DJ AM Has Passed Away
TMZ and The New York Post are both reporting that DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, was found dead this afternoon in his NYC apartment. He was only 36.
The cops say his friends had not heard from him for a few days. When his friends went to check on him, they didn't get any response after knocking on his door. The police were called and they knocked down the door to his apartment. Sources tell the NY Post that drug paraphernalia was found in his apartment.
It was almost a year ago when DJ AM and Travis Barker both survived a fatal plane crash in South Carolina.
This is absolutely crazy and tragic. Everyone on Twitter is saying this is like Final Destination (and the fourth movie opens today, gulp). I don't know about that, but I do know this is all sorts of sad. The Summer of Death needs to end. Can it be Autumn already?
Rest in peace, DJ AM.
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Total disrespect to his higher power, truth you can only escape death 1x. But me thinks that if I made it out alive (being the only 2) on a plane full of people, I would turn my life over to good, all that is good, I would be so grateful for being given a 2nd chance. Im not saying become a monk or something, but do something productive.
Im sure the plane thing played alot on his psyche, but come on...to be so devestate about a whore that you wanna take your life or go into major depression, wtf? there are tons of whores in the world that would give their left arm/leg/tit to be with him. I just think its a slap in the face to whoever saved him. Im not religious, but someone was looking out for him and Travis.
Now fuck you Adam, you went out like a lowlife, junkie, found stiff, shit and pissed your pants, nice....what a way to be remembered.
PATHETIC!!
Good riddance!
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"Let s/he who is without sin, cast the first Stoney."
Yeah, it is indeed sad that a man that survived a fucking plane crash wouldn't take that as a sign of cleaning up his act and respecting his life a little more. He had a second chance and threw it away.
RIP.
Wow - just found out this sad news. Bummer. When the hell are people going to quit the fucking drugs already? Duh. Idiots.
I feel bad for Travis Barker - he was tweeting about him yesterday, read about it on CelebSolicit.com.. So very sad - Was such a sweet guy too
he chose....
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The war isn't working.
OH HOW SAD!!!! BOO HOO!!!
This ugly ass was a just another pill-poppin junkie freak. Isn't that what you guys have been saying about MJ? Besides, being a DJ isn't all that. Isn't that what you guys say about SamRo? He dated that ugly bitch Nicole Ritchie. Big fucking deal. I don't get this mofo's appeal at all.
excuse me, you f*cking TROLL CUNT, but you are a fucking loser
quit following me around from site to site
you are such a f*cking loser, leave me alone already and get your own name you stupid fuck.
what a stupid asshole you are.
Submitted by bo_tatoe on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 2:57am.
Please! To achieve that he'd neet to be worse than ... well, no DJ but an autofadesoftware. Which i guess would be an achievement of sorts. ;-)
Well, you know, when the music is good, but it's just playing in some absurd random order, with awkward changes in rythm and pauses, and you and your friends look at each other and think wtf and need to head to the bar for another tequila shot... that's a bad DJ... :)
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Submitted by pigger_than_life on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 1:42am.
... a bad DJ can play great music and still turn your night out into a fucking bore. ...
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Please! To achieve that he'd neet to be worse than ... well, no DJ but an autofadesoftware. Which i guess would be an achievement of sorts. ;-)
DJ AM's death makes me feel so completely desolate.
It's not like I was a huge fan, but it reminds me of Heath Ledger.
DJ AM seemed like a really good person.
He seemed like a special boyfriend to Nicole Richie, and from what I know, he helped to keep her off drugs.
He went through that terrible plane crash.
I really feel awful about this, but I do feel that at least 50% of celebs are very conflicted and have various mental issues, ie, anxiety, depression, etc.
They tend to self=medicate with drugs and alcohol.
It's truly sad because sometimes the most creative people are the most mentally fragile.
Of course, I can only form my opinions from gossip blogs, which, I cannot be a hypocrite, I read.
Reading the nasty gossip blogs would be enough to make any celebrity commit suicide in the first place.
(Not that he did.)
Submitted by bo_tatoe on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 1:26am.
the waiters contribution is close to zero.
A waiters conribution to the food itself may be zero, but it is capital to the enjoyment of the meal. Being badly waited upon can completely ruin even the most delicious dinner.
So tho keep up with the analogy game, a bad DJ can play great music and still turn your night out into a fucking bore. Maybe they're not artists or anything elevated, but good waiters and DJs are necessary professionals, apart from human beings, of course.
