Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
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Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
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A brand new, fully updated version of "Rebel Rebel," part one of the Bowie series (1963-1976), came out this year. Here's how you can get it. It's a large book, so it will look impressively bulky in Xmas wrapping: bookshop.org/p/books/rebe...
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I paid for all of these out of my own money so you are getting a fair rating!
’Tis the season for super deluxe reissues, and the eternal question: Are they worth it? @carynrose.bsky.social breaks down the latest box sets, what you actually get for your money and which ones belong on your holiday list.
These box sets and reissues make a strong case for buying the music again
Thoughtful remastering, well-chosen outtakes and archival material can make familiar albums feel newly essential.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I paid for all of these out of my own money so you are getting a fair rating!
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R.I.P. Raul Malo
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All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
YouTube video by The Mavericks - Topic
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December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
R.I.P. Raul Malo
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This week I look back at the peak of Flash web design in 2003. In particular, the launch of BowieNet version 3 — designed completely in Flash (which made it a huge challenge to get screenshots from Wayback Machine!). h/t @webdesignmuseum.org for feature image & vid. cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-v...
2003: BowieNet 3 Launch and the Peak of Flash Web Design
Flash websites reach their peak in 2003, becoming almost the default for creative design on the web. David Bowie is on top of this internet trend and commissions a full Flash redesign of BowieNet.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This week I look back at the peak of Flash web design in 2003. In particular, the launch of BowieNet version 3 — designed completely in Flash (which made it a huge challenge to get screenshots from Wayback Machine!). h/t @webdesignmuseum.org for feature image & vid. cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-v...
Novel: Ulysses; poem: Waste Land; music: Trixie Smith & the Jazz Masters, "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)"; architecture: the Shukov Tower; painting: Klee ,Twittering Machine (below); movies: Lang's Dr Mabuse
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Novel: Ulysses; poem: Waste Land; music: Trixie Smith & the Jazz Masters, "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)"; architecture: the Shukov Tower; painting: Klee ,Twittering Machine (below); movies: Lang's Dr Mabuse
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it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
Quartet, trio
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Quartet, trio
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I know you've been wondering what the 10 best jazz albums of 2025 were. Well, @stereogum.com and I have you covered:
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The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
So… what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar ...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I know you've been wondering what the 10 best jazz albums of 2025 were. Well, @stereogum.com and I have you covered:
stereogum.com/2481697/the-...
stereogum.com/2481697/the-...
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oh man, @markrichardson.bsky.social is so predictably good here pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom
Read Mark Richardson’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
oh man, @markrichardson.bsky.social is so predictably good here pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Bruce "Mr Tambourine Man" Langhorne, Carolyn Hester, B. Dylan, Bill Lee (Spike's dad), cutting Hester's s/t album in NYC, Sept 1961
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Bruce "Mr Tambourine Man" Langhorne, Carolyn Hester, B. Dylan, Bill Lee (Spike's dad), cutting Hester's s/t album in NYC, Sept 1961
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits
The three spirits
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits
The three spirits
Enda Walsh: at the end of the show, Bowie “went around to everyone in the theater… he wanted to celebrate the stage managers & the doormen — he thanked everyone.” When Bowie left through the front door, out to his car on East 4th St., “I knew that was going to be the last time I would see him.”
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Enda Walsh: at the end of the show, Bowie “went around to everyone in the theater… he wanted to celebrate the stage managers & the doormen — he thanked everyone.” When Bowie left through the front door, out to his car on East 4th St., “I knew that was going to be the last time I would see him.”
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Ten years ago today, David Bowie & Iman attended the Lazarus premiere at The New York Theatre Workshop in New York City.
David took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow.
This was to be his last public appearance.
#BowieForever ❤️
David took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow.
This was to be his last public appearance.
#BowieForever ❤️
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ten years ago today, David Bowie & Iman attended the Lazarus premiere at The New York Theatre Workshop in New York City.
David took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow.
This was to be his last public appearance.
#BowieForever ❤️
David took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow.
This was to be his last public appearance.
#BowieForever ❤️
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This time of year, my brain is always about 10% thinking about "Christmas Wrapping." I haven't heard the song yet in the wild, but it always excites me when I do. A few years ago, I wrote about the song's greatness! anniezaleski.substack.com/p/the-greatn...
the greatness of the waitresses' "christmas wrapping"
"A&P has provided me / With the world's smallest turkey"
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December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This time of year, my brain is always about 10% thinking about "Christmas Wrapping." I haven't heard the song yet in the wild, but it always excites me when I do. A few years ago, I wrote about the song's greatness! anniezaleski.substack.com/p/the-greatn...
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Newsdesk in Sounds 6th, December 1975 featuring David Bowie's return to Britain, image from GlamSlam.
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Newsdesk in Sounds 6th, December 1975 featuring David Bowie's return to Britain, image from GlamSlam.
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
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6th, December 1975 David Bowie on the front cover of Sounds. Image from GlamSlam.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
6th, December 1975 David Bowie on the front cover of Sounds. Image from GlamSlam.
At one point, many years ago, i could recite much of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Man-Moth" from memory
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
At one point, many years ago, i could recite much of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Man-Moth" from memory
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If anyone else is new to Booker T and the MGs, @bowiesongs.bsky.social 64 Quartets essay has you covered
I really appreciate how Chris is able to write about music theory and put these records in the context of their times
I really appreciate how Chris is able to write about music theory and put these records in the context of their times
1. Booker T. and the MG’s
DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST Njårdhallen, Oslo, Norway; 7 April 1967. It’s the next-to-last night of the Stax/Volt Revue, a Memphis record label’s deb…
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December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If anyone else is new to Booker T and the MGs, @bowiesongs.bsky.social 64 Quartets essay has you covered
I really appreciate how Chris is able to write about music theory and put these records in the context of their times
I really appreciate how Chris is able to write about music theory and put these records in the context of their times
Eno diary, 6 Dec 95: "Howie B. came over & we talked about the new U2 record. A lot of chefs in that kitchen - him, Flood, Nellee, the band. I predicted a possible future: that all the bright beginnings would get submerged in overdubs & then have to be rediscovered in the resulting Irish stew."
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Eno diary, 6 Dec 95: "Howie B. came over & we talked about the new U2 record. A lot of chefs in that kitchen - him, Flood, Nellee, the band. I predicted a possible future: that all the bright beginnings would get submerged in overdubs & then have to be rediscovered in the resulting Irish stew."
Evening boost. Wire meets Blur and Bowie and, indirectly, Milan Kundera
64 Quartets---Wire A to Z continues, with blood sacrifices, Blur, Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter & Forgetting, and one Bowie, D. 64quartets.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/9...
9. Wire. Harvest Lexicon: BLOOD—BOWIE
BLOOD SACRIFICE. There was a band that existed called Wire in the latter part of 1976, but that was somebody else’s band. It wasn’t until we kicked that person out of his own band that what y…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Evening boost. Wire meets Blur and Bowie and, indirectly, Milan Kundera
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RIP Frank Gehry: his childhood home in Toronto still exists!
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
RIP Frank Gehry: his childhood home in Toronto still exists!
RIP Frank Gehry. "Architects may come and architects may go & never change your point of vie w..." (sung about one of his contemporaries)
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
RIP Frank Gehry. "Architects may come and architects may go & never change your point of vie w..." (sung about one of his contemporaries)
Mekons in the Pioneer Valley!--well, 2026 has one good thing happening, at least
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Mekons in the Pioneer Valley!--well, 2026 has one good thing happening, at least
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the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global.
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
Glass Spider DB is also his most anime incarnation
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Glass Spider DB is also his most anime incarnation