For some reason that is beyond comprehension to me now, when I first heard that Bowie was involved in making a Broadway (actually, off Broadway) musical, I was only mildly interested. When I head that Lazarus was opening in New…
My wife and I went to see Labyrinth at a drive-in this summer. She had never seen it and I hadn’t seen it for many years. I have always had generally positive feelings about the movie, but it isn’t the…
Years ago, possibly when I first came into possession of my very own tape of “Hunky Dory,” my friend Chris Schaeffer said as if it were an objective fact that it is Bowie’s best album. I don’t quite agree with…
Never afraid to change his musical style or appearance, by 1999 Bowie had fully embraced his “chameleon” image. Four of his previous six albums — the two Tin Machine albums, Outside and Earthling— had a hard edge. “hours...” (that’s how…
Around the time, in high school, that I was becoming a Bowie fan, I came to like a weird movie called Koyaanisqatsi and its equally weird soundtrack by Philip Glass. The movie was basically time-lapsed footage of cities against Glass’s…