[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Jay Retro]

So, what's the plan on that- are they going to grind him up and give everyone a snort? 
Or are they going to just place him back in the Danish peat bog where they originally excavated him from?


 
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How cruel...and unimaginative!


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So could Keith Richards, and he's 20 years older than Whitney. I'm not sure how he made it, mind you, and woe betide anyone on here who utters a syllable against the Great Man when he finally stops!
 
You've been warned ! ;)
 
Jim.
 
From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
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Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012, 9:00
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Amusing to think that despite her musical shitness, from all accounts Whitney could quite possibly have drunk, smoked and snorted all of us under the table, before breakfast.
 
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Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012 7:22 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD
 
My sentiments exactly, Alex. When Whitney Houston was releasing her music, I already had my Siouxsie and the Banshees, my Dead Can Dance, my Xmal Deutschland, my Cocteau Twins on heavy rotation, and no one could change my music preferences and my love of different female vocalists in the mid 80's already. 
  
I only feel very bad for the teenage daughter Whitney Houston is leaving behind. All the rest the media is going to stream will be the crocodile tears and this tragedy will yield big business, as it is usually the case when a mainstream star dies.
 
CG
 
 
In a message dated 2/12/2012 6:50:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, vassifer at earthlink.net writes:
 

>Our own Todd "Fluw" Wulfmeyer wrote a nice little anecdote on his his Facebook page about once witnessing Houston perform from a rare backstage vantage point and it made me consider her talent in a different way.

> 

>I mean, personally speaking, I COMPLETELY DESPISED Whitney Houston's music. When her first album debuted back in the 198whatever, I was working as a luckless dishwasher at posh Long Island eatery, and that tape went into maddeningly regular rotation in the in-house stereo system. "Saving All My Love For You" and "The Greatest Love of All" were really enough to send me into fits of apoplectic rage after a while that a friend of mine and I actually scaled up the fridges to disconnect the speakers the fed the back kitchen.  I fucking HATED that overblown, syrupply hoary, needlessly melismatic bullshit. See also Mariah Carey and all the rest of that crap.

> 

>As was completely the same case with Michael Jackson, the music I sought out at the time (and, for that matter, still) served as the ANTIDOTE to the inescapable Whitney Houston. Did she have a powerful voice? Certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to like what she did with it. On other fronts, she also seemed to embody everything negative about the "DIVA" stereotype (although, our Jaz is kinda guilty of that as well, sometimes).

> 

>So yeah, I hated Whitney Houston's music. But Fluw's account underscored how very much joy Whitney's music DID bring to people. I'm usually of the mindset that people need to raise their standards and listen to what I'd consider to be better music, but really -- that's all ridiculous, fight-picking bluster (who ME?)

> 

>Whitney Houston's music -- as much as I may not have enjoyed it -- did mean a great deal to a lot of people, For that alone, it's a loss (to say nothing of the bizarre farce that her marriage to Bobby Brown evidently was). I can't imagine how her daughter has remained sane.

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>Alex in NYC

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>On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jim Harper wrote:

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>Quality Songstress? Not sure I can easily agree with that one.

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>Jim.

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> From:sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>

>To: real gathering <gathering at misera.net> 

>Sent: Sunday, 12 February 2012, 1:29

>Subject: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

> 

>Whitney Houston was found dead, but cause and 

>where are not being said, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvg2Dcr7AFk 

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>She was from a long line of quality songstresses.

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>Blessed are the Cracked for 

>  they let in the Light,

>    others all are just a..

>      'nother brick in the Wall"

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