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Blackstar - David Bowie - My Interpretations

What an incredible piece of music with such sound and vision. We can read this and
interpret this in so many ways. While the song was written based on a tv show for
British Tv, "The Last Panthers", the actual video speaks of so much more. The video
that David Bowie and his Director Johan Renck collaborated on, rather I am sure
this was a vision of mostly Bowie's, he worked so well with Renck. The result was
nothing less than stunning and eeiry for a look back into the life of Bowie.

Here is an interpretation that I personally came up with, though many
interpretations will vary. Some people are already speculating on social media.

Here is mine: In a poetic open form.

We open to see a desolate land, an astronauts body first assumption, it has tape
on the thumb, and on the foot, someone was in need of repair, fixing, what was
holding it together, who was this man?
It pans back we see the happy face
on his chest, the man was once happy so happy that he wore a happy face upon his body
perhaps upon his heart.

As the camera pans back we see a bigger picture. one lonely man in the middle of a
seemingly dead planet, a star a black star,  a sun in eclipse, a darkness over the sun
in someones heart, a looming presence of nothing to come.

The lyrics at this point - in the distance, we know this not until it is revealed moments away as the song progresses.
Lyrics say
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
reference
the candle was burning once but alone, and then at the center of it all..
Your Eyes..
The burning candle
the man now gone was once the center of it all, and
we saw it with OUR eyes..
Your eyes, the soul in which we see out of
and through and with.

A woman appears she is moving on the screen,
lyrics say
On the day of execution
only women kneel and smile. 
sung by a man in distress (bowie) with jewels for eyes in a
blindfold with a variety of people faded in the background  are they the group, a band?

The day of execution could be a day of realization that life is going going gone,
and when it is gone
 those that worshiped you most
were the women, they were in awe
and he was beloved by them, indicated by worshiping by kneeling.

The woman moves toward the man, astronaut, body, as the lyrics say at the center of
it all. There he was once the center of it all. As we watched with our eyes.
The woman has a tail.. she is a fantasy? or alien? something not real but an image that
the figure is female at least.
Bowie singing his hands start to quiver as she approaches the body.. his hands are shaking,
indication is he old is he becoming frail is he in fear of being old?


She stoops and beholds someone, she is so fond of
in her eyes you see,
a cut to the candle, which is alone and burning,
he is still alive in her heart.
As she slides the visor up,
she is not horrified by what she sees, a skeleton of a man,
another indication of being older and so frail that he is just skeleton and bones, and
dead.
But he was someone he was great, he is covered with jewels.
In ancient customs many who were kings and queens were buried with jewels.
This man this astronaut was famous and a king, and is given the respect of jewels in his slumber.
Major Tom..

A cut to the people the band, the group, shaking an one woman in the background shaking and shaking
are they scared are they frightened of what is to come? Are they cold? of death?
While it is said this part comes from a Popeye cartoon idea, there was a reason it fit in, I
feel it is the indication of the fear we feel upon learning about degrading life.

Cut to the woman carrying the skeleton head in a idealistic fashion placed in a
glass box. Bowie use to mime being in a glass box.
This man this skeleton is him he is growing old and he feels alone in the world still
idolized for his past talent, put inside the glass box for our eyes to revel,
Your Eyes. Imagery shaking men and
moving down into a city desolate and her tail as if it was a comet following her.

But in the distance a city seems to have a center of sorts a castle, above.
A path
a Labyrinth?
Will she take him there? As a cut seen comes,  the candle with its wax melting
and the shaking its shaking but the candle its wax flowing down,
burning away, where it burned a very long time with the amount of wax it has below
it.
Life has its long wax candles of events that remain with us, around us,
as candle wax, while are flame is still lit and burns.

The image of women gathering and they shake, as the sky fills with an image of a
skeleton floating up unto the black star.
We are loosing Major Tom, ground control.
He is floating away from us, he knows, it the eyes, they know it and they shake they are
afraid to let him go.

The ritual begins, the women circle, in the circle of life .. we see the true Bowie
himself looking up holding the black star.
The star that perhaps guided him through his life journey,
head up unafraid of what is coming, as it is in the book in, the book of life, we live we die.
As the people watch, the shakers. A soft humming of the song as the camera turns we see wind blowing plants, plants are life they give air to life.
He holds the book out as if his journey was a path between his eyes and the black star book of life.

Bowie hands folded together in a house one round window, and a pyramid triangle roof.
Lyrics
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
There would always be another idol to fill a spot as time goes.

