A year ago since Kobe Bryand Gigi Bryant passed away

 

Unfortunately, it has been a year since Kobe Bryant & GiGi Bryant passed away.  The toughest deaths of 2020 and it hit me quite hard.  Yes, the deaths Sean Reinert, Neil Peart, MF Doom, Frankie Banali and Eddie Van Halen in 2020 were hard to digest.  However, to me the deaths of Kobe & GiGi are by far the worst of 2020.  I totally miss Kobe.  Despite the fact that I didn't know his daughter GiGi that well, I miss her too and of course it's incredibly sad that she died at such a young age.  Plus it's also incredibly sad that she died along with her father.  I was at my computer a year ago, I noticed that TMZ had an article about Kobe dead.  At first, I was hoping it was a hoax.  I scoured the net for other sources, nobody else was reporting it.  I was truly hoping it was a hoax.  Other sources were not reporting it, so it had to be hoax.

As time went by, I unfortunately found other sources were reporting it.  To make matters, sources were later reporting his daughter also died.  A horrible day.  Well their memories will live on.  I'll always remember Kobe's amazing contribution to the world of basketball and sports.  I didn't know his daughter was a basketball player.  She had a ton of potential and I'm sure she would have been in the WNBA if she lived.

Well I'm not gonna write any more of these death anniversaries.  However, a big personal one for me is coming up and I already got it all written up.  You'll have to follow this blog to find out which death anniversary hits me the most.

A year ago since Neil Peart died

 

Well it has been a year since Neil Peart passed away.  Tbh, I never got heavily into Rush and didn't check  out more of their music after they retired from music.  However, it's still a shame that Peart died.  I don't have much to say on this, unfortunately.  He shared a birthday with my father, so automatically Peart was an awesome guy and I would have gotten along with him if I ever met him.  I did post about Peart's unfortunate death a year ago.  Here it is, if you wanna read it: R.I.P. Neil Peart.   Of course, expect a one year anniversary post on Kobe Bryant and his daughter GiGi Bryant.

R.I.P. MF DOOM

 

Rapper MF Doom unfortunately died on October 31, 2020 and his death wasn't announced until a couple of months later.  This was an absolute shock to me.  I was going to originally post this blog entry on December 31, but didn't get around to it.  What a sad way to end off 2020... announcing the death of someone who actually died a couple months ago.  It also happened on Halloween.  I have no idea why we didn't get to know this on October 31 or November 1.

I knew of MF Doom for years, but didn't start listening to his music until around 2016.  This was one of the most shocking deaths of 2020, due to the fact that he was quite young.  I honestly forgot about him until his death was announced.  I feel really bad that I didn't listen to that much and according to my stats on Last.fm... I had no scrobbles for him at all in 2019.  Then I find out he dies... well of course, I listened to him on December 31.  For more info, go to the Complex article about it.  I only listen to hip-hop/rap occasionally, but I'm thinking about listening to more hip-hop/rap artists in 2021.  We'll see, I'm guessing I'll still listen to my usual rock and metal.

Happy New Year (2021)!

 

Happy New Year to all who read this.  I don't think many of you read this.  If so, cool!  I hope you have the best year possible!  Of course, we all know that 2020 was an awful year.  The pandemic, the deaths and other unfortunate events occurred in 2020.  2020 had so much potential and then COVID-19 happened.  Now I hope the vaccine works for us all and we'll progress.  2020 had very little to no progression at all.  We didn't do much, we didn't work, we couldn't find any work, we lost lots of money, etc.  The disastrous 2020 presidential election (sorry, I will not touch on politics too much in this blog), Trump not conceding, which has complicated matters more with the 2020 election.  Yeah, 2020 was a bloody awful mess and I hope we don't repeat it ever!