The Arcade Fire & David Bowie - Wake Up

Cont’d. from page 33

RS: Moving on from Bono—

DL: I already have. I wish the rest of the world would, too, but no—U2 is like, like . . . the Band That Wouldn’t Die.

RS: I’d think that would be the Stones.

DL: Yes, yes, touché. But moving on . . .

RS: Moving on: you name Bowie as your rock star inspiration. What is it about him specifically that fires the supervillain mind?

DL: Consider the alter egos he created. Ziggy Stardust. Aladdin Sane. The Thin White Duke. Those are all perfect supervillain identities! Believe me—before I became Dr. Lava, I was going to be the Thin White Duke.

The unattainable inspiration: Bowie.

RS: What happened?

DL: Come on—look at me. I might be able to pull off the last two, but “thin?”

RS: You do have more of a . . .

DL: Go on . . . say it.

RS: A Frank Black physique going.

Musical genius and non-supervillain Frank Black.

DL: Well, at least he’s a musical genius. I thought you were going to call me a bald Jerry Garcia.

RS: Perish the thought. So Bowie is the most common rock star inspiration among the supervillain clique—

DL: Please. I wouldn’t call us a “clique.” It’s not like we go hang out at the mall together and make fun of the ugly kids.

RS: Is that what happened to you in your teenage years?

DL: Let’s just leave it that I wasn’t part of any “clique” in high school. Though I didn’t spend much time at the mall, either.

RS: Where did you spend your time?

DL: I’m a supervillain. A mad scientist. Where do you think guys like me spend our free time as teenagers? In the chem labs. Making compounds . . . melting things . . .

RS: And that’s where your name first enters the public discourse. You were caught trying to make napalm in the chemistry lab after school.

DL: I was still a juvenile when that happened. Those records are sealed.

RS: But you did brag about that while ransoming U.N. Headquarters.

DL: Oh, yes. I didn’t realize the cameras were still rolling. But it wasn’t really that big of a deal. So the janitor came in just as I was about to begin testing. So I got busted. This was the '80s, before all the school shootings and whatnot. My older brother used to bring a bowie knife to school and get his jollies throwing it at people . . . and juuuuust missing. He'd laugh and say, "William Tell!" And he never made the news.

RS: But napalm?

DL: Trust me—those were different times. “Boys will be boys.” I did my community service.

RS: Delivering meals to disabled Vietnam vets.

DL: Who, you might like to know, didn’t see any problem with what I was doing.

RS: But why try to make napalm at school? Why not in the privacy of your own home? In the basement, or the garage?

DL: Look—you need to understand this. The world needs to. I’m a supervillain. A supervillain. Not a terrorist hunkered down in some cave or cellar. I’m nothing without the public eye on me. It's the theater, the spectacle—the danger of getting caught. Get it? And besides, if I’d done it at home my brother would have caught wind and taken the project away from me. We would have been frying squirrels in the back yard. I had my sights set . . . higher.

RS: On what?

DL: The high school gym. The physical fitness tests were coming up. And I wasn’t going to be humiliated at the pull-up bar one more time.

Cont’d. on page 69.

[dailymotion id=x5lfc4]

Video Clip : The Man Who Sold The World

Singer : David Bowie

[dailymotion id=xo056]

Video Clip : New York's In Love

Singer : David Bowie

Disc: 1
1. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry (Live)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
3. This Ole House (Live)
4. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry
5. Folsom Prison Blues
6. Busted (Live)
7. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
8. I Still Miss Someone (Live)
9. Cocaine Blues (Live)
10. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
11. I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Live)
12. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
13. The Long Black Veil (Live)
14. Send A Picture Of Mother (Live)
15. The Wall (Live)
16. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
17. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
18. Joe Bean (Live)
19. Jackson (Live)
20. I Got A Woman (with June Carter) (Live)
21. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (Live)
22. June's Poem (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Closing Theme and announcements
Disc: 2
1. The Old Spinning Wheel (Live)
2. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry
3. Matchbox (Live)
4. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
5. You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith, Too (Live)
6. Flowers On The Wall (Live)
7. How Great Thou Art (Live)
8. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry (Live)
9. Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
10. Busted (Live)
11. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
12. Cocaine Blues (Live)
13. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
14. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
15. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (Live)
16. Give My Love To Rose (Live with June Carter)
17. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
18. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
19. Joe Bean (Live)
20. Jackson (Live with June Carter)
21. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Live)
22. I Got Stripes (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Greystone Chapel (Live)
26. Hugh Cherry introduces Johnny's father and closing announcements (Live)

Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
1 A Falling Through
2 Gossip In The Grain
3 Henry Nearly Killed Me
4 Hey Me, Hey Mama
5 I Still Care For You
6 Let It Be Me
7 Meg White
8 Sarah
9 Winter Birds
10 You Are The Best Thing