Lyrics are sung different tempo, in Bowie story style, in this part he speaks to us about what he was
and that the black star .. black to me indicates the dead darkness and the star is
the bright shining idol he was.
Lyric,
How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangster)

How many times does an angel fall.. reference the many changes he has gone through
his styles in and out falling into one genre to another and then dealing with the
music industry and the weaving of lies and not being upstanding to the musician of the world.
being exploited in all the manners that he and many endured, he trod on sacred ground
yet he continued on and cried loud into the crowd.. on stage on tours.I cant answer why,
Bowie is the star going out, and his tempo and cuts change into a familiar sound of him, his style his prance, just go with me he beckons, ima take you home, going with him, ...take your
passport n shoes and shoes were always so big in his early years platforms of glitter, .. and
your sedatives, the pills we need when we get old, your flash in the pan,
our days of once being the glitter and glam of an era gone by, indicated by his thumbing his
nose to those days in an ill fashion, and I am the great I am.
His ego knew he was great. A king.

I’m a blackstar, way up, oh honey, I’ve got game
I see right so white, so open-heart it’s pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes 
Diamonds in his eyes. The jewels again and the diamond dog of past,repeat, and new image of crucifying or scarecrows undulating hips swaying just as he did on stage,
lyrics
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a star star, I’m a blackstar)
indicating the struggle between letting him become past and remaining the star star
he is still.

Lyrics,
I can’t answer why (I’m not a gangster)
But I can tell you how 
I’m not a flam(could be film?) star
lyrics..
We were born upside-down (I’m a star star)
Born the wrong way ‘round (I’m not a white star)
(I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangster
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar
I’m not a pornstar, I’m not a wandering star
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
And the hip rolling scarecrows dance upon their sticks,

a cut scene to the women .. your eyes
one with the skeleton head as she walks through the women
with him his head of jewels.. they bow in reverence, and respect, she holds
the skelly head forward for all to see,
they shake in fear of loss of loosing in the dance of the dead.
shaking.

On the day of execution, .... your eyes
images of woman in artistic dance with her hands and an image
of a face of a darker race in background ? a love? is it Iman(it isnt Iman maybe representing)? onlooking?
one woman kneels then rises and the others spin and hands raise with a fist, indicating
defiance or victory, death has had a victory or we defy the passing.

They bow and then the candle is alone then the shaking of a scarecrows.
 A ritual
of passing of Change .. ch ch ch changes... a ritual of change..
the darker lady circles in the ritual
with his jeweled skelly head.. as we hear the wooooooooos oooooooo.
A deep mourning  of.. woahs.

A brief glimpse of Bowie onlooking the ritual as the head is placed upon the woman's
back.
Have women carried this man throughout his life, with out them he may not have made it,  but at the last rite,
he is placed upon her back as an idol
his mind given a resting place.

And as it ends, the images of the pain of being crucified,
the shaking and passing and
growing old and into the ground falling ..
until gone.. pan in the empty city..
with the castle on the hill. the Labyrinth city.

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Article on Rolling Stone.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-plays-doomed-blind-prophet-in-haunting-blackstar-video-20151119

Shadows On The Ceiling (Music Video)

Posted this because it is truly a work of art, passion and love. My Daughter April, Directed, Wrote and Edited this video. Very Proud of her. The music is by a brilliant composer David Rosen.  Hope you enjoy.. very surreal visuals. The best part of this is the little girl is my beautiful Grand Child.

March 2014 Me the Foody

Post for me today is why do people ignore what will happen to their kids if they continue to eat what is known to be poisonous and causing tumors and cancer in lab testing?  We have the FDA approving Monsanto's poison all the time. Its so simple to see FDA eating from the Monsanto hand. They think people most of them are dumb and ignorant. But see they are right. Why?  Because each day people load up on all things poisonous eating it into their body.
Fake food. Synthetic food. Plastics. Especially now that we know ADA is a substance in most FLOUR. If it isn't saying NON GMO certified. Chances are the fast food and restaurants you eat at are serving you ADA / the stuff used in Yoga mats. that's right its the big social media news. At least it is on my FB. I have no doubt that this is true.  What we need to do is get back to giving our families food that is untainted with POISON from Monsanto which are GMO food. Giving them Certified Organic products.  And even then you must watch which ones and how much of the food is Organic. There are so many ways and angles Monsanto companies try to trick you into eating their food.  THEY count on you eating their food so that their buddies Pharmaceutical companies will get your money when you have tumors and cancer.
Unfortunately most of us have so much pollutants in our dna and bodies that it is not easy to clean that out. We try and keep to a steady flow of REAL food Organic food consumption only to find another plot of Monsanto to contaminate the supply chain. Starting at our Farms.

