The new year brings the feeling of a new beginning to me. A fresh slate, if you'll pardon the cliché. I no longer make New Year Resolutions, but I do try to make an effort to improve myself in a few areas. Lose weight seems to be at the top of my list every year. And to write more. I always endeavour to use blogging or tweeting to get the creative juices flowing, hoping to get inspired for more songwriting, but it's been a pretty dry few years.
Some people go down the 'new year, new me' road and try super hard to be the person that they wish they could be. I get quite tickled at how full gyms are in the first coupla weeks of January, before they start to get sparse again by February.
Others cry 'arbitrary this' and 'time marker that', but I think I sit somewhere in the middle. There's something about January 1st and December 31st that just cries out 'bookends' to me.
I've had little projects that take up a year, and I always tend to confine them to the traditional 365 (or 366) day time constraint. They've started on Jan 1 and ended on Dec 31...one year.
Of course, I realise that a year can commence by using any date as a starting point. Some may do this with birthdays. If I ever do a year-long project, I always start on Jan 1st. Things like tweeting birthdays/album releases of musicians. Or logging a list of movies I've watched, or albums I've listened to.
Weird. I could start at any time really, couldn't I? Must be the autistic in me.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Monday 8 January 2018
Bowie-versaries!
One of my favourite things about January is the opportunity to celebrate David Bowie anniversaries, or Bowie-versaries, if you will.
Today is a big one, January 8th, because it's his birthday. It's also Elvis Presley's birthday, so if you're a fan of The King and The Thin White Duke, it's a doubly good day for you. Rounding out this random trifecta is Mr Paul Hester, who among other things, was the drummer for Crowded House. Sadly, like the aforementioned rock royalty icons, he has also left the building.
Anyway, back to David Bowie.
January 8th is also the release date of Bowie's last studio album, ★ (pronounced Blackstar), which came out in 2016. On his birthday in 2013, he released the single Where Are We Now? from his upcoming album The Next Day. This would be his first studio album of original material since 2003's Reality.
If you're a bit of a Bowie fan, here's a few choice dates to mark in your iDiaries:
Jan 8th - Happy birthday Bowie!
★ (2016)
Where Are We Now? single (2013)
Jan 14th - Low (1977)
Jan 23rd - Station to Station (1976)
Feb 3rd - Earthling (1997)
Mar 7th - Young Americans (1975)
Mar 8th - The Next Day (2013)
Well, that will do for the first quarter of the year. April is a big one for Bowie too! I'll try to remember to post another Bowie-versary post!
Today is a big one, January 8th, because it's his birthday. It's also Elvis Presley's birthday, so if you're a fan of The King and The Thin White Duke, it's a doubly good day for you. Rounding out this random trifecta is Mr Paul Hester, who among other things, was the drummer for Crowded House. Sadly, like the aforementioned rock royalty icons, he has also left the building.
Anyway, back to David Bowie.
January 8th is also the release date of Bowie's last studio album, ★ (pronounced Blackstar), which came out in 2016. On his birthday in 2013, he released the single Where Are We Now? from his upcoming album The Next Day. This would be his first studio album of original material since 2003's Reality.
If you're a bit of a Bowie fan, here's a few choice dates to mark in your iDiaries:
Jan 8th - Happy birthday Bowie!
★ (2016)
Where Are We Now? single (2013)
Jan 14th - Low (1977)
Jan 23rd - Station to Station (1976)
Feb 3rd - Earthling (1997)
Mar 7th - Young Americans (1975)
Mar 8th - The Next Day (2013)
Well, that will do for the first quarter of the year. April is a big one for Bowie too! I'll try to remember to post another Bowie-versary post!
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