The Dad Who Fell to Earth
Sneaks into the movies.
By Jada Yuan

David Bowie is taking a break from being David Bowie, at least for a year. “I’m fed up with the industry,” he said at the Vanity Fair party last week. “And I’ve been fed up for quite some time.” He greeted strangers with, “Hi! I’m David. I have seven children. And I’m fucking freezing.” So how does an icon slack? “Just don’t participate. I’m taking a year off—no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning, and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row. I like going out to the Angelika: If the first one’s only okay, I’ll sneak into one after the other. It’s so easy.” He says he has no plans to take up hobbies either. “I’ve been listening to Arcade Fire and Secret Machines and this great opera from the eighties called Nixon in China. It’s just that. He gets off the plane. He has dinner with Mao. Someday, I might do opera. But I don’t have a musical in me, much less a vampire musical.”

From New York magazine via BowieNet:



Nice Elton John dig there

What is Angelika? I don't get the reference.

u2prnce said:

Angelika is an arthouse movie theater in downtown New York City. When I lived in New York, I used to go there all the time to see the latest weirdo movies. I can totally see Bowie trolling around there in the afternoons.

Anx said:

Bowie sounds like the coolest guy to hang out with.

Maybe him being fed up with the industry offers a chance to bring THIS back:

EmancipationLover said:

i think that particular little gem was the product of his being fed up with the eighties.

Anx said:

Is it possible that you don't like that project?

EmancipationLover said:

it may not be one of my favorite ventures, but i don't want to speak ill of the dead.

I thought being fed up with the industry was the entire reason he started ISO Records.

GangstaFam said:

Well we don't know what kind of problems he might have had with his own company behind the curtains as well. Controlling your own business matters doesn't mean that you wouldn't have to deal with other people involved in the same business.

maybe his surgery and recovery have something to do with it and he's trying to play it cool? the most recent pic i've seen of db has him looking a little (i'm being polite) bloated and suddenly aging...