I have given up on trying to educate my husband and my daughter, and all I can do is pray for my grandkids who don't stand a chance in having a long life survival because of what they eat. I am so grateful that I saw through the bullshit that is posted and lies of the pharmacy and doctors that I get a chance to try to live longer with better food. It certainly isn't going to kill me to eat Organic and Real food. I mean I could already be ill but my changes help me know I gave myself a fighting chance. It may be too late for some of us older people.  I praise the young people who have the vision and clarity to see through the lies of the Govt, issued food. Which is in fact Monsanto and Pharmaceutical owned. The medical system that the USA put in place also is to keep everyone in line and enslaved to their demands.
They only need to keep the advertisement LOOKING delicious to get through to most of the population.

I could never be part of advertising now today except to publish advertising of GET SMART EAT ORGANIC. Save lives of you and your family. Feel better take less drugs, by eating the right way.
The best way to describe what I mean is in the Movies "Food Matters and Knives over Forks" both on Netflix.

I think the best thing I can do is post and repost about food because it is a big part of all our enjoyment while we are in this world. Taste matters, as well as content to me. I find myself eating so many tasty things now that I thought I would only get from fast foods or restaurants. Its like I posted a photo of this below .. as this is what I see when I drive down the road. I don't crave any of it anymore because I know its a LIE. You eat a lie. What is suppose to be bread is ADA ridden poison. What is suppose to be Meat is fake meat in most cases.  And the list can go on an on.
See this photo .. its what I see :

So that is 

what I see.

Now I search the net for recipes that I can make with organic resources. I feel like a crafter

in a game.  

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the threat to life. It might take a FOODY person to open your eyes but if you refuse to believe, then it is on you. If your a Parent it is up to you to give your kids a chance. If your not a Parent its up to you to give yourself a better life, and a chance to cure many things that some of you are ailing from.  

I have been cured of about 3 ailments from my change I only take 2 medicines and at my age most people take several. 

I guess the point of this post was to speak to people who just follow the crowd and ignore the simplest changes to come and change their world. Of course my husband is just lazy and won't bother to change his habits and although i love him I can't force him to GET SMART and get UNLAZY about what he eats. 

I will be sad that he could get very sick very soon. But there it is the case of .. I told you so.  And Ill be there for my family even though they never listen to me.  It is I guess why I have been the Rock of the family. I guess that was my purpose. 

And anyone who does try to change I respect and admire and am so proud of you. 

Arizona State of Ignorance

Question: When do you realize that the idols you have had for a long time are not the kind of people you would associate with face to face? The answer would be when you follow a famous Idols Facebook posts. It amazes me that people are so enthralled by their idols until they realize they aren't even on the same page as their idols or those they admire in the entertainment fields. Some of them have entire different outlooks on life that what you are passionate about.
 For instance liking someones fan page who happens to debate politics as if their views were the only thing that mattered. That their views were the only ones that were correct because why? Because they are famous??  It amazes me that, people don't realize that some stars be it musicians or actors, are quite different from roles they play or have played in past.
They are who they are, and if their beliefs change your view of the characters they portray then it is your choice not to watch them. But why troll them? They are after all human as everyone on Facebook is except the cats and dogs and animals that have their own facebook pages.

I spent a good portion of my day debating the Pussy Riot situation / incident in Sochi and though I was on the side of the fence that the person I posted on was on also, that person pulled apart my view and twisted it as if to throw me on the other side of the fence. That was not something I enjoyed learning about this person who I had admired for their talent. I don't think it will stop me from listening to their music but dang gummit, my view of them as a person showed me what an angry attitude they retain about people in general.  And I use to think Henry Rollins was an angry person.. this one seems to put Henry to shame.

For someone who loves animals and human rights I could not understand the double standards of sending someone to the other side of the fence.

My view still is that Pussy Riot girls were lucky to not have gotten worse beating, because normally protesters are beat to a pulp not only in Russia but in many countries on the brink of revolutions. The girls have guts and stand for what they believe, I admire people who will stand up to authority and Govt. because Govt to me are the enemy.  But that's my personal view. I don't let it consume me from the moment I get up til I go to bed. I want to enjoy life what freedoms we do still have.

