Good Morning, Udo

As I'm sure most if not all of you are aware two terrible things happened this weekend -- one we lost Udo Kier. The gay legend who starred in half of my favorite movies of all time -- movies from Dario Argento, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lars Von Trier, Paul Morrissey, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog, Rob Zombie, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, John Carpenter, E. Elias Merhige, Amanda Kramer, Walerian Borowczyk and Andy fuckin' Warhol, to name but a few! -- and was the most memorable thing in a full 95% of them. He was a freak legend, an icon, a king, and we adored him very much. You can roll through our archives here -- I should do a Top 5 performances of his when I get a chance, but two late roles worth mentioning are his one-scene showstopper in The Secret Agent, which is rolling out this fall, and of course the incredible showcase for him that was 2021's Swan Song, reviewed right here. Cruel that Covid robbed that movie of a bigger rollout, but catch it now if you haven't yet. 

Udo Kier lives forever! He simply ascended to his true form which is too fucking fabulous for us peons to even see anymore. We’re lucky he ever let us look at him in the first place. Here’s some video I took of him two years ago — icon legend king

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM

I could go on and on about King Udo, but this brings me to the second terrible thing that happened this weekend -- I fell down some stairs and twisted my ankle a full 90 degrees and I'm laid up as fuck. I'm hopefully getting an X-ray today so we'll see what happens, but I can't imagine it will be too noisy here today given I'm a shell of a human being right this moment. It's not broken -- I can hobble around alright -- but it's also robbed me of what little will I was already barely working with. So talk to me about Udo in the comments, or don't, I'm around-ish. Udo forever! Jason for never!