Thank you Merudanda - the description of the David Bowie album design is quite fabulous and fascinating and far-reaching and far-out.
>________________________________ > From: merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 3:09 PM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Where Are We Now?-just walking the dead"Bowie > > > > it's already 13th but pssssssss-tttttttttt >do not make my birthday public >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: >> >> Is not music one of the most extraordinarily beautiful aspects of being >> human? The part that touched me most deeply: >> As long as there's sun, as long as there's sun >> As long as there's rain, as long as there's rain >> As long as there's fire, as long as there's fire >> As long as there's me >> As long as there's you >> >> And then the end of lyrics... >> Thank you DB and md too >> >> >> for md on a cloudy Jan 12 Happy Birthday Maharishi >> >> If you give me your all >> >> I will give you my nothing and >> >> universes will spring up between these two >> universes and wild flowers and dump >To the mind that is still >the whole universe surrenders >Snow in winter. >If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,This is the best season of >your life. >then >Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn > >then >A cool breeze in summer, >and >then.. >> trucks and paper bags and hippopotimie >> and something we might never imagine in the long lapse of time >> the long laspse of time turned inside out may we find >> >> the long lapse of love >> >> as long as there's me >> as long as there's you >> >> I sit on the lap of love >> >> I fall through >> >> I am caught over and over again >> or maybe I am the catcher >> maybe both >> as long as there's nothing >> there is everything >So you are too >"A man lost in time near KaDaWe"- >http://www.kadewe.de/en/ >Is Bowie the shape-shifter beautiful but unexpected looking back from a >visionary long obsessed with what's next? Or is he confronting the questions >that lie beyond? >And though the new album's title seems to promise more horizon-scanning, >finally celebrating his past? >http://virusfonts.com/news/2013/01/david-bowie-the-next-day-that-album-cover-design/ > > >> >> ________________________________ >> From: merudanda >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:06 PM >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Where Are We Now?-just walking the dead"Bowie >> >> >>  >> May I give you my sun and stars, my night, my day, >> My seasons, summer, winter, my sweet spring, >> My autumn song, the church in which I pray, >> My land and ocean, all that the earth can bring >> >> >> Isn't true love a durable fire, >> In the mind ever burning, >> Never sick, never dead, never cold, >> From itself never turning? >> >> Rehearsing our dreams >> Before we dream them >> It has the mystifying smell >> Of strange flowers... >> Aren't we the oceans >> Aren't we the shores >> As we solicit the solitude of the moon? >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: >> > >> > I liked this a lot. Thank you. >> > >> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: >> > > >> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtsV50_-p4 >> > > >> > > "The moment you know you know you know." >> > > Haunting, enigmatic, simple and beautiful his pensive face projected on >> > > to a puppet in Bowies new recording, "Where Are We Now?", on his 66th >> > > birthday, some may call it with a mesmerizing, enchanting, elegiac >> > > tune. His voice sounds older and more world-weary but not frightened to >> > > put something new out and he appears to be almost biting back tears as >> > > he looks back on his life in Berlin. Didn't he who turned down a >> > > knighthood his best work in/about Berlin bringing it now all back, >> > > though not in a hackneyed way? His Berlin in a time warp. Berlin as it >> > > was then, as it would be now, as if all these weird intervening years >> > > had never happened. >> > > Does he try to come to grips with his own mortality, trying to make a >> > > sober assessment of his time on earth and the value of life itself as he >> > > approaches an farewell-exit? >> > > Is he a shallow fool "Major Tom" age bracket who continues a clueless >> > > life in a fog trying to hang on to his youth doing Ziggy Stardust >> > > redux..? >> > > >> > > Is David Bowie back - but where has he been "in the rain'- a one, >> > > brilliant class act that cannot be followed even by himself? >> > > "Finger are crossed -just in case" >> > > >> > > [http://autoimg.clipfish.de/autoimg/USRV31300001/512x288/david-bowie-whe\ >> > > re-are-we-now.jpg] >> > > >> > >> > > > >
