DREAM THEATER takes on King Crimson's illustrative Larks Tongues In Aspic (Part 2)
Notes and observations. Diversions and digressions. All done far too infrequently.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
God bless David Bowie
The Guardian on David Bowie
Bowie was an early adopter of the internet, but he didn't really fit with the notion of a star in the 21st century, an era when the manufacturing of pop music has been laid bare on the TV and where stars are perpetually available on Twitter and Tumblr. Rock music currently exists in a world of 360 degree connectivity that's supposed to bring the artist and the fan closer and reveal the real person behind the myth. But as the best of his umpteen biographers David Buckley pointed out, with Bowie, revealing the real person behind the myth is missing the point: "the myth has far greater resonance and is far more intriguing than stolid attempts to identify a 'true' essence … his appeal has lain in the generation of myths." Those myths look likely to remain intact forever, which seems perfectly fitting
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