Praise---BOWIE

[misstia]

i did say we could include entertainment! :) i sometimes have existential crises thinking of a world where david bowie is no longer amongst the living....yes i am very strange....but, aside from that, and my abiding love for his music it was david bowie who made me realize at age 4 that a person's gender or what they wore didn't matter....i'd see him on tv on shows and he'd be performing in a dress and i couldn't figure out if he was a man or woman (of course when i asked my mother female captor, i was only told i was "stupid")....so left to my own devices i eventually figured that it didn't matter what sex he was because i loved his music and if he was a guy, who cares if he's in a dress? so i attribute my open mindedness towards sexual orientation, clothing, etc to him....in jr. high or high school if someone was picked on for being gay or dressing different i would defend them, basically by saying "so fucking what? they're a person just like everyone else".....of course narrow mindedness reigned/-s supreme in hell iowa....but some of us had windows opened up in our mind.....bowie opened mine!

Comments

Stylophone!

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

That's an instrument used sometimes by One Ring Zero (http://www.oneringzero.com/unusualcreatures/images/SongsForUnusualCreaturesCD.pdf) in their music; I didn't realize there had ever been a stylophone "craze," though.

(One Ring Zero has also made liberal use of theremin, Hohner claviola, and bass harmonica—fun fact: when the duo met, they were working in a Hohner harmonica factory.)

This ad could be transported back to the '20s just for the "Everybody's Doing It!" slogan alone.

[thedabara-cds.livejournal.com]

This ad is fabulous - I'd never even heard of a Stylophone before, and now I want one!

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

Great post!

I have one of these and it's so much fun:

http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/monotribe/

You don't need a stylus but a DS stylus makes it easier to play. But a Monotron or Stylophone is cheaper.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I have the 'reissued" Stylophone which is identical looking to the one in the ad, available today. The original design was no longer able to be manufactured because the components have long become obsolete. This meant the new unit had to be designed and built around modern components; doing this allowed them to give the instrument two additional "voices" along with the buzzy sound of the classic model. The first thing I did after putting batteries in it and tuning the scale was to queue up "Space Oddity" and play along. It's actually very easy to play.

David Bowie was not an easy "concept" for some smaller-minded folks to handle, with his at times androgynous appearance, stage personas and makeup, and the music, despite connecting with and being enjoyed by lots of people, had an arty and hard to classify aesthetic. Knuckle-draggers need not apply.