Oh and people need to get over the fact that not all their favorite actors are going to be soft spoken respecting citizens. Some of them like to get out there and raise some hell and Cuss like sailors.  There are those I accept for who they are and others that I now just ignore based on the people they are.  Now if they are darn right arrogant pricks, obviously I would not spend time reading their posts or tweets. Ill keep following my regulars for the smart things they post. And recognize their talent as actors. I will not follow those that try to rip each person a new one when they post on their fan page with goodness in their heart. (meaning posting from the good of the people side)

Probability : I can see me eventually getting a 2nd FB acct so I can take a break from the craziness that goes with it. Sometimes there is just too much info that I don't want to know. LOL

I knew it!:  Arizona was the state of ignorance. It is confirmed in today's reading their protection of religious freedom giving them the right to actually discriminate on gender, race, job or anything that their religion doesn't believe in including choice of life partners.

Outer Space ?

Okay today I was reading my Environmental Sci book and came across a couple things that made me think and question something.
First of all I learned that Uranium turns into lead 270 after over 700 billion years. Secondly, I wondered if all Uranium turns to lead that is in the ground, eventually? They say they date the earth by lead in the layers of rock. I found that interesting. I didn't seem to find the answer to that question.

My 2nd observation was after reading about life on other planets. The Mars Viking missions, it got me wondering why is it that we humans smart as we are didn't think to send something to another planet Mars? Moon? that could help develop life survival.
Now what I mean is, if we have knowledge to get a ship to Mars why not go just to the Moon and deliver something that could cause life to grow on the Moon over millions of years of course. As an alternative when our earth is killed by Humans. Wouldn't that kind of be an answer? Why not send some ships to nearest possible life sustaining planets and deliver some sort of organisms that could evolve into life. Who says it has to be air breathing life? Fish swim, they cant breath air to live. I know my ideas are probably ahead of the technology but it sure gave me a good think about possibilities.

Probably may not happen in many generations but it is possible. Least I thought it!

Lastly I don't have a real I knew it because there is no way I would have known that the UK could be more devastated by flooding than I could have imagined possible. It is heart wrenching and I write the end of this as tears fall, grieving for the people with such loss. I have not felt this sad about catastrophe since Sandy and Katrina. Something about the UK for me though, because it was always my home away from home so oddly I seem to be in more pain about this than I was with USA floods.
I have a couple shots taken from news stories. They are here for information on just how bad things are. Send some vibes out to the weather to stop raining and causing these floods. Even though I do know that there's not much hope of that happening.. God Bless the UK .. and give it some Peace. Photos by the BBC.

On Getting Old and a Few Questions..

Just a Few Questions..
Today is one of those days where reflection takes on new meanings. Its not like I look in the mirror often.  At my age who wants to. But imagine 40 yrs ago leaving the house without looking in the mirror and primping! (thank god autocorrect didn't act up on that last line lol) I think sometimes I hate Facebook because it ages me more than if I didn't look at it everyday.  You wake up turn on computer load Facebook to see, some famous actor or musician has passed away. You see tons of RIP's and miscellaneous photos of that person, and their achievements.
It sure makes you feel small if you aren't famous. You think gosh when its my turn, there wont be any sort of epitaph posted about me. I haven't done anything extraordinary, but post on facebook, about the good ol'days, photos of my fantastic grand kids and daughter.

I never became someone famous, to be remembered. Heck, you get to a point where you figure out that it doesn't matter if you had some famous moments or not. Your just happy to wake up each day and breath.
Is that why some of us older generation, take up reading and watching tv.  Just things to pass time? But didn't we do many things in our lives that were to enjoy and pass time? Yes that includes sex! We made the memories and for what purpose I start to ask myself.

Is this figuring out the meaning of Life part of the aging process? In fact it is according to my psychology 101 book. Just about the time we figure out the meaning to us, we come to grips with it and accept that it may be over soon. So we grasp that and walk with it. We smile and make our peace, we either get more miserable or bitter or we mellow out and laugh a lot more. Which brings me to Facebook again, waking up and finding a ton of new posts with funny cats, funny sayings, and funny anything to share with some of my other older generation people.  So we end up with the RIP and the FUNNY side of life. Surely that is all worth logging in for, besides I think I need to know where all my old friends are at, eating sleeping drinking, watching tv etc, or looking at facebook in the same way as me! Just saying......