a difference between "he's not responsible for his actions" and "it's sad that he got caught up i n addiction."
 
M0nkeyp0x
2011-09-25 01:59:32 PM  
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It's important to read the headlines carefully.
 
Irving Maimway [TotalFark]
2011-09-25 03:02:48 PM  

FloydA: Thank you
Fellate me
I peed myself
Again


You owe me a keyboard.
 
Inigo_Montoya
2011-09-25 03:12:07 PM  
At least he'll have a lot of time for doobie rolling...
 
Pep Streebeck
2011-09-25 04:46:19 PM  
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Happy Hours
2011-09-25 05:50:38 PM  

AbbeySomeone: RubyRed: Down by the river?

He wasn't with The Clash silly. Sly is a 70's R&B guy.


Uh, that's a Neil Young song, but he wasn't with Crazy Horse either.
 
qsblues
2011-09-25 06:03:14 PM  

FloydA: Thank you
Fellate me
I peed myself
Again


I hate you
you magnificent bastard, I hate you
 
ChiWhiteSox_56
2011-09-25 06:53:41 PM  

goofgirl: Anyone first read headline as "Sly Stallone is living in a van"?


Yep.
 
douchebag/hater
2011-09-25 06:54:01 PM  

wiredmaverick: Your name is really appropriate.


I bet you think your comment counts as an original thought; it doesn't.

The guy did this to himself and is not 'an American treasure' and if you still think so you need to re-examine your priorities.
 
zulius
2011-09-25 06:57:13 PM  
Man, I thought this thread will be nothing but Matt Foley references...
/Too many other words in this thread...
 
The Smoking Gunt
2011-09-25 07:21:18 PM  
Next time someone advocates legalizing drugs, think of this guy. If 40 out of 80 of you neighbors were too strung out to pay their mortgage or common charge, your condo association would be looking at you to make up the difference.

/Everyday People matter.
 
Thorn
2011-09-25 07:21:38 PM  

Pep Streebeck: [i154.photobucket.com image 320x240]


Came for this. Leaving satisfied.
 
wiredmaverick
2011-09-25 07:21:45 PM  

douchebag/hater: wiredmaverick: Your name is really appropriate.

I bet you think your comment counts as an original thought; it doesn't.

.

Not at all. I'm guessing you get called a douchebag all the time.
 
mishmashmusic
2011-09-25 08:22:24 PM  

BKITU: [www.nypost.com image 300x293]

"I want to thank you
Falettinme
Get mice elf
Avan"


ROFL
 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache
2011-09-25 09:02:47 PM  
That is farking sad. Grown ass man living in a van. Get your shiat together.
 
metal_gear
2011-09-25 09:10:25 PM  
What... too scared to use the dumbass tag? He did it to himself!
 
schpanky
2011-09-25 09:17:09 PM  
This is really really sad. He needs help. I've always held out hope that he could comeback, for real. I even bought his new CD because I wanted to give it a chance, even if it didn't look good (it wasn't). But this is just depressing now. He's got to kick that stuff if he's even going to survive, much less come back, at this point.
 
allegedman
2011-09-25 09:22:26 PM  

Pep Streebeck: [i154.photobucket.com image 320x240]


im leaving happy thank you
 
sirrerun [TotalFark]
2011-09-25 09:57:06 PM  

BKITU: [www.nypost.com image 300x293]

"I want to thank you
Falettinme
Get mice elf
Avan"


Like!
 
Kilgore Trout
2011-09-25 10:05:43 PM  
Article is bullshiat. He still has a nice, secluded place near Calistoga.

/did some work on his property about a month ago
//crazy, but a nice guy
///CSB
 
cryinoutloud [BareFark]
2011-09-25 10:28:33 PM  

Kilgore Trout: Article is bullshiat. He still has a nice, secluded place near Calistoga.


He's so elusive that apparently no one knows this.

Stone has been difficult to pin down for years. In the last two decades, he's become one of music's most enigmatic figures, bordering on reclusive. You'd be forgiven for assuming he's dead. He rarely appears in public, and just getting him in a room requires hours or years of detective work, middlemen and, of course, making peace with the likelihood that he just won't show up.
 
ongbok
2011-09-25 10:52:28 PM  

cryinoutloud: Kilgore Trout: Article is bullshiat. He still has a nice, secluded place near Calistoga.

