According to a book I read by an English dj called Mark Radcliffe, he once played a gig that he saw in the seventies and at one point he had a testicle hanging out of his catsuit and didn't realise. This destroyed the illusion in the young Radcliffe's mind that Bowie could actually be an alien.
It's in the book "Diary Of A Rock And Roll Nobody", which is one of the finest books I've ever read. As a musician I recognise so much truth in it.
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Anonymous2009-08-24 8:57
David Bowie's too normal to be an alien. Sun Ra, on the other hand...
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Anonymous2009-08-24 9:29
Educators, generals, dieticians, psychologists, and parents program. Armies, students, and some
societies are programmed. An assault on large problems employs a succession of programs, most of
which spring into existence en route. These programs are rife with issues that appear to be particular to
the problem at hand. To appreciate programming as an intellectual activity in its own right you must
turn to computer programming; you must read and write computer programs -- many of them. It
doesn’t matter much what the programs are about or what applications they serve. What does matter is
how well they perform and how smoothly they fit with other programs in the creation of still greater
programs. The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. In this book
the use of ‘‘program’’ is focused on the creation, execution, and study of programs written in a dialect
of Lisp for execution on a digital computer. Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we may program,
but only the notation for our program descriptions.