Sunday, December 17, 2006

I'm Afraid of this Movie


it's been two weeks after we first saw the man who fell to earth and i'm finally almost ready to revisit it.what i took away from bowie's vanity project was that if i saw it when i was 5, i would not be the same person i am today.

like there's this one scene where, on a whim, bowie's character locks himself in the bathroom and removes all of his hair (and eyeball covers) and then reveals himself to this poor woman who just wants him to stop watching his 15 tvs every now and then and who, upon seeing that her skinny, androgynous lover is actually a nipple-less martian freak, proceeds to pee her pink miniskirt.

after this scene, TMWFTE gets all 70's on us and we feel like we're intruding on something that we don't even want to be a part of anyway. but there is this one song near the beginning when rip torn's character is introduced that is so freaking amazing i wish i remembered how it went.

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