Monday, January 8, 2007

Happy Birthday!


David Bowie Turns 60 Today.

It's hard to say anything about Bowie that hasn't already been said, but his influence on music is incalculable as is his influence on me: I named my blog after one of his songs, after all.

Cheers!

4 comments:

  1. and he's still hot, too. i think we were right, he is an alien...

    em

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  2. I caught a segment of NPR's "Fresh Air" yesterday morning in which they ran (in homage to his 60th) a 2002 interview with him conducted by Terry Gross. Bowie said (surprisingly to me) that he would just rather write and compose music instead of go on stage, tour and do all the performance, making it quite clear that he considers the performativity of his music (not the creativity) drudgery.

    Curious--so much for Ziggy.

    Hair is to glam-rock!
    Rintrah

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  3. He could lick 'em by smiling
    He could leave 'em to hang
    Came on so loaded, man
    Well-hung and snow-white tan


    Happy Belated Birthday to one of my Forever-Heroes.

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  4. One of the most amazing things I've seen is DA Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust, and everytime, I want to extend my arms and go "I'm an alligator!".

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