this will be the 4,837th update wherein i write about nyc and how beautiful it is.
ok. i’m here in nyc. it is sunny. and very beautiful.
to elaborate…it’s cold and breezy and there are giant clouds moving through the perfect blue sky. and given the angle of the sun at midwinter the clouds are illuminated from below and from the side, so the clouds are white and glowing and the sky is this perfect soft blue.
and i was just at teany and i had oatmeal with apples and a soy mochachinno and an iced peppermint tea, and yes, i have pretty much given up on the idea of preserving or establishing tough-guy-musician street cred. no more jokes about iced peppermint tea with pcp, or oatmeal as served to me by hookers on crack. i sat in teany eating my oatmeal and drinking my soy mochachino and my iced peppermint tea and i was reading a book on early 20th century architecture and design while looking at the clouds floating through the perfect blue sky. and it all made me very happy. other musicians might be going to strip clubs in their bentley’s or having sex in dirty toilets, but i was sitting in teany enjoying myself with my food and drink and nice book and i was perfectly contented.
oh, and i was listening to david bowie’s greatest hits from 1969-1974.
which was also very nice. even though my favourite david bowie period is the so called ‘berlin period’ of ‘low’ ‘heroes’ and ‘station to station’.
i do maintain that ‘station to station’ is bowie’s best album, and i have no idea why it’s lumped in with the ‘berlin’ albums when it was made in l.a. wasn’t it made in l.a? but listening to bowie’s greatest hits from 1969-1974 was very nice, too, even if my favourite bowie songs aren’t on his 1969-74 greatest hits.
favourite bowie songs…hmm…well, ‘heroes’, obviously. ‘station to station’, ‘sound and vision’, ‘tvc-15’, ‘life on mars’, ‘absolute beginners’, ‘slip away’ (is that what it’s called? from heathen? ‘slip away’? ‘swept away’?), and i do have a great love for his version of ‘white light/white heat’. which makes me want to go and listen to the velvet underground with nico. favourite velvet underground song is ‘heroin’, without a doubt. obvious choice, but it really is their most magical song, in my opinion. especially mo tuckers drumming. really. it fits ‘heroin’ perfectly.
ok, i’m rambling.
time to go and talk to q.
-moby
