I meemed my music
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I have uploaded all my songs to Imeem. It’s a very fun place. All my Bowie pics and movies will be there before too awful long as well. That’s within the next year or so I imagine. I’m kinda slow.
In the meantime, if you see any broken video links on any of my pages, please let me know.
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Damn Youtube
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In case anyone hasn’t noticed yet, I got banned from Youtube for posting the ‘Heroes’ 78 video. They not only deleted the video, they pretty much banished me forever from youtube. Over the next bit of time, I’ll be moving the references over to a service that has been a LOT more pleasant to deal with than Youtube. I’m not even going to try to appeal or whatever with Youtube. So, just bear with the videos for a little bit, they’ll be back. These people freaking out over obscure videos no one has seen for nearly thirty years and they won’t market or allow others to see is really getting on my nerves. I would have been more than happy to have acknowledged the copyright owners and point people to a source to buy their product. However, I had NO CLUE a performance broadcast free to the entire planet is supposed to be heavily protected property that no one is allowed to see. This attitude is killing the music industry, and they could care less.
Just a word for those lawyers visiting this site, when someone broadcasts something into MY home, it becomes MY property and I’ll do with it as I please. If I want to put what I saw on MY tv on MY computer, I’ll do it. If I want others to see what I saw on MY tv via MY compute, I’ll do it. I make no money from doing this and only want the world to enjoy what I have enjoyed for decades and remind artists that they all don’t have to be trash. It’s pretty dang hard to do that with the gestapo attitude of copyright lawyers. If the people who own the copyright to the ‘Heroes’ 78 broadcast had any God given sense in their heads at all, and this includes NBC as well, they’d realize that if it were not for people like me pushing these obscure videos that have been locked in vaults for decades, those obscure videos will become totally lost and forgotten and therefore their copywritten product will become 100% worthless. How many copywritten performances have already been completely forgotten? How many people were sitting around discussing David Bowie’s tv performance in 1978? This is absurd and ridiculous and yeah, I’m po’d.
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Bowie does Spongebob
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Apparently David’s teaming up with Spongbob and the gang for a special Spongebob episode. David will play “Lord Royal Highness”. This I will not only see, but possess.
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Guy Fournier - Defecating ecstacy
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Guy Fournier did a strange thing on Canadien radio last week, he claimed that defecating was more enjoyable at his age than sex. For that, his career is dead. But, the bigger picture to me is I think I’d rather be dead than enjoy a poop more than a poke. My opinion may change over time, but at this time, I’m serious. However, the more important thing and why Guy is featured here is because his entire episode brought back memories of one of the best written songs Bowie ever did. It got very little attention at the time, but it’s a hell of a song. Per the norm of the Diamond Dogs era, the lyrics are incredible. Let’s look, shall we? From We Are The Dead:
Something kind of hit me today
I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way
People will hold us to blame
It hit me today, it hit me todayWe’re taking it hard all the time
Why don’t we pass it by?
Just reply, you’ve changed your mind
We’re fighting with the eyes of the blind
Taking it hard, taking it hardYet now, We feel that we are paper, choking on you nightly
They tell me “Son, we want you, be elusive, but don’t walk far”
For we’re breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin
For you’re dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy
You’re just an ally of the leecher
Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps
And your nimble dress that trails
Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails
Because of all we’ve seen, because of all we’ve said
We are the deadOne thing kind of touched me today
I looked at you and counted all the times we’d laid
Pressing our love through the night
Knowing it’s right, knowing it’s rightNow I’m hoping someone will care
Living on the breath of a hope to be shared
Trusting on the sons of our love
That someone will care, someone will careBut now, we’re today’s scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow’s double feature
Heaven’s on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It’s a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn ’round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you’re sleeping
It’s the theater of financiers
Count them, fifty ’round a table
White and dressed to killOh caress yourself, my juicy
For my hands have all but withered
Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs
Because of all we’ve seen, because of all we’ve said
We are the dead
We are the dead
We are the dead
This was Bowie painting his vision of Orwell’s 1984. If you read Orwell’s book, it has NOTHING on this nightmare.
A lot of my gripes with today’s music is it lacks imagination and musical creativity. We Are The Dead is exactly the stuff I miss. It’s slow, it’s complicated, the words paint a vision that is easy to see, you definitely can not dance to it, and, to understand it, you not only have to listen carefully to the words, you might even have to whip out a dictionary and do some research. This is a thinking man’s song only. Somehow, for some strange reason, I think it is a song Guy Fournier’s listened to.
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