I was just watching on the internets here this classic clip of Bing Crosby singing "Little Drummer Boy" with David Bowie. It's Christmas time and all, and though I don't go in for Holiday Gatherings and Celebrating, I do go in for David Bowieing. Watch that clip I linked to, and try and think of anyone else from his (or any more recent) generation that might look as at ease as Bowie does, being forced to give canned lines and pretend to break out in song with an old crooner way past his prime.
This, of course, is the same Bowie that made Zoolander twenty times better than it already was. This is the same Bowie that we'll go to the mat for when someone says "China Girl" isn't actually that good, even though we know it's true. This is the David Bowie that is one of two people, along with Eddie Izzard, that can cross-dress yet not make that the thing - the talent actually eclipses the weird.
I used to have a list of the three most awesome people in the world. It went David Bowie, Snoop Dogg, and #3 was TBD. But last week, apropos of another conversation, I promoted David Bowie to his own class. David Bowie is awesome. Not "is awesome" in the way that soup "is hot" or a frog "is green"; Bowie actually instantiates awesomeness. Go ahead. Name me someone cooler. I didn't think so.
As this is the Christmas season, I do have one wish. I wish Bowie had died for my sins instead. I'd much rather pray to him.
(Insert your own blood/body of Bowie joke here.)
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wow. I think I have been waiting for someone to say this for a very long time. I just didn't know it until I read you're very fine declaration or Bowie's awesomeness.
holy shit David Bowie and Snoop Dogg are also my two most awesome people that's so funny
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