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Submitted by Shorty on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 12:10pm.
OK, seriously, have you NO COUTH? This was not a "DJ" or a 'waiter' that died, this was a HUMAN BEING ...
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That goes without saying and if you couldn't figure that out i suggest you are in dire need of some therapy. Though it will suffice if you turn off that computer more often and see some people in real life that you can actually connect and relate with.
My condolences to his family and friends, but why would you or me or anybody who didn't know him in person specifically care? I could care about the death of actors, musicians, writers, painters ... anybody who created something that touched people who never met him in person. Now what would that be in the case of a DJ?
I stand by my analogy. What's a DJ other than a waiter who serves you other peoples work? Even the dishwasher plays a more important part in your experience of a meal - if he did crappy work your plate is dirty and your meal spoiled.
If you praise the waiter for a good meal served it just shows you have no fucking idea whose work and efforts it actually was that made you enjoy it. In relation to anybody involved in the making of your meal - the cook, the dishwasher, the grocery supplyer ... - the waiters contribution is close to zero.
Who?
-Evolution is a theory not a fact-
Yes...he is still dead, kicked the bucket, ceases to exist,lives no more
"to kick the bucket" – Ex. When I kick the bucket, you can have the Harley. So, the old coot finally kicked the bucket! Popular etymology links this term to the idea of committing suicide by standing on a bucket and then kicking it away. More likely, the expression originates from the practice of hoisting animals to be slaughtered to a beam or pulley arrangement called a “buquet.” In English this French word came to be pronounced like “bucket.” The animals were hoisted by their heels and could therefore be said to be “kicking the buquet/bucket” as their throats were slashed.
Where the hell is my propofol?
RIP Adam. Poor guy went through too much crap in his life. He probably couldn't take it anymore. He had a bad childhood etc.
So incredibly sad. From all accounts he spent the last decade helping other addicts get clean. May his goodness live on in them.
I had a feeling he was more affected mentally and physically than he let on by that plane crash. And who wouldn't be ? Travis Barker was running his mouth in a short time about lawsuits. But DJ Am was more subdued. Didn't hear much from him about it. RIP DJ AM.
Submitted by KA on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 3:16pm.
Submitted by El Bastardo on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 9:30am.
I'd smoke a joint ANY DAY before drinking alcohol.
DJ AM's death has made me re-evaluate my current chronic pain situation. When I see my pain doctor on Monday, I am going to ask for a lot of help to get off the pills.
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I am on pain meds for Chronic pain (Fibromyalgia) and also IC (bladder problem) but i take what I'm supposed to and theres been a few times I have taken an extra but that's it, one extra when in bad pain. I don't feel like everytime I hear these stories I have to worry because Im pretty sure they were overtaking or mixing or just not supposed to even take them period. I don't know that for sure but 99% sure . I wouldn't be able to get out of bed without pain relief and tylenol or ibuprofen is not going to do the trick so I'm not going off mine cause of this kind of thing when I'm keeping mine under control but that's up to you...On TMZ (I forget if it says it here) it says that Adam was smoking crack and of course i'm assuming that's really what killed him...
@Sibsi :( Don't give up on yourself. EVER.
Submitted by Sibsi on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 8:52pm.
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yep, dat's all I'm sayin'...I likes to get my drank on and sometime my smoke on...Hell, if I need me a doll to get through the night and I have it, shit yeah, I'm agonna take it...I do my best not to end up like a junkie or kill myself unknowingly cuz I'm tryna sleep (and insomnia is a BITCH in case you whores don't know), but FUCK, all you can do is what you can bear...
Sounds to me like DJam may have had a broken heart and just tried to medicate that TOO much...or either he straight up quit this bitch called life...Either way, I think it's sad...not because I think he was especially talented in anything (a DJ? Wha?) but because he was a person who presumably had people who loved him...He wasn't a bad person, so he deserved some measure of compassion in life and he deserves it in death, overdose or not...
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Lovely to see you, Tiger.
I drink a lot.
Exercise a lot and try to eat right though, but, will readily admit that I wanna get out of my head when the day's ending and have my Stoli by the desk.
Might die of liver disease, cancer, what have you.
People looking at it from the outside probably would call me a raving drunk, although it's about 3 White Russians/nite and I go straight to bed when all is said and done.
I'm not going to join the judgmental people and cast stones at anybody in a sad situation where they struggle with such a potent dependency though just because I can purchase my venom of choice legally.
