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RIP Anthony Bourdain

Me and Mrs Voltz have started watching his stuff on Netflix for no other reason than we have

On face value he's coming across as a chap that I would have liked to have spent some time with. A great shame and a waste
 
I read his first books and was kind of aware of him but not really watched many of of his programs other than accidentally.
They are currently showing no reservations on one on the channels at work

I've you want to see a food program far far away from any food program watch his Beirut visit (2006), which encompassed a war kicking off and him and his team eventually being rescued off a beach by the US navy.
He was obviously a sensitive chap and that experience very obviously impacted him deeply.

I don't agree with some of what he says, or his reaction or take on a lot of things but definitely a person I'd get on a sesh with
 
Just finished Medium Raw, after Kitchen Confidential and we're part way through Parts Unknown. Controversial as all hell, but still,a loss. You may not agree with what he said or did but he seemed to have integrity. I'm sorry he's gone but self hatred shone through Medium Raw and I'm now not surprised that he killed himself, but wish he'd found a way to live.
 
Never really engaged with him previously, but really enjoying Parts Unknown on Netflix. Maybe best example of that travel/food/culture style of show after Rick Stein. I kind of like that he doesn't shy away from what it means to eat meat, and I say that as someone who has pretty much reduced meat/fish consumption to twice a week.
 
Johnny Vodka said:
Never really engaged with him previously, but really enjoying Parts Unknown on Netflix. Maybe best example of that travel/food/culture style of show after Rick Stein. I kind of like that he doesn't shy away from what it means to eat meat, and I say that as someone who has pretty much reduced meat/fish consumption to twice a week.
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The GoTraveler channel on YouTube has more of the younger programmes he did.

It was 2 years last month since he left and it was his birthday a couple of weeks ago. Still hurts. Still miss the wonderful, aggravated, sarcastic, badass, introspective, kind bastard :(

For anyone with even a vague interest, watch the Beirut episode. There's a damn good reason why it won awards.
 
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Me and Mrs Voltz have got the last Parts Unknown with HIM in it to watch, then to finish series 12 there are a further 2 episodes where he is remembered by the crew and, I think/hope many of his friends

The show has got better and better each episode - we both "miss" him
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I've been getting through them recently, up to series 5 now. I've been rationing it slightly as I have another 7 weeks before the Mini Fire and Miss Fire come back from exile in France It's a brilliant series and I'd love to have gone out for a beer with him. I especially enjoyed the Bronx one.
 
There's mountains of his stuff to watch. A Cook's Tour, The Layover, No Reservations, Parts Unknown of course. He also did The Taste and Top Chef amongst other bits and pieces. There are his books too. I can't bring myself to watch him now. I might get to it one day and I can do a bit here and there but not full episodes. The crazy Russian Zamir who is his fixer in several episodes hangs out on some of the Bourdain groups I'm a part of. He always speaks very highly of Tony and misses him very much too.

I have my tattoo for him now at least and am exploring new worlds and foods, when the universe allows, bit tricky right now.
 
The Tangier one was funny, all the alluding to having a wee toke off camera. :D Not sure Rick Stein would do the same.
 
There's a film. I don't think the controversy about the "deep fake" 3 lines of dialogue will hurt its publicity any.

Trailer.




Only once before* have I anticipated a film before its release and been absolutely sure that I was going to watch it at the earliest opportunity.

* Pink Floyd - The Wall, since you ask :p
 
The feedback from other fans has been that it's very dark. They also promoted it by saying Tony's wife agreed with the deep fake voice. After an absence of several years she took to Twitter to deny that quite strongly. I've still not watched anything of his in any great depth since his passing and I'm still not sure if I want to see this. If I do I'll be home alone cos just talking about him makes my eyes prickle.
 
Mogden said:
The feedback from other fans has been that it's very dark. They also promoted it by saying Tony's wife agreed with the deep fake voice. After an absence of several years she took to Twitter to deny that quite strongly. I've still not watched anything of his in any great depth since his passing and I'm still not sure if I want to see this. If I do I'll be home alone cos just talking about him makes my eyes prickle.
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I have not watched - and will never watch - the last episodes of Parts Unknown. I don't think I've ever been affected by the death of a "celebrity" as much - or indeed at all really - as I was by his.

We were late to the party on Parts Unknown and had just started the last series when he was gone. If I don't watch those last ones, he's still out there somewhere, finding out more about himself, but that the same things remain true of all people and food, no matter where you go.

He just seemed so genuine, so real. If you watch those shows, read the books, even just some of them, you can see, hear him change as he got older - but he was flawed and he knew it and despite his best efforts, it got him in the end. I genuinely miss him, which is fucking stupid because I didn't really know him, but somehow he came to represent some sort of everyman to me, arrogant yet ashamed, bolshy yet reflective, lucky and depressed, just a ball of contradictions that somehow made him a bit like everyone.

If I watch the film I'm pretty much guaranteed to weep, fuck the trailer made me cry. I really miss him, literally not experienced that before, not even my beloved Phil Lynott, who in the end ran his course. With Tony I felt like he'd only just got going.
 
Watched the trailer, immediately recognised the faint backing music as by a band called Au Revoir Simone.

Now trying to figure out which track. Determined not to resort to IMDB to find out...


Edited to add: I think it's "I couldn't sleep" from the album "The bird of Music"

Edited (some more) to add: I should have pointed out it's the background music in the trailer from 1:16 to 2:02.
 
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I still think about him every day. I have my Bourdain tattoo, he's my wallpaper on my phone and laptop, I'm in many Bourdain online fan groups. I watch Zamir's posts with great interest. Zamir is the guy who "treated" Tony to a Turkish massage. I truly always thought I'd bump into him at some point, not even officially, just a passing hello, thanks and goodbye in an airport. I don't think I'll ever watch the last episode, probably not even the last series but I think about him every day. Mad that a single person, unknown to me physically, had such an impact.
 
Interesting, I shall definitely watch the film. Complicated chap in need of some intense therapy I always felt but still, ultimately, lost.
 
I’m self medicating with brandy and ginger ale during a corona isolation and this fucking program repeatedly brings me to tears.

Obviously the booze is a factor but it all just gives me that “only one human race” vibe

Curses for being drunk and vibed up by the tellybox
 
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