David Bowie RIP

[Anonymous]

Just think - David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed hanging out in space.

And then Lemmy shows up.

On long bus rides in that business, we used to play a dark humor game called "Plane Crash or Vomit?" (Like SNL's "Dead or Canadian?")
The Natural Causes Band is starting to catch up with some major talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Just think - David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed hanging out in space.

And then Lemmy shows up.

On long bus rides in that business, we used to play a dark humor game called "Plane Crash or Vomit?" (Like SNL's "Dead or Canadian?")
The Natural Causes Band is starting to catch up with some major talent.

Lemmy would go great with those three. Don't forget, Lemmy spent years in a psych band called Hawkwind. Major, major influence in the early 70's. All four of these amazing musicians gone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Just think - David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed hanging out in space.

And then Lemmy shows up.

On long bus rides in that business, we used to play a dark humor game called "Plane Crash or Vomit?" (Like SNL's "Dead or Canadian?")
The Natural Causes Band is starting to catch up with some major talent.

Lemmy would go great with those three. Don't forget, Lemmy spent years in a psych band called Hawkwind. Major, major influence in the early 70's. All four of these amazing musicians gone

Right? Best band ever. Too bad they're only playing on mars.

[Anonymous]

David Bowie reminds of the my youth staying up on Friday and Saturday nights to watch Night Tracks (before there was MTV). That Let's Dance video was always on.

[Anonymous]

Liked his music - kind of weird that he had sex with a 15 year old girl though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liked his music - kind of weird that he had sex with a 15 year old girl though.

Link - or it didn't happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of cancer did he have?

Also, fuck cancer.

Liver cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liked his music - kind of weird that he had sex with a 15 year old girl though.

Link - or it didn't happen.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/teacosy/2016/01/11/david-bowie-was-wonderful-he-was-also-an-abuser-how-do-we-handle-that/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liked his music - kind of weird that he had sex with a 15 year old girl though.

Link - or it didn't happen.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/teacosy/2016/01/11/david-bowie-was-wonderful-he-was-also-an-abuser-how-do-we-handle-that/

http://elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=349


http://rebeccahains.com/2016/01/11/reconciling-david-bowies-genius-with-rape/

[Anonymous]

No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

damn

I knew he was into orgies and what not (stardom, I guess) before he finally settled down with Iman, which I do think was true love. But once I read that, I just became ill.

And then that article led me down the dark path toward other "celebrities" and their teen girlfriends. Anyone remember that Don Johnson dated Melanie Griffith when she was about 14?

shudder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

Yup, the whole celebrity/star athlete culture is gross. If you have money/power, you can do whatever the fuck you want and people will make excuses for you. Most people who go into that culture are not the most stable or mentally healthy people to begin with, anyway. They become rich and famous and it's either drugs or some other bad behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

This is the first I've heard of any of that. To my knowledge Bowie was a happily married man. Iman is a grown woman and so is Bowie's former wife. Is it possible that Bowie (unknowingly or unthinkingly in the moment) had sex with an underage groupie when he was a young man? Yeah, probably. Do I think that he was a pervert who actually sought out children to have sex with - no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

This is the first I've heard of any of that. To my knowledge Bowie was a happily married man. Iman is a grown woman and so is Bowie's former wife. Is it possible that Bowie (unknowingly or unthinkingly in the moment) had sex with an underage groupie when he was a young man? Yeah, probably. Do I think that he was a pervert who actually sought out children to have sex with - no.

This. It's a part of celebrity culture, and, in this instance, the groupie culture of the 1970s. It's what "Almost Famous" is about. Not excusing this gross behavior, just asserting that it doesn't mean that David Bowie was a child predator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one cares that he had sex with 14 and 15 year old girls, because...hey, the music was good.

But, if lets say, he was plumber or a teacher, you would care a fuck whole lot that a 30 year old man was having sex with young girls.

But rock on.

This is the first I've heard of any of that. To my knowledge Bowie was a happily married man. Iman is a grown woman and so is Bowie's former wife. Is it possible that Bowie (unknowingly or unthinkingly in the moment) had sex with an underage groupie when he was a young man? Yeah, probably. Do I think that he was a pervert who actually sought out children to have sex with - no.

This. It's a part of celebrity culture, and, in this instance, the groupie culture of the 1970s. It's what "Almost Famous" is about. Not excusing this gross behavior, just asserting that it doesn't mean that David Bowie was a child predator.

Here's an article that takes this position: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/13/the-trolls-who-target-dead-celebrities.html

Tl;dr: Yes, this happened, and by our standards, it's appalling. But why bring it up less than 24 hours after his death when people are mourning, and it should be discussed as a consequence of its time and culture.