Save your sorrow... (part 1)

Lately I had some interest for Amanda Lear... I think I like her because she's the girl who's dumped David Bowie to start a disco career... You can't be more "beautiful loser" than that!! ♥

It started to get this "facination" after my brother offered me the second issue of Schnock, for my birthday:

I've enjoy very much, reading the 36pages about her friendship with Dali, her little love affaire with Bowie and with Brian Jones, her cool life when she was working as a top model with Nico and Twiggy, her disco career and her jet-set life, her work at Berlusconi's tv channel, her success at the theatre, etc.
Amanda Lear is a kind of "UFO" to me... She's such a versatil person.
She's done such completely different things in her lifetime.
And she's a mystery... after all these years, everyone's still wondering if she was born a girl or a boy?.. Is she or is she not a transsexual... I don't think she is, cause if she was that would have been the best kept secret of all times! haha...
But it's true the masculin lines of her face and her very low voice make people speak and write about it... Some say that she is the person who inspired the androgynous Ziggy Stardust to Bowie... Who knows?... I only think as short as they've been together for, they just had impact in each others life and then carried on in different directions after she's dumped him. After all, she was right, it was an impossible love story, he had a son and was still married; moreover, he was wearing even more make-up than she was, so she certainly had enough of washing the pillow cases ;-)
Though I think they looked lovely as a couple... Watch this footage (Bowie was performing "Sorrow", a cover of the Merseys, for NBC's Midnight Special. The show was filmed at the Marquee Club, in London, on November 16th, 1973. They are on a chess board, Amanda is the dark queen and he is the white knight. A little speech between them is introducing the song), this is quite touching:

Happy 65th birthday dear major Tom!

Ground Control to Major Tom...
Ground Control to Major Tom...
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.

Ground Control to Major Tom...
Commencing countdown, engines on.
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

One, Two, Three, Four,..., Sixty-five! ;-)

This is Ground Control to Major Tom...
You've really made the grade!
And the papers want to wish you a happy 65th birthday!
Also want to say a massive thank you for all your ace songs.
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Cause it's been too long since we've last seen you on a stage!

Well, so many people are dreaming of a possible come back... to be honest, even if you're one of the artists I'd like to have the chance to see one day, Mr Bowie, I don't mind... I'm already happy you sung a song with my name ;-)
Of course, I'm concious it rather was somebody-else-called-like-me's name... but, it's my right to pretend!!! So I'm pretending... Hey, that's what the song's asking anyway: "Julie, pretend for me..." ;-)



Don't worry people, I'm also perfectly conscious of the fact I'm only writing on my blog and not talking to David Bowie. We all know he'll never read this, but still I'm pretending... ;-)
No, I'm not insane. Or I might be fractionally insane yeah, and deal with it, cause that who I am!!

So again, a very happy 65th birthday to David Bowie, who's 'not a prophet or a stone age man,just a mortal with the potential of a superman'.



And as a little bonus, here are some pictures of David Bowie doing 'normal' stuff like going to the museum, food-shopping, pouring himself a drink, playing bowling, exercising, etc.

Changes

I'm feeling different... different in a good way!!!

So the song stuck in my mind this morning is Changes
(Not Bowie's one, Tahiti 80's one! And by the way, there's a David Bowie new release coming out on January 26th, a reality tour live CD)

Changes...
Because changes are happening, it's too late to turn back. Changes are happening, the surface begins to crack. What you had in mind, it's turning into something of another kind. So just dream anything you want to say. And make up the rules for the games you choose to play!
It's now the good time to let the past behind and just go ahead! Can't you see everything is about to change... Are you ready for something new?
It's a new year starting, it's a new life starting too!

So what is going to change concretely on this blog...

- a new "I can't seem to spend a night at home" section
(containing all the masterplans for the best evenings out according to me, because let's say it: 'Time Out' is shit!)

- a new "don't let the old things change, let one more thing stay the same" section
(if you recognise the song, you'll know it refers to our favourite places in London)

- a new "naughtyfication" section
(I don't tell more for now ;-))

plus few other little updates here and there, you will see... :-)

Panic in the streets of London...

"Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ hey!"
(by the way here is a cover of this Smiths song, by Elektrocution (a great great great band cause there're from where I'm from! ;-) No, honestly, they are a great band to see on stage!)

So, what makes a good DJset? Well, first, I think there must be an opening ("hey oh, let's go!") and it must also have an end ("it's time to get away") then you need something new to make the people discover and something old to make them remember, and also few usual shits to make them dance on. And that's it! The list is complete!

So here is my list as promised, for a bit more than an hour of fun:

- 1. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
- 2. Greta - Ipso Facto
- 3. Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
- 4. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
- 5. La Rançon Du Succès - Mano Negra
- 6. Love For Sale - Talking Heads
- 7. This Is Not A Love song - PIL
- 8. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
- 9. Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
- 10. This Charming Man - The Smiths
- 11. The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
- 12. Caught By The Fuzz - Supergrass
- 13. Monday Morning - Pulp
- 14. Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
- 15. Sisters Are Forever - Sexy Kids
- 16. Footsteps - Bricolage
- 17. Made of Stone - Spiral Beach
- 18. BMW - Let's Tea Party
- 19. Steven Smith - The Organ
- 20. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
- 21. I Hate Rock'n'Roll - The Royal We
- 22. Listen and Repeat - Televised Crimewave
- 23. Diamond Hoo Ha Man - Supergrass
- 24. Kind Of Beast - Spiral Beach
- 25. Time To Get Away - LCD Soundsystem

Memories of the past...

Today in my mind, is a song by David Bowie: Space Oddity
Wich also brings me all those memories I don't want to remember but don't want to forget about! Yes this is a pure paradox but this is me and my twisted mind! Planet Earth is blue and there is nothing I can do! If major Tom gives up, I guess I just have to do the same and keep floating in a most peculiar way...