David Bowie Blog and Journals

as we all know, there's no shortage of movie review sites out there on the web. but who among us hasn't longed for movie reviews in the form of really crappily done japanese poetry? i know i sure have!

so once a week, i'll be dedicating a journal entry to a movie review in the form of a really crappy haiku. 

this week's movie is a mesmerizing trip into a fantasy land full of spooky owls, creeping goblins and swamps that apparently eat too many burritos. a desperate girl races against time to stop david bowie from transforming her baby brother into a demon child forever, and along the way she makes friends with monsters and a courageous fox, gets lost in a maze with invisible walls, develops amnesia after eating a magic peach, and is almost chopped in half by a giant metal machine wielding a huge axe! what you probably don't know is that this was never even intended to be a movie. a documentary film crew just happened to be following david bowie around with a camera one day in the early 80's and this was the result.  - it's labyrinth! (suggested by emoisforluvers)

labyrinth

sarah must rescue

her bro from ziggy stardust

whoa, this shit's trippy

the end

p.s. feel free to hit me up with any suggestions, and you might just get to see one of your favorite movies summed up in a really crappy haiku...

"David Bowie could do anything and it'd be the coolest thing ever."*

Is David Bowie God??

If you watch "Criminal Minds" and/or ask Patrick Stump the answer will be "hell yes!", but let's stick to his career as a mortal:

He made some of the most awesome songs I've ever heard, and he has one of the longest and most prolific carrers in music. He did what he wants, he experimented, and the results were an incredible collection of classic glam rock pieces. Usually I choose about 3 songs to post the link in here, but this time I can't. Here are some of my favorite songs from him, but I widely recomend you to listen more; the more, the better.

  Changes

  Starman

 Space Oddity

 Heroes

 China Girl

 Ashes to Ashes

 The Man Who Sold The World

And check this video, it's just awesome!!

 

No words can be enough to describe how amazing this man is, just listen to his music, your life will be complete, I swear.

*Thanks to Alexher123 for the quote

Tynisha Keli

AUGUST.

(New and Old songs. They may not be on the top charts.)

10. No Hard Feelings by Bloodhound Gang
9.  Can't Break Thru by Busted
8.  100 Bars by Canibus
7.  Cabone Bone by Capone-N-Noreaga
6.  Golden Years by David Bowie
5.  Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4.  Bed (Remix. Feat. Fabolous) by J. Holiday
3.  Better On The Other Side by The Game. (Feat Chris Brown)
2.  Wonder Why by Tynisha Keli
1.  Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson

1- Patti and Lou play with Dolls

It was the early 70s, unconformity is in the air, New York is the promised land for artists, musicians, poets and anarchists, hip new clubs are full of new bands playing whatever they want; even when protopunk was never a cohesive movement,what ties proto-punk together is a certain provocative sensibility that didn't fit the prevailing counterculture of the time, it was different, it was temping, it was subversive, it was punk.

None of the bands which music was important to stablish the genre on any of the 3 scenes (NY, London, LA) are not considered Punk nor Protopunk, they belong to other genres but time thanks all of them for their contributions; the most important bands in the New York scene were The Velvet Underground (art/experimental rock), Patti Smith (the godmother of punk. Experimental/protopunk), MC5 (whose guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith [such an interesting and talented dude] was Patti Smith's one and only love, they were married until he died)(Hard rock), and the New York Dolls (hard rock, glam punk, protopunk).

The London scene had some good bands too, at the beggining of the movement, Roxy Music (art/glam rock), The Who (hard rock) and David Bowie (mostly glam rock) were the most important people on the scene.

Some people cite John Lenon's Plastic Ono Band as a big influence in the development of the British punk scene; also, nobody (as far as I know) mention them, but I think the early records from The Kinks were very important too. But the most important band if not at all, at least for the British scene was The Who; they were the first band with punk attitude, destroying their instruments on stage, and they wrote the first punk song of all times: "My Generation" This song was released on 1965 so tecnically it belongs to the 60's punk, this genre is called "garage rock" by most of the experts to avoid confusions with 70's punk, but "My Generation" is considered puk anyway.

The invention of the term "punk rock" is generally credited to critic Dave Marsh who used it in 1970 to describe the group Question Mark & the Mysterians

No, The Ramones and the Sex Pistols were NOT pioneers in the genre.

