Amy Winehouse. My awkward high school self was inspired by your retro 1960s style and music. I adopted your signature cat eye and continue to wear it today! Hearing your song “You Know I’m No Good” in the Mad Men trailer in its first season is one of the reasons I decided to watch an episode and now it has become an obsession. You were so unique and unapologetic about who you were. Sure, you made decisions that were not the most healthy or wise, but we all make mistakes and I don’t personally know you and don’t have any right to judge you. Thanks for making music that really spoke to me as a teenager and as a 20 something today, and thanks for being as stylin as you were, for bringing some retro flavor to the modern age. You’ve been an influence on me with your style, music, and femme fatale attitude. 

hahaha, somehow I can identify with this. Maybe its my past love for Amy Winehouse or my current infatuation with my new bike. The Bridgette Bardot like pouf has remained one constant these past two years, as well as my love for Astroland, Coney Island.  I’m liking the Manga eyes.

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my idol from the not so distant past, Ms. Amy Winehouse.

I was attracted to her epic bouffant of raven hue, nonchalant attitude, and her cocaine habit seemed slightly glamorous. Her retro 60s jazz pop fit my mood at the time perfectly and my wish to live in the retro-mod 1960s.