David Bowie RIP

[Nordic]

Found this crazy old double interview with him and William Burroughs.

Burroughs: Do you get any of your ideas from dreams?

Bowie: Frequently.

Burroughs: I get seventy per cent of mine from dreams.

Bowie: There's a thing that, just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

Burroughs: I dream a great deal, and then because I am a light sleeper, I will wake up and jot down just a few words and they will always bring the whole idea back to me.

What Bowie describes is what he seems to be doing in the "Lazarus" video.

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Appearan ... interview/

[identity]

By popular request, another installment from Simon C. (OR Books, 2014):

But the most profound and extended dystopian
vision comes after the introduction of Gysin’s
cut-up method in Diamond Dogs in April 1974,
what Peter Doggett calls Bowie’s “dark study in
cultural disintegration.” Whatever judgments we
might make about Bowie’s musical development,
Diamond Dogs is a courageous conceptual step
into new territory. To my mind, it is the album
where Bowie finally rids himself of the ghost of
Ziggy and begins the rich and speedy series of
aesthetic transformations that will carry through
until Scary Monsters in 1980. Despite its obvious,
repeated acts of homage to the Rolling Stones,
particularly through Bowie’s wonderfully scratchy
and slightly twisted Keith Richards guitar imitations,
the album pushes past whatever rock ’n’ roll
had been, slashing and mutilating it before carting
it off to the graveyard: “This ain’t rock ’n’ roll.
This is genocide.”

I remember looking at the cover of the album,
where Bowie is stretched out, half-Great Dane,
half-human, for what seemed like hours in the
window of our local record store. Then, inside
the listening booth (such places still existed at
the time), I heard the opening track, “Future
Legend,” where the howls of wolves ran alongside
the tune from “Bewitched, Bothered and
Bewildered,” which I knew from one of my mother’s
Sinatra albums.

Inspired by Burroughs’s Wild Boys, with marauding
gangs carrying eighteen-inch bowie knives
that cut two ways, a premonition of the suburban
boys and girls who would hit the streets of
sundry decaying British cities in the riotous days
of punk, Diamond Dogs begins with the prophecy
of “Future Legend.” Bowie’s words also cut
two ways:

And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the
slimy thoroughfare
The shutters lifted in inches in temperance
building
High on Poacher’s Hill
And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
No more big wheels

Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small
tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts
of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny
silver fox, now legwarmers
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald
Any day now the year of the diamond dogs.

Bowie has a vision of the world as ruined: complete
civilizational collapse. Here is a picture of urban
space prior to gentrification (bliss it was to be alive
in that twilight), a space of crime and inverted consumerism.
Tramps wear diamonds, silver fox fur
becomes legwarmers, heraldic emblems of jewels
become rich trash to be draped around freakish
peoploids.

[Laodicean]

"We live inside a dream."

[Luther Blissett]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned his statutory rapes or relationships with young girls.

[chump]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned his statutory rapes or relationships with young girls.

https://youtu.be/164YdQvRDgE

http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2016/01/david-bowie.html

[Nordic]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned his statutory rapes or relationships with young girls.

I was just reading about that over on FB. Seems he deflowered that same teen that then became Jimmy Paige's main girl. How did those guys get away with that kind of stuff back then?

I think her name is Lori Maddox.

[RocketMan]

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/13/david_b ... socialflow

Soon after the announcement of David Bowie’s death, an explosive Thrillist story from November, in which Lori Mattix (also known in the press as Lori Maddox) recalls her youth as a teenage groupie, began to be passed around again. Mattix, who partially inspired Kate Hudson’s character in “Almost Famous,” recalls meeting Bowie on the Sunset Strip and losing her virginity to him. She never regretted it.

[IanEye]

[IanEye]

[seemslikeadream]

Out of the corner of my i

child is grown the dream is gone



Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?

Come on, now
i hear you're feeling down
Well i can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again

Relax
i'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are the only coming through in waves
Your lips move but i can't hear what you're saying

When i was a child i had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now i've got that feeling once again
i can't explain you would not understand
This is not how i am

[82_28]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned his statutory rapes or relationships with young girls.

You did! I was unaware of that.

[barracuda]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned his statutory rapes or relationships with young girls.

Lori Mattix interview: I lost my virginity to David Bowie

[seemslikeadream]

Cat People


"See these eyes so green, I can stare for a thousand years; these tears can never dry. Judgement made can never bend."




a thousand years

[IanEye]

[MacCruiskeen]

This last video...



He knew he was dying. Famously beautiful for six decades (and famously private in recent years), he is now visibly aged and chooses to show it. Yet it doesn't come across as exhibitionist at all. As a performance, as a piece of acting and mime, it is pretty astounding. As his swansong, even more so.