Dead Stars: Amy Winehouse

We knew it was going to happen, it was clearly the path that she was on. She bared her soul and shared her pain with the world through music and it was obvious she wasn’t just writing songs for entertainment. She walked it like she talked it. Amy Winehouse joined the 27 club (Jim Morrison, Janis, Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix) Saturday July 23rd most likely due to heart failure involving complications with her drug and alcohol addiction.

Her Back to Black Album was one of the last decade best and maybe even the last great album to this point. The Songs Rehab, Back to Black and I’m no Good were the stand outs on an autobiographic masterpiece she recorded in 2006 with much help from producer Mark Ronson. Anybody who’s been through heartbreak and alcohol abuse could connect to the album without difficulty.

I have made light of her life in the past by sting that she should already be (along with Axl Rose and Fiona Apple) but like I said, it was clear this was the path that Winehouse was committed to.
It is a shame her remarkable talent couldn’t be enjoyed longer but as they say the flame that burns twice as bright burns for half as long. Hers was not the voice of a generation but that of a tortured soul. We can only hope that in death she can find peace.

So long Sparky

Baseball managing great Sparky Anderson has passed away at 76. He won two world Series with the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and 1976, a team that is always debated as the top National League team of all time. In 1984 he won the Series with the Detroit Tigers becoming the first manager to ever win a World Series in both leagues. He had a quick hook when it came to taking his pitchers out of the game but that's how baseball is played now.

RIP Sparky

Top 5: You Should Be Dead

I can't help my morbid ways at times so this is a top five of musicians who should have died.

1. Axl Rose
Mr. Rose should have passed at some point in 1989 while Guns n' Roses were at their biggest and most self destructive. While some of the Use You Illusion songs are fine to listen to it's really not the same thing, in fact it's like listening to another band all together at times.



2. Amy Winehouse
I actually think she may in fact be a zombie at this point.



3. Fiona Apple
Makes me sad she has to walk this earth so miserable but then again maybe it's the whole vegan lifestyle



4. Any Member of Fleetwood Mac
It just seems like one of these folks should have kicked the bucket along the way

5. Sean Ryder
Every music movement needs to make at least one sacrifice to the Rock gods, Sean should have been the Manchester

Honorable Mention:

Nikki Sixx you should have stayed dead at least one of those times

Jim Morrison we all know you're still out there you drunk, fat Lizard King you!

Dead Literature

J.D. Salinger is dead. (1/1/1919 -1/28/2010)

So I am one of the few people that managed to never read "The Catcher in the Rye". I transferred out of the class in High School that had it on the curriculum, I didn't accept it from the person who insisted I read it and I never even got curious about it. I do understand that the book however touched a billion people and made losers feel cool and created a whole subculture. I understand the notoriety drove Mr. Salinger underground for most of his life and that was before paparazzi and media is what it is now.
Should I write about something I don't know? Why not, all the big shots at the crumby corporate news sites do and they are all totally phony.

Dead Stars: Brittany Murphy Addition

Starlets die; it is a sad fact of life. My favorite Brittany Murphy moment would be some of the voice work she did on "King of the Hill" as Luanne, as well as her vocals on "Faster Pussycat" a track on a Paul Olkenfold album. As far as her films were concerned I can't say that I have a favorite roll butu she will always be known for being Clueless.

Isn't It Romantic

The other day I heard a misguided youth refer to her girlfriend's relationship being like Sid and Nancy. I immediately thought she meant that they were strung out and bad news but she didn't she went on to say how perfect they were for each other and how punk rock they were. I then moved out of ear shot and shook my head.




This description made me wonder if if she even knew that Sid Vicious most likely murdered his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen? He was never found guilty because he did what any smart junkie would do; he O.D. After all it's better to be dead than do without one's heroin.



So how do a talentless wanker and a skanky groupie become an image of romance? On a punk rock level they do look damn cool together, he with his spiky, jet black hair, comical sneer and his keen fashion sense and her with the bleached blond hair, heavily made up face and torn fishnet stockings do conjure up the archetypes of the era.



