There is a new compilation of David Bowie mash-ups and remixes out for Bowie fans to acquire. The latest addition to the ever-growing list of covers, remixes, and mash-ups is Ziggy Stardust Remixed gathered by DJ BC. You can download the album at the Ziggy Stardust Remixed website. Prefixmag posted a review of the album, if you’re interested.
My take on the album? There is a lot of good stuff on there. Stardust Kids is hands down the best song on the album. I’m going to blast it in my car with the windows rolled down at least once a day for the next two weeks. The other fun ones were Starman (ATOM’s Space Funk Journey), Soul Love (ATOM’s Pink Innards Mix), Easy Hypocrites, and Five Years (World Famous Audio Hacker’s Brainache Mix). But nothing else on the album touches Stardust Kids.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, More To Own, News, Opinions | Comments Off on New Ziggy Stardust RemixEntertainment Weekly website is featuring seventeen behind-the-scenes portraits taken from Clay Enos’ photography book from the upcoming Watchmen movie. The portraits show the main characters of the movie, a few essential supporting characters, and a couple of bit players in costume. Among the bit players are a couple of actors dressed as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. This makes the second nod to Bowie in the film.
On a side note, when I saw Matt Frewer photographed as Edward Jacobi I finally realized that the actor that plays Taggart in Eureka is the same dude that plays the Trashcan Man in The Stand. Hello, I’m clueless. That’s the type of useless stuff that I usually know! I need to spend less time working and more time boning up on my pop culture knowledge. One day I’ll need to save the planet from an alien invasion by winning at a trivia game.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, News, Opinions | 3 Comments »Hot damn, I love TV on the Radio. They managed to out-awesome themselves with their cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” for the upcoming War Child project Heroes. Visit Pitchfork to hear the streaming audio of “Heroes”. And then mark your calendars to buy War Child’s Heroes when it comes out on February 16.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, More To Own, News | 1 Comment »As any proud parent would do, David Bowie attended the opening of Moon at the Sundance Film Festival. In his official quote to BowieNet he said, “It’s such a great movie. It’s hard to believe it’s his first. I’m so happy for him and proud as Punch.” You can see pictures of the proud daddy and Duncan Jones at WireImage.com. (An account is required to view the pictures, the basic account is free.) Also appearing in the pictures are Sam Rockwell, Sting (side note:My God, what the hell happened to Sting? Did he fall in a vat of Grecian Formula after visiting the Unabomber’s stylist?), and Trudie Styler, the film’s producer.
In the BowieNet news item, you’ll note that Moon will be widely released by Sony later this year. We’ll post more information on the release as we hear about it.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, Movies, News | 1 Comment »Got a couple more Moon goodies here today. The first is an interview with Duncan Jones at QuietEarth.com. Incidentally, Quiet Earth looks like a cool site in general. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I plan on browsing through it for some recommendations for horror and scifi films. I can’t remember the last horror film I saw that really scared the piss outta me. But I digress….the second goody I have is another interview, this time with Sam Rockwell. This one contains spoilers, so beware. The review is up at Defamer.com.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, Movies, News | 1 Comment »Finally found some showtime listings for Moon. The Sundance site wasn’t working, so I had to go to BowieWonderWorld. If you’re in the Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah area this weekend, go watch it and support Duncan Jones and his directorial debut.
Day: Friday, January 23, MOONN23CE
Time: 6:15 pm
Theater: Eccles Center, Park City
Day: Saturday, January 24, MOONN24CM
Time: 9:00 am
Theater: Eccles Center, Park City
Day: Saturday, January 24, MOONN24GN
Time: 9:30 pm
Theater: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City
Day: Sunday, January 25, MOONN25SA
Time: 1:00 pm
Theater: Sundance Institute Screening Room at the Sundance Resort, North Fork of Provo Canyon, Sundance, UT
Visit the Sundance Film Festival Website for directions and information on the shuttle system.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, Movies, News | Comments Off on Weekend Showings for MoonDuncan Jones (the son of David Bowie) made his directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with his first film Moon. The film stars Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, stationed on a lunar base for a three-year stint to oversee the mining of Helium-3, and Kevin Spacey as the voice of GERTY, the AI computer. (Maybe cousin to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only less homicidal?) Since I haven’t seen the movie, I won’t even try to give you a plot summary, but I will point you towards Drew McWeeny’s review on Motion/Captured and James Rocchi’s review on Cinematical. And if you don’t mind spoilers, io9 has some videos posted. (I’m not watching these because I don’t want the ending to be given away.)
It goes without saying that the Webmaster and I are eager to see this movie, not just because Duncan Jones is Bowie’s son and Sam Rockwell is a great actor, but also because sci-fi movies that tell a classic sci-fi story are rare these days. I’ve been a big fan of classic sci-fi writers like Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke since I was a pre-teen and stories like those don’t come around often. So many sci-fi movies are basically action movies or campy fantasy buffed with a futuristic sheen. So few movies adress the issues that classic writers like Bradbury and Asimov addressed – where are we as the human race headed in the future? What are we doing to ourselves with technology? Are we making ourselves more or less human? How are we destroying ourselves by trying to make our lives easier? Now I love campy sci-fi as much as the next geeky chick (as evidenced by the fact that currently all the system sounds on my computer are from The Fifth Element), but true sci-fi is an all-too-rare treat. Judging from the reviews, I feel pretty comfortable in placing some hope that Moon will be a throw-back to the 1950s radio plays of Dimension X (only without the xenophobia some of those plays expressed!). In fact, I have so much hope for this film and what it has the possibility to do for sci-fi that I won’t even cheapen it with a Sam Bell/Major Tom allusion.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, Movies, News, Opinions | 2 Comments »Last night Neil Patrick Harris hosted Saturday Night Live and completely owned every host in the past. Even Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. There, I said it. But more than that, in one sketch he portrayed David Frost grilling Other People….one of which included Bill Hader as David Bowie.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m just happy someone thought to parody Aladdin Sane and reference Starman. And I’m friggin’ tickled that it was Bill Hader. But did it have to be so damn Bill Hader as Austin Powers as Aladdin Sane? For God’s sake, SNL dredge up an old Ziggy Stardust video or two on YouTube! The man who lived on broccoli and milk for a year and saw the Devil in his pool would not have given that interview.
Posted in Circle Of Friends, Opinions | 1 Comment »The biography of Scott Walker, 30 Century Man, is now playing in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After release last year in the U.K. it has finally reached Stateside! The documentary features David Bowie and Brian Eno, among other musicians. See the official website for dates and venues.
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After a long illness, Guy Peellaert has passed away. He was 74. Peellaert is best known for designing the covers for Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones’ It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll. Read more about Peellaert at the L.A. Times and GuyPeellaert.com.