i've always been just as flippant about what i wanted to be.
at one point i wanted to be a radio city rockette.
but i'm too short for that.
i've always sort of wanted to just be rich and shop all day.
i'm still working on that.
as a kid, the dominant theme of my what i want to be when i grow up was a scientist of some sort. and yes, i am now a scientist. tho' it was an extremely twisted road to get here. i'll have my ph.d in about 3 yrs in ecotoxicology. and i fucking. love. it. i work with turtles.
and he was alright
the band was all together
and he was alright
the song when on forever
and he was awful nice
really quite out of sight
y'know i heard an interview on npr with mr. bowie a few days ago. terry gross kept asking him about ziggy stardust and you could tell that he was frustrated that after almost 30 years that it was still this album and that character that everyone puts so much focus. he actually spoke of ziggy as a separate entity, as in "i'm glad he still means something to people." however, he also kept trying to move the conversation to his many, many other projects of his long ass career.
but, yeah, trafozsatsfm is probably the only album i've bought 3 times cuz it was stolen/lost and i HAD to have it. it's *dreamy*
i wanted to be the editor of the new york times. quite specific, i suppose, considering i grew up in rural scotland. looking back i actually wanted to be the editor in about 1940. weird childhood obsession with 'his girl friday'.
i research & develop documentaries now. so i am in the media, just not the one originally intended.
production manager for pop promos? brave man. that sounds like a whole world of ego-juggling. still, i'd love to make promos some day.
something else is as amazing: the man who sold the world.
nah, docs are mostly just as morally & artistically bankrupt as every other form, just better at hiding it.
"he swallowed his pride and puckered his lips
and showed me the leather belt round his hips
my knees were shaking my cheeks aflame
he said, you'll never go down to the gods again"
two of the best movies ever made if y'ask me. someone very perceptive once said that a classic trancends its genre. i love nic roeg, tho i suppose in all honesty i'd have to day that 'don't look now' is his most accomplished. still prefer performance. for visual headfuck and twisted erotic charge it's got to be that or the man who fell to earth.
haha, what were his moves of choice? well, coy glances a bunch. and we were playing darts and he made way more hand contact than necessary everytime we switched the darts. a few suggestive comments. and repeated statements like "damn, you are the coolest woman ever. why haven't we spent more time together." but then again, i am. j/k
p.s. i read your journal fairly regular-like and i have to say that i have battled with many of the same demons you have. what a bitch it is, huh?
I am doing pretty much just what I wanted to do when I was a kid. I never even explored or thought about any other options. i sometimes wish I had at least thought about others... but not often.
i wanted to be an artist/musician/actor/director/cinematographer/entrepreneur/philosopher/writer/astronomer/scientist/singer/dancer/genius
i am getting there.
ziggy is definitely a tingle-worthy album. hell, seeing the concert film in the third row of a theatre with those milky thighs in my face was pretty awesome, too. (sigh!)
like junior, i also considered a career in the grocery industry. fortunately my desire to use the scanning mechanism was fulfilled by a class field trip to the grocery store, where every student got to scan a loaf of bread.
after that i moved on to bigger and better things .. like wanting to be an ambassador to switzerland, where i (seriously) thought i wouldn't actually have to do any work because they're neutral.
what the fuck are you talking about?.Flat lining? You know that can scare a few of us you bastard, though I assume you wouldn't type a message during the final event...I am more of a bauhaus fan myself....They just ripped off Ziggy.
you know, as much as i love that album, the more i listen to aladdin sane and diamond dogs, the more i think that they are both better albums than ziggy stardust.
i had no aspirations to be anything... i think thats why i have no focus today... my path just fell upon me... am i close to the top of my path? in due time... im making good progress... am i feeling my dreams fulfilled? uh, no.
once you've been 'there' can you ever go back? Once you have experienced the best can you settle for whats next? Can it ever be like the first time? Really?
musician. well, anywhere in music, really. i can't remember not wanting that. except for 3rd grade, I thought the fashion world needed me. as for being close, hrm... that's hard to say. i've experienced a lot of things, been privilaged, met everyone i wanted to and then it became dull. i demand more respect than i was given and didn't need that head game. now i'm in school to play with dead people. go figure...
at one point i wanted to be a radio city rockette.
but i'm too short for that.
i've always sort of wanted to just be rich and shop all day.
i'm still working on that.