Re: NMM

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It's kind of sad to be unsurprised that someone is dead at 27.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 1:02 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 1:10 PM
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Huh.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 1:21 PM
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Drugs are bad.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 2:36 PM
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m'kay.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 2:37 PM
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Poor thing.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 3:00 PM
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Better the 27 Club than the 700 Club.


Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 4:56 PM
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yeah, not much to say beyond noting how sad it is. addiction is a bitch.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 6:10 PM
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I'm afraid I'd only barely heard of Amy Winehouse, but this is unfortunate indeed.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 6:19 PM
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I think only last week I deconfused her from regina spekter


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 7:27 PM
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7: I mourn the loss of every one of the 673 years' difference.


Posted by: Benquo | Link to this comment | 07-23-11 10:01 PM
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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.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 12:14 AM
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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.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 12:32 AM
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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.)


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 1:12 AM
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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.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 8:34 AM
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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.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 8:53 AM
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She had an incredible voice. Just an amazing talent. It is very sad.


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 4:46 PM
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Absurd question, but needs must when the devil drives: Is a beehive hairdo uncomfortable? They look kind of terrifying.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 4:48 PM
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Probably no more uncomfortable than the hats of the guards at Buckingham Palace.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 5:10 PM
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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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Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 5:12 PM
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17 gets it right.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 5:17 PM
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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.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 8:26 PM
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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.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 8:31 PM
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20: That is very sad.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 9:15 PM
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um, isn't something holding toupees on now? bobby pins, perchance?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 9:18 PM
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25:no, it's anxiety.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 11:32 PM
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Bobby Pin would be a good pseud.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 07-24-11 11:38 PM
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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?)


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 07-25-11 12:46 AM
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Bad age for drummers.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 07-25-11 12:58 AM
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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.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-25-11 1:05 AM
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maybe they should drink more?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07-25-11 1:58 AM
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Tried that, but it leads to unmilitary wobbliness.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-25-11 2:28 AM
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