Oct 26, 2007 01:34
I just watched The Man Who Fell to Earth. A-ma-zing. David Bowie plays and alien come to Earth to find a way to transport water back to his dying planet. However, he ends up succumbing to the pleasures of Earth etc. It's complicated. Anywho, it's led me to believe that David is, in reality, an alien. It explains so much, including the whole Ziggy Stardust thing and how he can play these weird parts so well.
I'm thinking about watching Labyrinth again. It came out in '86 while The Man Who Fell to Earth came out in '76. That's ten years of experience and age between the two, and there's really a difference there. I guess it's fun for me to be able to go back and forth through the decades and see theses changes. Actually what's really fun is to go back and watch an interview during the Ziggy Stardust era and then watch one from within the last few years and see the monstrous dissimilarity. It makes you really realize how much a person can change over time yet still retain that spark that makes them who they are. You think you're just stuck sometimes, that things will never get better, that things will never change. Then you realize, that things do change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst, but they change.
It's encouraging.
david bowie,
philosophy