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I share it because I am currently listening to it ;)  Great song, which imho makes a surprise in this day and age.  Didn't realise it made N1 in US too.

"One minute I held the key, next the walls were closed on me, and I discovered that my castle stands upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand."
 
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Don't let me stay, don't let me stay, my logic says burn, so send me away.
Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen, you can't stake your lives on a saviour machine.


I think this is one of the most underrated of Bowie's songs.  It tells the story of a machine that was created to take the place of all major human decisions, but it soon gets bored and begs to be shut down.  It threatens that if it isn't, it will deliberately give faulty decisions to harm mankind.

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President Joe once had a dreamThe world held his hand, gave their pledgeSo he told them his scheme for a Saviour MachineThey called it the Prayer, its answer was lawIts logic stopped war, gave them foodHow they adored till it cried in its boredom'Please don't believe in me, please disagree with meLife is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible nowor maybe a war, or I may kill you allDon't let me stay, don't let me stayMy logic says burn so send me awayYour minds are too green, I despise all I've seenYou can't stake your lives on a Saviour MachineI need you flying, and I'll show that dyingIs living beyond reason, sacred dimension of timeI perceive every sign, I can steal every mind
 
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David Bowie is a phenomenon. Have any of you guys ever seen him in the movie "The Man who Fell to Earth"? 1976... Slightly creepy. He is fantastic in that film, in my opinion. It is so artsy it would probably make most people vomit, but I like old strange things. ::) Was shocked a pop star was capable of such depth when I saw it. Then I got into more and more of his music. His career, his style, his voice--unique.

Other pop stars who make surprisingly good actors (subjective so yeah, some of this is crap probably and I have bad taste):

Cher - "Moonstruck" - Nick Cage is good in this. He lost the edge somewhere later. Also - "Mask", good performance from the singer, but inevitably mellow-dramatic film.

Mark Wahlberg - Can't recommend "The Basketball Diaries" unless you already know a little about heroin or Jim Carroll (early 80s punk song--"People who Died"--he did in 2009) and Marky Mark is barely in this, but Leonardo Di Carpio is surprisingly authentic in his role as Carroll. Did Wahlberg maybe buy an extra soul to work with somewhere between "Boogie Nights" and "The Fighter"?

Tina Turner - "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" - Well, she's had it pretty rough, guys. She was friends with Ayrton Senna and that's enough for me.

Sting - Despite his rather lazy and disinterested performance in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" one can never forget his appearance wearing a Batman-style speedo in David Lynch's "Dune".

Iggy Pop - Considering he is famous for being impossible to work with, this guy is super busy on the American TV scene. Personally I think he deserves a mention simply for having a credited cameo role in "The Color of Money", a film that helped solidify Tom Cruise's career not just as a pretty face, but a methodical actor.

Barbara Streisand & Bette Midler - Together because they are fantastic on screen, in the studio, and on stage. It's a bit unfair that Barbara is now probably known by several generations only as Grandma Focker, and that Bette is probably hardly remembered at all, although she was Johnny Carson's last guest and sang him a lovely farewell. Midler is pretty unforgettable in "Scenes from a Mall", if you can stand Woody Allen's movies.

Ringo Starr - Failures like his title role in "Caveman" can not possibly take away from the undeniable success that is sure to be "Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pants R-EVIL-ution", which is soon to be released. But we shouldn't overlook his role for 20 episodes as Mr. Conductor of the Shining Time Station show.
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Prince - Purple Rain. Please. Dude was definitely in his prime and the performance is stellar.

Tom Waits - Not exactly a pop star, not exactly a serious actor, either. But the camera likes him even if his face is worn, or maybe because of it. "The Book of Eli" is made more interesting for adding his characteristically hoarse voice. If you look close, you may catch him in an uncredited role as a homeless person in "The Fisher King", a film worthy of Waits's soulful approach to everything.

Meatloaf - Staggering filmography goes from "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "Fight Club" to, oh, let's just not talk about what happened with Gary Busey.
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Meatloaf is a real maverick.  Not surprised at all he can act.  Still haven't seen Man Who Fell To Earth with Bowie.  In fact, only film I've seen him in is Labyrinth.  Excellent movie, and Jackson was considered for the role too haha.

Thanks for those!

Another flawed genius (whose songs take a while to really appreciate) is Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.


Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown
Yippee
You can't see me
But I can you

Lazing in the foggy dew
Sitting on a unicorn
No fair, you can't hear me
But I can you

Watching buttercups cup the light
Sleeping on a dandelion

Too much, I won't touch you
But then I might

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And


and of course

 
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Over the pond, you guys may(?) not have heard about Chris Eubank, but he is a legend.  One of the greatest Middleweights I have ever seen, and my favourite boxer.  His rivalry with Nigel Benn is also legendary.  Sadly, both boxers suffered depression when they tragically brain damaged their opponents.  Eubank was never the same after that and wouldn't commit to landing the types of punch you can see above.  And that really marked the end of him as a deadly fighter, even though he still won most of his bouts after that.  He stayed on a little too long towards end of his career when he was way past his prime.  But in his prime he had no equal.  Cast iron jaw, good footwork, great defence and attack, and a ferocious ego and will to win. I think this knock-out still stands as one of the fastest (someone told me 6th fastest) in the history of the sport. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eubank
 
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The Dark Mod (Thief remake) - PC - Free and Standalone
THE DARK MOD 2.0 is a free, first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. It recreates the essence of the original Thief games on a more modern engine. Both a game and a mission-creation platform, The Dark Mod allows players and mappers alike to enjoy missions in a gothic steampunk universe.

The Dark Mod was officially released on October 17th, 2009. As of October, 2013, TDM 2.0 is now completely standalone, and no longer requires Doom3.
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Survival. You know how I learned that? Mother Nature. You know I realised that I am not separate from nature just because I have a primate brain, an upper brain, because underneath the primate brain there's a mammalian brain, and under the mammalian brain there's a reptilian brain, and it's those 2 lower brains that made the upper brain possible in the first place. Here's how it works:

The primate brain says "Give peace a chance".
The mammalian brain says "Give peace a chance, but first let's kill this mother-fucker"!
And the reptilian brain says "Let's just kill the mother-fucker, go to the peace rally and get laid".

Because the first obligation of any organism is to survive, the second is to reproduce; survival is more important than fucking. Pacifism is a nice idea, but it can get you killed. We're not there yet folks; evolution is slow, Small Pox is fast.

- George Carlin

 
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