Amy Winehouse

I love the sound of Amy Winehouse, but she's turned into such a loser...

The old Winehouse

She was insanely hot! So talented...

One of my favorites -
Cupid

These are good too, except for where they tried to bleep the good words and missed on the second song.

Amy Winehouse Tears Dry on Their Own & Me & Mrs Jones:
Two songs

I hope she pulls it together, she could be one of the greatest singers of all time.

Stevie Nicks Rhiannon

Some bonehead removed the infamous 1977 performance of Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac from youtube.com, so ...

Here is a working link:
Rhiannon


I was thinking last night that the difference between the current music industry and the older stuff is that, for instance, Fleetwood Mac didn't have makeup artists, hairdressers, coreographers, wardrobe experts, etc. etc. They didn't synthesize sounds or music, it was all hand crafted.

When Stevie hit the stage, she was all real man... she had that same hair all day long. It was real. Like when music sounds better with those small imperfections created by the human component. It's the same thing, it wasn't perfect, but it was Fleetwood Mac and it rocked!!!

Stevie Nicks, the undisputed queen of rock-n-roll.

Bleach and Cigarettes

[updated]
So I've had these cluster headaches lately... just got a new job, and I had to go home my second day from this intense headache, watery eyes, and runny nose, followed by impaired hearing, difficulty breathing, and then a sore throat - all at the same time.

[edit]The first headache was probably not a cluster headache since there was only one. I didn't have any headaches for the next 2 weeks. I wasn't around bleach for these two weeks either, that I noticed. Then I was exposed to Rydlyme and bleach, after which, I had non-stop cluster headaches for 11 days total. This first headache was caused, I think, by just a whiff of bleach. I don't know if anybody else even smelled it. I was standing outside near some water cooling towers. They use bleach to keep them free of organics. I smoked half a cigarette and the headache came on within 60 seconds - it was insanely painful. [/edit]

I believe the effect was intensified by having drank lots of coffee that morning, and possibly by an allergic reaction to something (probably bleach). It felt like an allergic reaction at the time.

After two weeks I was exposed to a LOT of bleach and Rydlyme. The next headache came on instantly - as I was pouring the bleach into a box so that I could use the power sprayer with the Rydlyme first. This headache lasted 20 minutes after I took some aspirin and walked around. After work that day, I had a headache that lasted 6 hours and it was so painful - I wanted to kill myself.

I spoke with a forensic laboratory dude who suggested I create a blog to see if any others have had this problem.

So... even a short breath of bleach and a cigarette produced a 20 minute headache. Being enclosed in a cooling tower while spraying it with Rydlyme and bleach resulted in headaches every day for eleven days, and included up to nine in one day. Every other night I had headaches every 1.5 hours all night long.

Someone told me I might be hypersensitive to bleach... whatever that means.

Anybody have any comments?

For me, aspirin, advil/ibuprofen are useless. What does work is to spray my face with cool water until the pain goes away. If within 10 minutes it doesn't, then I jump in the shower and breath heavily through the cold water while it splashes on my forehead and sinus area. I have recently tamed even the worst headache (I haven't had a really bad one for five or six days), but if I lay down afterwards, I get another one in an hour to an hour and a half.