winehouse

the thing i want to say about amy winehouse is just that i think the very worst idea you can have is to create a public persona around substance abuse: just hitch your wagon - your repertoire, even - to junk. you know this idea had its good and bad outcomes, from like de quincey or baudelaire or whatever to some of these beatnik and hippie-types. maybe right at this moment you feel loyal to your substance: later you're just going to have to turn against it even if you don't stop. the last thing you want to do is to stake your persona on loyalty to shit like that.