amy winehouse - C or D? [RIP 7/23/11]

http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/amy-winehouse/326312-amy-winehouse-death-adopt-st-lucia-bond-theme

Huh.

some interesting thoughts (disclaimer: also mine)
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=3892

amy winehouse - C or D? [RIP 23/7/11] more like. Facking yanks.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/89970/tony-bennett-says-amy-winehouse-knew-she-wasnt-gonna-live/

this chick had some pipes

gave up the crack before she died though iirc

Jeez, why do those stupid comments always attract my attention? I know I'll hate them, but I still read them... :-(

Um, below articles I mean, not here. :-)

Because here they don't attract your attention and you don't still read them

"and" maybe should be "or"

Pretty grim.

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

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.

Yeah, she was an alcoholic in a rush to die and that's a goddamn shame.

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.

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.

Her actions certainly belie that plea.

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.

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.

"which i WOULD argue against"

a pattern of self-destructive behavior unrelated to illness

Thank you for your report Doctor Forksclovetofu

http://www.mp3waxx.com/jobfolders/amywinehousenas/blast-page.html

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

forks do you work for mp3waxx or

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, October 27, 2011 9:31 AM (1 week ago)

can i see the relevant literature on this or are we just spitballing here

1. I'm on their mailing list and they sometimes post things of interest
2. We're on the internet; if we can't spitball HERE

some great stuff on the lioness album - donny hathaway cover is pretty delish

is this out or is it just leaked?

be out around xmas i think

the nas track leaked, it makes me sad because it's good but there's not much of her on it, and there should have been.

lioness only has three new tracks, pretty disappointed by that.

(i'm sure the rest of it will be good but i don't really get excited by demo versions and covers she had lying around)

three new songs, surely? i thought it was all unreleased?

xp

yeah three new original compositions

halftime is pretty special

can i see the relevant literature on this or are we just spitballing here

k3v addiction is one of those awesome diseases where everybody knows as much as medical experts - it's amazing

you might even say that its ADDICTIVELY amazing

kind of annoyed by the fact that this compilation only has ONE post-Back to Black song... that was the stuff I was looking forward to hearing, not outtakes from Frank.

"Like Smoke" sounds really good, but it has too much Nas.

that was the stuff I was looking forward to hearing, not outtakes from Frank.

you really thought they would try to get away with charging actual money for it?

http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/amy-winehouses-suicide-note/

is this real or suicide note fan fiction?

http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/if-i-was-poor-a-letter-written-by-a-billionaire/

is this real or letter written by a billionaire fan fiction?

her version of "will you still love me tomorrow" slays

RIP, god dammit

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/amy-winehouse-hologram-in-the-works-for-world-tour-30134131.html

eww

there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram, but that was for a limited purpose, and a one-off event. i really hope winehouse's family doesn't go through with this.

Tupac's also happened over a decade after he died. this is kinda...soon. co-sign this is a bad idea.

It just seems kinda random. How much demand would there be for an Amy Winehouse hologram, even with the novelty factor? Amy's legacy is a blip compared to that of Tupac's (and I'm a fan of both).

that too. I would just feel real fucking depressed, I mean. when Tupac appeared, his fanbase et al had over 10-15 years to kinda deal with it, but Amy died what, 3 years ago? yea I know 'we never really knew her' but still. I still get a lil misty when I even hear one of her songs on the radio.

this post still causes involuntary sharp intake of breath:

Isn't she the one I will be leaving the Bowery Ballroom to miss when the Pipettes are done?

I just don't know her... do I stay?
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