Month: January 2001

A small Jean Genie

flipflopflyin.com is home to a collection of amusing little people called Minipops. These are tiny pictures of all your favourite popstars and celebrities. Some are animated, but all will make you laugh. There are four versions of David; Early 70’s, Thin White Duke, Let’s Dance and ‘at 50’ in the Union Jack coat.

There are lots of other fun things on the site, including an animated, minipop webcam of Kraftwerk in the studio.

Thanks, Spaceface!

We smoke and talk in my room and we dig everything

Trivia Chat has come and gone once again, only this time we had the privilege of presenting a special prize of two (2) most excellent tickets to the Tibet Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on February 26th. Hats off to Aleczandah, the Grand Prize Winner!

Other winners of autographed posters, T-shirts and games include:

Ste
TheGuru
BraveApollo
DEmerson
Susans
Christensen

Way to go, everyone, thanks for playing and thanks to Total Blam Blam for some of the questions (you know, the Kinder stumpers).

Thanks, Saint Alphonzo!

I’m back on Suffragette City

Hi, I’m back online after my traumatic ‘terminal event.’ If you have been worrying about your lack of back ups, then don’t wait, get yourself a zip drive pdq. I am up and running again, but I think my files are gone for good. Still, I always like new starts and clean sweeps, although maybe not quite so clean as this one…. My new hard drive makes spooky, unfamiliar noises, and my new software is very alien…eek….lol.

Thanks all of you for your concern and support. Outernetters might say that it was only a few days, no biggie, but you internetters know how even a day offline can make your typing fingers itch.

Anyway, I’m back in harness and ready for more. I missed you guys! Love yas.

:))

Welcome Back, Spaceface! Lerrrrrve on ya!

I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him if he’d make me five…

Looks like Simone has you all stumped this month, (01/22/01 NEWS: FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH*…TIME FOR GUESS THE LYRIC!) Well, the majority of you at least. Most all of you have no problem with Vivian’s clue, but Simone’s has proved much harder to solve. You may wonder what the picture of the little person above has to do with all of this? Well the little lady is a further clue for you. Regular visitors to David’s Journal will know the portrait already, and there is a further clue in her name, which is neither Port or Amsterdam!

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

In case you didn’t get a chance to take the karma poll yesterday, here it is again. If you had difficulty scrolling yesterday (although there should be no need to scroll), this window will allow scrolling.

Agaion, please keep in mind that karma points are completely separate from user points. Karma points enable you to “rate” submissions in both the Site of the Month and Gallery areas, and to bump up or bump down the general “vibe” of a post on the message boards. You probably know this already, but there it is again to refresh your memory before you take this short poll. Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Let’s Dance! (to the song they’re playing on the radio)

We are delighted….okay, we’re ecstatic to announce that coming in February BowieNet will launch a new and wonderful feature called Bowie Radio! This feature will allow you to listen to Bowie tracks 24/7 anytime you’re on BowieNet – and of course the tracks will include rare live performances including some never released before! Yeow!

Lean on me, man… Trouble getting tickets to the Tibet Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall? Don’t fret, one lucky winner from Thursday’s Trivia Chat will win a pair of tickets to the sold out event!

It’s a crash course for the ravers…

Yes, I’ve read the morning papers, Telling me that you’ve made money…

It’s that season in the UK again, when the Sunday’s publish their guestimations of just how much British millionaires have in their piggy banks. The Mail on Sunday are first this year, and they have a full page picture of David Bowie, who they reckon has managed to save £125m. This figure possibly shows a keener imagination at work than the one that dreamt up the headline of ‘The Pop Chameleon’, but not quite as keen as the imagination that spewed the short biography. On a general theme of the ever-changing Bowie personae (nice new angle) the writer has managed to dig up a moment in David’s career that eluded me: “…from the transvestite character of his Changes album”.

If this is an example of how good the research at work here is, I think perhaps it is also an indication of how seriously we should take these findings.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Singing old songs we loved…

If you can get along to ‘Darkness and Disgrace’ (see 01/17/01 NEWS: BOWIE GETS THE CABARET TREATMENT IN LONDON) before the last show on Sunday the 28th, then don’t hesitate, it really is a very clever and most entertaining piece. “A musical cabaret from the songs of David Bowie”, ‘Darkness and Disgrace’ is a touching performance that claims to be about songs and “how a good song can be a powerful thing, living in the imagination in ways that the songwriter may never have foreseen”.

There really are some inspired musical moments in the piece such as the marriage of ‘Tired Of My Life’ and ‘It’s No Game’, and pretty well all of the arrangements, despite their sparseness (most are performed using only piano and voice and occasionally guitar) prove how magical these songs truly are. But if you’re expecting a tribute band, then don’t go. Des de Moor never attempts to look or sound like David Bowie, and ‘Darkness and Disgrace’ is all the better for that. Without these distractions the focus on the songs themselves is even sharper.

Russell Churney and Des de Moor

The dialogue is also a treat. From Mr de Moor’s first sighting of the ‘Starman’ on Top Of The Pops, via an excerpt from ‘1984’ that brilliantly introduces a stunning performance of ‘We Are The Dead’, through to pianist Russell Churney’s straight reading, concerning mental illness, from David’s infamous Playboy interview of 1975. It’s clear that both of these men were deeply affected by David Bowie and his music in their youth and that they still feel he writes meaningful songs today, this is borne out by their performance of ‘I Have Not Been to Oxford Town’.

I do intend to post one of the songs from ‘Darkness and Disgrace’ as a stream, along with an interview with Des and Russell in the very near future, but in the meantime here is an excellent review by BowieNetter Dick Mac, accompanied by a couple of shots I took on the night.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

…slow down…

As promised, here is the official BowieNet poll for the issue of Karma points. We want to know what kind of karma you give the karma (sorry). Please note that you must include your username in order for your responses to be counted.

Please keep in mind that karma points are completely separate from user points. Karma points enable you to “rate” submissions in both the Site of the Month and Gallery areas, and to bump up or bump down the general “vibe” of a post on the message boards. You probably know this already, but there it is again to refresh your memory before you take this short poll. Thanks in advance for your feedback!