RisingTideFallingStar, the best book about Bowie I expect to read, the one I hope his daughter Lexie has, does not, within its text, include the word Bowie. I don’t read reviews before I read or write about books, so I don’t know if others see how gratifying this book is to Bowie people. Dustjacket flap […]
Read More The Vale of Soul-Making. Philip Hoare’s RisingTideFallingStarIf you don’t read anything else, skip to the end and read the extended quotations about Heathen — and mortality and music. These are a few of the passages from Sailor’s Journals I found particularly affecting. Some I have written about before. On Grief & Empathy: One of the very earliest entries, 9/4/1998, was posted two […]
Read More Sailor’s Journals, Part 10: WisdomGood categorization means everything has one place and only one. I could break this out into musical instruments and historical events and a few other things. Instead, at this point I am content with Others. So ends the series on Sailor’s Journals.
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 9: OthersSome of these people who I couldn’t figure out where to place likely belong elsewhere; suggestions welcomed.
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 8: PeopleSailor’s Journals may seem voluminous from this series of posts. It is not. If you read it straight through it might take 3 hours. So say 6 to write. Six hours of journaling in the 69 years of such a complex man as Bowie simply is not much at all. Like a single cell in […]
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 7: Performances. And a Caveat.Actors, Directors, Films, Plays, Videos, Television
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 6: Film & ActorsBowie spent a lot of time visiting galleries in 1998 to 2003, especially in NYC and London. Sailor’s Journals include numerous snapshots of the paintings and artists. After his death, the estate put many of the works he had bought throughout his years of collecting for auction at Sotheby’s. I think there were several reasons […]
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 5: Visual Artists and Their WorksGalleries, museums, cemeteries, cities, nations, even a zoo: places in Sailor’s Journals. For the most part, Bowie lived in New York City for the years covered by Sailor’s Journals. Unless Bowie is discussing a specific observation about New York, it isn’t indexed.
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 4: PlacesMore like a half a droplet in the seas than the tip of the proverbial iceberg, here we have the few authors and works mentioned in the brief Sailor’s Journals. There aren’t quite as many authors and books in Sailor’s Journals as you might expect. On the erstwhile bowienet there was a section entirely devoted to […]
Read More Sailor’s Journal Indexed, Part 3: Writers and PublicationsHere’s a list of songs and albums mentioned in Sailor’s Journals. Many fit into one of several divisions: songs that influenced a young Bowie (the topic of his journal entries for Christmas Week 1998) and those he was working on during the period covered by the journal entries, most notably, those from Hours and Heathen. […]
Read More Sailor’s Journals Indexed, Part 2: Songs & Albums