David Bowie died at age
69 of Cancer. 69 is an appropriate age
for someone as sexually confused as Bowie.
I was just thinking of David Bowie yesterday when they had “Who’s
singing that Beatles song” and my first guess was David Bowie, when it turned out
to be Iggy Pop, so I was close. I had been
musing yesterday when the all time peak of rock and roll was and had concluded
that he had to be in the early ‘seventies.
The death of David Bowie is not just celebrating one person but a whole
category of music. Back in the early ‘seventies
if you said you were going to a rock concert- - it would be celebrating a whole
genus of music. So you had your Led
Zeppelin fans, or Jethro Tull, or Electric Light Orchestra, or Emerson Lake and
Palmer or Pink Floyd. Each band would be
a whole type of music. This is how it
was with Bowie. It is generally said
that his “classic period” was from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs or his
second through eighth studio album.
Other classic albums obviously are “Young Americans”, “Station to
Station”, “The Lodger”, “Scarey Monsters” and ‘Let’s Dance”. Cosmically there is no talk of some massive commemoration,
and also the word is that there is no big reunion planned with Mick Ronson, but
I better shut up now before I go off the rails.
This is Monday morning
before breakfast January 11, 2016 and the Rude Pundit was just on Stephanie
Miller. Now Donald Trump is saying to
throw a guy out and take his coat so he freezes to death in the ten degree
weather. A Moslem woman stood up and had
a shirt or something that said “I Come in Peace” and Donald turned the mob
against her. Before the rally the people
near her were interacting happily but not afterward. The Rude Pundit says “Well at least now I
know what it was actually like to attend a Nazi rally in the thirties”.
I had a dream where
Paul was leading a Christian fellowship group that was part of a large
organization that was like Disney Corp- - but they kept track of their
customers and sometimes would herd people into a small area and not let them
out until they had accepted the cult’s version of Jesus. At one point I was along in the house and
went out to do the laundry but somehow I was only wearing a sheet. One guy asked what I was doing and I became
aware I had next to nothing on. I had
been intending to buy wine at the local Stater Brothers but never got around to
that- - and when I finally woke up I was craving something alcoholic.
The Sea Hawks beat the
Vikings in yesterday’s morning game ten to nine. The score was nine to nothing Vikings but
then the Sea Hawks scored a touchdown and a field goal and the Viking kicker
had to make a 27 yard field goal to win the game and he missed way wide. It was truly a case of “icing the kicker” at
cold temperatures. Green Bay played
Washington in Washington and when GB got the wind in the 2nd quarter
the tide of the game turned and GB was not only winning at the half but the
Packers pulled away and won the game 35 to 18.
This was the afternoon game on FOX.
The road team won all four games
in the Wild Card round.
Mike Huckibee is on
C-Span with Paul Ryan and some Black guy talking about the poverty trap and how
all the government services go away once you get a job. I would agree with Huckibee’s remarks but
only add that if they got paid a decent amount with a minimum wage you could
actually live on- - you would see a lot of these transition problems go
away. In terms of being penalized for
double pay checks or working sixteen hours a day- - I clearly see Huckibee’s
point that withholding should not penalize you for hard work when all you are
trying to do is keep your head above water.
Of course Huckibee also argues for a flat tax. The
IRS is the only organization where you are presumed guilty and all the fines
and other penalties are levied up front and maybe by hard work at a trial you
might get some of your money back. But I
would add the IRS is inherently out to cheat you by using your money without
permission and they pay you nothing by way of interest rates for the use of
your money. I take issue with the notion that all a child
needs to stay out of poverty is for his mother and father to have a piece of
paper that says they’re married. You see
an awful lot of married people in economic trouble. It could be argued the other way around - -
that poverty breaks up marriage.
One
thing funny about all this Royalty stuff is that marriages and everything else
are done for political motives. It’s not
as though you could pick up the phone and get a hold of France or England or
Spain, as implied on this show. They
never discuss the language barrier. Was
everyone multi-lingual in those days like Star Trek or something? Even in those days they believed in honest
investigation of evidence to see is charges would hold up. I slept pretty well. But I woke just before five and lay in bed
till 5:15 and then got up. After a
cigarette I lay back down on the bed in the dark, removing my glasses. I was unsure whether to go to the bakery or
not for coffee. I got my medication from
Tom and headed up and listened to KNX radio.
I went to the store just before seven and it wasn’t open so I went to the
bakery where I got a dollar fifty cup of coffee. The others such as Bill were still waiting
for the store to open. I drank some of
the cup in my room but brought the majority of it downstairs.
Leo Le Port was
on. They played “Kodochrome’ but Chris
Marquardt, the photography guy wasn’t on.
Now they are talking about a theater in Hollywood that devotes itself to
showing just film media and none of this electronic stuff. On “Eye on LA” they had a thing on where the
stars hang out. I would only say that
since I haven’t kept up- - I wouldn’t recognize a lot of them as celebreties
even if they walked up and talked to me.
For dinner we had “Lemon pepper
chicken”, which was a dud, and rice and a vegetable. Most people got butterscotch pudding but our
table got vanilla. EWN was on. I watched America’s Funniest Home Videos,
followed by the Simpson’s and then a little of the Golden Globe awards. I didn’t stay up late at all however. This morning I used my debit
card for probably the last time this month.
I was concerned it wasn’t swiping properly and I had to do it
twice. I got a large $1.25 coffee and
the dining room doors were just opening at ten after seven so I came on
in. We had oatmeal followed by generous
scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly and black coffee. For the benefit of people who may be reading
this- - you have a choice of pre mixed milk and sugar that drowns the flavor of
the coffee- - or black. Black us usually
hotter and a lot more robust.
[Saturday] Olivia gave me a bunch
of those wafer things and used up the package.
I had Rhapsody in Black on and they at long last were doing January of
1967, a long overdue date to do. They
played “It Takes Two” by Marvyn Gaye and Kim Weston, and “Standing in the
Shadow of Love” and “Tell It Like It Is” and “Let’s Fall in Love” by Peaches
and Herb. They also played “Try a Little
Tenderness” by Otis Redding, “Set Me Free” by the Supremes, and “Tramp!” (unknown artist). They played that Blondie song “The Hunter
Gets Captured by the Prey” and an instrumental version of “Mercy, Mercy” and
“Mustang Sally” by Wilson Picket. Olivia
was here till after dinner and Bill Walked her to the bus stop and was gone a
long time. I finally saw Bill on the
back benches when it was about dark. We
had roast beef (and not pork) for dinner with gravy and spinach and cut up
potatoes. We had generous vanilla
pudding for dessert.
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