Coming soon: T-shirt #366 - Y&R, for my mom
Readers (and random people who stumbled on this by accident),
When I ceased daily transmission of this blog on Friday, March 21 2014, my plan was to resume after a hiatus with new material on an intermittent schedule as I had more t-shirts to feature.
The hiatus was meant to be short, like a month, maybe. It's been a year and a little over three months.
I was planning for my next post to be the one for this t-shirt, dedicated to my mother about the soap opera The Young and the Restless, which I have watched with her, often daily, since its debut in 1973, which is most of my life.
I last worked on this future blog post on 1309.17.
I will now deliver content on this t-shirt in a series of posts, though it may take me a while to generate it all.
My mother died July 4th, 2015 at 10:10 a.m.
Yeah, yeah, I know we're blurry. Blame my Dad.
Or think of me looking at the photo through my tears.
COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - ?? shirts remaining
- chris tower - 1507.06 - 12:04
365 T-shirts - the reasoning
This blog should be sub-titled: a journal of my life in geek.
I get my geek on with things about which I am geeky: comic books, Baseball, Ultimate, science fiction, my favorite bands, books I have read and loved, and Jungian psychology to name some of the most frequently traversed subjects.
I began this project simply as a way to count my T-shirts. I own a lot of T-shirts. But how many do I have? Do I have 365? We shall find out.
When I started this blog, I thought about how each T-shirt means something to me. I bought it for a reason, after all. I set myself the task to post an entry about a new T-shirt every day as a way to simply write something every day, a warm up for writing fiction, which is my passion. Writing is like exercise. Warm ups are good for exercise. But after completing a month of blogging about T-shirts, I have learned that this blog serves as a journal; it documents my life in geek, sort of a tour of my interests in pop culture. The blog serves as a tool for self-inventory, for assessment and analysis of self and the origins of self, for stepping through the process of individuation in catalogues, lists, and ranks.
The blog also made me aware that I have some serious gaps in my T-shirt ownership, and I am in the process of collecting some new T-shirts for several of the great popular culture icons that I truly love. Stay tuned.
I was also a bit surprised that people checked out my blog and continue to check it, read it, and even comment on it. I am very appreciative of this readership. Please feel free to share your thoughts in my comments section. I will respond.
Also, please note that I have moved the original introductory text to the side bar. And now, I present to you the most recent entry of 365 T-shirts: a journal of my life in geek. Thank you for reading.
(Second Update - 1310.24. First Update - 1306.05 Originally Posted - 1304.25.)
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
T-shirt #346 - The JAM
TODAY'S COUNT: 19 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year
OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday, at the top of the blog, for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: SENSE OF DOUBT. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from SENSE OF DOUBT. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at SENSE OF DOUBT and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. SENSE OF DOUBT will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02
Today's shirt features what is one of the greatest bands of the modern era: THE JAM.I would put THE JAM next to most any band in an evaluation of musical impact, fury of fandom, raw power, lyrical strength, chart topping songs and albums, quality of albums as a whole, pop hooks, originality, and many of the other factors used to evaluate bands.
Even so, when I created my BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME LIST in T-shirt #292, I did not include any albums by THE JAM in the top ten list.
THE JAM were among the two bands I mentioned immediately following my top ten list as an unfortunate omission. However, in my personal top most listened to albums, the Jam's All Mod Cons logged 20th as you can read here in the oft-recommended T-shirt #97.
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Despite these rankings or lack of rankings, the Jam are definitely among my favorite bands of all time, ranked third when I listed favourite bands in T-shirt #46: DEVO.
I first discovered the Jam in the early 1980s, probably around 1981-82 with the purchase of the 1980 album Sound Affects. In 1982, I had tickets to see them at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, which I sold for less than I paid, out front, because my then girlfriend of the time had lost interest in attending and wanted to visit her grandparents in Greektown instead. The Jam broke up shortly after this concert appearance, and I have never gotten over missing my chance to see them live.
JAM MIX
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In 1983, I started dating another woman who had just spent the summer living in Britain and had become a HUGE Jam fan and discovered the rest of their albums, primarily Setting Sons and my personal favourite: All Mod Cons, which I think is a truly great album despite my failure to rank it in an objective listing of top ten greatest albums of all time.
