We're still talking about David Bowie.

[ex_truepenn]

matociquala: Can I love him for admitting that he's only scared about an album if he thinks it's a good one?

truepenny: Yes. And that if he's not scared about it, he's doing something wrong. Totally. ::loff::

matociquala: Yes

Comments

[hawkwing_lb]

The pair of you have shiny brains. It's a very interesting view from here.

ok, enough.

[soloadventure]

you two have got me full back into the Bowie Area black holeness. I thought I'd escaped its pull by moving to Dubai but no... denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

sigh. am i going to have to renew my bnet subscription??

Re: ok, enough.

[matociquala]

Take refuge in critical theory. It's what we do.

Re: ok, enough.

[elisem]

I fly for refuge to the sangha of critical theory?

Re: ok, enough.

[matociquala]

Yes! Come on in. We have deconstruction and geeky boys in leather pants for all.

[diatryma]

This is really interesting for me; I'm a little too young to have any relevant Bowie experience. I knew him as the guy from Labyrinth and nothing else, and now I discover he's all meaningful and deep. He's one of the cultural things I've picked up on from references alone.

[ex_truepenn]

Until a week ago-- literally--all I knew about David Bowie was Labyrinth and a couple of 80s songs I deeply disliked.

So you're not exactly alone.

[matociquala]

I exist to pimp, really.

This is one of the videos we're talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahAL2-7Fy4

[fidelioscabinet]

If I was willing to give in to my unkind streak, I'd suggest, right about now, that the possibility exists that David Bowie is not above ego-searching on Google. But that would be unkind, so I won't.

[matociquala]

Yeah, I hear he's quite net-savvy, and something of an SFF fan. And were I he? "David Bowie's crotch" is one of the first things I would Google.

Sarah and I were actually talking about this last week, when the potential absolute trauma of his reading Mélusine and thinking (as apparently half the world does) that she'd modeled Felix on his public image came up.

His work--and the meta behind it--is still really interesting in terms of critical thought, however.

Besides, I know I'd rather find somebody deconstructing the meta behind my corpus than, you know, drooling fangirling. And I'm learning a lot of stuff I can use. So unless I get a cease and desist letter....

[ex_truepenn]

For the record, I did not realize there were any points of congruence until Bear pointed them out.

And then she turned me into a Bowie fan.

[matociquala]

We're reaching the point where *all* our icons match.

Yeah. I have a Bowie Thing going back oh, twenty-five years now, probably. One of the first albums I bought for myself was Fame and Fashion (I still have the cassette, somewhere in a box, though it's probably more scratch than pop these days, so to speak.) Labyrinth is like, the movie made Just For Me. Brian & Wendy Froud, Trevor Jones, Jim Henson, Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie....

...You'd think I filled out a request sheet.

It never occured to me that Felix might be, you know, a Bowie riff, because I knew Sarah didn't like his work. But then the_red_shoes pulled up a youtube clip of a TV appearance from 1975 or so, and I was struck that he was, like Felix, kind of charming-awkward and all knees and elbows, and the smile, and sent it to Sarah, and she saw it even before I told her what to look for

[mswyrr]

I went and watched too many interviews, and he got all humanized, and now I feel odd staring at his crotch.

Hmm. I've seen the links to music videos, but do you have links to the interviews up anywhere? If not, and if it isn't too inconvienient, could you point me in their general direction?

[matociquala]

Tah dah.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5C1EE014E5ECBDE4

That should get you all of the ones I scrounged.

[mswyrr]

Neato! Thanks. :)