tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post6362602766688415345..comments2024-03-07T07:01:59.636-08:00Comments on The Song In My Head Today: Farewell David BowieHolly A Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-83971184066427286412016-01-14T20:58:49.828-08:002016-01-14T20:58:49.828-08:00Beautiful words about an exceptional human being.Beautiful words about an exceptional human being.judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16997121413115728240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-56873876572783900262016-01-11T10:45:32.486-08:002016-01-11T10:45:32.486-08:00Well-said, Nick. It was quite a feat of prestidigi...Well-said, Nick. It was quite a feat of prestidigitation, the passion and the distance at the same time. And who would guess that theatricality and personas would be the key to letting his listeners in?<br /> Holly A Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-833860277997849222016-01-11T10:37:40.580-08:002016-01-11T10:37:40.580-08:00I saw the news this morning and am still processin...I saw the news this morning and am still processing.<br /><br />I realize that, in an important way, David Bowie was my first major musical love. I grew up as the youngest in a household with a lot of music, and that meant that I felt like I was always catching up, or coming late in my appreciation of music. <br /><br />It wasn't until I went away to college that I had the feeling of exploring music on my own, rather than within the context of other people's tastes. I got a chance to make my own musical discoveries (I was very pleased, for example, when I got excited about Townes Van Zandt to find that nobody else in the family had heard of him before), but I still had a default attitude that my discoveries were just figuring out for myself how to appreciate something which was already familiar to other people.<br /><br />While that was, of course, true for David Bowie as well, Ziggy Stardust was, perhaps, my first experience of connecting emotionally to a recording in a way that revealed an emotional need which I wouldn't have otherwise been able to articulate. <br /><br />I was in my early 20s, just out of college, feeling depressed and directionless, and I found something deeply reassuring about the theatricality of David Bowie -- the ability to express intense emotion while still keeping a certain distance.<br /><br />Thinking about that now, it feels like a long time ago, and much has changed between my memories of that period of time and myself today, learning about David Bowie's death. <br /><br />But he's meant a lot to me over long period of time, and been important in both the development of my own musical tastes and my emotional life.NickShttp://www.beforeyoulisten.comnoreply@blogger.com