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David Bowie’s Death Itself Was a Science Fiction Masterpiece

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/even-da...ce-fiction

EXCERPT: [...] He dropped the “Lazarus” video, a companion piece to the sci-fi epic “Blackstar,” in which he inhabits a world of dead astronauts, scarecrow mutants, and eternal candles, with the album, three days before he died. It is about a man, played by David Bowie, who levitates on his deathbed. Watching “Blackstar,” it’s now impossible to think of that jewel-encrusted spaceman skull—the inevitable end of Major Tom, maybe—as anyone but Bowie’s. It’s incredible to think that he knew millions of people would be watching him float above a hospital death bed as he was likely literally lying on one. Cueing up that glittering astro-skull on YouTube. Even at the moment of his own death, he was using the language of science fiction to goad us into thinking about our own. Pretty fitting for a man who’d made a career of using the same method to blow our minds on everything from gender politics to internet technology. To turn pop music into a vehicle through which to think about and nod along to the future....
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We might as well get used to a monthly passing away of some great music legend. The 60's and 70's stars are reaching their 70's. All those drugs will have taken their toll on the kidneys and liver. Glenn Frey of the Eagles died today. There'll be a return to the golden oldies in record sales. The boomers holding on to their last scraps of fading hippy-ness.
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(Jan 19, 2016 04:00 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: We might as well get used to a monthly passing away of some great music legend. The 60's and 70's stars are reaching their 70's. All those drugs will have taken their toll on the kidneys and liver. Glenn Frey of the Eagles died today. There'll be a return to the golden oldies in record sales. The boomers holding on to their last scraps of fading hippy-ness.


I'm astonished that Keith Richards is outliving many of those those younger than him.
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(Jan 19, 2016 06:05 AM)C C Wrote:
(Jan 19, 2016 04:00 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: We might as well get used to a monthly passing away of some great music legend. The 60's and 70's stars are reaching their 70's. All those drugs will have taken their toll on the kidneys and liver. Glenn Frey of the Eagles died today. There'll be a return to the golden oldies in record sales. The boomers holding on to their last scraps of fading hippy-ness.


I'm astonished that Keith Richards is outliving many of those those younger than him.


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I believe Keith Richard's blood, as well as the rest of his bodily fluids, are rated a Class 6 Toxic/Infectious level on the official U.S. Hazmat classification list.
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