loudhail » Hanif Kureishi http://blog.loudhail.com new media for new times Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:23:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 2009 – a Space Oddity http://blog.loudhail.com/2009/07/08/major-tom/ http://blog.loudhail.com/2009/07/08/major-tom/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:56:40 +0000 loudhail http://blog.loudhail.com/?p=211 I love David Bowie. For so many reasons: he is a chameleon (much like moi), he has kick-ass as well as hilarious outfits, he makes awesome music (and he’s been doing it for ever), he is Charlie Hero’s and Karim Amir’s hero (and I love Karim Amir – he is my favourite Hanif Kureishi character by a long shot), and he wrote Ground Control to Major Tom, which was an important song to me when I was about 4 years old, because back then I wanted to be an astronomer (or an opera singer. A male opera singer – otherwise I couldn’t be Papageno).

Anyway, David Bowie: I will get to play with another one of his awesome songs, and you can play, too: Space Oddity is being re-released in remixable tracks to commemorate the 40-year moonlanding anniversary (has it only been 40 years? Seems more like 60 to me…). Coming out July 20th.

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Will take some pictures and post them here or on Facebook.

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are!

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