Update Well, that was short…whoever posted Wagner’s cover of “Scary Monsters” took it down today, the same day I posted it as cover of the week. Fortunately there was a runner up, so I’m swapping out the first video for…
The main purpose of this post is not to discuss Bowie’s 2013 song, “Where Are We Now?” But to take advantage of the title to give an update on the state of the blog itself. That said, I thought I’d…
These photos of Bowie were taken by Argentinian photographer Diego Uchitel. From Uchitel’s website (which you can link to here): “While growing up in Buenos Aires, Diego Uchitel took countless documentary photographs of the hospitalized patients under his physician father's…
This is another of Lena Hall’s Bowie covers as part of her “Obsessed” series. Since she did videos for each of the five songs she covered, my intent is to post all of them, and this is the fourth I’ve…
Although I listen to “Up the Hill Backwards” quite a bit as it is the second song on my favorite album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), I kind of rediscovered it last month after reading Adam Steiner’s analysis in his…
I’m not exactly sure why this just popped up in my feed— it’s apparently a few years old, but those familiar with this blog know I like how Puddles Pity Party interprets Bowie. On the off chance you missed some…
“Someone scrawled on the wall "I smell the blood of les tricoteuses" Who wrote up scandals in other bars I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people Spreading rumors and lies and stories they made up” I don’t usually…
After seeing The Eras Tour Film at the drive-in last week, I ended up writing two blog posts related to Taylor Swift. Of course I was aware of Taylor Swift before seeing the movie, but I was not (and still…
This was actually a good week for Bowie covers, and I especially liked a video by a guy named Taylor Van Zant of “Space Oddity.” What I liked about that is I felt a sense of common cause— he explained…
While doing a little research in the process of writing yesterday’s blog post I came across this mashup of Bowie’s “Always Crashing in the Same Car” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” I think this sounds great. It sounds like…