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Post by ZenRider on Jan 11, 2016 13:07:21 GMT -5
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Post by Unbound on Jan 11, 2016 21:38:30 GMT -5
So very sad. I hated to hear of his passing. XM Radio The Loft was doing a tribute to him, so I listened to Bowie on the way home tonight. This is off the new album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8Elizabeth Gilbert, author, had the most beautifully worded tribute on Facebook: "For the last 18 months (we learn only today) David Bowie has known that he was dying. He kept that information private, while spending his final months doing what he'd done his whole life — making outrageously original, beautiful, complicated art. He made a gorgeous album. He created a show, playing right now in New York. And then he released this, his final video, just a few days before he died — on his 69th birthday. "Look up here," he sings, "I'm in heaven." Can you imagine, to be making art like this (fearless art that both comforts and challenges) right up to the moment of your death? How do you do that? How do you BE that? To work with your death so imaginatively, in order to perfectly time out the last beats of your life? What a magnificent creature of creation, right to the end. I am sad today, but mostly I am overwhelmed by awe. This is what it means to be a great artist. From the beginning, this was a man who showed us how to do life differently than anyone had ever done it before, and now look how he has done death. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Inspiration, to me, is THIS. Goodbye to the master, and onward for the rest of us." |
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Post by brooks on Jan 14, 2016 15:18:42 GMT -5
So sad to hear that.
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