RIP David Bowie, 1/8/47-1/10/16: Go a little bit out of your depth…Do something exciting

David Robert Jones aka David Bowie (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) said that “If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

Each day we have the opportunity to do something exciting!

David Bowie, like his character in the film, The Man Who Fell to Earth, really did seem to come from someplace outside this world. His records and films allowed him to shape shift into anything he wanted to become. As such I never completely understood him, but I bought many of his records because they were very, very good, no matter what persona he was in at the time.

I didn’t “get” David Bowie, but so many of his songs live deeply within me, buried, like small treasures. Like treasures from another world.

• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Labyrinth
• Absolute Beginners
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Zoolander

• “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
• “I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.”
• “I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”

• “I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.”
• “I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.”
• “I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
• “What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.”
• “I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!”
• “When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.”