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  • Trailer for the new Scott Walker Film

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    30 Century Man, the new biographical documentary about the life and career of musician Scott Walker is currently being promoted by the distributor Verve Pictures. It is due for release in the UK on April 27, with showings currently scheduled through June. The film is directed by Stephen Kijak and features interviews with several artists…

  • Coco Schwab Joins David Bowie in The Big 6-0

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    Again I fall prey to my weakness for cheap, trashy gossip blogs. I got this bit of sweet news from Gatecrasher via Gawker. For her 60th birthday, Coco Schwab received a white gold, coral rose, and diamond ring from her boss David Bowie. Everyone say it with me, “Awwwwwrrr! Isn’t that sweet!” Coco has been…

  • Gail Ann Touring with the Hollaback Girl (redux)

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    Let it never be said that Gwen Stefani has no taste – at least musically.  She has asked both Gail Ann Dorsey and Zach Alford to join her for a second solo tour to promote her new solo album “The Sweet Escape.”  You can view the full article, again reported by the Poughkeepsie Journal, here. …

  • Is David Bowie Playing The High Line Festival, Or Isn’t He?

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    Daniel Johnston, one of the artists who has already confirmed that he is playing the High Line Festival after being personally selected by Bowie, is allegedly going to be doing his High Line set with Bowie according to Pitchfork. At the bottom of the article where his live dates are listed, there is a notation…

  • Catch A Falling Star

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    Peter Haywood recently self-published his debut novel, Catch A Falling Star.  The novel tells of the life of Nicholas Walpole, a Bowie-obsessed young man growing up in Melbourne in the early 1980’s moves into a big, ramshackle share house in Lygon Street, Carlton with a bunch of musician friends, forms a band, and dreams of…

  • Handling The Life-Sized Bowie Doll

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    My love of celebrity gossip blogs continues to be justified. Gawker.com recently featured a bit by Alan Baird reminiscing about his days working as a page with with Saturday Night Live back when it was actually funny and the sound system didn’t suck. He recounts a hilarious story of him and Bowie dragging the life-sized…

  • The Duet That Almost Didn’t Happen

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    I’m sure it will come as no surprise when I tell you all that one of my favorite Christmas songs is “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy.”  However, this morning I found out for the first time that it almost didn’t happen due to musical differences.  And I thought I knew the Bowie biography like the…

  • More Shenanigans On The Venture Brothers

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    My friends on the Torched board are too good to me. More fun with the Venture Brothers and the Thin White Duke. An animated, shape-shifting Bowie clocking an animated Iggy before stealing his shape…I may have to get a TiVo season pass for this show. (Thanks Jose!)

  • Another Charity Auction

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    With all the hubbub about the Give Landmines The Boot auction, a tidbit about another auction got lost.  Peter Gabriel recently auctioned off an autographed keyboard to benefit his charity Witness.  The winning bid was $100,000.  Bowie, along with 43 other artists, signed a white key on the keyboard.  Witness is the charity that Gabriel…

  • Odds And Ends

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    While your Webmistress has been on vacation and indisposed due to a head cold, respectively, her friends have kept their sharp eyes peeled for obscure Bowie references on the web. The first one was brought to my attention by Saudade. Composer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, known to some of you as Captain Yonoi from Merry…