Green Room - Week 4 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

David Bowie is dead.

I'm not sure what else can, or should be, said today.

Because - Bowie.

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Bowie.

Comments

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

RIP Bowie. Too young. AW

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Definitely too young. So sad today.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

Been listening to Blackstar since it dropped. The lyrics took on an entirely different scope in context. I suspect that was exactly the point.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Me, too. The "Lazarus" motif makes a whole different kind of sense now.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

Right? Although I feel like he was thumbing his nose at us a bit with "I Can't Give Everything Away."

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the "Lazarus" video yet? My sister says it was his message to everyone, that he is free now.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

I have. The videos (for Lazarus and for the title track) are a little hard to parse, but the songs themselves (whole album, really) put it pretty clear. ....ish.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Bowie what?!

*sigh*

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

That's how I felt ever since I found out early today.

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

Bowie's death hasn't really sunk in yet. All I can say is that I'm sure my friend p_m_cryan is devastated;  she's a huge fan of the man and I'm sure she hoped to meet him someday...

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get in touch with her. Yet another thing that she and I share.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

I still can't wrap my brain around it.

And having to tell Kent as 5:30 in the morning was the worst.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Love your icon, of course. Who is Kent, a significant other or a child?

At first, I wasn't going to say anything to my son, but he picked up that I was sad. I told him that a singer that Mommy really liked had a bad disease, and he tried really hard to get better, but then he died. I told him that everyone around the world was playing his music to remember him. He agreed that was a good way to remember.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

My husband. I usually refer to him as the spousebeast. One of the things we bonded over early in the relationship was a love bordering on obsession of all things Bowie.

Heck, we call our apartment The Glass Asylum...

[misfitmanor.livejournal.com]

1st celebrity since Nimoy that actually made me exclaim out loud to the TV, "WHAT???? No!"

Not today, Whiskers (https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/videos/1452245238138258/)

mamas_minion is pretty broken up about it, too. A friend on FB posted this morning, "I'd always just assumed Bowie was immortal."

~karmasoup

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Yes-- or if not immortal, surely the next closest thing. How could he have not made it at least to 90?

*sigh*

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

I know just how you feel. Certainly, I never expected him to die just two months after my mom. It's a rough, rough time.

[misfitmanor.livejournal.com]

We lost a family member of our own recently as well, though perhaps nowhere near as tragic as the loss of a parent, but still, pulling the plug in this case was the hardest thing I've ever hard to do in my life.

And then this, and then Alan Rickman (http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/entertainment/obit-alan-rickman/), and Glenn Frey (http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/18/glenn-frey-the-eagles-dead/)... and it's only January. Can we just be done with death for the year now? Or at least, for a while, anyway? I'm through. Really. This is enough. Seriously. No more.

~karmasoup

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

It is a very sad day.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Very. Then again, it is a very good thing, in a way, to have so many other people feeling the same way. He made a huge impact, and it's good to know how much he touched all these people that I know.

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

True

[prog-schlock.livejournal.com]

I'm gobsmacked. Bowie was everything.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Gobsmacked. That's it. That's the feeling I had when I heard, too.