Blog: Brainwashed

The New York Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09 /14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1 hp) has reported that Jim Carroll died in New York on Friday at his home of apparent heart attack, according to his former wife, Rosemary. Jim made a name for himself first as a poet and his voice can be heard on some early Giorno Poetry Systems (/giorno/) LPs, as a writer he's probably most famously known for Basketball Diaries, and as a rocker he's probably best known for the Jim Carroll Band hit People Who Died, (which appeared in the film E.T.) although he continued to play through the '90s [...]