Submitted by Karen Flatts on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 5:52pm.
Wait-- so if I understand this correctly, some of you believe that the plane crash caused the need for prescription drugs, and he progressed from there to smoking crack and dying from it in less than a year?
Have any of you ever met an actual drug addict? It is rare indeed that it happens that fast. Sorry, but this guy had issues LONG before the plane crash.
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Yep, long term junkie (and btw helloooooo karen flatts), BUT his death is no different than someone who dies of lung cancer due to smoking...a junkie is a junkie, and it's sad, sad, sad someone goes that way. At least DJam didn't inflate insurance rates by smoking himself into emphysema or lung cancer. Nope, his addiction was faster and cleaner than a liver transplant, now wasn't it????
I'm so SICK of people (not sayin' you Karen...who I'm GLAD to see back) judging junkies while they inhale cancer sticks and gulp liver rotting booze!
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Hey, Ruby!
The talk about crazy conspiracy theories was over the Oasis thread, lol.
Don't ask, I just thought it was a suitable place to start an off topic - open post - kinda thing there, instead of this thread about am.
I have to check the reptileagenda too.
On Youtube there was some dude called 'lennonhonorfilms' I think? He was fucking mental, talking about how Rihana's Umbrela song was an occult anthem kinda deal?
Yeah, that stuff is fascinating, but a bit too much for me.
I mean, certainly showbiz has some mechanics in place to make people suffer, but it is a bit of a stretch to claim that some figureheads engineer and systematically create these life circumstances for entertainment fodder.
Or is it?
/queues up X-Files opening theme
Submitted by mtamara on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 6:43pm.
hotassfuckerymess2009
(Hence my signature) this summer needs to END. My mom died in July. Great Fuckin' Scott we need sylvia brown to tell us when this fuckery will end?? Any mediums out there that can tell us when the misery will end?
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So sorry about your mom MTamara.
I lost my grandfather this year as well. As well as a couple friends.
Submitted by sushi on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 9:51am.
Candy, thanks. I am sorry because I reread what I wrote and it was awfully bitchy. And it looks like you are a survivor with your parents. Addiction truly is a sad thing. I was always way too scared to try anything and it always amazes me when anyone jumps into drugs because there really is no way out. The few that have made it out struggle and struggle every day.
I thought the part in the article was so telling was where he said any day he could succomb and be right back to smoking crack. How sad is that? Especially since there are reports of a crack pipe at the apartment
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Thanks Sushi.
I never thought of it that way- as being a survivor. But I guess I am considering I sat in rooms as a kid with lines being snorted in front of me and joints being passed to me by accident by family and their friends. I was kicked out into the street by an alky mom because she chose drugs and drink and her nasty pervy BF over me. Or about how my father does (still) down a 24 pack of Miller by noon so he doesn't get the shakes.
I have had my own demons in my past, but once I had children- I let my children have a life free of an addicted parent. I chose to break the cycle.
Believe me, I deal with addiction demons tempting me daily. (I just quit smoking this year after 20 years of smoking and I am only 35) But I chose my kids over addiction. Because they are that worth it for me. Something I obviously wasn't to my own parents.
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(Hence my signature) this summer needs to END. My mom died in July. Great Fuckin' Scott we need sylvia brown to tell us when this fuckery will end?? Any mediums out there that can tell us when the misery will end?
Sibsi, I LOVE looking at crazy 'x-files' types of stuff. On Youtube, lots of stuff. Have you checked out reptillianagenda? It's basically a dead site but full of crazy stuff.
intellectually driven passion, passionately driven intellect
Tragic?! What a fag.
So tragic. May he rest in peace. :(
Wait-- so if I understand this correctly, some of you believe that the plane crash caused the need for prescription drugs, and he progressed from there to smoking crack and dying from it in less than a year?
Have any of you ever met an actual drug addict? It is rare indeed that it happens that fast. Sorry, but this guy had issues LONG before the plane crash.
"I dumped a tablespoon of olive oil and minced garlic on a piece of toast last night and ate it . Now , my farts are hot and stinky . My bedroom is a cloud of garlicky funk , whew .I keep busting ass and waving the stink to my nostrils ." That's some funny shit right there!
Oh, and BTW, I think it's safe to assume that you just wasted your time reading my signature.
kylimayrow!!!!!
Are you familiar with the David Icke forum or something?
