{"id":31390,"date":"2016-01-11T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=31390"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:52:25","slug":"memories-of-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/memories-of-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can still <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/rip-david-bowie\/\" target=\"_blank\">barely believe it<\/a>, but we all know it&#8217;s true. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/12\/arts\/music\/david-bowie-dies-at-69.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie died of cancer yesterday<\/a>, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his 25th studio album, <em>Blackstar<\/em>. His producer called <em>Blackstar<\/em> a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/12092542\/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html\" target=\"_blank\">parting gift<\/a>&#8221; for Bowie&#8217;s fans. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/163219860\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/163219860?et=zFXE98MMS5hl1iXCDBI1rg&#038;viewMoreLink=off&#038;sig=ea8b3lDNjsiHnWy-MNBwvg6RYB68YEp9WvYaRQC9SC4=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to think of anything besides Bowie today, but the song that&#8217;s been playing in my head isn&#8217;t his iconic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo\" target=\"_blank\">Space Oddity<\/a>&#8221; or even &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0\" target=\"_blank\">Ashes to Ashes<\/a>,&#8221; which I listen to almost daily. Instead, I&#8217;m stuck on a song <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=TEI4CgAAQBAJ&#038;pg=PT122&#038;lpg=PT122&#038;dq=It%27s+about+picking+up+birds.+It%27s+not+very+cerebral,+that+piece&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=ZW3ASgmmha&#038;sig=I4L8zgdEBVLP6Syoi6VEyhFjQKk&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwi6qJW36aLKAhXE1RQKHT0XA5UQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&#038;q=It%27s%20about%20picking%20up%20birds.%20It%27s%20not%20very%20cerebral%2C%20that%20piece&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">he once laughed off <\/a>as &#8220;&#8230; a piece of sexist rock &#8216;n roll. It&#8217;s about picking up birds. It&#8217;s not very cerebral, that piece.&#8221; But in my high school years, when I was glued to the music videos on MTV, I was always excited to see the video for &#8220;Blue Jean&#8221; &#8212; especially if I was by myself and could dance and snap along to it without being embarrassed in front of the family. Before I looked it up today, I bet myself that &#8220;Blue Jean&#8221; would be from 1983, because a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQHCVcbnJjg\" target=\"_blank\">stellar music<\/a> came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CzVlF8mr5qI\" target=\"_blank\">out<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qsjzcT1QKYs\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/music-hum-eurythmics\/\" target=\"_blank\">year<\/a>. But it&#8217;s from 1984. Close enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophisticated_Boom_Boom\" target=\"_blank\">A lot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Age_of_Consent\" target=\"_blank\">of stellar<\/a> music came out that year too. I don&#8217;t remember if I ever saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXvAaNcXNzI\" target=\"_blank\">the original 20-minute version<\/a> called &#8220;Jazzin&#8217; for Blue Jean,&#8221; directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julien_Temple\" target=\"_blank\">Julien Temple<\/a>, who started out working with the Sex Pistols. The edited-for-length version is the one I knew and loved. In it, David Bowie plays a dorky guy trying to impress a girl at a club by saying he knows the singer &#8230; who is, of course, non-dorky David Bowie. It&#8217;s like those DirectTV commercials running these days: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wyYc1Z9j948\" target=\"_blank\">DirectTV Bowie vs cable Bowie.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTYvjrM6djo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The girl that dorky, cable Bowie is trying to woo is dressed in the height of&#8217;80s chic. Piled-up hair, button earrings and are those dolman sleeves? I think they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/dolman+sleeve\" target=\"_blank\">dolman sleeves<\/a>. Naturally, such a vision of female perfection only has eyes for sexy, DirectTV Bowie &#8212; the one who dramatically unwinds his turban on a runway-like stage. Yep, cool Bowie kicks his own dorky ass in this video.<\/p>\n<p>Bowie left the turban behind for his performance (in a pre-recorded clip) of &#8220;Blue Jean&#8221; on the first MTV Video Music Awards, which aired Sept. 14, 1984, two weeks after Bowie&#8217;s <em>Tonight<\/em> album came out. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2726395\/david-bowie-first-vma-appearance\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MTV VMA &#8220;BLUE JEAN.&#8221;<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That was the same VMA show that featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/6296887\/madonna-1984-mtv-vmas-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna singing &#8220;Like a Virgin&#8221; while rolling around in a wedding dress<\/a>. Not a bad start for the VMAs. <\/p>\n<p>Another Bowie song that always brings a smile to my face is the cover of &#8220;Dancing in the Street&#8221; he did with Mick Jagger, though it&#8217;s not exactly the song itself that makes me giddy. There&#8217;s an episode of <em>Family Guy<\/em> in which raving idiot Peter Griffin is attempting to homeschool his children. As part of a history lesson, he announces, &#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y5ZBIiaZDRA\" target=\"_blank\">1985 brought us the gayest music video of all time<\/a>.&#8221; The first time I saw this, I thought, &#8220;Oh my God!&#8221; about <em>Family Guy<\/em>&#8216;s pointedly un-PC joking. We don&#8217;t say things like &#8220;gayest&#8221; now! Especially about a video I happily watched about a thousand times back in the day. Then the video played. The <em>entire<\/em> video. