Category Archives: Interpretations

Chris Hadfield does Space Oddity

This is just too cool for words!

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Let’s Dance at 30

Stumbled on an excellent article from the perspective of this young girl at the time: Let’s Dance was a rather flippant song that basically made no sense, had no political connotation, and was only meant to be danced to, and … Continue reading

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Davy Jones

In 1966 a band called The Monkees premiered on tv.  It immediately propelled the members to instant stardom:They were a clean cut bunch of basically non-musicians pretending to be rock stars.  With the guaranteed publicity of a tv show, their first … Continue reading

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Pottervision, a tad insane

Got the heads up on this post from Queen’s facebook page.  The one that got my attention the most, of course, was this one: If that wasn’t bad enough, they had to go even nuttier: The actual site is Next … Continue reading

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Aladdin Sane in Watchmen

My bud Cristin mentioned a blurb about finding David Bowie in Watchmen. I loved that flick so I had to check it out.  Here’s the scene in question: Not exactly David Bowie.  But, that is definitely Aladdin Sane.  Even got … Continue reading

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Will and John do Bing and David

Will Ferrell is such a cut-up I never know what to expect from him. As such, when he does something not looney, I often sit waiting for the punch line. Sometimes it never arrives and you realize there never was … Continue reading

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The Onion does Bowie and NASA and the Shuttle

It doesn’t get much better than this: According to NASA administrator Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden, Jr., the highly experimental glam space program—dubbed Project Starman—has been in development for exactly five years. Though engineers initially feared the mission might blow … Continue reading

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Comme d’habitude

I got an email alert about a guy, David Lister, who went to a show by The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain. They did a joke segment they called “plagiarism”. It’s pretty clever. Here it is: Only thing is, there … Continue reading

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Tony Blair’s Quicksand?

Well, luckily he’s not singing it.  But, it’s a rather odd video nonetheless.  Personally, I don’t get it.  But, I’m not privy to Brit politics.  If someone would like to explain it, I’d appreciate it.

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Silly Boy Blue at the Tibet House

David Bowie has worked for all kinds of charities.  Most of them not your run-of-the-mill stuff.  One of them is something called Tibet House.  They strive to preserve the culture of Tibet.  Oddly enough, Bowie recreated one of my all-time … Continue reading

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