Db Planning To Take The Rest Of The Year Off

And he’s hooked to the silver screen…

The current issue of New York Magazine (May 8th) has reported that David Bowie is planning no recording or touring in 2006. Here’s the full piece:

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The Dad Who Fell to Earth
Sneaks into the movies.
By Jada Yuan

David Bowie is taking a break from being David Bowie, at least for a year. ?I?m fed up with the industry,? he said at the Vanity Fair party last week. ?And I?ve been fed up for quite some time.? He greeted strangers with, ?Hi! I?m David. I have seven children. And I?m fucking freezing.? So how does an icon slack? ?Just don?t participate. I?m taking a year off?no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning, and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row. I like going out to the Angelika: If the first one?s only okay, I?ll sneak into one after the other. It?s so easy.? He says he has no plans to take up hobbies either. ?I?ve been listening to Arcade Fire and Secret Machines and this great opera from the eighties called Nixon in China. It?s just that. He gets off the plane. He has dinner with Mao. Someday, I might do opera. But I don?t have a musical in me, much less a vampire musical.?

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So there you have it, an opera perhaps…but certainly nothing for the rest of this year.

Whatever David does decide to do, I know you’ll all want to join me in wishing him well with his next venture, whatever it may be.

Enjoy your time off David…God knows you’ve earned it.

Much love to you and yours from everybody here at BowieNet.