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  • Fantome_NR

    are the humanoids forms depicted in the top image actually alive? they look like they are made of wax.

    • chaopoiesis

      This is your face on Fred MacMurray.

      • http://meander61.blogspot.com/ Meander, ridendos nihil est

         You just won the Internet.

    • http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

      sex wax maybe.

  • UnderachievingSheep

    I haven’t been this excited over a new, mainstream album release in years. I don’t care if it’s not his best one (chances are it won’t) or if it’s not entirely original or what have you. Still, Bowie manages to be vastly superior to practically anything churned by the pop music industry. 

    Now, if only he would also tour…

    • UnderachievingSheep

      Replying to myself to add (because edits don’t allow for addition of photos): the tabloid cover in the video was a nice touch.

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

        Wow.

    • robuluz

      You’re wondering if the guy who created Diamond Dogs (the best album EVER?), Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters and I’ll throw in Lodger just because of ‘Look back in anger’, all more than 30 years ago, might still have his best work in front of him?

      I admire your reach UnderachievingSheep, I admire your reach.

  • lovelystrangeness

    This is relevant: http://tildastardust.tumblr.com/

    • Antinous / Moderator

      In the 60s, we used to think that Hans Conried and Hermione Gingold were the same person.

  • Preston Sturges

    Where else would you find that much androgyny?

  • penguinchris

    I’m not sure I like the song as much as the first one from a few weeks ago (though that one admittedly took a few listens to take hold and I only watched this once so far), but the video was really quite interesting. The song feels like the next iteration from 2000′s-era Bowie, but the video hearkens back to his ~80′s era videos a bit, while still being unique and new (the Bowie trademark). That’s opposed to the earlier song, which lyrically (not musically) hearkened back to his late 70′s era but the video of which was very “new aesthetic”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Goldwater/806673997 Shawn Goldwater

    Tilda should have played the younger Bowie in the mirror in that video for Thursday’s Child. 

  • franko

    behold the power and the brilliance of bowie. who else would think to have tilda swinton play him, and who else could GET her? “hi, tilda, it’s david… i have this idea…”

    • http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael

      [RING! RING!]
      BOWIE: Yes, of course, this is hello.
      TILDA: Yo, what up DB!
      B: Pardon me?
      T: This Bowie?
      B: Oh yes! I am the Bowie. Are we, perhaps, familiar?
      T: Naw, we ain’t formally acquainted.
      B: Oh! But, who can you be?
      T: This is Tilda.
      B: Tilde?
      T: Tilda.
      B: Toldya?
      T: Tilda.
      B: Tante?
      T: Tilda. Like, KMS AKA Katherine Matilda Swinton AKA Tilda Stardust AKA…
      B: Ah yes! Perhaps, yes! I can also be MANY people inside of my mind! Do you enjoy grapefruit?
      T: What?
      B: It is HIDING! But it is not so clever! HA HA HA HA! … HA HA HA HA!
      T: … What?
      B: Sure, exactly. …
      T: … Ok. … So you probly wonderin why I called.
      B: No.
      T: …
      B: Hee-hee! Yes! That was just some of my tricking! Pickle! Pickle! Legs on FIRE! Hide your shame on the telephone wire!
      T: … You one kooky French bastard!
      B: English bastard.

  • Supernumerary

    My two favorite alien beings. They are glorious.

  • IronEdithKidd

    They should’ve done this 20 years ago.  So, so long overdue.

    • Kenmrph

      The did! Tilda was actually an extra in Labyrinth.

      • IronEdithKidd

        Oh, great.  If she’s a muppet or a pair of hands somewhere, I’ll never find her.

  • V

    Where’s the bit when he turns into an eagle?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0GtD5UfX2k

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=744804703 Billy Davis

    Bowie’s got really big old man ears.

    • IronEdithKidd

      Check out the cover art for Low.  He’s always had some big radar dishes.

    • Dave Faris

      He’s been in retirement for all these years, hiding from comments just like this one.

  • David Kopelman

    I couldn’t get past the premise that David Bowie does his own food shopping.

  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    Simply Brilliant.

  • http://twitter.com/MadelineAshby Madeline Ashby

    I caught a glimpse of Ms. Swinton during the period when they were filming this. She is just as beautiful in person. (Or, in my case, waiting for a red light at Rossmore and Rosewood.)

  • http://twitter.com/bazilisk Sylvia

    I love it. Is it , like, as an old man star, he’s passing the baton to the younger stars? The female young celebrity looks a bit like Lady Gaga with those fingers, is that intentional?

    But then he- they’re both- a cool, older Bowie at the end.

    Dig this a lot.

  • grimatongueworm

    No Flight of the Conchords cameo? Opportunity wasted.

  • UncaScrooge

    I was in France or Switzerland
    In a store looking out on a cobblestoned street in a quaint village
    I had received a toy xylophone in the mail, it was sent by David Bowie
    Saying to come visit him at his recording studio
    But it was a form letter
    With my name stamped on it
    Apparently he had sent many people the same xylophone
    With the same request
    Saying that he was working on a new record
    And anybody with some ideas should come and visit him.
    I thought, “Yeah he’ll take everybody’s ideas and then we’ll never hear from him again.”
    The more I pondered this, the less benevolent the gift became.

    – Ann Magnuson

  • Preston Sturges

    Check out the Bowie cover art here

    http://thisisnthappiness.com/page/12

    May have to scroll to next page

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Did you know that you can link directly to a post instead of using a link that will be useless in an hour?

      • Preston Sturges

        That one seemed to be a bit complicated

        • ocker3

          There’s a horizontal arrow below each post, when you mouseover it, the text Permalink is displayed

  • http://twitter.com/fransschuman Frans Schuman

    His first single was cryptic. Is he literally showing us that the bottle is empty?

    This is my interpretation of Where Are We Now (David Bowie)

  • Adddeeyyy

    This video is too great! Even more amazing that the record is streaming on iTunes right now! After nearly a decade this is such a pleasant surprise!