i don’t know much about this woman…nor am i inclined to learn very much about her. as a child i worked as an usher in a movie theater and her song about rehab played all the damn time and got on my last nerve. i saw a picture of her…a few years ago when she was at an awards ceremony wearing a yellow dress. she looked fucking hot. thats of course when she had weight and was more than skin and bones. now i see pictures of her every once in a while on a tabloid at the checkout line. i don’t know much other than shes addicted to a drug lifestyle. its a pity, because maybe she could have been a great singer. i too miss george. i grew up watching him. i watched his comedy specials even as a small child, and then i watched shining time station. do you remember that? either way, amy winehouse will be forgotten. i dont believe she’ll be immoratlized. just like anna nicole, even though there was the hype, she will be forgotten in ten years. maybe sooner. no one is going to forget cobain or hemingway.
You are a very talented writer!
Why not read one of these blog things on camera? As a sample of what you do on this site.
A lot more people will watch a 10 minute long video than read a couple paragraphs.
Keep up the good work Ben
I have one song by Ms. Winehouse and that is “Me and Mr. Jones”.
It’s a smokey blues-jazz song with an immortal line that always makes me giggle: “What kind of fuckery is this?”
Sadly, she is only in the music biz to score better drugs and keep the dealers gainfully employed.
@ DevonBasedMan… agreed. that might have been the most painful and sad thing to watch. i might have switched channel had it not been for the comedic brilliance that is simon amstell.
Oh come on sunshine, you’re not seriously glorifying a lifestyle of destructive addiction because it makes you feeling better about living safely? You think it’s somehow noble and artistic that she should die young? I disagree. Vehemently.
There is no glory, hidden or otherwise, in fucking up your life and breaking your family’s hearts. And if the media obsess over her for it, if the gossip columnists use her dysfunction as fodder for their soulless, exploitative careers, that just highlights the joke. ‘Celebrity’ as a concept is a load of crap.
As a musician Amy Winehouse makes a good zombie. I really don’t care much for this foul wench or for her music.
When it comes to artists, I always try to keep the art separate from the artist. So, for bands I like I always try to keep the personal lives of the artists separate from the music they create. I can enjoy their music and not give a toss about whether they’re drug addicts, rapists or Barbara Streisand fans. It’s the music I really care about – there is definitely an admiration for the music they create, but as humans beings they may no be so good.
@brandon I agree about Cobain and Hemingway being remembered and I think that they are remembered more for what they created than their suicides. I think when Amy Winehouse eventually kicks the bucket, if she is remembered she will be remembered because of her lifestyle rather than her music. Perhaps this is the media’s fault more than her fault.
If you want to be remembered, what do you want to be remembered for? Your contribution to the world or being a drug-fucked mole?
One of my roommate’s brothers favorite jokes is this: ‘My favorite musician is Kurt Cobain, because he killed Kurt Cobain.’ I know it’s pretty bad, but i just hate Nirvana.
I cried the day day i found out George Carlin died. =[
I’m not personally a huge fan of Amy Winehouse. She knows that all her drama and drug abuse get her media attention, therefore she figures she can sell more albums, to buy more drugs. It’s a sad cycle, but a lot of people make money off of it, which is an even sadder thing.
so shes the star that shines to brightly? my arse.
shes a highly talentent singer but she chose all the shit, she cultivated it. she stared into the darkness and begged it to stare back.
she’ll die young (magic 27) be morned by millions, have crappy novels, movies and comics made about her.
the tragic death of a legend. again. boring.
i don’t know much about this woman…nor am i inclined to learn very much about her. as a child i worked as an usher in a movie theater and her song about rehab played all the damn time and got on my last nerve. i saw a picture of her…a few years ago when she was at an awards ceremony wearing a yellow dress. she looked fucking hot. thats of course when she had weight and was more than skin and bones. now i see pictures of her every once in a while on a tabloid at the checkout line. i don’t know much other than shes addicted to a drug lifestyle. its a pity, because maybe she could have been a great singer. i too miss george. i grew up watching him. i watched his comedy specials even as a small child, and then i watched shining time station. do you remember that? either way, amy winehouse will be forgotten. i dont believe she’ll be immoratlized. just like anna nicole, even though there was the hype, she will be forgotten in ten years. maybe sooner. no one is going to forget cobain or hemingway.
I don’t know much about her either.
You are a very talented writer!
Why not read one of these blog things on camera? As a sample of what you do on this site.
A lot more people will watch a 10 minute long video than read a couple paragraphs.
Keep up the good work Ben
I have one song by Ms. Winehouse and that is “Me and Mr. Jones”.
It’s a smokey blues-jazz song with an immortal line that always makes me giggle: “What kind of fuckery is this?”
Sadly, she is only in the music biz to score better drugs and keep the dealers gainfully employed.
a. whinehouse on never mind the buzz cocks. hosted by the one time friend simon amstell.
litraly comedy with tragerdy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFzr8QPfOg
@ DevonBasedMan… agreed. that might have been the most painful and sad thing to watch. i might have switched channel had it not been for the comedic brilliance that is simon amstell.
Oh come on sunshine, you’re not seriously glorifying a lifestyle of destructive addiction because it makes you feeling better about living safely? You think it’s somehow noble and artistic that she should die young? I disagree. Vehemently.
There is no glory, hidden or otherwise, in fucking up your life and breaking your family’s hearts. And if the media obsess over her for it, if the gossip columnists use her dysfunction as fodder for their soulless, exploitative careers, that just highlights the joke. ‘Celebrity’ as a concept is a load of crap.
As a musician Amy Winehouse makes a good zombie. I really don’t care much for this foul wench or for her music.
When it comes to artists, I always try to keep the art separate from the artist. So, for bands I like I always try to keep the personal lives of the artists separate from the music they create. I can enjoy their music and not give a toss about whether they’re drug addicts, rapists or Barbara Streisand fans. It’s the music I really care about – there is definitely an admiration for the music they create, but as humans beings they may no be so good.
@brandon I agree about Cobain and Hemingway being remembered and I think that they are remembered more for what they created than their suicides. I think when Amy Winehouse eventually kicks the bucket, if she is remembered she will be remembered because of her lifestyle rather than her music. Perhaps this is the media’s fault more than her fault.
If you want to be remembered, what do you want to be remembered for? Your contribution to the world or being a drug-fucked mole?
correction: moll, not mole.
One of my roommate’s brothers favorite jokes is this: ‘My favorite musician is Kurt Cobain, because he killed Kurt Cobain.’ I know it’s pretty bad, but i just hate Nirvana.
I cried the day day i found out George Carlin died. =[
I’m not personally a huge fan of Amy Winehouse. She knows that all her drama and drug abuse get her media attention, therefore she figures she can sell more albums, to buy more drugs. It’s a sad cycle, but a lot of people make money off of it, which is an even sadder thing.