I have been a huge Jam fan ever since, though I am most interested in PAUL WELLER, the Modfather, whom I have followed through his years with THE STYLE COUNCIL and later (and currently) his burgeoning solo career. I have yet to see Paul Weller live, and this is definitely on my bucket list of things to do before either one of us, me or Paul, kicks. Along with never seeing The Jam, missing Paul Weller ranks with my other missed live shows, such as Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, and Joni Mitchell.Ranking the Jam albums is easy.
1. All Mod Cons (1978)
2. Setting Sons (1979)
3. Sound Affects (1980)
4. The Gift (1982)
5. In The City (1977)
6. This is the Modern World (1977)
This list does not count compilations or special editions, like Beat Surrender seen in the photos. I was fortunate and blessed to receive a copy of Dig the New Breed, a live compilation album released as the band broke up in 1982, and the deluxe 30th anniversary edition of The Gift as Christmas gifts in 2013 from my wife.The Jam are an amazing success story. Formed in a flurry of punk activity in Britain, the band emerged as one of the punk bands that was not so stereotypically punk. Though the band formed in 1972, the recording and popular years were short: five years. They burned twice as bright because they burned half as long as many others.
Yes, somewhat lazy, but effective, here's the main WIKIPEDIA text on the Jam that does a good job summing up how great the band was.
The Jam were an English punk rock/new wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes, and they incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock and R&B influences rather than rejecting them, placing The Jam at the forefront of the mod revival movement.
They had 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remained the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK album charts. When the group split up, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100.
The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio was known for its melodic pop songs, its distinctly English flavour and its mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form The Style Council and later had a successful solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of The Jam’s original compositions, and he played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band’s songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," "The Eton Rifles," "Going Underground," and "Town Called Malice."
I have copious reading materials about The Jam and much more that I could share, but I also have another and a newer (nicer) shirt, so the full love letter will wait for a future post, after the 365 days of posts has ended.For now, just videos featuring some of my favourite Jam songs. ENJOY. Happy Sunday. Have a cuppa and settle in with music from one of the best bands of all time.
Difficult to pick, but I restricted myself to TEN songs, the full album of All Mod Cons, and two documentaries. Piffle. Not that much. Sue me. How can one select even ten best and favourite songs from a band this great?
One of the best songs ever written...
The Jam - That's Entertainment
I thought about going with a live version of this song, but I love the video. It's classic.
The Jam - Going Underground
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
(from All Mod Cons)
The Jam - Start
The Jam Live - Town Called Malice (HD)
This is one of the most venomous songs ever, and I love it. One of my favourite Jam songs: 'BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR."
The Jam Live - The Butterfly Collector
The Jam Live - Beat Surrender (HD)
(From All Mod Cons)
The Jam - Saturdays Kids
If you like what you have heard of the songs I posted, check out the WHOLE ALBUM!!
The Jam - All Mod Cons (Full Album) Vinyl
Another mini-documentary... If you like this, check out the other FIVE parts.
The making of all mod cons ★ The Jam
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COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 19 shirts remaining - chris tower - 1403.02 - 12:49
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
T-shirt #321 - Zoo: Kalamazoo College
T-shirt #321 - Zoo: Kalamazoo College
Eventually, there have to be some short entries.
My best friend the Lord of Chaos, also known as Tom Meyers, has been visiting, again, for the last week, which means less time for work, for blog, but more play time and time for family.
For instance, yesterday, after we visited my parents, Tom and I played Magic the Gathering with Ivan.
We already managed one stint of Dungeons and Dragons (IE. Pathfinder) as noted in Sunday's short blog entry. Assuming I can blow through my work in record time, I am hoping to secure time to play more tomorrow before he flies back east (Massachusetts) on Friday.
Tom and I went to Kalamazoo College together, and even though I am a year older, we graduated together in 1985.
It was meant to be. I was meant to graduate with the 1985 class. They were the better class (sorry Elaine! Not you, obviously...).
I have written about Kalamazoo College already, and I will surely write about it again as I have more K shirts to share. So that's all for now.
T-shirt #100 - Kalamazoo College
T-shirt #258 - Kalamazoo College Grey Under Armor
More to come...
HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.
COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 44 shirts remaining
- chris tower - 1402.05 - 19:03
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
T-shirt #306 - Oxford University - Blue
T-shirt #306 - Oxford University - BlueToday's shirt comes from a trip to England in 1986 (see photos) and a visit to Oxford University. It is a companion to the shirt from T-shirt #148, which I was as pajamas. Scheduled for August 16th, 2013, T-shirt #148 has the distinction of being the shirt I posted the day of of my prostate surgery.
Today will be short and carried (mostly) by the photos with the exception of the hiatus text.
I spent most of the day working on T-shirt #303. I imagine readers checking my blog periodically and watching the incomplete entries grow, as I work on them as time allows. If this is true, please let me know in a comment.
It is worth noting that I think one of the shirts, this one and the one in T-shirt #303, may have belonged to my mother, who does not really wear T-shirts. But I am not sure if this is a "true fact" or not.
Aren't all facts true?
That's what makes them facts.
Though not from our European trip, I will throw in a picture of me and my mother from 2012 just because.
You may recognize the shirt in the photo as T-shirt #14. I just came across this photo to add to the mix.
In the next photo, you may recognize that rocky thing in the background as Stonehenge. This is 1986 as we toured England. I am amused at how I dressed back then.
In the next photo, we are not in England anymore. We are in France. I was supposed to stay behind and live in France for a few months, but when I could not connect with friends I had made in college, I bailed on that plan and returned home with my family. This is the first time I have publicly admitted that truth. But we are dedicated to "true facts" today. Gosh, did I ever like those little round glasses.
HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.
COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 59 shirts remaining
- chris tower - 1401.21 - 19:26
Thursday, December 19, 2013
T-shirt #273 - U2 - Vertigo
T-shirt #273 - U2 - Vertigo
I am feeling a little guilty. I have not yet made a list of favorite bands. Recently, I made a list of favorite women musical artists. But I had not yet made the list of favorite bands of all time. I made a partial list in T-shirt #238 - The Clash, but it was incomplete. In that list, I did not even mention U2.Now, granted, I was making a list of greatest bands of all time in a more empirical way in the Clash post, not a list of MY favorite bands, which are really two different things. I would put the Beatles in a top five best bands of all time list, no question, but I would not put them in my personal top five favorites.
Favorites are a very subjective thing. And I think I throw the word favorite around too easily on this blog. Can I really have as many favorites as I claim to have favorites? Doesn't the number diminish the specialness? In other words, the more favorites I claim to have, the less special each becomes. Ultimately, the list could grow so large that I have to make a list of favorite favorites and another list of leftovers: just regular favorites.
TOP TEN FAVORITE BANDS
... okay, actually the top thirteen and a secondary list of many.
U2 is definitely a favorite band, but would it make my top ten? I don't think so. Here's a quick list of absolute top ten bands:The Jam, Cocteau Twins, 10,000 Maniacs, The Indigo Girls, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Everything But the Girl, King Crimson, Radiohead, Stereolab, Spyro Gyra, Sigur Rós, The Clash.
Okay, that's thirteen. But I was going by iTunes playlists and most frequent listening stats. And there's a secondary list, and this is where you will find U2:
Kraftwerk, The Innocence Mission, Japan, Talking Heads, U2, REM, The Art of Noise, Genesis, Hooverphonic, DEVO, Simon and Garfunkel, Haircut 100, They Might Be Giants, New Order, Joy Division, The Style Council, Cabaret Voltaire, Lush, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Pixies.
And I am still leaving out many great bands and groups of artists who function like bands, such as Aphex Twin and most especially Machine Love (note the link to my entry on them in my other blog). I have given Machine Love some LOVE on my pages before, but in 273 posts, I am not sure where.I would say this is a pretty good start to the favorite bands list. Though not a top ten, those thirteen bands are those I have listened to most often over the years. Though great and frequently in my rotation, U2 falls into a secondary category of favorites that I adore but for one reason or another were not as constantly played as first thirteen. I also think it's worth noting that of the thirteen "favorites," I have blog posts specifically dedicated to nine of those thirteen top bands, and I have plans for posts with three more of them.
All that said, though U2 is not in that top thirteen bands, I do love U2 and have a long history of loving them and listening to them.
