There's a reason.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
Cannot possibly imagine what that reason might be.
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
When a friend and I got to the half hour mark after renting in spring '94 we thought, "Who's this mousy actor and why is allowed in front of the camera?"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
Oh, is it a good film otherwise?
― Mark G, Monday, 25 January 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
He was ok in Basquiat, but it felt like winky-cameo-impression-as-affectionate-homage rather than an actor making any effort to inhabit a character.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but more albums coming:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/david-bowie-prepared-a-number-of-records-to-be-released-posthumously/
― Darin, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah I saw that, very intriguing
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
more compilations coming, it looks like
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
ha yeah, clickbait-y headlines making it seems like it's new albums... when it could just be various greatest hits things. hoping that it's more along the lines of unreleased things from the archives.
― tylerw, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
It'd be nice just to have all of the b-sides/soundtrack cuts in a single set.
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
he has so many compilations, I have to assume these are unreleased archives things.
I forgot about the linguini incident until last week. I've never seen it. it was one of those videos in a box at the rental shop I could never bring myself to actually rent.
― akm, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
He can't fucking act!
again, Pilate.
i also don't understand why the Roeg movie was 'not acting'
(ScarJo quite good as an alien too)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Excellent new interview with Gail Ann Dorsey here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-bassist-gail-ann-dorsey-he-altered-the-course-of-my-life-20160125
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah, he didn't really have anything to gain by orchestrating three greatest hits compilations from his deathbed.
xxp
― Darin, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't be entirely sure -- the Five Years box leads me to think it may be a general overall career overview. (At the least, I wouldn't mind a sequel that's the rest of the seventies.) But that set did have some unreleased stuff, certainly. As noted, though, seems like a lot of the Ryko bonuses aren't resurfacing.
I subscribed to a Bowie fanzine for a couple of years in the early 90s -- it's how I was able to get into that 1991 Tin Machine TV promo show -- and remember both discussion about said film plus getting a promo card for it. Annnnd that's all I remember.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
and so it goes
― Hang Onto Your Selfie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
"I subscribed to a Bowie fanzine for a couple of years in the early 90s -- it's how I was able to get into that 1991 Tin Machine TV promo show -- and remember both discussion about said film plus getting a promo card for it. Annnnd that's all I remember."
great story!
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
hahaha!
lock thread
and making fun of scarjo! we may have reached the bottom...she's a national treasure!
She's fantastic! Her acting always makes me nervous though...
― niels, Monday, 25 January 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
she's a coupla national treasures *ba-dum*
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
She wishes she was in National Treasure.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 January 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
she's great. Bowie's acting is usually passable, sometimes amusing, rarely great, and he had p poor taste in projects. nonetheless I do generally get a kick out of his brief cameos in random things.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 January 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
np: under pressure, and bowie + queen just sound like they're having SO MUCH FUN on this track that it made me cry
― major tom's cabin (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
see? He can act!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
lol
― major tom's cabin (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Bowie getting his own title in Zoolander is fantastic - his Tesla has a bit too much David Brent in him - I could also listen to Bowie talk Northern for hours, and watch that fantastic grin on "It'll really suit you" for a similar period.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Jagger finally speaks in detail
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mick-jagger-remembers-david-bowie-he-would-share-so-much-with-me-20160126
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
And here's Trent
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/trent-reznor-recalls-how-david-bowie-helped-him-get-sober-20160126
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Steve Kilbey writes about it, but there's a lot more to the storyhttp://thetimebeing.com/knowledge-comes-with-deaths-release/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
does he use punctuation
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link
This got posted two weeks ago. Worth watching again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVq-JWdyvGI
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
Trent piece is real good, as is accompanying video, thx for link
― niels, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 09:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah Pontious scene is A1, ditto the first mega-creepy Into The Night scene.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 11:22 (eight years ago) link
Little hint of Michael Caine in the "you're more dangerous than the Zealots, do you know that?"
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 12:06 (eight years ago) link
Looks like most of that joint set is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKqigY09Dc
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Huh, I've actually never seen this video! If this were released today it'd probably be banned and Bowie protested:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Well yes, but more for the gratuitous Resnor than anything else.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
The Rolling Stone article that just posted implies that there will be a Blackstar expanded/deluxe edition, probably by year's end I'd imagine. The current version is so self-contained and perfect, though, that I'm not sure I even want that.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
the NIN/Bowie tour was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
As a 90s baby, seeing the "I'm Afraid of Americans" music video was actually my first ever exposure to Bowie.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
same. also to the song's credit, i only saw the video/heard the song once and didn't hear it again for at least 10 years, and i retained perfect memory of the chorus
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Whereas I keep confusing it with 'I'm praying to the Aliens' Gary Numan.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
did "I'm Afraid of Americans" get much MTV play? I have this sense that it was more known than played.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
don't remember, this was around the time MTV kind of stopped showing videos so it't hard to tell.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
i do remember being annoyed at all the credit NIN got for this track though when it was cowritten by Eno and out at least a year earlier on the showgirls soundtrack. although listening to that version now, it's actually quite weak compared to the earthling/NIN remake.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
Yep. Never liked the single.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
wait, the earthling version? wasn't that the single? are there 3 versions of this?
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
oh cripes there are a hundred versions
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/im-afraid-of-americans/
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link