No More Pencils

The first time I heard him was in a shop. I thought he sounds like Bob Dylan. Then I heard more of him and kind of liked his stuff but thought that it was all fluff without any depth. Attractive but meaningless.

Then there was China Girl and Let’s Dance – and I liked them.

Best of all I liked the way he understood movement, and the way he stood and walked – very neat talent.

On the Joe Blogs site today I saw a video of Bowie’s Life On Mars.

There were some closeup shots and I noticed Bowie’s different size irises. I never noticed that before. I googled for information and read that when Bowie was fifteen years old a friend punched him in the eye during an argument over a girl, and that he had operations that left him with a permanently enlarged iris in his left eye.

The thing is that the accident reduced his depth perception, which bearing in mind what I think about his talent for physical positioning, is all the more interesting.

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