Entertainment is the opiate of the masses, drugs are are consumed religiously, and today's religion is just another form of entertainment.

Janis Joplin by Brandt Hardin

October 12, 2011 By Joe Allen

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Why Dead Celebrities?

Joe Allen

Entertainment is the opiate of the masses. Drugs are are consumed religiously. Today's religion is just another form of entertainment.
Daily interjections: @EvoPsychosis

About the Artist

Brandt Hardin
Pop Surrealist
and Iconographer

read bio here

Rock Star Martyrology

January 1:
- Hank Williams
February 2:
- Sid Vicious
February 3:
- Buddy Holly
February 4:
- Karen Carpenter
February 8:
- Del Shannon
February 19:
- Bon Scott
March 5:
- Patsy Cline
March 9:
- Biggie Smalls
March 26:
- Eazy E
April 1:
- Marvin Gaye
- Rozz Williams
April 5:
- Kurt Cobain
- Layne Staley
April 6:
-Wendy O Williams
April 8:
- Per Yngve Ohlin
— aka “Dead”
April 9:
- Phil Ochs
May 11:
- Bob Marley
May 18:
- Ian Curtis
May 25:
- Bradley Nowell
June 25:
- Michael Jackson
June 28:
- GG Allin
July 3:
- Jim Morrison
August 9:
- Jerry Garcia
August 16:
- Robert Johnson
- Elvis Presley
September 13:
- Tupac Shakur
September 18:
- Jimi Hendrix
October 4:
- Janis Joplin
October 20:
- Ronnie Van Zant
November 13:
- Ol’ Dirty Bastard
November 22:
- Michael Hutchence
November 24:
- Freddie Mercury
December 7:
- Darby Crash
December 8:
- John Lennon
- Dimebag Darrell

Pretiosa in conspectu Domini mors sanctorum eius.

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