Everybody fucks up

Even Crush Object© David Bowie fucks up. In this version of Life On Mars? (one of my favorite songs of all time) The LET'S DANCE era Thin White Duke is accompanied by Stevie Ray Vaughan. It's from a bootleg collection called "Dallas Moonlight." Vice Magazine ripped it apart the other day but the idea of a two-disc 29 song bootleg alum like this existing is like something I scrawled on my way out of a wet dream. So I decided I neeeeded to have it.

It is a fascinating fuck-up. There are some spots where it's really cool and interesting. I've always wondered what the world would be like if SRV and Bowie kept collaborating after Let's Dance. Would David have stayed straight Rock/Roll for a while, or at least the sort of pop that he had with Let's Dance?

Maybe no, it seems. This little version of LOM? is deese, but I like it better than some others for some retarded reasons:

1. Bowie forgets the lyrics. He dee dee dees it. I forget lyrics a lot. Points.
2. Then they disrupt the recording to "fix" it. No points.
3. SRV's guitar flourishes make the song rock a little hard, a little more Queen-y. Points.
4. But sometimes it's indulgent booshit. No points.

It's mostly just goofy and adorable. This is the equivalent of that time that David and I sang dental hygiene-related lyrics to Bang a Gong.

Steal the rest from the internet if you're that curious, but I'm not twisting your arm on this one.

Oh crazy!

It's David Bowie's birthday- 63 and still doing okay. Enjoy one of my favorite pictures of the man who made me the intolerable man I am today. Always imitated but never duplicated. This particular picture featuring David and Mod Delusion Crush Object© Marc Bolan was taken while they were both on Marc Bolan's television show in 1977, a week or so before Bolan's unfortunate death. If I remember correctly, there's a recording of them playing some song at the end of the show and Bolan falls off the stage and David just sort of laughs. Fun stuff.

I'm celebrating by listening to all my favorites, and maybe persuading my lady to watch a Bowie-centric movie with me like Velvet Goldmine. Labyrinth, The Hunger and The Prestige are also all good, but those only HAVE Bowie- they're not really about him, you know?

A far as his birth, Bowie's probably been born six or seven times, really. Physically just once, but Ziggy, Aladdin, The Thin White Duke, The DJ, The... Dancer(?) are all really new people that share awesome, awesome music.

So as you go about your business on this the day of our Bowie, please also enjoy one of my favorite music videos of him, also featuring Mod Delusion Crush Object© Mick Jagger.



Seriously. Watch that and try and tell me they never fucked.

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These are the guys I can't stop loving (In no particular order:)

• David Bowie
• Marc Bolan
• Justin Hawkins
• Rob Halford
• Mick Jagger
• Joan Jett
• Howlin' Pelle Almqvist
• Paul Stanley
• (The Artist formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known as) Prince (Sorry this isn't embedded, but The Purple One is fanatical about keeping his videos off of the internet.)
  
• Bruce Springsteen
• Iggy Pop

And if you're reading this, you're going to find out why.