Maybe it's just a little too fringe or for me or maybe I just dont like the whoel mime thing but I find it very hard going. the music is OK it's just the visuals have dated really badly.


Threepenny pierrot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTHHLgg7do

When I Live My Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfG0vrBz3Y8

infact the video of the latter also remind me of the 1980 floor show video of Sorrow. Which also relies heavily on mime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDVc80Z3FI

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Don't look at the carpet

Yep they kept that one quiet.

I know a few mime practitioners - as an animation professional I could claim - at a certain remove - to be one myself. Most are well-meaning, but still...

Don't look at the carpet

Glass thanks to watch glass wigs confusion because nobody knows of old wigged fart Lindsay Kemp the tights and make-up of terror in the old Grampian TV studios. Think that it should burn with wigs on goodwill fire.

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"I am so grateful that I am a magnet for miracles."
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...it should come with a government warning.


This film contains men with absolutely no testosterone whatsoever


The first pertinent question seems to be which hideously painful drama queen will out do the other. Sometime after that, I usually tune out or fall asleep. Very difficult to watch.

Try watching it with some friends or co-workers who are not bowie-minded....ewwwww!

I keep meaning to dig my LYTT DVD out again to watch it again... Unfortunately i keep thinking of better things to watch.

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I find Jeff Strkyer a hard going feature!



Tits and Explosions

Since I love mime, it follows that I really do love The Looking Glass Murders.

It would seem that I am in the minority though, Yikes!

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It is desperately precious, isn't it? The kind of self-conscious artiness that makes me want to heave a week-old dead cat onto the stage. As an artistic gesture, of course.

Don't look at the carpet

The key here is - who could possibly have imagined that ever being officially released?

Aye, proper snooze factor, innit? It bored the pants off me first time I watched it. I just had a quick look at the links you posted, SOS, and am still baffled by it. Don't know what to make of it really. Might pluck out my LYTT some night and have a look again. I don't think I ever watched the whole thing.
I think there's nowt wrong with mime. I mean I love the way Bowie incorporated it into his performances - I LOVE that mime part in Width of a Circle from Ziggy (who doesn't?!) but the Looking Glass Murders is a different story altogether.

<< Aye, proper snooze factor, innit? It bored the pants off me first time I watched it. I just had a quick look at the links you posted, SOS, and am still baffled by it. Don't know what to make of it really. Might pluck out my LYTT some night and have a look again. I don't think I ever watched the whole thing. <br> I think there's nowt wrong with mime. I mean I love the way Bowie incorporated it into his performances - I LOVE that mime part in Width of a Circle from Ziggy (who doesn't?!) but the Looking Glass Murders is a different story altogether. >>




It depends if you can connect on its level or not. I mean modern art or any type of paintings for that matter don't really do it for me, I can see the artistic value in them but I can't drool over such things like the lovers of those art forms seem able to do.

It's the same with mime, you either get it or you don't there isn't any secret formula. To me mime / pantomime is very artistic, it's sometimes tragic, sometimes funny etc, to others it's just a load of pansy artists / actors dressed in tights or whatever who act out unfathomable story lines. Mime / pantomime isn't always meant to be easy understanding Like Bowie's The Mask was, sometimes it's meant to be worked at and interpreted and worked out in the viewers own way, a bit like dbs music you could say.

Either way we owe a lot to the particular art form because it was the seed that developed the beginnings of the artist we know today as David Bowie

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