For those interested in MK Ultra: http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46038
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SERIOUS DISCLAIMER here:
I do NOT endorse those claims.
I lurk in that thread from time to time 'cause it popped up on stumbleupon once I think. Since then, I've not been able to put the crackpipe(errmm... discussion) down.
Some of those claims are madder than fish grease and would have celebrities suing if it was not considered your average tinfoil conspiracy theory.
I personally think it could be possible, but not at that scale.
At the end of the day, some humans are just cruel and will abuse/torture others for their own gain/satisfaction. No big bad world wide secret baddies needed to cause pain and suffering.
i agree that some people are just horrible and self destructive ( lohan ) but i agree that there are things in your life that make a huge difference from before and after , chronic pain , insomnia , post traumatic disorder , my aunt's brother fought in vietnam and came back a smack addict just because all the things he saw, now he lives in a mental institution and he will never come back , is not his fault i have no clue what he saw , what he felt but i am sure that trying to scape reality was the only thing he saw as a way to survive and it doesn't surprise me that once home he was not able to let go , not all junkies are stupid selfish people that only search for a good time , some people like my uncle just can't cope with things after war , i mean war for me is so abstract i am not able to really get the word, but i sure think is hell on earth , i don't blame him , i wish he could have been able to move on , but not everyone is strong enough .
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Submitted by El Bastardo on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 9:30am.
I'd smoke a joint ANY DAY before drinking alcohol.
Why do I care about someone I never knew? He is a person in the spotlight, and his plight should be known. A lot of people go through the same exact things, only they aren't in the spotlight every day. I think of Iraq veterans who have had limbs blown off while watching their friends die.
i'm rick james
charlie murphy!!!!!!!!!!
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I am both fascinated and afeared.
Why so cryptic? What's MK?
(do you have any idea how hard that is to look up?)
I have a theory like this of my own. No one ever gives my theories names:(
♥ Threadkilla!
I'm not afraid to kill you in front of a priest. ~ Nurse Jackie.
So what if he was an addict? So then he deserved to die?
Submitted by Triscuit on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 2:43pm.
hey I just wanna say...I am an addict/alcoholic!
Not to mention yer bad TI jonz. How are you?? Life and kids are good?
Team Triscuit!
♥ Threadkilla!
I'm not afraid to kill you in front of a priest. ~ Nurse Jackie.
Well, it doesn't really matter if some people think junkies deserve to die for being arrogant self-serving assholes, or of they are the outcome of a shitty background or if they deserve all the sympathy in the whole wide world... fact is, drug addicts will not change their ways based on other people's opinions, right?. We all have our opinions and we all do what we think it's right (or isn't really right) and the world keeps on spinning... and they will eventually end up dieing of overdose.. maybe.
And if we take a look at the so-called "summer of death" we might be able to see that there is nothing mystical behind it. Most of these people died by old age, cancer, drug overdose or cancer... or drug overdose. I would start freaking out if people start dropping dead by no reason whatsoever.
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Another MK'd celebrity? If you don't know what that means look it up before talking smack! These deaths I believe are no coincidences, its all in front of us, so blatant it gives me shivers! MK programmed by the media elite, family, etc.... Always has something to do with drugs, blame it on the drugs is how the media like to potray it!
last year he confessed
"In a shockingly candid 2008 interview with Glamour magazine, Goldstein reveals he was abused by his father.
“I grew up in Philadelphia with a father who seemed to hate me: The verbal abuse he subjected me to was unbelievably cruel,” DJ AM said. “If my family went out to dinner, my father would hit on the [male] waiter right in front of my mom… Finally she’d had enough and kicked him out.”
most Mk'd personality's begin trauma early in their upbringing usually by a parent.... this follows all the rules of a Mk'd programing. My eyes keep opening wider as I see more and more apparent "random" incidents within the Hollywood community. Open you eyes people, sex, drugs & mind control.....And no I am not referring to Michael K's "summer of death" reference, I know most got a bad case of the olds.. I am talking about young hollywood
BTW..no I don't beleive half the stuff about MK Ultra but just makes you wonder lol... check this blog out its mind boggling I spent hours reading on so many people..it makes you kind of crazy after awhile so beware hahah lol but there are lot of stuff in the media, fashion, corporate industry that does make you go UMMMM....!??!!???
http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/
I'd not give a damn about the disparaging comments about addicts here, triscuit, although it's safe to say that several of those comments represent the way 'well adjusted people' in society think about anybody dealing with a setback as big as addiction.
