News I Seen It With My Very Own Eyes
posted by on September 14 at 9:05 AM
I knew it was imminent. Maybe some of you have been seeing this for weeks, or even months. I, however, had not encountered this inevitable phenomenon until the day before yesterday.
I was on Queen Anne with my fella Jake, heading across Queen Anne Avenue at Mercer toward Pagliacci, and we saw her simultaneously: a real-live person attempting a full-scale, non-Halloween approximation of Amy Winehouse.
Sorry for the inherently cruddy cell phone photo, but it captures the general essence. She had the full beehive hair-do and heavy Cleopatra eyes, and carried it all with a glorious air of “What the fuck you looking at?” (Sadly missing: Ratty ballerina slippers, perhaps soaked with blood. But maybe those are saved for weekends.)
Now all I’ve got is questions: What happens when two or more Samey Winehouses go to the same place at the same time? Is there a struggle for dominance, or are they automatically sisters? Who knows, but I imagine they’re popping up on streets across the land. If so, please share photos.
aw schmade, i know 2 of those personally!
i'mn ot mad at it either.
Saw her in Fremont last Sunday.... Wasn't quite sure what to make of her then...
Lmao, Samey Whinehouse. Best insult ever.
I LOVE that the photo if you hover over it is called 'Amy Wonghouse'.
har har har.
Yes, when two or more Winehouses, actually I think the plural is Wineheese, are at the same place at the same time, there is a battle for dominance. Like the great silverback gorillas encountering each other in the rainforest. Trees are knocked over, chests are thumped, teeth are displayed. Beehives are rammed.
Wasn't it someone on the slog comments awhile back who said Amy Winehouse looks like a generic aging Ballard hipster?
That was me!
What was she doing in Queen Anne?!
Generic Aging Ballard Hipster's are fucking hot....send them this way please.
Planet Seattle is rife with presumptuous judegemental know it alls ain't it?
Girls form East L.A. been rocking updos and rockabilly ink since the late 80s. Seattle's got a pretty substantial Americana scene that is repelete with Betty Pages and Bee Hives too.
You see some chick dressed like that and all of a sudden she's gotta be Amy Winehouse? No wonder she's all, "What the fuck are you looking at?"
Or she's just a toy like you say, which is fucking hilarious. Wow.
Uh oh, now we've invoked the wrath of Seattle's "substantial Americana scene."
C'mon David, don't be one of those guys that snarks "Hey look, it's _________ [The Cure, Oasis, The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, The Stray Cats, etc.]" at people because a reference pops into your head at first sight of them.
People that do that are kinda the worst type of people, ever.
Doug: What I felt upon seeing Samey Whinehouse was far from snark. This wasn't a snap judgment--the woman was an extremely well-conceived living testament to Amy Winehouse. Not noticing would have been rude.
Trust me, this wasn't like seeing someone with black bangs and saying, "Oh, look—the Cure."
It was like seeing a fire hydrant and saying, "That's a fire hydrant."
Ha, ha, ha... I concede.
why so sensitive dugsf...PEOPLE TRYIN' TO PP-P-P-P-PUT YOU DOWN? ha! (winky wink)
@11 Eric Grandy.
Lol, you got me there dude. Funny stuff.
Substantial Americana scene sounds ridiculous. No mas.
Circa 1993, when half the young white male population of Seattle was wearing bandannas under hats, multiple bracelets and necklaces, and long cut-off cargo pants, exactly like the bass player of Pearl Jam (and back when I was younger and more of a jerk), I liked to walk past and say "What's up, Jeff?" But nobody ever got the joke.
amy winehouse totally stole her look from dawn davenport [divine in "female trouble"].
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