My thoughts on Bowie

[Mark Thibodeau]

Another ballsy, amazing artist.

J

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:24 PM, john bove <malignd at gmx.com> wrote:
> Warren Zevon did it.
>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10:14 AM
> From: "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: My thoughts on Bowie
> Consider how courageous it is for an artist to release an album on the
> verge of death. I mean, it's wonderful that Blackstar is as good as it
> is, and has turned out to be a critically acclaimed milestone... but
> what if the consensus had been different? Imagine dying weeks after
> releasing an album that everybody thought was rubbish?
>
> On a more serious note...
>
> Legend is an honorific that is all too often bandied about. In the
> case of David Bowie, it applies.
>
> Bowie didn't just live a life without compromise, he lived many, his
> fictional personae more authentically lived than most contemporary
> celebrities' actual realities.
>
> The sounds and visions he gifted to we unworthy acolytes had the
> visceral psychic density of the most lucid of dreams.
>
> Now David Bowie the man is gone, but he's left his creations behind to
> keep us all company until time and memory run out.
>
> And if that isn't magick, then I don't know what is.
>
> Mark Thibodeau aka Jerky LeBoeuf
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