Of course the idea might be the attraction to youth, a couple who never got old, died tragically, died violently died stupidly barely similar but totally different than say Romeo and Juliet and all their ill fated, literary contemporaries. Still I guess the iconographic images persist over what was real; hell they even made a movie about them starring Gary Oldman called "Sid and Nancy". They are in fact a very romantic ideal in the whole rock n' roll mythology but let's face it if they weren't famous nobody would have ever known or cared.

I'm now beginning to think that maybe we need a new rock couple to explode upon us in a gruesome rose of death and glorious exposition of pop culture beauty.

This is Life

Escaped insane killer! Man the 70s are back even this guy's hair is 70s


full Story from CNN.com

A legally insane killer was on the loose in the state of Washington on Saturday, two days after he escaped during a field trip to a county fair, authorities said.

Phillip Paul was able to elude a massive manhunt in Spokane County, Washington, after escaping on Thursday, a spokesman for the sheriff's department said.

Though Paul had been confined in a mental institution because of a murder confession, he was allowed to be part of a trip to a county fair Thursday.

Paul, 47, escaped from the fair around noon, which launched the massive manhunt and brought criticism from many, including state government officials. Sheriff's officials told CNN affiliate KREM-TV that Paul also escaped briefly in 1991 and assaulted a law enforcement officer.

A review has been launched on the incident along with the policy that allows patients to take trips, said Susan Dreyfus, secretary of the state's Department of Social and Health Services.

Dreyfus said she was concerned about Paul's escape and another recent brief escape by a patient at a different local mental facility.

"These incidents, separate and coincidental, have raised serious questions about the security readiness of our two state psychiatric hospitals," Dreyfus said.

Paul was committed to Eastern State Hospital after admitting he strangled and slit the throat of community activist Ruth Motley in 1987, KREM-TV reported. According to court documents obtained by KREM, Paul believed Motley was a witch and killed her in response to voices in his head.

He subsequently burned a deer carcass as a sacrifice, according the documents.

The extent of Paul's illness was disturbing even to mental health professionals, KREM reported.

"He's the only paranoid schizophrenic -- I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of them -- that frightened me," Dr. Frank Hardy, a licensed psychiatrist, says in one of the documents, according to KREM. "The first time I took one look at him -- and I've never done this before or since -- I asked the jailer to remain in the room while I examined him.

"I believe he would respond to his delusions and his voices again" if released, Hardy wrote.

But Paul "Coyote" Neumann, a disc jockey at Spokane radio station Kix 96-FM, has an entirely different view of the escapee. Neumann has known Paul for 12 years through volunteering at the hospital and correspondence by mail.

Paul is a talented artist, Neumann told KREM-TV.

"I was just amazed by his ability. I always took him as a savant," Neumann said. "I never knew that he had murdered somebody until three or four or five years later."

Neumann described Paul as a "gentle soul."

"I've never seen him raise his voice; I've never seen him get frustrated; I've never seen nothing but kindness from him," he told KREM.

"I get mixed emotions because I do see the sweet, softer side of this individual, but I've never seen him unsupervised, I've never seen him not medicated," Neumann said. "But that's not to say in another 12, 15, 20 hours without those medications that he doesn't revert to those demons."

It amazes me that this psycho escaped at a county fair, how crazy is that; it's straight up Hollywood schlock! He also escaped once before back in the 90s, he's a got a friend who says he's a gentle soul yet others are terrified of him, animal sacrifice; it wild stuff.
Write the script, cast it ASAP!

Dead Stars: Swayze Edition

Mr. Dirty Dancing, Mr. Ghost, Mr. Roadhouse has left the building, the final curtain has been lowered, the credits have rolled.
Your films have touched a lot of folks and so have the jokes that have been made at your cost.
I'll tell you this, he made me laugh, yup. if you ever saw his Saturday Night Live appearance from 1990 where he appeared in all his blond mullet, ripped shirtlessness Adonis as an aspiring Chippendale's dancer going against Chris Farley (RIP)and as a white Trash son opposite Phil Hartman (RIP). My favorite film of his was The Outsiders if that means anything
There is no doubt he had great hair and looked good in tight clothes.

RIP Jim Carroll

The song, "People Who Died" was a good one, thank you.


I don't know much about the man besides that they made a movie about a part of his life based on a book of his, "The Basketball Diaries" and that's somethin!