The Thin White Duke in the Serious Moonlight
So, I was supposed to run some errands after work today. But I'd left some things at home and, by the time I went back for them, the weather was blah and I didn't really feel like going out again. Nothing pressing, nothing I can't do tomorrow.
But boredom kicked in after an hour of catching up on some footnotes and lovely mundane projects. So I decided to sort out some of the boxes in the closet of my old bedroom in the back of the house.
I found my box of David Bowie things. It's been a fun, sentimental afternoon. All those old albums...we're talking vinyl and tapes here...and VHS recordings of shows like the Serious Moonlight tour.
I found my t-shirts from the Glass Spider and Sound+Vision tours. I missed both, but friends picked up the shirts for me.
David Bowie is my favorite rock star I've never seen live. But it's great going through the old clippings...I still love that picture of him in a leather jacket and white t-shirt from that issue of InFashion. I had that hanging in my locker...probably my only non-POTO decoration back then. And my poster from the Never Let Me Down album...it just to hang opposite my Michael Crawford-as-the-Phantom poster.
And I'm having a wonderful time listening to the old albums. In some cases, I feel like I'm hearing these songs for the first time since I was a little too young to really understand some of them.
I'm older and, hopefully, wiser now...as opposed to the twelve-year old girl who saw "Labyrinth," heard him sing "Underground," headed to the nearest record store, spent her saved money on all the albums she could find, and became a fan for life.
Looking back, I actually see a bit of Bowie's influence in some of the poems I've written and published. I think he gets a lot of credit for inspiring me to write at all, though I am totally clueless about music.
And, for the first time ever, I found myself tearing up a little at live versions of "Heroes," "Absolute Beginners," and a later favorite, "Strangers When We Meet."
"In this age of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams
I don't need another change, still you forced away into my scheme of things."
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