you only need to hear her music for her to be humanised!
^^^
― The Reverend, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
i love what kind of fuckery is this, i often say it to myself when things are difficult, it's got a cheery wry defiant toughness to it. and she did too.
― estela, Friday, 29 July 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i prefer "what kind of fuckery are we?" which i do say sometimes.
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
i came late to her music but she was really really special
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
i don't care for her music but i really don't need to see her yahoo profile as a 17 year old. unless i want to hate life more.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
prolly a really cute toothy and chubby picture of her etc. no no no.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I went got a haircut at the old-timey/contemporary barber shop that I love where they were playing tons Amy Winehouse, and it was making me feel weird and melancholy. I asked my barber if it was some kind of tribute or something, and she said wryly, "Well you know our rule: all Amy Winehouse all the time, and we weren't going to change now." She was serious though - they play music in line with the quasi old fashioned atmosphere, and they'd been heavy on the Winehouse for years, but I'd never noticed. Sort of a somber haircut.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
(As an aside, it's hard to explain that barber shop - "old-timey/contempo" sounds potentially pretentious and obnoxious, but they really get it right. The clientele is mixed, pretty gay, and the barbers are mostly 40-something regular guys and gals, except the younger punk-ish guy and the gym-bro-looking dude who is super sweet and soft-spoken. Here is a pic
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― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
There is not a pic.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4917812438_bc491593ec_z.jpg
Sorry for the derail.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
i hate your barbershop.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
i love your barbershop.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
Well, this is better than bickering about some people being dicks on a RIP thread.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
so otm. i love that she gave the world the word "fuckery".
"you know i'm no good" was playing in a café i was in yesterday, then on the tube i peeked at someone's ipod and they were playing back to black, and then afterwards they switched to tlc's "waterfalls", which seemed poignant. it wasn't morbid, it felt nice that she was being communally honoured.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:42 (twelve years ago) link
fuckery is an old word
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fuckery
― I'm goin' hongrø-øøøøøøøøøøø (crüt), Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeh i'm pretty sure i'd heard it before "Me and Mr Jones" but still great opening lines in pop history
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
I assumed Winehouse got 'fuckery' from dancehall
― naked hdsl (sic), Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVp09E1LRg
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
if youre a londoner you should know the word fuckery
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 30 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
she didn't invent the word, but she OWNED it, spesh with the follow up line about slick rick... seriously, no one pulled retro into the next millennium like amy, rip
rehab is a bit harrowing to listen to after the fact, but that song really just summed so much about her - even now i'm just kinda like "you tell em girl!"
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
"what kind of fuckery are you? / side from Sammy you're my best black Jew" <3
― prolego, Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
It's weird, but I always had a problem with Rehab before. Something about the way the chorus became a panto singalong. Now, the song seems in perfect balance, even if, as Lex says, it's a hard thing to listen to.
― Alba, Saturday, 30 July 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/amy-winehouse/326312-amy-winehouse-death-adopt-st-lucia-bond-theme
Huh.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
some interesting thoughts (disclaimer: also mine)http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=3892
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
amy winehouse - C or D? [RIP 23/7/11] more like. Facking yanks.
― Beating up the Ritz (DavidM), Monday, 1 August 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/89970/tony-bennett-says-amy-winehouse-knew-she-wasnt-gonna-live/
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
this chick had some pipes
― Tipper Goregrind (crüt), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
gave up the crack before she died though iirc
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Jeez, why do those stupid comments always attract my attention? I know I'll hate them, but I still read them... :-(
― StanM, Friday, 7 October 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
Um, below articles I mean, not here. :-)
― StanM, Friday, 7 October 2011 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
Because here they don't attract your attention and you don't still read them
― RONG Persuader (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
"and" maybe should be "or"
― RONG Persuader (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 October 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty grim.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
A radio story I heard this morning said she had briefly given up alcohol and then clearly reembraced it at the time of her death
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Sad. I always get so sad when I read about college kids who die that way. I know what it feels like to be too drunk. To get too sick while drunk. To feel regret. To feel like a fool. To wish I was a better, cleaner person. To want someone to comfort me. I'd hate to go out like that.
― rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, she was an alcoholic in a rush to die and that's a goddamn shame.
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
CLASSIC. In the four years I've been spinning it, I've yet to tire of "Back to Black." She was a pretty sharp songwriter - and even funny, which is something people overlooked because of her substance abuse problems.
― SirGreendown, Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
she was an alcoholic in a rush to die
She was an alcoholic who told her doctor the night before her death that she wanted to live.
― a guy called Gerard (onimo), Thursday, 27 October 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
Her actions certainly belie that plea.
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 October 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
Her actions were those of an alcoholic.
Lots of alcoholics drink too much booze and put their lives at risk. That does not mean they are "in a rush to die". I have had as much booze in my system as she did on several occasions - I wasn't trying to kill myself but was (thanks to the booze) lacking in judgement, leading to increased risk of something going wrong.
Your "rush to die" statement is a bullshit summary of someone trying and failing to overcome an illness.
― a guy called Gerard (onimo), Thursday, 27 October 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
i think you believe i'm either being blithe, melodramatic or misinformed about the nature of alcoholism and/or about the general tragedy of Winehouse dying and that's leading you into reading that statement as idiomatic
when a woman dies unnecessarily in her twenties after a series of jags with varying addictions and in the middle of an ongoing maelstrom of public attention and personal dysfunction, and given the predilection of her artistic expression as self-identifying as an utter mess, you'd have to be pretty willfully myopic to overlook a pattern of self-destructive behavior unrelated to illness
unless you're identifying an addictive personality as an "illness" which i argue against. you mention the "increased risk of something going wrong" and that's excusable the first dozen times you do it but somewhere down the line you have to say that a person is using a crutch to beat themselves. I do honestly think that she flirted with truly suicidal behavior and while not all people who do this accidentally or intentionally die because of that behavior, she did. That's "rushing to die" to me and it makes me very sad.
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 October 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
"which i WOULD argue against"
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
a pattern of self-destructive behavior unrelated to illness
Thank you for your report Doctor Forksclovetofu
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mp3waxx.com/jobfolders/amywinehousenas/blast-page.html
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 November 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
And I thought you'd be posting the video of Winehouse and Tony Bennett doing "Body and Soul". Bennett is reading the lyrics off a piece of paper in the video while standing next to Winehouse at a lectern
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
forks do you work for mp3waxx or
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 November 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:31 AM (1 week ago)
can i see the relevant literature on this or are we just spitballing here
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
1. I'm on their mailing list and they sometimes post things of interest2. We're on the internet; if we can't spitball HERE
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
some great stuff on the lioness album - donny hathaway cover is pretty delish
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
is this out or is it just leaked?
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link