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Re: David Bowie Random Quote Generator

Moonage — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:50:20 -0000

it is now. Down at the bottom of the page. It's random and it changes every ten seconds. Fun just to sit and watch it go. The man has a lot of fun with the English language.

Re: David Bowie Random Quote Generator

Karen Baker — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:51:48 -0000

is this still working somewhere? I was not able to find it on the page...

Re: Lindsay Kemp and The Jean Genie

Moonage — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:16 -0000

Exchanged emails with Jack for a bit. Would love to see your stuff.

Re: Lindsay Kemp and The Jean Genie

martin kimber — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0000

Interested in what you have written; I knew Lindsay and Jack very well in the 1970s - they performed and ran workshops at my college where I was a Drama student; they were sensational. I also assisted them on shows at Edinburgh Festival and in London, before Bowies Ziggy Stardust stuff. I still have memorabilia from their shows

Re: Quicksand

Moonage — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:31:58 -0000

Fantastic comment. Can't wait to hear some of your other thoughts!

Re: Quicksand

Karen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:12:55 -0000

I think Bowie was saying he is a Nazi (living proof of Churchill's lies that the Nazi's had been vanquished) but that he is also disenchanted with the whole occult Nazi philosophy and scheme (I'm frightened by the total goal, drawn toward the ragged hole).

I also believe the whole album Hunky Dory pivots on this theme.

Bowie had just had a kid and was wanting a happier simpler life and so was becoming critical and weary of the Nazi philosophy. He is not rejecting these ideas totally however and song for Bob Dylan is quite openly hostile to Dylan's Judaism and even accusing of Dylan (as a jew) of stealing his unity and (simpler) family (values).

The reason I think people have so much trouble understanding this album is that they tend to be very black and white about things like Nazism and secret societies and so it is hard to see that a person can be a Nazi but also be growing tired and cynical about the whole thing.

The Bewlay brothers seems very plainly about whoever was running the occult society meetings Bowie was part of - including references to where they were held and what went on at them. Again the tone is jaded weary and even somewhat frightened - but still there is the sentimental memory of what these meetings once evoked in him in the past.

I am not certain about the Velvet Underground song Queen Bitch but I think it might be Bowie kind of lamenting that he didn't join that scene instead - because as he says in the song "Oh lord I could do better than that" so maybe Queen bitch is Andy Warhol - mentioned again but veiled - and Bowie is saying he could have taken over that scene (it could have been me - why didn't I stay).

So again I would suggest that the whole album is a critique of Nazi / Nietzschean philosophy - but not a total rejection of it. Like him alone in his bed in Queen bitch, in the wasteland of a failed philosophy (I don't have the power anymore) longing for something a bit more earthy and loving (Kooks, song for Bob Dylan) or glam (the Warhol scene).

Re: The Prettiest Star

Moonage — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:02:28 -0000

Thanks. I like it a lot.

Re: The Prettiest Star

Aaron Jones — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:02:24 -0000

the original (this) version is available the compilation album 'david bowie - the platinum collection'
just if you wanted to know :)

Re: Pottervision, a tad insane

Moonage — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:14:59 -0000

When I saw these the first thing I thought of was you and Jeni and the M&Ms .

Re: Pottervision, a tad insane

Cristin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:46:07 -0000

These are awesome! Thanks for sharing. Aladdin Sane is done so well and I LOVE Some Girls so much.

Re: More Gaga doing Bowie

Moonage — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:09:07 -0000

I really figured her name was an homage to Lady Stardust myself. ( Remember, for a while she packed a penis. )

I never really got her in the first place.

Re: More Gaga doing Bowie

Cristin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:08:02 -0000

She sucks. I'm sure you've put together that her name is an homage to Aladdin Sane. I used to think she was all right simply for coming right out and saying she is inspired by him, but she just sucks and her act has gone beyond old to forced. I was humored by Weird Al's spoof though:)

Re: The Bewlay Brothers – We Frightened the small children away……

Ivy Wild — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:23:05 -0000

Well for starters! I think you should forget the crazy brother story, take a break on that one definitely!!! Did you know the meaning of the Bewley Brothers track is directly linked with the 8 line poem track? (Now there's a little masterpiece to get your cornucopia around) Granted! Not half as colourful nor complicated, or even aligned as some pieces of ART work. But that's just it isn't it? It doesn't matter! An 8 line poem can stand as big as the sky and be the brightest piece of art work ever seen, yet our sweet life can just pass it by without even a stirring. But still! Who am I to give away Mr Bowie's secrets just like that! Oh! One more thing, gratuitous statements like….. "The song is meaningless"…… is like saying ……"Birds can’t sing" ….. Just because they don't sound like Bowie! Believe me all songs have meanings, as do poems. That's what’s interesting about them. The silent pitch!!! Must dash anyway! I'm star gazing as we speak.

