The 27 Club Sadly Gets a New Member

First off, I figured out how to make a "Favicon!"  So if you have my blog saved in your bookmarks, instead of having the regular old boring blogger logo, you can now see my specialized, custom, slapdash logo I created in about 48 seconds, and is based off the clever use of the letter B.  Exciting times here at Bloggerated!

Let's talk current events, yeah?  Amy Winehouse, the exceptionally talented singer has died at the age of 27.  Personal feelings aside on how she lived her life are besides the point.  The point here is that another person has died.  She died at the remarkable age of 27, which has significance in the famous person/death arena.  As you most likely heard, this is significant because there are several other famous people that have died at the age of 27.  They've dubbed the 27 Club, and Ms. Winehouse is now a permanent member.

Members of Club 27 include:

Brian Jones who was a founder and guitarist/instrumentalist for the Rolling Stones.  He was famously listed as having his death ruled "Death by Misadventure" after drowning in a swimming pool.  

Janis Joplin, who died from a "probable heroin overdose." I think Joplin was overrated, but you know, she is legend now because we're all left to wonder what else she could have done had she not died.

Jimi Hendrix, who died from sleeping pills and wine combo, like so many other people have accidentally done in the past.  I always wonder what it would have been like to have Hendrix still around.  In case you didn't know, Hendrix and Carlos Santana were very similar for the era, and I would hate to see Hendrix go on to score a huge hit on a duet with fucking Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty, you know what I mean?  Hendrix is a legend because of the relatively short period of time he was actually around as a popular musician.  There's an entire blog post here about Jimi Hendrix, I imagine...Perhaps next year.

Jim Morrison, who fronted the Doors, who sucked.  Yes I said it.

Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, committed suicide with a shotgun after doing heroin, or so they say.

And now, Amy Winehouse died in her London "flat" (or apartment as we Yanks call it) on Saturday July 23rd, 2011.  Everyone pretty much said the same thing, that while it's tragic she died, we all saw this coming.  I would be a liar if I said I wasn't shocked when I heard it.  Wait, that sentence has too many negatives...I was surprised to hear the news.  But when you stop to think about it, yeah, I'm not that surprised.  Her problems with drugs and alcohol were well documented by the tabloids.  It's still sad.  She was a very talented singer, and it's sad whenever anyone dies young, famous or not.  Hell it's sad when old people die, too.  Either way, go listen to some of her music and get back to me.  So rest in peace, Amy.  And congratulations on forever being mentioned in the same breath as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain.  That's good company, my friends.  

Shower.blogspot?

You know where I come up with my best post ideas? In the shower. You know how many computers I have in my shower to write the brilliant blogs I come up with in there? None. I can't even take notes on what I should write about because they will get wet. Getting wet on note-taking devices is a bad idea, weather it is because it's paper, or because it is some other form of electronic device. So I come up with brilliant ideas for blog posts in the shower, then promptly forget them by the time I sit at a computer. I do everything in my power to remember what I wanted to write about, and I just completely draw a blank when I sit down to write it.

In today's news, the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski has perished in a tragic plane crash. It's always shocking to hear a leader of a country has died in office, especially one from Europe. If a Middle Eastern President or leader, or whatever, dies, you kind of expect that sort of thing from those people. And even though this is an Eastern European country, Poland is legit, yo. I like Poland. I feel bad for their people now that their leader has died. I'm not sure what kind of leader this man was, but no matter, he was still the president.

Not to poke fun at the dead, since he was living not that long ago, but I am going to take a off-timed shot at trying to figure out the pronunciation of this man's name. His first name must be pronounced as Leach, would you agree? Now, knowing how the Pollocks like to throw a bunch of unnecessary consonants in their words, I would have to assume that the last name is pronounced Ka-zin-ski, like the Unibomber. It was kind of like when the Georgian luger died in the training run before the Olympics. His name was Nodar Kumaritashvil. And we all could tell it was hard to pronounce, and we wanted to be respectful of him in his untimely death. It wasn't until the opening ceremonies, when they were paying him tribute, and the man making the speech said it, that I realized what a name that really is.

By the way, this is totally showing off my awareness of the world around me, when I have no idea who the president of a country is. I am, apparently, an American Pig-Dog, who only cares about USA. USA #1!

So anyway, I'm sorry, Poland, to hear about you're loss. It's a sad day in Europe and around the world, that is for sure.

(no one voted on the favorite candy bar poll, and I'm very unhappy with you people. The winner is Snickers, even if it wasn't voted upon, because everyone knows that Snickers pwnz.)