He's so elusive that apparently no one knows this.

Stone has been difficult to pin down for years. In the last two decades, he's become one of music's most enigmatic figures, bordering on reclusive. You'd be forgiven for assuming he's dead. He rarely appears in public, and just getting him in a room requires hours or years of detective work, middlemen and, of course, making peace with the likelihood that he just won't show up.


All of the Cocaine that he has smoked over the years has eaten his brain and left him paranoid and mentally ill. I remember once I saw a documentary about him and they had said for a few years he was living in Hawaii and playing trombone in a hotel band under a assumed name because he was afraid that the FBI was after him and he was hiding out. From what I understand he does have some money and has a little property so he shouldn't be homeless, however when his paranoia kicks in he takes off and is very hard to find. And most of his paranoia revolves around the FBI.
 
ObliqueAsymptote
2011-09-25 11:15:09 PM  
Prince spent a lot of his latest tour playing Sly's old hits including:

"I want to thank you
Falettinme
Get mice elf
Avan"

Wonder if he kicked down anything.
 
sirrerun [TotalFark]
2011-09-25 11:15:53 PM  

ongbok: From what I understand he does have some money


He should be doing OK off samples alone. Commercials, too.
 
dmc001
2011-09-26 12:49:18 AM  
It's sad because the druggie lowlife screwed himself out of a good living?

Hmm... don't tell me FARK is getting sentimental these days...
 
farkityfarker
2011-09-26 01:47:31 AM  
Lots of poor Americans are happy about this, because it makes them feel better about themselves.

Mainstream American politics and media do a good job of pitting the poor against the even poorer so they have no idea who the real enemy is.
 
SnakeLee
2011-09-26 01:53:21 AM  
The main reason he is broke is because he got basically conned into selling his music catalog in 1984 for $1 million dollars. The man who bought it? Michael Jackson.
 
tetzy
2011-09-26 01:56:49 AM  
I'd pay to see him perform.

I would.
 
Tommy Moo
2011-09-26 10:08:10 AM  
I totally read that at Sly Stallone and didn't believe it for a second.
 
Dee Snarl
2011-09-26 04:00:46 PM  

Happy Hours: AbbeySomeone: RubyRed: Down by the river?

He wasn't with The Clash silly. Sly is a 70's R&B guy.

Uh, that's a Neil Young song, but he wasn't with Crazy Horse either.


Sooo I knew the Clash talked about something like that, and Googled Clash down by the river. Of course it's in London Calling he says he lives by the river. RIGHT when the results page came up, London Calling began playing on Pandora (set on the Damned). What makes that a little spooky instead of just concidental is that London Calling has some relevance in my recently ended last romance - it was a dark and horrific thing, as she was an actual psychopath, thanks for asking - and I've been rather avoiding that album. *shudders*

/csb
/at least it wasn't Train in Vain - that song's twice as painful
/psychologically, not aesthetically
/love Train in Vain
/haters fark off
 
Kanemano
2011-09-26 04:29:41 PM  
Sly has been crazy for years.
 
SubBass49
2011-09-26 08:01:27 PM  

ongbok: All of the Cocaine that he has smoked over the years has eaten his brain and left him paranoid and mentally ill. I remember once I saw a documentary about him and they had said for a few years he was living in Hawaii and playing trombone in a hotel band under a assumed name because he was afraid that the FBI was after him and he was hiding out. From what I understand he does have some money and has a little property so he shouldn't be homeless, however when his paranoia kicks in he takes off and is very hard to find. And most of his paranoia revolves around the FBI.


To be fair, the FBI did have a hand in farking with many public figures back in Sly's time...especially if they were advocates of multiculturalism and equality - something he was known for through the composition of his band.

/Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
 
sumdruncomic
2011-09-26 10:36:06 PM  

SnakeLee: The main reason he is broke is because he got basically conned into selling his music catalog in 1984 for $1 million dollars. The man who bought it? Michael Jackson.


If you got "conned" into selling your catalog for $1 million dollars and you live in a van, your problem was not Michael Jackson.

And say what you want about MJ's personal life, but the man was a schrewd business person, just ask Paul McCartney.
 
NorCalLos
2011-09-27 02:15:35 AM  
You know you've hit rock bottom when you're the assistant to a homeless guy. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you might want to read a little bit of the article.)
 
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