there is a much higher quality version out there (from the Bowie DVD) that has details you miss in the youtube video. it is marvelous, it looks like it was filmed inside of cotton candy. so much glitter, so much lens glare. he was a shining god.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
Busta Rhymes
David...
I think back to this time when you moby and I basically were roommates for 3 months...
You made it so impossible for anyone not to laugh or smile that you were basically the sunshine of the tour!
U were the rockstar, the gentleman, the teacher n student and the mark u left on all us isEnormous. U will 4ever be my friend, big brother and Inspiration. Until we meet again Travel in Harmony.
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12507691_1002838006453469_2604259052842266543_n.jpg?oh=41a1926b8bedbdc2aaa772197d364402&oe=570E14D0
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
what a life
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
10 lives in a life.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
not making eye contact w/ Cavett is a good move imho
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
I would watch a sitcom that was Bowie, Busta Rhymes, and Moby as roommates, all Young Ones style, Bowie: Mike, Busta: Vyv, Moby: Rick
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Moby feels like more of a Neil to me.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Moby more of a Neil imo
lol xp
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
so it's agreed then.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Trust me on this: Neil/Rick hybrid.
― chicken danczuk (suzy), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Really? Moby seems like a total Rick to me
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
WFMU soundtracks tribute last night. i liked that Falcon and the Snowman thing.
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64566
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
(or did in 1985; haven't listened yet)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
Think Gil Evans arranged some of the Absolute Beginners soundtrack; dunno if any input re Bowie's contributions (my idea of an intriguing team, though)
― dow, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
this is not america is a great song. lots of stray abandoned one offs from this time
― akm, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
He's drawing something awful on the carpet with his cane.― Three Word Username, Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Supposedly he's drawing the Kabbalah tree of life, comprised of connecting "stations" of the spirit (such as Kether and Malkuth). He's also drawing it in the photo session shown on the Ryko StoS reissue.
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Falcon and the Snowman--- with the Pat Metheny Group, right? Pretty okay flick too, as I dimly recall.
― dow, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
For this is not the miracle.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
Awful, misguided Penn performance.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
falcon spirals tooooooo theeeee grouuuuuund
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
And this is different from every performance he's given post-Fast Times how? Penn is absolute garbage as an actor; he's never played a believable human being in anything.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
lol true
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
penn performances i like a lot:
at close rangecarlito's waythe thin red linesweet and lowdown
he's good but also garbage yes. i think his mickey cohen role in gangster squad was even worse than i am sam.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
great hair in Carlito's Way
I had forgotten about Sweet and Lowdown though, yeah he is genuinely good in that
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Penn is maybe the best American film actor of the last 30 years, but he is sometimes terrible, as in Falcon
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
James Cagney never played a "believable human being" but may hv been the greatest
kinda like Bowie eh
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Are we done talking about Sean Penn yet
I mean I like him okay in some movies but more Bowie talk please
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
There's also a Russell Harty [truly terrible, Brit talk show host] interview that makes for very uncomfortable viewing, it's a transatlantic link-up with Bowie inside a domestic TV set left on the set that makes it even more awkward.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
relevant Penn image
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01872/Sean_penn_cannes_j_1872618c.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCVyt9saPM
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Harty had previously been the headmaster of a public school, and it comes through, but even though his interview style could be patronising (see Kate Bush) or awkward (The Who) I still have a soft spot for him.
― bored at work (snoball), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
xpost:
Oh yeah, that Harty interview is definitely awkward. I think it was the second time Harty had interviewed Bowie, the first time was in his Ziggy era. Bowie is obviously off his face and a bit cranky.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱),
he's fine in the early roles (Bad Boys, At Close Range) until the stink of Method became obvious. He did lovely work in Dead Man Walking and I wasn't embarrassed by Milk.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
Just heard Duran Duran's cover of 'Diamond Dogs'... urgh.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
head Beck's?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
check this out…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTM2HBy_ix4
Dinah shore show, probly before the Iggy show. With Henry Winkler and Nancy Walker, a woman I know from 70s talk shows and nothing else. start around 2:20 and go til 2;35. He's not as fucked up as he was for the Cavett show, maybe not at all. But I saw a clip extracted from this sequence on some VH! legends of rock doc in the '90s, and laffed my balls off. Link will take you to a stormingly funky "stay" from the show.
also, sirius has suspended the boring singer-songwrter-y "loft" channel for an all DB channel. Played a good "Scary Monsters" by Superchunk, who I generally think are ur-dull 90s indie schlock. has been light on Berlin shit, but are hitting a lot of 90s-early 00s shit that maybe not everyone fucks with. also played "criminal world" which was on one of the first cassettes I ever bought at the age of 12. It's lovely, very cool arrangement, and brought a tear to my eye for the first time during all this.
Have not seen any recollections from Fripp or from Reeves Gabrels yet. I used to be friends with a guy who is buds with almost every living elite guitar player (vai, calrton, Lukather, satriani, etc) including Gabrels, and he told me that it didn't end well between RG and DB. Essentially, their last collab was "Hours," and as far as publishing goes, RG said it should have been called "Mine."
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
this one is good!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
I like that "Criminal World" over a lot, thanks to the flute colliding with that rhythm section.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
In case you were wondering what the paranoid American right-wing thinks:http://www.infowars.com/david-bowie-a-non-appreciation/
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
"thinks"
Josh Marshall!
But since then I’ve been struck by just how intense and widespread the outpouring of grief and memory has been. Much more than I would have expected - and from a much broader range of people that I would have imagined...
....But what I have thought a lot about in the last few days is the way Bowie seemed to embody a certain aspect of “the 60s”, albeit it one that really happened in the 1970s, which was his golden decade. This mid-late 20th century transformation, which is encrusted in so much cliche and mawk, had two broad components: one that was conventionally political and generally left, and a second which was broadly liberationist, sexual, a dream of being unchained from history, identity, confinement, open to a free field of self-expression and self-invention. It was out of this milieu and set of beliefs that much of the gay liberation movement emerged, a certain phase of women’s liberation, racial identity movements and much else.
If the radical economic politics that many associate with the 60s never panned out, this ethic of individual liberation and expression continued to pulse through our culture for decades and in some ways is flowering in new and triumphant ways even today, whether at the Supreme Court, at the City Clerks office or on boutique television shows on Showtime.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/liberation
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
At times, Mr. Pop said, it was like having “Professor Higgins say to you: ‘Young man, please, you are from the Detroit area. I think you should write a song about mass production.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/arts/music/david-bowie-iggy-pop.html?_r=0
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
whoa natalie cole is also in that clip veronica posted
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
and bowie presents her with a gold (?) record!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
I put this on FB but this Tina Turner/Bowie duet of "Tonight" from 85 is fucking beautiful, they look so happy and it made me tear up
http://youtu.be/7icGpchTH4c
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Check the King Crimson video I posted above for Fripp's brief, touching (and Frippish) comment.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
I loathe the album version of that Bowie-Tina duet :(
the cod reggae
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
iggy nyt thing ;_;
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
“He wrote the [ chord ] progression on ukulele, and he said, ‘Call it “Lust for Life,” write something up.’”
: o
― j., Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
that whole piece is awesome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link