Moonage Daydream (Second Viewing)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bowie is a perfect example of a person with right-hemispheric thinking and behavior, sometimes seeming aberrant, but under the control of the left hemisphere. Also, oddly, I liked watching it on a smaller screen as opposed to the theater. Different aspects came through in each venue. In the part of the film around the Outside album (1995), I thought, "This is when the oldest Millennials were becoming teenagers and I was starting to write songs that were a product of 70s and 80s music. On the arc of Bowie's life, I'm a step behind him. At the end of the film, and his life, with the Blackstar album, the music now sounds like an attempt of what future music would sound like. But he wasn't using AI--rather something that would appear on the scene in seven years of his death, but written traditionally, and perhaps nostalgically, as Jazz.