Comments on: David Bowie and Tilda Swinton

By: Adddeeyyy

Adddeeyyy — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:46:00 +0000

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!

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:13:00 +0000

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

By: Frans Schuman

Frans Schuman — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:55:00 +0000

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)

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:34:00 +0000

That one seemed to be a bit complicated

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:56:00 +0000

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

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:34:00 +0000

Check out the Bowie cover art here

http://thisisnthappiness.com/page/12

May have to scroll to next page

By: UncaScrooge

UncaScrooge — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:14:00 +0000

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

By: grimatongueworm

grimatongueworm — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:32:00 +0000

No Flight of the Conchords cameo? Opportunity wasted.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:29:00 +0000

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.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:29:00 +0000

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

By: Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:14:00 +0000

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.)

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:52:00 +0000

Simply Brilliant.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:41:00 +0000

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.

By: Meander, ridendos nihil est

Meander, ridendos nihil est — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:09:00 +0000

You just won the Internet.

By: David Kopelman

David Kopelman — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:13:00 +0000

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

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:45:00 +0000

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

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:05:00 +0000

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

By: Kenmrph

Kenmrph — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:25:00 +0000

The did! Tilda was actually an extra in Labyrinth.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:01:00 +0000

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

By: Billy Davis

Billy Davis — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:52:00 +0000

Bowie’s got really big old man ears.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:46:00 +0000

[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.

By: V

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:32:00 +0000

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

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

By: Cameron Postelwait

Cameron Postelwait — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:15:00 +0000

sex wax maybe.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:07:00 +0000

This is your face on Fred MacMurray.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000

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

By: Supernumerary

Supernumerary — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:38:00 +0000

My two favorite alien beings. They are glorious.

By: franko

franko — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:32:00 +0000

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…”

By: Shawn Goldwater

Shawn Goldwater — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:20:00 +0000

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

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:17:00 +0000

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”.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:13:00 +0000

Wow.