Of course there are douchebag addicts out there, as well as sober people, but it's okay to lump every person who deals with addiction with the selfish, disgusting and uncaring addicts.
I wish that lady from Intervention had gotten a hold of him. Seriously, Candy rocks!
Submitted by El Bastardo on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 9:30am.
I'd smoke a joint ANY DAY before drinking alcohol.
DJ AM's death has made me re-evaluate my current chronic pain situation. When I see my pain doctor on Monday, I am going to ask for a lot of help to get off the pills. I have PTSD and chronic pain, but I cannot imagine the horrific pain and trauma he must have went through, and I thought mine was hell. When you are in A LOT of pain, sometimes your mind becomes so skewed that suicide becomes a perfectly logical approach. Why should you live the rest of your life, fucked up and on more and more pain drugs? I tried to kill myself in 2002 over my pain. I'm glad it didn't happen - gave me a new outlook on life instead. When I look at DJ AM, I don't see a man who was a drug addict by choice. I see a man in a lot of pain who took an awful lot of medication (maybe?) to get through what he had endured. I would not be surprised of toxicology reports came back that he had anti-depressants, pain killers (probably oxy) and xanax in his system. Feeling bad for himself, he probably went out and scored some crack. Just to kill the pain - to forget about the things in his head, to ease the pain and tension in his body. I've been there. I just can't relate to his level.
So no, I don't say good riddance to junkies, because I truly believe he wasn't one. Pain medication is a slippery slope - you become accustomed to it, and even tell yourself that you have a "dependance" on it to get by in life. It's not the only way. But this man was burned badly, watched other people he KNEW burn to death, went through the trauma of the plane crashing and death around him. *sigh* I just wish he would have reached out to someone, anyone, to get some help. Instead, he's dead.
Why do I care about someone I never knew? He is a person in the spotlight, and his plight should be known. A lot of people go through the same exact things, only they aren't in the spotlight every day. I think of Iraq veterans who have had limbs blown off while watching their friends die. Do you want to call them drug addicts as well, if they are on heavy medication?
Rest in peace, DJ AM. You are no longer suffering, and I hope I'm not the only person who re-evaluates life after hearing of your death.
Hugs to all you DListers out there. Even the ones I chewed out the other day on the Romania/Gypsies thread. I care about each and every one of you and hope those of you in pain seek help. Sorry for the long post.
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Submitted by bo_tatoe on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 12:03pm.
One DJ less - big deal.
DJs are like waiters mistaken as cooks by people who have no idea how the meals are made.
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Submitted by Ninne on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 9:42am.
Summer of Death indeed. My dog Molly ( a beagle) had to be put down yesterday due to cancer. She could barely move and was just skin and bones. It was a horrible, horrible day (August 28).
Sorry about DJ AM, I was not a fan or anything, but it always sucks when someone dies, especially still so young.
I want my Molly back.
Ninne, I am deeply sorry to hear about your little one's passing. :( It is SO hard, I know. My boy Sam (in the pic) died last year, and it was devastating. I still cry. I hope you find peace soon, and remember that you gave Molly a wonderful life. She will always be with you. :) Hang in there.
www.poopreport.com :)
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hey I just wanna say...I am an addict/alcoholic!
I do not deserve to die!
fuck THAT!
assholes
It must be awful to be a drug addict. Shame on you spambots advertising your dating sites btw.
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I'm so sick of the talented so-called artist killing themselves.
DJ AM was nothing more than a crack-head junkie. What a bad example for our youth!!
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I totally concur, OG. Never heard of this dude anyways.
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"Oh, really? Did she like it?"
"I just love being a whore - you meet the most fascinating paint salesmen and curtain-rod manufacturers!"
I'm so sick of the talented so-called artist killing themselves.
DJ AM was nothing more than a crack-head junkie. What a bad example for our youth!!
NEXT!!!
oh well. shit happens.
OH HOW SAD!!!! BOO HOO!!!
This ugly ass was a just another pill-poppin junkie freak. Isn't that what you guys have been saying about MJ? Besides, being a DJ isn't all that. Isn't that what you guys say about SamRo? He dated that ugly bitch Nicole Ritchie. Big fucking deal. I don't get this mofo's appeal at all.
I agree. Not like Final Destination. He was the one who picked up the crack pipe, needle or whatever. Still a sad story, though. RIP.