David Bowie, "Scary Monsters (Super Creeps)"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5XyG4VrmQ&feature=related] From the same album in 1980, Scary Monsters. Great stuff. The original punk psychedelic music! Check out these lyrics:

She asked me to stay and I stole her room She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind Now she’s stupid in the street and she can’t socialize Well I love the little girl and I’ll love her till the day she dies

Oh yeah! Moar! I get tired of the whole “David Bowie is gay” argument. Though he was into that for a while. In 1974, I met a guy who said he knew a groupie who had had sex with Bowie. The groupie was female, and she said there was a another male there with them (it was a threesome). She said Bowie seemed more interested in the guy than in her! In recent years, Bowie blows off the question. He says he was just into bisexuality because it was some sort of a fad at the time. However, it is true that Angela Bowie caught David and Mick Jagger in bed together at one point. The Rolling Stones song Angie is said to be about her. Iggy Pop lived with Bowie for a while in Berlin, I believe in the late 1970’s when Bowie was way out there on cocaine binging for a while. He nearly got psychotic from heavy use of the drug. Pop also blew off questions about Bowie being gay or bi by saying it really wasn’t important. The following is a paraphrase of his words: “That man got more pussy than any man I have ever known. From waitresses to heiresses, they all wanted him. They wouldn’t leave him alone. The phone was always ringing, and it was always a woman on the other end wanting David.” If living like that makes you a “fag,” I might just have to be a “fag” myself! Sounds like a lot of fun. You go David!

Weirdest Book Ever Written

Voynich Manuscript, hands down. Also one of the world’s great mysteries. Nothing about this book seems to make any sense at all, not the bizarre, undeciphered language, code, or cipher, not the weird drawings of plants that don’t exist, not the astronomy based on no known astrological system, not the cosmology based on no cosmological system ever encountered, nothing. The date it was written is thought to be around 1500, but the author or authors are unknown, and the subject of much speculation. None of the theories really completely add up or make sense. It’s just one gigantic, endless pile of weirdness, the solution to which went to its grave with the author(s). You can download the whole book in pdf here. I haven’t bothered, but some of you arcana buffs may wish to give it a whirl. Runner’s up? Marienbad, My Love (2008). Go ahead, read it! It’s only 30,000 pages long. Tired of Hemingway’s short, clipped, sentences? Have no fear. A 2,000 page single sentence in this book will cure of that forever and make you come running back to Hem or Bukowski. One of the things we love about English are the lack of those annoying monosyllabic words that the Asian languages have. Our words can be quite long. For instance, this book has a single word that is 750 pages long. You can live, die, get resurrected and still never make it to the next word. Talk about leaving you hanging on every word. Even weirder is The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (1973), 15,500 pages illustrated by several hundred pages of drawings and paintings, produced by the super-weird author Henry Darger. Want to read it? Too bad. It’s never been published. He didn’t dash it off like these supermarket novel authors. On the contrary, the book took him a mere 60 years to complete. I am convinced that Darger did not have schizophrenia, as is often speculated. Darger’s is a good example of “outsider art.” I think outsider art is really cool, but then I’m pretty damn weird myself. Outsider music is pretty boss, too. I prefer The Shaggs, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Syd Barrett and Roky Erikson. Forget Robert LindsayPosted on Categories Art, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, Literature, Modern, Music, Outsider, Outsider, Psychedelic, Psychology, Rock, Schizophrenia, Weirdness6 Comments on Weirdest Book Ever Written

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