Our dear Amy has canceled her UK tour by her Doctor’s order…, and said that she can’t do it “without my Blake”. Her Blake (her husband- Blake Fielder- Civil) is now in prison and waiting to see what will happen with his case. Meanwhile, NME reports that Amy’s dad, Mitch Winehouse say that his daughter is considering entering rehab to take care of her drug problems. And I say Yes Yes Yes.
Amy Winehouse’s new album Frank was originally released in the UK in 2003. As it often happen with British musicians, it took some time for Amy to get some recognition here in America, but now everybody knows who she is (”There is no such thing as bad publicity, except your own obituary…Brendan Behan) and Frank is now being sold in the US as her new album.
Howard Cohen from Kansascity.com wrote that Frank is “a more stripped-down, jazzy effort… finds the edgy British singer rivaling greats including Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt and Lauryn Hill with her silky, smoky voice.”"Winehouse’s voice is a jazz instrument in itself, constantly riffing around, exploring and enhancing blues chords while staying fully anchored, seemingly unable to hit a sour note. Those who would blanch at comparisons of Winehouse to timeless jazz and blues chanteuses surely haven’t heard her sing.”
I’m totally on the same page with Mr. Cohen here. Amy Winehouse’s voice belongs on that list.
“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” (No idea who said it found it on Google…) Sometimes it snows in November, and for someone who grew up in a very warm place, it’s always some sort of magic. So conflagrations to Boston’s first snow of the season!!!
Michael Vick is going to do some time for his Dogfights involvement. And even though he will receive his sentence only on December 10, and he is yet to know how long he will stay in jail after pleading guilty to the charges, he surrendered himself to the U.S. Marshalls Service, so he can cut some time from the end. When he is sentenced, Vick faces up to five years in prison. Maybe it will heal the urge to see animals kill each other.
To cover a Led Zeppelin song is like turning a Stephen King’s book into a movie- many have tried, but only a few have succeeded to have the same impact as the original. Godsmack (what a horrible name,) a hard rock band from Massachusetts just released a cover version to Good Times Bad Times, the 1969 Zepp hit. And (with the words of my dear wife,) I have to say, they are doing a pretty good job. Not since Minimal Compact gave their on interpretation to Immigrant Song in the mid 80’s, that I’ve heard a good Led Zeppelin cover version. And don’t talk to me about Tori Amos, cause her covers all sounds just the same!
Amy’s family are so freaked out about the possibility that their daughter will do something stupid after her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil got arrested, and because she is after all, Amy Winehouse, that they had to call the police when they couldn’t get a hold of her last night. “Amy’s family are petrified she’ll do something stupid. They know she’s very low at the moment and misses Blake terribly.” A “source” told the Daily Mail.
TV ghost whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, called a real one to once and for all rid her Los Angeles home of two ghosts. Apparently, she freaked out when they started turning the lights on and off… She later described how it worked: “This woman came over, talked to the ghosts, asked them if they were ready to go into the light and sort of crossed them over.” PR-inside reports that Love Hewitt is kind of obsessed with superstitions and convinced of the presence of spirits on the set of her CBS TV show Ghost Whisperer.
I have a dilemma. On one hand, I really don’t like Seth Macfarlane. He is very annoying , and when I watched him last week in that preview to the Family Guy 100 episode I almost made me vomit (I’m sure he’ll be thrilled to hear that.) In short, a serious A- hole. But on the other hand, I still think that Family Guy is one of the best shows on TV. Each character has its importance, and the absurd is always in place, in bad taste but very funny. So long live Family Guy, and Seth, try not to show yourself too much OK?
I’m a lover scorned. A meerkat whose mother has been viciously killed by a snake leaving me to make my way thru the wild without any well-trained defenses or line of attack. I’m Rambo without any ammo and Schwarzenegger without the Kennedy connections and steroids that made him.
I’m also fed up with the writers’ strike and feeling pangs of loss that can best be expressed thru the myriad of metaphors above.
And how it could potentially affect my January, no wait my FEBRUARY? That’s right, Lost fans will have to wait till February now to see just where things left off post-Looking Glass. Given that the show’s executive producer is claiming that only 8 shows have been written out of the regular 16, and that the final 8 will tie up all the loose ends presented in the first 8 (and that I happen to LIVE for resolutions), you can understand why the writers’ strike is getting me down.
I can do without Leno and his glib comments to Halle Berry, grimace at Tina Fey as she takes to the picketing stands (she is an executive producer after all) and bands with her fellow starving artists (?), but seeing writer/creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof lament the plight of writers (and himself) not getting their/his share of the moola generated by all the new media around makes me wanna lose the one I’m with and start a new relationship.
We understand fame and new-found fortune is enough to even make a decent man turn to debauchery. But really, how long do the producers at Lost think that they can play with their fanbase before their numbers of viewers start to diminish?
Amy Winehouse’s new album Frank was originally released in the UK in 2003. As it often happen with British musicians, it took some time for Amy to get some recognition here in America, but now everybody knows who she is (”There is no such thing as bad publicity, except your own obituary…