New Music/CD Releases - October 14, 2008
Al Jarreau – Christmas
Billy Currington – Little Bit of Everything
Buena Vista Social Club – At Carnegie Hall
Coko - A Coko Christmas
Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
The Cure - 4-13 Dream
David Bowie - iSelect
Holly Golightly – Dirt Don’t Hurt
Hotel Café – Winter Songs
I’m From Barcelona – How Killed Harry Houdini
JD Souther – If the World Was You
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Los Lonely Boys – Christmas Spirit
Mary Mary - The Sound
Nikka Costa - Pebble to a Pearl
Powderfinger – Dream Days
Queen - The Cosmos Rocks
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
Secret Machines – Secret Machines
Sex Pistols – Live (DVD)
Sixpence None The Richer – The Dawn of Grace
Sonic Syndicate – Love and Other Disasters
Tony Bennett – A Swinging Christmas
Yo-Yo Ma – Songs of Joy and Peace

and remember, whenever possible buy your music directly from the artist(s) or your local independent record store. both could become endangered without your support.

click here for a list of exclusives available @ indie stores and for a list of stores

A principios de años un periódico británico le pidió a Bowie que hiciera una selección de 12 canciones para un CD de edición limitada que se regalaría con el título de: iSELECT: BOWIE.

En vez de entregar una lista de hits, Bowie escogió temas más personales y de los cuales textualmente "nunca se ha cansado", exclusivamente hay dos tracks con notas y reflexiones personales que provee un ahondamiento del por qué de cada selección de canciones.

El disco se incluyó en el periódico "Mail on Sunday" del día 29 de Junio del presente año. El CD se agotó y no estuvo disponible al día siguiente, convirtiéndose así en u artículo para collecionistas y objeto de interés mundial. Gracias a esta demanda iSELECT:BOWIE está disponible digitalmente en el Reino Unido y a partir del 14 de Octubre se podrá conseguir físicamente en todo el mundo.

El tracklist es el siguiente:

1.- Life on Mars? del albúm Hunky Dory

2.- Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing del albúm Diamond Dogs

3. The Bewlay Brothers del albúm Hunky Dory

4. Lady Grinning Soul del albúm Aladdin Sane

5. Win del album Young Americans

6. Some Are exclusiva de la compilación

7. Teenage Wildlife del album Scary Monsters

8. Repetition del album Lodger

9. Fantastic Voyage del album Lodger

10. Loving The Alien del album Tonight

11. Time Will Crawl (MM Remix) (nuevo remix de David Bowie)

12. Hang On To Yourself [en vivo] (del album Live Santa Monica ’72)

[dailymotion id=x58a0r]

Video Clip : The Bewlay Brothers

Singer : David Bowie

(On a side note, I'm always forgetting that my eyes are not really brown.  They used to be when I was a kid.  As I got older, they changed and now they are a kind of dark amber.  It's weird.)

Well, I can't go around with just one freaky green eye and one brown one (making me look more like David Bowie or an Alien) so I ordered the lenses.  The freaky green ones.  Of course.

I always thought color contact lenses were the peak of vanity and pretty ridiculous.  Especially since the only people I ever say wearing them were Asian girls and Black ladies whose sapphire-blue eyes were patently fake.   It never occured to me to want to change my eye color.  Now, apparently I have the option to make them a scary minty green.  Heh.

The question remains though, after all the lengths I've gone to for this costume (that I'm going to wear once) does buying color contact lenses seem more crazy? or just more of the same?

[dailymotion id=xph5g]

Video Clip : And I Say To Myself

Singer : David Bowie

[dailymotion id=xukbw]

Video Clip : Magic Dance

Singer : David Bowie

The Dubreq Stylophone is a miniature stylus operated synthesizer invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis. It consists of a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus - each note being connected to a cheap voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as children's toys. Rolf Harris appeared for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom.

Read more here about the Stylophone >>

A friend of mine - Roberta - used to reside at Sutton Place with her husband (an ad agency man) back in the seventies - and was an acquaintance of Lou in some capacity.

If I recall correctly, Roberta and I met at Max's Kansas City, a hot little "in" spot in the Village where the celebrity clientele used to throw chick peas at each other.

I was on an apartment search, and the party girl of the hour, gracously invited me to stay with her family for a few days until I got situated.

Roberta was pretty and petite and a former model.

I think her hubbie was pleased that we became friends because he felt I was a good influence on her.

While he was busy at work hours on end, Roberta - social butterfly extraordaire - was out mixing and mingling with the trendy jet-set.

She loved to shop at Bloomies (Bloomingdales).

In fact, if I am not mistaken, Roberta was the one who first introduced me to the rarefied air of the prestigious department store all the rage in NYC.

Her eclectic circle of friends consisted of fashion models, musicians, and groupies.

One evening, we were all lolling around the spacious living-room chatting each other up, when Roberta announced that Lou Reed was stopping in to - as a friend in Canada would charmingly put it - say boo.

Being the star-struck kid that I was in those days, my jaw dropped!

If you lived in the "Big Apple", chances are you caught a glimpse of wild man Reed, dashing about the dynamic city core.

But now, he was going to be a party guest in the same tony enclave as me!

After what seemed to be an agonizing wait, the buzzer rang at the door.

When Roberta strolled over to answer, the well-heeled doorman below simply uttered up two words.