This shirt comes from seeing the Vertigo tour in 2005 at the United Center in Chicago. I have to say it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. The concert was uplifting and powerfully moving with slow, quiet moments and all the pomp and circumstance of a big name rock band. I had seen U2 early in the band's career, and I had not wanted to see them once they hit it big, and so I had passed on many opportunities on their previous tours. I only relented because a, then, friend of mine wanted to see them. I was not disappointed. This concert was amazing.

I figure I do not need to write much about U2. Most people know the band. If you happen to have lived on another planet for the last 30 years, start your research with this U2 WIKIPEDIA.
SUDDENLY I WANT AN iPOD
Around the time U2 put out the album containing the hit song "Vertigo," they also used it for the first advertisement campaign that they endorsed: Apple's iPod. I am not sure if I have mentioned my thing woth commercials on the blog yet, but I mute commercials. I really cannot stand commercials on television, thus the unavoidable ones that the marketing manipulators are trying to sneak in on us drive my crazy. Anyway, I almost never have a TV on unless I am doing something else, and so while I am working or reading or whatever, I mute commercials. Thus, not only does a commercial need to be in frequent rotation on one or all of the channels I watch to penetrate my wall of resistance, but it also has to be catchy. Thus, with U2's promotion of Apple's iPod, it took many weeks but soon I found myself affected by the insidious powers of the commercial even as I tried to resist. Granted, a digital music player is something I would naturally want to own anyway, but I found that my desire for an iPod was heightened if not solely created by these commercials and their ubiquity. Definitely, a lot of this infection and its virulence had to with U2 and the power "Vertigo."
MY FIRST U2 CONCERT
I saw my first U2 concert in 1983 as the band toured with its third album War. And even though "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day" were hits, not very many people packed the small Detroit Grand Circus Theater, which was later the State and currently the Filmore Theater. When the band came out, everyone in the audience rushed the stage, and so my, then, girlfriend of the time and I had a whole row to ourselves in which to spread out and dance.It was a very good concert, and I heard some of my favorite songs from October, but it was not better or even close to as good as the 2005 Vertigo tour show I saw in Chicago.
THE RULE OF FIRST LISTENING (well, almost a rule)
U2 provided me with a rule that is not always true but is often enough true that I am calling it a rule and one of the many RULES OF CHRIS (see category).
More often than not, the first album one discovers for a band becomes and is always the favorite thereafter. I found this to be true with David Bowie, Talking Heads, and Laurie Anderson. I have also found this to be true with U2. I did not discover the band until its second album, October, was out. This album is far and away my favorite, dwarfing even Joshua Tree, which many people would count as their favorite.
A friend of mine in college, whose nickname was Madge or sometimes Maggot, had seen U2 when it tured with its first album Boy. She saw the band perform in a roller rink in Detroit. For her, Boy was her favorite. But that was the first one she heard. For me, I first heard October, and so it was my favorite.
There are bands that break this rule. I probably would argue that Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album and Central Reservation my favorite Beth Orton album, but these are exceptions to the rule, and they do not make the rule any less true.
MY WIFE'S CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH BONOI know I will get the details of this story wrong, so I plan to update it. But my wife loves to share that she jumped on stage during a U2 concert and got Bono's sweat on her. I don't remember much more than that, so I will wait to ask her about the story again and update this part.
A WEEKEND WITH RATTLE AND HUM
Back in 1988, I took a group of students from my English 105 class to Chicago. We went to museums and the Hard Rock Cafe and had a great time. I have to say, it was one of the best weekends of my life. Definitely top five. The documentary about U2, Rattle and Hum, debuted that weekend and we went to see the movie and treated it like a concert, dancing and grooving to the music and secretly drinking beer. This one guy who was with us smuggled in 15 beers on his person without the means of a bag or small ice chest. Amazing. I thought I had a digital version of a picture from that weekend. Again, another thing to update. The blog oozes and grows in an amorphous blob like way.
These are just a few of my U2 experiences. I have listened to U2 for many years and enjoy the band's music a great deal. One of my favorite musicians, Brian Eno, produced some of their best albums. U2 is also responsible for introducing me to other producers of theirs, such as Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite. I do not love all of U2's albums. I am not fond of Pop at all. I HATED Unforgettable Fire, when I first heard it, but now I love it. I also hated Achtung Baby when I first heard it. Though I do not like all of it, "One" is now one of my favorite songs of all time, not just U2 songs, but songs by anyone.
