Bowie

[misstia]

I just came across Val Kilmer's Bowie tweet. Of all the people who's impacted music, fashion, movies, art, literature, etc I don't think anyone has influenced as many different mediums directly as Bowie has. He helped other artist's careers get started, or get restarted; he helped pay for bills, quietly--he didn't want the attention--for friend's kids, or his friends who were broke; he picked session musicians to record or tour with him and featured them; he stood up for black artists and publicly took mtv to task about ignoring them (yes mtv use to play videos); I mean I could go on and on. I think like Tesla, the width and depth of Bowie's genius will only become MORE known in the future. And yes, Bowie played Tesla in a movie.

ETA New Vintage Ads rule, by my personal decree, in the future every January 8 thru January 10 among whatever else we have going on, it will also be BOWIE BREAK THE RULES DAYS. Anything, no ads, just videos, photos, doesn't matter, as it is DAVID BOWIE. (Other Vintage Ads things will continue with that ongoing). One of Bowie's most important lessons? BREAK THE RULES! It's okay!! And.....BE YOURSELF!!! ACCEPT YOURSELF!!! EVOLVE!!!

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[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Planets will probably be named after Bowie—or at least asteroids.

[kshandra]

Dancing out in space. An asteroid named for David Bowie orbits between Mars and Jupiter: https://t.co/xxVINJzbz2 pic.twitter.com/HYrmGm7cwg

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) January 11, 2016

[misstia]

oh that's awesome!!

[misstia]

i remember the zappa one....

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i'm buying Labyrinth so i always have it on my movies again.

i feel so much for iman right now, they were so passionate about one another till the very end!

[misstia]

yeah, he once said his marriage was his greatest achievement over everything---music, etc.....they had a fantastic love story.....my heart goes out to his 15 year old daughter too....he was so good with kids---his son duncan isn't a 'spoiled brat' like a lot of famous people's kids are.....bowie paid for marc bolan's kid's schooling, he took sean lennon on vacations.....he clearly loved children....