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Bowie taking time off, (still) listening to Arcade Fire & Secret Machines
"Speaking about his decision not to play live or record for 12 months, Bowie told Vanity Fair: 'I'm fed up with the industry. And I've been fed up for quite some time. I'm taking a year off - no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning, and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row.'
He continued: 'I've been listening to Arcade Fire and Secret Machines and this great opera from the '80s called 'Nixon In China'. It's just that. He gets off the plane. He has dinner with Mao. Someday, I might do opera. But I don't have a musical in me, much less a vampire musical.'" [Yahoo News]
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fascinating
Posted by sam | May 3, 2006 11:31 AM
bowies the daddy, hands down...but the secret machines??? c'mon, and still listening to arcade fire???
Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2006 11:33 AM
bowies the daddy, hands down...but the secret machines??? c'mon, and still listening to arcade fire???
Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2006 11:34 AM
clap your hands say ziggy?
Posted by cranky | May 3, 2006 11:38 AM
"c'mon, and still listening to arcade fire???"
Yeah, because liking things for more than six months in a row is totally lame.
Posted by john s | May 3, 2006 11:45 AM
"Yeah, because liking things for more than six months in a row is totally lame."
that album came out two years ago, get a clue Bowie.
Bowie is the DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2006 11:56 AM
"still listening to arcade fire"
...and I'm still listening to David Bowie.
Posted by J | May 3, 2006 12:07 PM
I do think two years is longer than six months. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
J has it right. People like Bowie could never have sustained their careers if people didn't listen to old records.
Anonymous genius, why is Bowie the "daddy?" Is it because of something he's done in the last five seconds, or do you have an attention span longer than that of a fruit fly? Aren't his best records, like, so totally last year, or even older?
Posted by john s | May 3, 2006 1:14 PM
i read a clip of that article in new york mag yesterday and i thought the funniest thing about it was what bowie said he does with his time off. he said that he goes to see films at the angelika and if the first film is just ok he sneaks into another and then another. he said "it's so easy." i love the idea of bowie, who is obviously filthy rich, sneaking into films. love it.
Posted by halified | May 3, 2006 1:27 PM
The Angelika should immediately run off "WANTED"-style posters of Bowie and post them on the door to every theater. "Check This Man's Stub." Ticket purchases do count -- especially at an art-house like Angelika where the per-screen take may be a huge factor in determining whether or not a movie gets wider distribution.
I never did buy "Reality." I guess it's okay to go download it for free, since I've bought his other stuff, and some of that sucked.
Posted by J | May 3, 2006 1:36 PM
Here are a few genuine (not pointed) questions: Who, besides the movie theater, gets a cut of the ticket sales for the indie films like those screened at the Angelika? In other words, from whom else is Bowie stealing? Does he condone the sharing of Secret Machines' recordings via P2P networks? SM may not see any money from sales of their records, but the indie label that put them out loses out in that situation. (Of course, I'm assuming that SM have their records out on an indie label, not a major label or their own label.)
Posted by Jack Valenti | May 3, 2006 1:50 PM
I bet he condones being a regular guy who doesn't analyze who's impacted by each of his decisions.
Posted by L | May 3, 2006 4:01 PM
david bowie is gonna listen to the arcade fire until the day he dies.
Look, Bowie can listen to the arcade fire over and over again...that doesnt mean its right. AND Bowie can still be the daddy when he is doing wrong even though Bowie can do no wrong.
Bowie>wrong>no wrong>arcade fire = Bowie is the DADDY~~~
And Bowie is allowed to walk into movies...he's Bowie. This isn't even an issue, case closed.
Posted by Axl Foley | May 3, 2006 4:33 PM
so is he over CYHSY too?
Posted by daniel | May 3, 2006 6:13 PM
I love this man like cooked food, but did he need to tell us all something we already knew?
The image of him wandering from movie to movie is funny but kinda sad (I want to be rich, is it that boring?). His wife should give him some office work at her company or something.
Posted by camille remarkable | May 3, 2006 6:47 PM
Bowie doesn't go out w/o an entourage, and i doubt a group of ten people is 'sneaking' into new screenings at the Angelika. I bet the theater'll take the good press a story like that will give it, though.
Posted by Anonymous | May 4, 2006 12:05 PM
And how do YOU know that I -- I mean, he NEVER goes out without an entourage? Perhaps he has one, maybe two bodyguards. Three people shouldn't have much more difficulty moving from one screen to another within a movie theater than just one person.
Posted by David Bowie | May 4, 2006 4:13 PM
Bowie doesn't go out with an entourage. If you read Gawker Stalker at all, every time he's mentioned he's either by himself or with maybe 1-2 people.
He doesn't need an entourage because he feels comfortable wandering around Nolita/Soho on his own - he's lived there for 10 years now.
Posted by Gwin | May 9, 2006 4:09 PM
Bowie doesn't go out with an entourage. If you read Gawker Stalker at all, every time he's mentioned he's either by himself or with maybe 1-2 people.
He doesn't need an entourage because he feels comfortable wandering around Nolita/Soho on his own - he's lived there for 10 years now.
Posted by Gwin | May 9, 2006 4:11 PM
Maybe for once in his life he gets to have a normal life and listen to new music (music released within the past five years). Who cares what music he listens to or what he does in his own free time.Movie theatres usually make money off of concessions and not the movie ticket itself. He's having fun. Come on--how old is he now? He probably spent the last 30 years or more being watched continously. Go steal someone's milk money bullies.
Posted by Bowie Fan | May 9, 2006 6:40 PM
Maybe for once in his life he gets to have a normal life and listen to new music (music released within the past five years). Who cares what music he listens to or what he does in his own free time.Movie theatres usually make money off of concessions and not the movie ticket itself. He's having fun. Come on--how old is he now? He probably spent the last 30 years or more being watched continously. Go steal someone's milk money bullies.
Posted by Bowie Fan | May 9, 2006 6:41 PM
Maybe for once in his life he gets to have a normal life and listen to new music (music released within the past five years). Who cares what music he listens to or what he does in his own free time.Movie theatres usually make money off of concessions and not the movie ticket itself. He's having fun. Come on--how old is he now? He probably spent the last 30 years or more being watched continously. Go steal someone's milk money bullies.
Posted by Bowie Fan | May 9, 2006 6:41 PM
Heard he wasn't that impressed with Clap your Hands. Who really is anyway?
Posted by deb | May 11, 2006 2:37 PM
Thank you David!
Posted by julia burton | June 2, 2006 6:53 PM
Thank you David!
Posted by julia burton | June 2, 2006 6:56 PM