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I love David Bowie.

But goddamnit if my old www.teenagewildlife.com e-mail address isn't blocked by every SPAM filtering program under the sun.

It's a track from his Scary Monsters album, not a line of DVD's promising 'barely legal' actresses!

argh... forgot to preview... ;p

news at 11, diebold builds the savior machine.

Now, think, it is just after VD and all the young dudes who did not score have to somehow vent.

And then there are those who are suffering from having supported the brewing industries or compatibles too much.

CC.

I was walking down the High Street
When I heard footsteps behind me
And there was a little old man (Hello)
In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
And he sat beside the telly (Oaah..)
With his tiny hands on his tummy
Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)

Oh, I ought to report you to the Gnome office
(Gnome Office)
Yes
(Hahahahaha)

CHORUS
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Said the laughing Gnome

Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (Burp, pardon)
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne
Carried his bag and gave him a fag
(Haven't you got a light boy?)
"Here, where do you come from?"
(Gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"Oh, really?"

In the morning when I woke up
He was sitting on the edge of my bed
With his brother whose name was Fred
He'd bought him along to sing me a song

Right, let's hear it
Here, what's that clicking noise?
(That's Fred, he's a "metrognome", haha)

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"

(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha)
"Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?"
(No, we're gnomads)
"Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome."
(No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)

Now they're staying up the chimney
And we're living on caviar and honey (hooray!)
Cause they're earning me lots of money
Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what?)
It's the Gnome service of course

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, oh, dear me

(Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me")

(One more time, yeah)

Blatantly from Teenage Wildlife, David Bowie fansite. Oh yes, he wrote the song, back in 1968 or 1969.

Bowie could claim prior art on Diamond Dogs

In relation to the Bowie article posted earlier, I thought I might pass along this song whose contents hold true to the times from his album 'Diamond Dogs' titled 1984 (which was supposed to be a theme album based on Orwell's 1984 but they couldn't secure the rights, so he wrote around it).

1984 by David Bowie from the album Diamond Dogs

Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

CHORUS
Come see, come see, remember me?
We played out an all night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
In 1984 (who could ask for more)
1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)

I'm looking for a vehicle, I'm looking for a ride
I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side
I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

CHORUS

1984
1984
1984 (more)
1984
1984 (more)
1984

Listen to it in context with the entire album and I think you'll really see what I mean.

In relation to the Bowie article posted earlier, I thought I might pass along this song whose contents hold true to the times from his album 'Diamond Dogs' titled 1984 (which was supposed to be a theme album based on Orwell's 1984 but they couldn't secure the rights, so he wrote around it).

1984 by David Bowie from the album Diamond Dogs

Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

CHORUS
Come see, come see, remember me?
We played out an all night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
In 1984 (who could ask for more)
1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)

I'm looking for a vehicle, I'm looking for a ride
I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side
I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984

CHORUS

1984
1984
1984 (more)
1984
1984 (more)
1984

Listen to it in context with the entire album and I think you'll really see what I mean.

Lots of lyrics and song info here:

www.teenagewildlife.com

Definitely:

David Bowie - Space Oddity

or just maybe:
Queen - Flash Gordon film score.

Ziggy gave out loans, screwed up money and screwed up concept
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on as a loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the tellers when we system started to crash
No DSN to guide us,
So we bitched about his rights, and should we crush Ziggy's site?

Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass, he was the nazz With God given cash
He loaned out way too much but boy he didn't lose his touch

Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up their money

Like a Judas he sold us
When the kiddies launched their scripts I knew we were dying quick

Oh yeah
Ooooooo
Ziggy played bankerrrrrr

I wonder if he'll remake Little Toy Soilders for Toywar - JohnyAngel