All posts tagged "David Bowie"

British rock icon David Bowie released his first album in a decade Thursday, streaming the comeback record exclusively on iTunes.

Bowie-holic Sarah Jaffe was gracious enough to invite us out to an annual event called Oh You Pretty Things!, which has two bands (one a big band with multiple singers, some dancers, and an accordion) doing Bowie covers all night, with DJs pumping up the dance floor in between sets. People really dressed up, and the general feeling of the night was camaraderie of queers and weirdos who really love David Bowie. In other words, awesome. The picture above is the lead singer of the first band, who was almost uncanny in his vocal impressions and had a twist on a couple of Bowie images all his own.

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I was really impressed by Cara's four part piece on how the demonizing of Yoko Ono is a classic tale of how racism and sexism work out culture. Here's the first part. Before you start flipping out and saying that you hate Yoko Ono for reasons that are pure and have nothing to do with the social punishments meted out to Japanese women who are perceived as uppity, please read the four posts. It's well worth your time.

Okay, so I bought some T-shirts from a local store that makes them. Basic goofy stuff---a picture of a Moog synthesizer, an argyle design with some skeletons, a drawing of Iron Man by Daniel Johnston for Marc, and a T-shirt that cracked me up because I thought of it as a commentary on today's downloaded music wars. I thought someone made it up as a reminder of how these things come and go, and that the over-the-top nature of it pointed to a parody.