web analytics

Archive for May, 2006

30 May

Jack Kevorkian and The Supermen

Two events are occurring right now. Last week or so, Livescience discussed the ethics of immortality. In the news today are articles about Jack Kevorokian dying in prison. Needless to say, the debate over Kevorkian’s actions assisting people to end their lives has had a rather lively debate. This isn’t a current event. It’s more [...]

25 May

Cygnet Committee – Lyrics

I’m going to start featuring some of my favorite Bowie lyrics on the blog. IMO, one of the things that has always separated Bowie from anyone else has been his rather unique writing style. In his hey-day, his lyrics were often complex and full of double-entendre that left the song in it’s finished form translatable [...]

19 May

The Mask

Ever wonder how Bowie developed his stage personna? Lots of trial and error I think. This is Bowie in his formative years as David Jones doing a mime presentation called The Mask: Why does this remind me a LOT of Rocky Horror?

12 May

Rock Heroes

Bowie was named one of rock’s greatest heroes by NME readers. Of course they considered Pete Doherty the second greatest hero of all-time so the list is meaningless to me. Kurt Cobain to this crowd is their greatest hero. Whew. Next. With awards like this, I can see why Bowie decided he was fed up [...]

08 May

Darth Vader mash-up

Took a few days off to see some music. My buddies at Independent Sources apparently didn’t relax one bit and came up with this Bowie/Darth Vader mash-up. This is very cool but I wish they had done the entire song!