Since none of these musicians are really punk, there's not so much left to say about them (by the moment and the circumstances, of course, we can talk days, weeks and maybe months about them)

In the next part of these series of journals we'll discuss the boom of punk during the late 70s. Yes, that's the part where your beloved Ramones appear.

Here are some videos from these amazing bands:

This is why I think The Kinks are punk:

NO, the song is not from Van Halen.

This is a cover from Van Morrison, but it's a very important song on her career because it was her first single and it contains the phrase that will stay written on history as one of the best quotes ever "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" Patti was raised as a Jehova's witness and she hated it and the conformism that religions involve; she wrote that line to release her frustration.

This song was co-written by Bruce Springsteen.

This is the punkiest of all the videos, I think. The song is called "Personallity Crisis"

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it, I'll post parts 2 and 3 (and maybe 4, I'm not sure yet) soon.

Meanwhile you can read about the history of Emo (1, 2 and 3) and how it was a really good genre.

as we all know, there's no shortage of movie review sites out there on the web. but who among us hasn't longed for movie reviews in the form of really crappily done japanese poetry? i know i sure have!

so once a week, i'll be dedicating a journal entry to a movie review in the form of a really crappy haiku.

this week's movie exposed the inner workings of the gritty, high-stakes world of male modelling - in much the same way that the silence of the lambs showed that the life of a psychopathic serial killer isn't all sex, groupies and canibalism, and you got served showed that...um...serving people...is like...um...actually, you got served had no point - it's zoolander!

zoolander

an expert model

who's not an ambi turner

duels via walk-off

the end

p.s. feel free to hit me up with any suggestions, and you might just get to see one of your favorite movies summed up in a really crappy haiku...

We went to a UV rave at the university union. It was fun to go round all the trashy, tacky shops near by to find find tutus and naff plastic jewellery to wear!

We bought some white UV face paint and  all drew something on our faces. I had a David Bowie-esque lightning bolt over one eye which I covered with glitter as well to make it cute and sparkly.

There is a new compilation of David Bowie mash-ups and remixes out for Bowie fans to acquire.  The latest addition to the ever-growing list of covers, remixes, and mash-ups is Ziggy Stardust Remixed gathered by DJ BC.  You can download the album at the Ziggy Stardust Remixed website.  Prefixmag posted a review of the album, if you’re interested.

My take on the album?  There is a lot of good stuff on there.  Stardust Kids is hands down the best song on the album.  I’m going to blast it in my car with the windows rolled down at least once a day for the next two weeks.  The other fun ones were Starman (ATOM’s Space Funk Journey), Soul Love (ATOM’s Pink Innards Mix), Easy Hypocrites, and Five Years (World Famous Audio Hacker’s Brainache Mix).  But nothing else on the album touches Stardust Kids.

(Cross-posted from CrackedActor.com)

Entertainment Weekly website is featuring seventeen behind-the-scenes portraits taken from Clay Enos’ photography book from the upcoming Watchmen movie.  The portraits show the main characters of the movie, a few essential supporting characters, and a couple of bit players in costume.  Among the bit players are a couple of actors dressed as David Bowie and Mick Jagger.  This makes the second nod to Bowie in the film.

On a side note, when I saw Matt Frewer photographed as Edward Jacobi I finally realized that the actor that plays Taggart in Eureka is the same dude that plays the Trashcan Man in The Stand.  Hello, I’m clueless.  That’s the type of useless stuff that I usually know!  I need to spend less time working and more time boning up on my pop culture knowledge.  One day I’ll need to save the planet from an alien invasion by winning at a trivia game.

(Cross-posted from CrackedActor.com)

Frequently lists of this type are pretty meaningless.  They are usually a compilation of the opinions of magazine or website staffers with maybe a few credible industry insiders and their input.  Zimbio’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Fashion is another such list, but at least it’s fun to contemplate and it hasn’t been done a million times before.  David Bowie is listed as number 5 on this list of designers, musicians, actors, athletes, and photographers who comprise the list.  The full entry under his name is an interesting read.  Unlike most brief biographies of Bowie, it stays away from using the hackneyed term “chameleon” to describe his many stylistic changes over the course of his career.  The author differentiates between Bowie and other fashionistos who have attempted to glide from one style to another by pointing out that Bowie is “just as likely to wear an outfit to dinner that he’d wear on stage.”

(Cross-posted fromm CrackedActor.com)