LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER / RUBY TUESDAY - The Rolling Stones (Pochette)

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Amy Winehouse’s death day was really emotionally loaded for me. The night before I’d had this weird fight and I woke up mad, in a cool/energizing self-righteous sort of way, then looked at the Internet and learned that Amy Winehouse was dead. I don’t think I cried or anything; I just put on lots of eye makeup and dramatic hair and a “wifebeater” and cutoffs and glittery shoes and walked down to 7-Eleven for a soda (Diet Coke, topped off with a shot of regular Coca-Cola). I kept walking and walking down Sunset Boulevard and it was hot and I got a sunburn on my left shoulder and ended up at some crazy secondhand store where they made me try my clothes on in the filthy bathroom. I bought a sparkly silver sleeveless minidress and wore it out that night, to my friends’ birthday party on the patio of a beautiful hotel downtown. I liked some boy a little bit and I drank greyhounds and we sat by the hot tub and put our feet in the water and I was wearing tights but I didn’t take them off. Then we got kicked out of the hot tub area and one of the birthday dudes jumped in the pool with all his clothes on and everyone got kicked out of the hotel altogether. My dress was all wet from sitting by the hot tub and in the cab I put his baseball cap on and I bet it looked good, with the shiny dress and everything.

Anyway, when I went out walking that morning I hit shuffle on my iPod and the first song that came up was “Ruby Tuesday” and I made it about Amy Winehouse, which really works. All in all, this 45 does a nice job of encapsulating my experience of July 23 2011.

(“Ruby Tuesday” & “Let’s Spend the Night Together”)