It's kind of sad to be unsurprised that someone is dead at 27.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
yeah, not much to say beyond noting how sad it is. addiction is a bitch.
I'm afraid I'd only barely heard of Amy Winehouse, but this is unfortunate indeed.
I think only last week I deconfused her from regina spekter
7: I mourn the loss of every one of the 673 years' difference.
For a long time, the only thing I knew about Winehouse was that she was always in tabloid headlines for public drunkenness. But then a couple of months ago I listened to her songs on YouTube, and they're really good. I particularly like Tears Dry On Their Own and Back To Black.
those are my 2 favorite songs also! I bet you a million dollars this is uniformly reported as a "drug overdose" when she was actually also hella drunk. people actually OD on heroin and coke way less than they OD on a combination of drugs including a shit ton of jack daniels. I guess because alcohol is a legal drug it's way underreported, but the evidence would surprise you. all the famous ODs you can think of, go look it up: motherfucker had blood alcohol of 1.2, I guaran-fucking-tee. alcohol is a really dangerous drug. non-drinkers with access to clean needles and high quality supply can just go on functioning at a high level for ages, and are surprisingly unlikely to just massively fuck up loading the shot and die.
not that being alone in an expensive hotel in NYC is making the idea of shooting up a fat speedball seem attractive or anything. (don't worry, I'm calling this NA guy the minute I land.)
It sucks that the album that (deservedly) made her fame was also the signal flare of her self-destruction (the dyspeptic side of me wants to rail about how Billie frakking Holiday lasted longer than that with far more excuses for dysfunction, but of course addiction doesn't work that way). I kept hoping for years that she'd manage to get her shit back together, but it didn't seem likely. Still, it was a bit of a shock when Balkan Beat Box announced her death from the stage at a FolkFest show last night and dedicated a song to her.
what a voice, right? if you facebook friend realname me you can see me dressed up in homage, complete with beehive. anyone can friend me, just tell me in the note you're, you know, "John Emerson" or "yoyo" or some other imaginary unfogged persona.
She had an incredible voice. Just an amazing talent. It is very sad.
Absurd question, but needs must when the devil drives: Is a beehive hairdo uncomfortable? They look kind of terrifying.
Probably no more uncomfortable than the hats of the guards at Buckingham Palace.
I believe that it must be uncomfortable.
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My housemate has returned from the Allgood festival at which he's worked as staff for the last few years. I'd thought he was having a grand time -- catered food for staff, groovy people, and whatnot -- but it turns out a young woman was killed. Someone driving a truck in the very steep terrain lost control and drove over 4 tents and into a tree, killing her in her tent. Oh. My god.
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that's horrible, parsimon.
beehives--eh, I think ms. winehouse might have been cheating a bit on that front, since all the back-combing in the world ain't going to get you that big a beehive. unless the center of her hair was just a massive, ellnett-hardened rat's-nest. um. no, no, but in the 60s too, they had hairpieces involved that you would bobby-pin into your own hair. somewhat uncomfortable when it tips and strain is put on your front or back hairline but on the whole not much worse than a hat. not so much the painful to wear as the tedious to get looking good.
not so much the painful to wear as the tedious to get looking good.
Like a toupee held in position by snaps on your scalp.
um, isn't something holding toupees on now? bobby pins, perchance?
John Bonham, Keith Moon, Mama Cass, Brian Epstein and Karen Carpenter died at age 32, but do they have a club?
(The point is not that they should have a club, okay?)
Probably no more uncomfortable than the hats of the guards at Buckingham Palace.
These are, in fact, ferociously uncomfortable. Wear one for an hour and you feel like someone is cutting round your skull with a Stryker saw.
Tried that, but it leads to unmilitary wobbliness.