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9G4jnaznUoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no disputing it: This is indeed the gayest music video of all time. I&#8217;ve seen gay porn that&#8217;s less gay than this, and it&#8217;s none of your business why I&#8217;m watching gay porn, because it&#8217;s a free country and I can watch free gay porn on the Internet if I want to, so shut up. Along those lines, there&#8217;s always been a story that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/new-book-takes-mick-jagger-affair-david-bowie-article-1.1109887\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie and Jagger had an affair in 1973<\/a>; if a tape of that ever surfaces, I will pay good money to watch it. (Note: Before you use the words &#8220;gay,&#8221; &#8220;gayer,&#8221; or &#8220;gayest&#8221; around me in a certain way, ask yourself, &#8220;Am I an animated buffoon or a professional provocateur?&#8221; If the answer is no, you still don&#8217;t get to use those words.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Bowie was never shy about defying gender stereotypes, a trait that was brilliantly documented in the &#8220;David Bowie Is&#8221; exhibit I saw at <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/what-wendy-wore-sprouse-versace-and-jason-wu\/\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> in 2013. (I&#8217;ve been wondering why that exhibit hasn&#8217;t traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; it was a sell-out in London.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31407\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31407\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/catalog.jpg\" alt=\"The exhibit catalog.\" width=\"484\" height=\"574\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/catalog.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/catalog-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/catalog-300x356.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibition catalog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I wrote at the time, I usually breeze through museum exhibitions because I&#8217;m a speed reader of wall captions. I wind up wandering around the gift shop while MrB carefully absorbs all the information. This time, MrB searched for me in the gift shop for 45 minutes, not realizing I was still in the exhibit, dancing to concert clips while surrounded by Bowie&#8217;s iconic costumes. When I finally emerged, MrB had to wait another 45 minutes in the gift shop while I examined every single souvenir possibility. The catalog was a necessity for the photos of the amazing costumes, including many by Kansai Yamamoto.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31408\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31408\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kansai.jpg\" alt=\"Designed by Kansai Yamamoto for the Aladdin Sane tour.\" width=\"498\" height=\"851\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kansai.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kansai-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kansai-300x513.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Designed by Kansai Yamamoto for the Aladdin Sane tour.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even when Bowie wore a double-breasted suit, he accessorized fabulously.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31409\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31409\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/shoe.jpg\" alt=\"I would HAPPILY wear these turquoise boots.\" width=\"498\" height=\"329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/shoe.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/shoe-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I would HAPPILY wear these turquoise boots.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then there were things like this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31410\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31410\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/snl.jpg\" alt=\"This was designed by Mark Ravitz and David Bowie, and inspired by Sonia Delaunay&#039;s designs for Tristan Tzara&#039;s 1920s play &quot;Le Coeur a Gaz.&quot;\" width=\"498\" height=\"736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/snl.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/snl-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/snl-300x443.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was designed by Mark Ravitz and David Bowie, and inspired by Sonia Delaunay&#8217;s designs for Tristan Tzara&#8217;s 1920s play &#8220;Le Coeur a Gaz.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That was the costume Bowie wore on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/music\/david-bowie-snl-boys-keep-swinging\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> in 1979. I was watching the videos from that performance this New Year&#8217;s Eve, while I wrote a post about one of his backup singers, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/throwback-thursday-new-years-eve-ten-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">o<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/throwback-thursday-new-years-eve-ten-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">pera singer and performance artist Klaus Nomi<\/a><\/a>. The other backup was cabaret singer and performance artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joey_Arias\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Arias<\/a>. At the beginning of &#8220;The Man Who Sold the World,&#8221; Bowie stands stiff as a mannequin in that exaggerated, tux-like costume. Klaus and Joey pick him up and carry him to the front of the stage. It&#8217;s a must-see. Unfortunately, the full performance keeps being yanked from YouTube but you can see that one moment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZUmxTQNZaA\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Entertainment Weekly has put together a list of 20 other essential David Bowie videos that is worth a long look. The list includes another jaw-dropping clip from the 1979 <em>SNL<\/em> appearance: The song is &#8220;Boys Keep Swinging&#8221; and Bowie sings it while looking like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Silver%2C-NSFW\" target=\"_blank\">NSFW<\/a> marionette. There&#8217;s also the full performance and (sniffly) interview he did in 1974 on the <em>Dick Cavett Show<\/em>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2014\/06\/15\/322274193\/who-can-i-be-now-how-david-bowie-spent-1974\" target=\"_blank\">in the midst of his cocaine addiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/01\/11\/20-david-bowie-performances\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR EW&#8217;S 20 BOWIE PERFORMANCES.