David Bowie R.I.P

LOL that explains the Big Lebowski joke, I've never seen Labyrinth!

good now everyone's confused

wait bowie's dead?

With the exception of The Man Who Fell To Earth, where he basically plays himself, Bowie is a disappointing actor. He's pretty wooden and his choice of projects wasn't too hot either.

ha -- there is no "himself" with Bowie though

He had sharp cameos in The Last Temptation of Christand The Prestige, did what he could with The Hunger, and did a good Bowie impersonation of Warhol in Basquiat; otherwise, I agree. His best perfs were in his videos.

Is it reading too much into it to think that mention of "Jesus' crazy stepbrother Terry" in the apocrypha of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a Bowie reference?

I really love Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and love Bowie in it, I don't know how much of that is justifiable and how much is down to seeing it at an impressionable age

ha -- there is no "himself" with Bowie though

His turn on Broadway in The Elephant Man was rapturously received. I wonder if they shot performances of that.

His turn on Broadway in The Elephant Man was rapturously received. I wonder if they shot performances of that.

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, January 24, 2016 8:49 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSQpdC_Y6E

Was thinking earlier today how a famous line from The Elephant Man echoes a lyric of "All The Young Dudes" but especially one in "Five Years."

Thanks, flappy!

not disappointing you're insane lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSqDMqCJQw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDkp7GysvbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_6SQKuTHk

Did he ever do a bad job acting?

He did some bad films, yeah, but .

Come on. No he's not terrible, but he's pedestrian at best, aside from The Man Who Fell to Earth. Think about the unbelievable charisma he had as a rock star/performer - how much of that comes across in his acting? I watch his performance in The Prestige and think yes it's serviceable, but you get no notion of the presence he has in other media.

I always find it awkward seeing Bowie act, saw Fire Walk With Me recently and his performance is cringeworthy

He can't fucking act!

Just clearing that up for anyone in case of doubt.

There was a quote from Christopher Nolan about wanting him to play Tesla in The Prestige because of their shared otherworldy ahead-of-their-time-ness, but, as much as I really like The Prestige, Bowie's Tesla is just a bit... boring. And not really that otherworldly at all.

He can just about manage, i.e. he's better than Madonna, Jagger or Dylan (what is it about pop stars?), but that's it really.

ah been ta wunna thair meetins

Who isn't a better actor than Bob Dylan though? (xp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8720XS-pquc

that's probably the best bit I ever saw him in

dylan's definitely worse though

other way around, quite a few actors sing fine

Ts: Bowie's acting Vs Actors that sing like Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPwmjt7hRs

feel like Bowie's acting is kinda like Scarlett Johansson's singing - there's an awkwardness to it that can play to their advantage, like it does on some of Scarlett's Waits material and (perhaps) Bowie's elephant man

Scarlett Johansson is also not a very good actor.

haha true

Heh, forgot about this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Bowi.jpg

and so it goes

Don't think I've seen a single mention of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIILfy_9IQ

There's a reason.

Cannot possibly imagine what that reason might be.

When a friend and I got to the half hour mark after renting in spring '94 we thought, "Who's this mousy actor and why is allowed in front of the camera?"

Oh, is it a good film otherwise?

He was ok in Basquiat, but it felt like winky-cameo-impression-as-affectionate-homage rather than an actor making any effort to inhabit a character.

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but more albums coming:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/david-bowie-prepared-a-number-of-records-to-be-released-posthumously/

yeah I saw that, very intriguing

more compilations coming, it looks like

ha yeah, clickbait-y headlines making it seems like it's new albums... when it could just be various greatest hits things. hoping that it's more along the lines of unreleased things from the archives.

It'd be nice just to have all of the b-sides/soundtrack cuts in a single set.

he has so many compilations, I have to assume these are unreleased archives things.

I forgot about the linguini incident until last week. I've never seen it. it was one of those videos in a box at the rental shop I could never bring myself to actually rent.

He can't fucking act!

again, Pilate.

i also don't understand why the Roeg movie was 'not acting'

(ScarJo quite good as an alien too)

Excellent new interview with Gail Ann Dorsey here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-bassist-gail-ann-dorsey-he-altered-the-course-of-my-life-20160125

yeah, he didn't really have anything to gain by orchestrating three greatest hits compilations from his deathbed.

xxp

he has so many compilations, I have to assume these are unreleased archives things.

I wouldn't be entirely sure -- the Five Years box leads me to think it may be a general overall career overview. (At the least, I wouldn't mind a sequel that's the rest of the seventies.) But that set did have some unreleased stuff, certainly. As noted, though, seems like a lot of the Ryko bonuses aren't resurfacing.

I forgot about the linguini incident until last week. I've never seen it. it was one of those videos in a box at the rental shop I could never bring myself to actually rent.

I subscribed to a Bowie fanzine for a couple of years in the early 90s -- it's how I was able to get into that 1991 Tin Machine TV promo show -- and remember both discussion about said film plus getting a promo card for it. Annnnd that's all I remember.