He did some very classy sf.
Sorry to note the passing of David Bowie…
by CJ | Jan 11, 2016 | Journal | 8 comments
8 Comments
Submit a Comment Cancel reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
He was a class act and will be much missed. Only saw the new album on Friday. Sigh.
There was a news article on Yahoo! News about one of the songs on the new album apparently being his self-written obituary.
I remember seeing him in the fantasy movie “Labyrinth”. My niece and her kids really like that movies, so I bought them the DVD. I haven’t seen it since it first aired on HBO a ton of years ago.
I’ve got one of Bowie’s albums, but it’s a classic, “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. I wasn’t all that keen on some of his later stuff, but I did like that album.
Speaking of SF & going to a movie, “It was a rainy day in Portland.”, as in “what else is new?” (a good day for it), and my sister & I had planned to see the new Star Wars. She blew the time, but fortunately the 3-D version had started not long before, so all we missed was half the 20min of Previews.
Recommendation: Avoid the 3-D! It isn’t. It’s that digitally faked stuff from a “single-lens” frame. It’s like I sometimes see on TV without glasses. Things are on a few flat planes at different depths, NOT 3-D! And you MIGHT want to take some ear plugs! Wish I had 🙁 , but this is the first movie I’ve been to in 15 years!
There were a LOT of echoes!
I’m not real fond of sound in a movie that makes the seats vibrate. I don’t like an assault of sound any more than I like blinding light. Just leave it to our imagination, Mr. Sound Engineer. We doubt you can really produce real ground-shocks, so trust us, we’ll imagine it.
We went to see The Force Returns on the first day of opening (ok, the original first day=the Friday, not the “how early can we push ‘day'” which brought it over into the Thursday) at an IMax theatre in 3D. The 3D has some cool features (esp. when the seats rumble under you and esp. when the opening credits and spacecraft appear on screen) but you miss a lot of the details in the basically artificial perspective. Last Monday we went to see it in 2D. Definitely the way to really appreciate the detailing of the film is in 2D. I’m not much of a movie goer myself (once to twice a year normally which makes me a regular goer, though, compared to Paul) but this movie was worth seeing twice.
I can see why Lucas said he wasn’t happy with it.
I’ll miss David Bowie. He was original, experimental, and unusual in a world that has too much sameness.
He had a different spin, even when he was doing pop rock. But his music has stayed popular, at least with my generation.
Hah, I was in college when he and Mick Jagger did that cover of Dancing in the Streets. I liked it, though I knew the original. But I was the right age, maybe, to like it. Bowie was active in the 80’s, with several hits then.
It’s good he got to see his newest record starting to take off. It’s gotta be good to know a guy’s still got it. I think it’ll have as much staying power as his other albums.
How have I not seen The Man Who Fell to Earth? I need to see it. –It’s been years since I saw Labyrinth, but I liked that movie at the time.
I’m waiting until I can see the new Star Wars movie, but it’ll likely be at home via iTunes or Amazon video.