Category: News
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Drawing Inspiration From Bowie
For those interested, members of a drawing and illustration message board named DrawingBoard.org began a David Bowie caricature thread in February. Some of the submissions are priceless. Check it out at: http://www.drawingboard.org/viewtopic.php?t=67117
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Streaming Audio of TV on the Radio’s cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes”
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.
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David Bowie at the Sundance Festival
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…
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More Fun on the Moon
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…
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Weekend Showings for Moon
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,…
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Moon Premieres at Sundance Film Festival
Duncan 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. …
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War Child Heroes Tracklisting Released
The latest news on the upcoming album from War Child, Heroes, is that the tracklisting has been released. Note that there are different listing for the UK and North America, with TV On The Radio’s cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” appearing at different places on the album. I don’t suppose that will really mean much…
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David Bowie Ruined the Economy and Kicks Babies
In a UK Mirror story yesterday, BBC Economics Editor Evan Davies posed the question, “could David Bowie have caused the … credit crunch?” Let me answer that question with another question: Could Evan Davies have had his lunch money stolen from him in grade school by a bully wearing a David Bowie t-shirt? Davies proposes…
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War Child Album Update!
Not much to tell really, just another update to follow the progress of the upcoming War Child “Heroes” album that we’ve written about three times since we heard of it. The new release day is February 16, 2009. A tracklisting will be coming shortly. Too bad it won’t make it out for Valentine’s Day –…