X Ivy Wild, born 1971 Capricorn X

I’d stick that horrific “sign of the times” on the end of this if I didn’t find (lol) quite so infuriating.

Re: Lindsay Kemp and The Jean Genie

Moonage — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:44:45 -0000

http://wordpresstemplate.org/?...
Heavily modified.

Re: Lindsay Kemp and The Jean Genie

THEO JARSTAD — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:14:24 -0000

What wp theme u use?

Re: David Bowie vs Sir Elton John

Moonage — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:11:29 -0000

There's a ton of stuff I "like" by Sir Elton. Goodbye Yellow Brick road, Pinball Wizard, Someone Saved My Life Tonight, Daniel, Rocket Man. Like em all, lots. But I HAVE to have Moonage Daydream, Heroes, Quicksand, Cygnet Committee, Cat People, Under Pressure.........

Re: David Bowie vs Sir Elton John

Cristin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:34:55 -0000

Agreed! I like Elton John a lot but other than Goodbye Yellow Brick Road I can't listen to an entire album. (And really not even then. Jamaica Jerk-Off is corny.) I'm glad the masses agree!

Re: Aladdin Sane in Watchmen

Cristin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:20:33 -0000

Yep! A little odd and a little out of place. I have to agree. But fun:)

Re: Quicksand

Moonage — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:00:17 -0000

Bowie wasn't practicing then, that came several years later. The song is about convincing people to believe in someone, it's not specifically about Himmler or Crowley. So focusing on the specifics of either person serves no point in either the song or here.

Re: Quicksand

jimmy — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:01:32 -0000

what? you started off good. but for someone who claims to have looked into this your quite flawed! if bowie thinks crowley was full of shit, then why is he a follower of his religion thelema? also the relation between himler (being one of the head nazis) and nazi symbolism (being purely masonic) and crowley. when crowley was a 33rd degree scotish rite freemason?? I think youve made a great effort here but i think theres more too it. I apologise for the poor spelling and grammar.

Re: Quicksand

Jasont — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:43:54 -0000

I don't think that bowie saying their isn't a god or supreme spiritual being or something like that. For instance the line "bullshit faith" is only specifically saying faiths of bullshit. Crowley couldve been bullshit it also could have not been bullshit. Do we know that for sure? Himler was also very involved in the occult like the vril society, who was supposed to be in contact with entities using mediums. So I think he's just naming these things because he thinks them to be fabulous and is confused by the enormity of their implications... What if crowley was on yo' something. What I Himmlers search for the occult did turn up certain truth to lost arts and artifacts. I mean obviously people in power want to stay in power so even if forms of channeling energy, black magic, or supernatural entities are accessible it wouldn't be strategical to reveal them, would it? I guess we will know deaths release and all the knowledge when we get there.

Re: The Prettiest Star

Moonage — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:01 -0000

I think it's a very well thought out thought. I can most definitely see that. Bolan was very "pretty" and they did play together occasionally at the time. Given the double entendre of about everything he did at that time, it makes as much sense to me as being a love song about his wife as it does hanging out with his best friend. About the only reason I'd have to not think it's about Bolan is Bowie never performed with the person he was writing about.

PS, I'd love to link your pic here, but I can't access it on facebook.

Re: The Prettiest Star

Michael — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:00:15 -0000

You know, a song is a poem, really, and can be open to interpretation and about more than one thing or person.

I wonder if Bowie also had Marc Bolan in mind and if there is a reference to the handsome charismatic rock star, Marc Bolan, who were both managed by Visconti, I believe. They were both starting out and painting Visconti's office when they met, according to Bowie.

" One day... you and I will rise up all the way (top glam musicians), all because of what you are ... The Prettiest Star." Bowie and Bolan did rise up all the way and Marc (I'm a totally straight guy) was very, very handsome (and a super nice guy; I got to meet him.) Photo on my Facebook page Michael Jordan Rush of T-Rex with my brother.

So it could be about both Angie and Marc, who (Marc) I had the pleasure of meeting.

In a youtube interview Bowie gave, you can tell the two were starting out together and that Bowie was intensely competitive. Just a thought.

Re: Rah Rah, root root, cheer cheer, boolah boolah, riot riot riot riot riot riot

Moonage — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:38:32 -0000

Fantastic vid future!

Re: Rah Rah, root root, cheer cheer, boolah boolah, riot riot riot riot riot riot

futurelegendfilms — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:45:11 -0000

We want you big brother ..... he he he.