{"id":1392,"date":"2016-01-12T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2016-01-12T02:34:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:34:50","slug":"turn-and-face-the-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2016\/01\/12\/turn-and-face-the-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn and Face the Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Bitweaver\u2019s Journal, 11th of Colddark, 716<\/p>\n<p>You know how many David Bowie albums I own? Nothing but the soundtrack to \u201cLabyrinth\u201d, which I\u2019m sure doesn\u2019t count. MP3 files? Just \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d. Yet\u2026 damn, the man was a part of my life anyway. I never changed the station when he appeared on the radio. I can\u2019t think of a track of his that I don\u2019t like. And like so many people I know on social media, it\u2019s hard to believe that he\u2019s gone. He should just still be\u2026 here.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw Bowie on TV, he was on Saturday Night Live in one of Klaus Nomi\u2019s outlandish plastic outfits and his trademark genderqueer makeup. I remember being disturbed and unsettled, but I was 10\u2026 clearly, a spark was kindled somewhere in my head, and fanned into flames by the original MTV when it was wild and weird. Because after all: look at me now! Thank you, gentlebeing, for being one of my first teachers of the truth that weird could be cool.<\/p>\n<p>But also today,\u00a0in one of those life contrasts which reminds one that the universe doesn\u2019t single-task, I got a lovely present: a gentleman who attended our live podcast recording at Intervention produced a kinetic typography short using our 45-second audio ad for the show. It\u2019s amazing! And I feel like this is my first ever piece of \u201cfan art\u201d for a project of mine. I\u2019m beyond tickled.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hlhNchC10xU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, huge emotional contrasts today. Plus, I slept like crap last night and worked my butt off again today at my job, so I haven\u2019t had much energy tonight. That\u2019s okay. For both David and Glenn\u2019s sake, I\u2019ve going to keep creating as hard as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Bitweaver\u2019s Journal, 11th of Colddark, 716 You know how many David Bowie albums I own? Nothing but the soundtrack to \u201cLabyrinth\u201d, which I\u2019m sure doesn\u2019t count. MP3 files? Just \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d. Yet\u2026 damn, the man was a part of my life anyway. I never changed the station when he appeared on the radio. 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