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[cleolinda]

I don't know why I woke up at 2 am, but I did, and I checked Twitter on my phone in bed and saw it: David Bowie passed away. So basically I'm posting my favorite stuff on Tumblr:

http://cleolinda.tumblr.com/tagged/david-bowieOr I was, until something went buggy and YouTube refused to play nice anymore. Because my taste is odd (and movie-centric

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[vivian_lake]

I'm still crying.

Just two days ago I wrote to a friend: "so I've been reading this article about Bowie's last album" - and then got scared and quickly replaced "last" with "resent"... Well. Fuck.

(And we'll never get Uncle Robert now. Even if the show get renewed twenty or so years from now. He probably declined the offer *at least* partly because of his health. I don't even want anyone else to play that role. Mikkelsen even looks like him on some photos.)

[cleolinda]

HE DOES. They even have the same vampire snaggletooth! I noticed it when some Labyrinth gifs came up today.

This is going to sound really weird, but I feel really good right now? I've spent the whole day listening to his music and posting videos on Tumblr and it just all made me happy? I think it helps to have found out that he planned the end to be this way--it's kind of like getting to the end of a wonderful book, as sad as it is that it had to end. There's a sense of admiration and completion rather than tragedy?

[vermouth1991]

I haven't listened to enough of his songs to form an opinion yet (though I really should start catching up). My biggest exposure to David Bowie was him playing (or should I say, being) Nicola Tesla in "The Prestige". The character's first appearance was seemingly appearing out of the electric storm, and now I'm picturing him walking back into that machine and disappearing. :(

Agreed, there's really no one else that can play Uncle Roberto now. Though I reckon the fan artists on DeviantArt and the like have now been given a whole new level of resolve to try and do his alas-what-could-have-been "Hannibal" character justice.

[wenelda]

I feel the same way. I got a text from a friend while I was in a doctor's office and I cried my eyes out. After I got home, though, I saw everyone posting their favourite songs/movies/albums/interviews, and it made me smile.

So here's my Bowie story:
Back in 2005 when NIN first went back on tour (Or was it 2004?), I went to visit a friend in NYC and we got tickets to a small venue where NIN was playing. After the show was over we ran out back hoping to get something signed by Trent Reznor. Instead, David. Fucking. Bowie walked out. He was barely 2 feet in front of me. I gasped. I started crying. He smiled and waved. Then someone called out "Hey Jareth!" and he did this little bemused/agitated smirk and rolled his eyes as he got into his car. I just... He was THAT CLOSE. It was amazing. I'll never forget it, and I loved all his music.

[headphone]

My sister named one of her sons Jareth, as the Bowie love runs deep in our family. I'm having a hard time feeling sad about it too, probably because it's really hitting me at this age that no one lives forever, and he did such amazing things while he was here.

[howlin_wolf_66]

It really was kind of an oddly perfect ending... Shame that it did end, but all things must! :-)

[evil_overlord]

I've not talked to my sister yet. Might not be able to until I actually *see* her at the end of this month. She was the HUGE David Bowie fan. I got see posters of him across the room from me, hear his albums ['Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' was SO SOOTHING to the both of us, if we were having trouble sleeping, she'd put it on to play and we were both out like lights.] quite a lot once she'd discovered him