"It's him."

In a few tantalizing moments, Lou Reed was striding through the beautifully-crafted door - with guitar in hand - dressed head-to-toe in an eye-popping orange leather outfit.

It was a startling knock-out image to drink in - especially when you consider that in the dead of winter without a month or two of sun - Lou's face was pale with a slight green tinge to it.

Just like the rest of us, uh huh.

Surprisingly, he was quite the down-to-earth dude!

At one point in the conversation, he whipped out his guitar and strummed it a bit.

When I noted I was pursuing a singing career - within minutes - Lou dragged me into a rock n' roll version of "Some Where Over the Rainbow".

Shortly after, he departed to meet a couple of social obligations 'round town.

Sadly, that was the last I saw of him.

"Walk on the Wild Side" (penned a short while later) included a lyric about a friend of mine - Andy Warhol star - Jackie Curtis.

In that tune, if you recall, Lou sang:

"Jackie was just speeding away."

Yes, Jackie thought she was James Dean for a day.

And, Little Joe?

Nope. Never once gave it away.

I wondered if our little encounter ever inspired him to write a line or two about me?

Naw!

Favorite Lou Reed tune?

Satellite of Love!

Perfect Day (which I hope to record one day) is a close second!

Lou, if you catch this little tribute, howdy!

3 Stooges - David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed -

[dailymotion id=x51iol]

Video Clip : Everything Is You

Singer : David Bowie

Welcome to a special, epic two-part magnum opus where we look at the bookended films that encapsulated the 'Twin Peaks' phenomenon of the early 1990s, beginning with the two-hour pilot episode and concluding with the oft-maligned theaterical release 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.'

Film: Twin Peaks (Pilot) (1990) and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Rated: (Fire Walk with Me) R
Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch and Mark Frost

[audio http://www.archive.org/download/NatsukashiEpisodeXxvTwinPeaksPart2/FireWalkfinal.mp3]

[dailymotion id=x2t52l]

Video Clip : I Can't Read

Singer : David Bowie

[dailymotion id=x4fx4u]

Video Clip : I Feel Free

Singer : David Bowie

Esse termo ficou muito popularizado devido à música da Rita Lee e a partir disso virou uma definição para pessoas que se sentem diferentes dos outros membros de sua família, quer seja por suas atitudes, aparência ou mesmo pelo modo que enxergam a vida e trilham seus caminhos.

Geralmente causam diversas discussões familiares por não concordarem com tudo aquilo que lhes é imposto pelos pais, que por sua vez, encaram como rebeldia e desrespeito esses questionamentos.

Se você já se sentiu assim ou mesmo teve ou ainda tem que usar um disfarce na sua própria casa para manter um falso clima de paz e não sofrer rejeição, o Tudo Por Nada traz uma bela dica que certamente você se identificará muito.

"C.R.A.Z.Y. - Loucos de Amor" será exibido nessa sexta-feira, dia 10 às 18hs na Biblioteca Viriato Corrêa e conta a história cheia de conflitos e descobertas de Zac, o quarto filho de uma família de 5 irmãos (o título do filme contém as iniciais dos nomes de cada irmão) e a maneira como ele e sua família terão que se aceitar.

Endereço: Rua Sena Madureira, 298 - Vila Mariana
(11) 5573-4017
(11) 5574-0389

Premièrement, la qualité du son de cette album est à jeter par terre. En effet, ce que je "reprochais" aux autres albums du groupe, c'est la qualité brouillon de la production. Les chansons étaient super bonne, mais il me semblais que justice n'étais pas rendu.

Ce n'est pas le cas avec ce disque.

Justice est rendu.

Les instruments sont clairs et nous entendons toutes les subtilités que les gars ont voulu nous démontrer. De plus, il y a un petit côté pop et groovy à la chose et ce n'est que pour le mieux.

David Bowie avait déjà encensé le groupe. Que va-t-il en dire maintenant?

En fait, il ne pourra rien dire...

Il restera bouche bée...

Et croyez moi, juste d'imaginer le Thin White Duke muet, pour moi, ça veut tout dire...

A friend of mine sent me another recently. This is the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain doing a cover of "Life on Mars." I know... you're thinking it's probably funny. I went in thinking the same. But as I listened, I started thinking "wow, this is quite good, actually." See what you think...

[dailymotion id=x2jbdm]

Video Clip : Tonight

Singer : David Bowie

[dailymotion id=x3kuf6]

Video Clip : Dead Man Walking

Singer : David Bowie

O CD tem produção executiva de Tony Visconti, parceiro e produtor de David Bowie e T-Rex. As influências dos meninos são bem variadas como: AC/DC, Courtney Love, Lil' Kim, Elvis, Axl Rose, Marilyn Monroe, the Pixies, Kurt Cobain e Jessica Simpson, tá bom pra vocês?! Então se joga no clipe dos meninos, que inclusive tem o mesmo nome da banda “Semi Precious Weapons”, eles inclusive já foram comentadíssimos no podcast #4 (Já ouviu? Não? Clique aqui e arrasa!)