“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
- Glen Cook
from Wikipdia:
The Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard admitted in 2007, originated in large part from the sudden death of his first wife Mary from pneumonia:[5]
I was terribly wounded by my wife's death. Leaving me with these very young children, I felt that a crime had been committed by nature against this young woman — and her children — and I was searching desperately for an explanation [...] To some extent The Atrocity Exhibition is an attempt to explain all the terrible violence that I saw around me in the early sixties. It wasn't just the Kennedy assassination [...] I think I was trying to look for a kind of new logic that would explain all these events.
Crime Art - Symbolic Violence
h/t - Zwaremetalen239
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h/t to the h/t. That whole album is AWESOME, maybe his best ever.
Much to my deep shame I knew neither of this movie, nor of Mangione. Must watch that ASAP. Ta...
What I love about Bowie is his adoptation of new and different personae for each of his projects... like Ziggy Stardust, Nathan Adler,...
David Bowie had many personas, including:
Ziggy Stardust
Bowie's most famous persona, first appearing in 1972 on his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Ziggy was a bisexual, flame-haired alien who wanted to spread hope to young people.
Aladdin Sane
Bowie's transition to fame, introduced after he killed off Ziggy Stardust onstage in London. The name is a play on words, as it's thought to be inspired by Bowie's half-brother, Terry, who had schizophrenia.
The Thin White Duke
An alter ego that appeared during Bowie's struggles with drug addiction and stress. The character is portrayed as a troubled man who sings of romance but is numb to his feelings.
Major Tom
A cosmonaut lost in space who first appeared in Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity". Bowie returned to the character in his 1980 song "Ashes to Ashes".
The Goblin King
Bowie's most memorable acting role, as Jareth in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth.
The Blind Prophet
Bowie's final character, who appeared in a few music videos for his 2016 album Blackstar. This persona represented the real David Bowie, David Robert Jones.
Bowie was known as a rock 'n' roll chameleon, and his personas were often ahead of their time. He was influenced by Little Richard, soul music, and the fashions of European modernism. He also discovered the idea of men wearing makeup through London mod culture.
It all comes back to Mods vs. Rockers.... ala Quadrophenia!
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