sun*load: Thin White Horses

Today is the anniversary of David Bowie’s passing. COMET17 (aka the brilliant instrumentalist, Jeremy Markowitz) and I had parallel Bowie stories that inspired us in making this tune off the dark*stars EP. Here my half of the story:

In 1992 I was walking home through 5am fog after an all-nighter of work… Crossing diagonally through Union Square in New York (back then it was just a barren asphalt parking lot), I noticed an approaching figure in the distance dressed in a pitch-black poncho and black fedora hat. If I had been more alert, the apparition would have made more of an impression, but it had been a week of late nights.

With both our heads down in exhaustion, the apparition and I had crossed that empty expanse without once looking up. We met in the middle, suddenly having to contort and twist to keep from knocking into one another. At that moment, I glimpsed the distinct features of David Bowie’s face beneath the wide-brimmed fedora. He immediately saw the shock of recognition in my eyes and flashed a quick smile before continuing through the fog.

I got home, crashed-out, and when I awoke the next afternoon, I replayed the surreal moments in my head: the black-and-white noir-film sequence could have been a dream…

…The next week over beers, my friend mentioned out of the blue, “Did you know Bowie moved downtown with Iman? We have to try to catch him.”