In the US, these two topics produced more grim headlines, and sad head-shakes than any others in 2015, and without a doubt, there's more misery to come.
One of the saddest head-shaking ironies in the various Beatles' roles as guitarists is how many (lame-ass) obit writers, upon George Harrison's death, waxed wistfully ecstatic over "George's groundbreaking solos" in "Taxman," "And Your Bird Can Sing," "Day Tripper," "Good Morning, Good Morning"..
I'm sad, my head hurts and I feel like I could cry and I'm angry with everyone.
It's an airpunch statement, but Lane's shoulders drop and she looks painfully sad, her head low, on hearing it again.
But I see now that the back of my sad bald head appears in a 2009 image on Mr. Crespi's Web site, in the same spot where Linda used to be.
And you take that pen, and you make a list of Spring Resolutions on the back of what will soon claim its rightful place as the World's Greatest Repurposed Pizza Box -- if they gave out awards for such a thing, and if that thing existed anywhere besides the Wishful Thinking Department of your sad, throbbing head.
But offstage, bereft of eyeliner and trash-drag couture, Mac looks almost poignantly human with a bald head, sad eyes and a demure smile.
More recently, in Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, erasing memories of a relationship gone sour involved clamping the sad lover's head into a helmet and passing a strong magnetic field across his skull.
Jake's role model is another man of probity, Louis Zabel (the infinitely sad Frank Langella), the head of an old-fashioned investment bank that's in the process, so it appears, of being destroyed by a combination of unwise loans and the illegal machinations of a rival: the brutal, fleshy Bretton James Josh Brolinn, who played George W Bush in Stone's flabby W).
Revisited today, its hippies look and sound more than ever like sad lost souls headed for defeat, their youth their only armor.