U2 has been a part of my life for over 30 years, and my life is richer because of my experiences with the band. To close, I am presenting just a few videos of my favorite U2 songs. I will try to restrict myself to five, but this is not easy.
U2 VIDEOS
U2 Tomorrow
Mary J. Blige, U2 - One
U2 - A Sort Of Homecoming Live
Here's a cheat, including two of my favorites all together in one live video.
U2 - Elevation - Beautiful day - Until the end of the world Live From Boston 2001
Okay, it's really tough to stop at five videos. I may share a U2 playlist another time.
COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 92 shirts remaining
- chris tower - first published 1312.19 - 18:55
FINAL publication - 1312.20 - 15:43
Sunday, December 15, 2013
T-shirt #269 - DAVID BOWIE - HEATHEN - Teaching featured musical artists of the day
T-shirt #269 - DAVID BOWIE - HEATHEN - Teaching featured musical artists of the day
The same people who wondered why it was 266 days before I featured Firefly, especially those who know me, will wonder why it took equally 269 days to feature the one musical artist who is arguably my favorite and about whom I am most passionate: DAVID BOWIE.
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| This shirt is from the Heathen tour, obviously |
But some subjects are so large, so important, that it does not seem like something easy to tackle, so I put it off. DAVID BOWIE is such a subject. I must own at least a dozen books devoted to David Bowie. I have all the albums on CD and LP. I have listened to everything for many years and obsessively. I have favorites, lists of favorites, and facts to share. I have Bowie stories to tell. I came to love Bowie so much, when I first discovered him in college, that I would randomly shout "BOWIE!" to emphasize my love for the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack.
And it did not escape me that Bowie's 25th studio album, promised in 2006, finally came out in early 2013: The Next Day.
I taught the media course for ten years. During the course, since our focus was media, I developed the FEATURED MUSICAL ARTIST of the day. Since the class met once weekly, this meant one a week. I would share some basic information about each artist (occasionally I would do two in one class) and then extract facts about the artist for bonus questions on my weekly quizzes. There was some controversy stirred up about my creation of such questions, but they were considered BONUS questions and hence extra credit and thus I did not feel badly if students did not know the answers. After all, they could guess. They had a 50-50 chance on the standard True-False bonus question and at worst a 20% chance on the standard multiple choice question.
These pictures come from my last full, regular length semester in the Winter of 2008 in the Women's Studies Media and the Sexes Class at Western Michigan University.
I saved DAVID BOWIE for the final week of the semester, and eventually, I prepared a power point presentation to share what I wanted to share about David Bowie in my Women's Studies Media and the Sexes Class at Western Michigan University.
Today, I would like to share the slides from that power point. Because there are forty-four slides, I added a page break, so you will need to click on it to see the entire show. I made a few notes. But first, arguably my favorite Bowie song and video, and some pictures of my dear friends and teaching associates: Abigail "Crabby" Nappier and Erin Bauchan (now Erin Bauchan-Caprara).
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
- chris tower - 1312.15 - 13:46
HERE'S THE POWER POINT (note the page break)
| this picture is from the Black Tie White Noise album |
| picture from Heathen |
| Madame Tussaud's wax depiction of Bowie left |
| Other wax dummies? Bowie's various characters |
| Vanity Fair feature |
| Note in the classroom pictures I have this on the document camera while running the power point on the other screens; the classroom contained four screens which could be set in pairs |
| Various shots of Bowie being androgynous |
| I tell a story about the demise of the far too ambitious Diamond Dogs stage show which he junked to do Young Americans |
| The Thin White Duke |
| I talk a bit about Eno, but I am saving that for another t-shirt |
| Arguably, my favorite album |
| I saw both Detroit shows on this tour |
| Under appreciated great album hours |
| Heathen was the best thing since Outside or maybe even since Let's Dance. |
| Bowie with wife Iman. |
| Bowie's 50th birthday party in 1997 at MSG |
| from Bowie's boxed set SOUND AND VISION |
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