On this day

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Heikki's post, to which as usual I am scarily in close agreement, touts Bowie properly and 
mentions salient aspects of 70's zeitgeist (a Starbux kind of word, don't you think?), but 
ends w/ this dangerous comment:

>Isn't there some similarity betw. Pynchon and Bowie, by the way, both
>producing great stuff until their mid-thirties, after which...

Watch it Heikki, the VINELAND forever crowd is still here . . .

john m



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>On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Henry M wrote:
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>> Am I wrong, or is today both Elvis P's and David Bowie's birthday?
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>It is true: Mr. Jones is 50 today. Which leads me to notice that there was
>space oddity in the air already when GR came out. It wasn't totally an all-
>straight 60's atmosphere (to which GR has so often been connected) in 1972-73 
>anymore, in popular music at least. Bowie, New York Dolls -- The Factory
>having actually fallen down but dissiminated in the process. _Transformer_, 
>T. Rex, Alice Cooper in a way, too, and that hybrid of a gorilla and
>Liberace, Gary Glitter. Slade was also quite glittery in spite of their
>Brit working class machoism. Roxy Music. Yes with the eunuch-like Jon
>Anderson. And others subverting the "natural" "authenticity" of the
>previous decade. Admittedly, America was still more into All-Man Brothers
>and Co., wasn't it. 
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>Isn't there some similarity betw. Pynchon and Bowie, by the way, both
>producing great stuff until their mid-thirties, after which...
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>Heikki
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