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here are some other links worth checking out. They&#8217;re in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/the-big-picture\/20-photos-to-make-you-love-david-bowie-even-more\" target=\"_blank\">20 great photos from NME<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/20-insanely-great-david-bowie-songs-only-hardcore-fans-know-20140811\" target=\"_blank\">20 deep-dive songs from Rolling Stone<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/10\/david-bowie-to-be-honored-at-carnegie-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\">A plan announced &#8212; prior to his death &#8212; to honor Bowie at Carnegie Hall in March<\/a>. Hopefully, it will stay on the schedule as a tribute.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/music\/artists\/david-bowie-interview-from-1996-i-have-done-just-about-everythin\/\" target=\"_blank\">A lengthy 1996 interview with Mick Brown for the Telegraph Magazine<\/a>, in which Bowie remembers John Lennon and says, &#8220;I&#8217;m a real hoarder.&#8221; I so appreciated his hoarding habits when I went to that V&#038;A exhibition! Everything was from his own archives.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/2016\/01\/david-bowie-tribute-eulogy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred Soto&#8217;s thoughts on Bowie&#8217;s conflicting comments about his sexuality, from Spin<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/how-david-bowie-told-us-he-was-dying-in-the-lazarus-video\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie&#8217;s just-released video, &#8220;Lazarus.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/features\/the-inside-story-of-david-bowies-stunning-new-album-blackstar-20151123\" target=\"_blank\">The story of <em>Blackstar<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/videos\/david-bowie-explains-ziggy-stardust-persona-in-animated-interview-20140519\" target=\"_blank\">A recorded 1988 interview that has been charmingly animated<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/david-bowie-mtv-racism-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie&#8217;s 1983 thoughts about the dearth of black artists on MTV<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/david-bowie-the-rolling-stone-interview-19870423\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Loder&#8217;s 1987 interview of Bowie for Rolling Stone<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/beat-godfather-meets-glitter-mainman-19740228\" target=\"_blank\">William Burroughs meets Bowie in 1974<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; My almost-husband Paul McCartney paid tribute to Bowie last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmccartney.com\/news-blogs\/news\/paul-on-david-bowie-1947-2016\" target=\"_blank\">sharing a 1985 photo taken by Paul&#8217;s late wife, Linda<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/madonna-david-bowie-changed-the-course-of-my-life-forever-20160111\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna&#8217;s first concert was Bowie and she says it was life-changing<\/a>. She also shared a photo of him.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec\" target=\"_blank\">As Jareth, the Goblin King, in the movie <em>Labyrinth<\/em><\/a>. (Thanks to gorgeous reader Catherine for sending this to me.)<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/2014\/08\/david-bowie-long-haired-men-17-first-tv-interview-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie in 1964, aged 17, talking about long hair<\/a>.<br \/>\n     &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bowiewonderworld.com\/press\/00\/0208dearsuperstar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Very fun interview from August 2002 for the magazine Blender<\/a>. Bowie is in great spirits and answers questions about Nirvana, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol.<br \/>\n     &#8211;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x7bl57_david-bowie-heroes-live-new-york-ci_music\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie performing &#8220;Heroes&#8221; at The Concert for New York City in October 2001<\/a>. It was a post-9\/11 benefit show. I was there and it was the only time I saw Bowie live.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31434\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31434\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nycconcert.jpg\" alt=\"The back of the concert t-shirt.\" width=\"484\" height=\"513\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nycconcert.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nycconcert-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nycconcert-300x318.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The back of the concert t-shirt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I may add some more links to that list as inspiration strikes. Right now, however, I&#8217;m re-watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WHfQ-xsZtcg\" target=\"_blank\">scene<\/a> 1997&#8217;s <em>Men in Black<\/em> where Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) pops in an 8-track cassette of Elvis Presley&#8217;s <em>Promised Land<\/em> and turns the volume up. Agent J (Will Smith)  &#8212; aggravated from being bounced around inside K&#8217;s speeding, upside-down car &#8212; says, &#8220;You do know Elvis is dead, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>K cheerfully replies, &#8220;No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that David Bowie just went home too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can still barely believe it, but we all know it&#8217;s true. David Bowie died of cancer yesterday, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his 25th studio album, Blackstar. His producer called Blackstar a &#8220;parting gift&#8221; for Bowie&#8217;s fans. Embed from Getty Images I haven&#8217;t been able to think of anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/memories-of-david-bowie\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642,10,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-80s-style","8":"category-celebrities","9":"category-music","10":"category-obits","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31390"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31449,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions\/31449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}