We children of zoo station

I wee while ago I finally got around to re-watching Christiane F. (a.k.a. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a.k.a. We Children of Zoo Station) -- and featuring the stunningly beautiful Natja Brunckhorst in the title role as the teenage drug addict/prostitute -- and lots and lots and lots of footage of David Bowie in concert as well as gorgeous Bowie choons on the soundtrack -- and ever since I have been completely obsessed with his 1976 album Station to Station.

Especially after this bit, which I find myself watching over and over:

It's quite patently, ridiculously obvious that this man is a silly man, and kinda cheesy too:

The return of the thin white duke / blowing darts in lovers eyes x several

I mean, what?

But then, look at him. He's a freakin alien. He's a lost little boy. He's a demon lover. He's a chameleon, a changeling, whose appearance alters every-which-way you look at him. He's the Thin White Duke and he's blowing darts in your eyes. And, on the other hand --

Here are you / you drive like a demon / from station to station

is a pretty bloody good line.

So it's also quite obvious to me that as far as I am concerned, if you're talking about the 1970s, David Bowie, and Berlin/Germany -- and to a lesser extent makeup and smoke machines -- that he can bloody well do no wrong whatsoever. And by the way Station To Station, from which the above clip is the title track, is really, really farking good. Despite all it's.. oh.. I dunno.. cocaine-fueled conceit and bizarre lyrical themes and (what very possibly should be awful) "white-boy" funkin' and all that stuff... it's claustrophobic and paranoiac and sociophobic and agrophobic and detached and alien and arcane and it's the hottest thing to come swirling off a platter of crackly black vinyl since the LP reissue of Brett Easton Ellis reading his own short-stories.

David Bowie - Wild is The Wind (3.73 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

And Wild is the Wind is a seriously incredible love-song.

You can 'listen' to the rest of Station To Station here, only be warned that track 3 Word on a Wing is corrupt. But you don't really need track 3. Oh, Station To Station is his album which immediately preceded Low, dontcha know.

So:

[1] from henceforth his "famous Berlin trilogy" or if you will, Low, Heroes and Lodger (allmusic), has become in my eyes his famous Berlin quadrilogy, including on its front-end Station To Station.

[2] I really, really want a David Bowie soundtrack to my life. I'm serious. This is one way I have identified that I can become generally happier with my lot.

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This is what Natja Brunckhorst looks like these days (above, left).

Or this:

She's alive and well, and writing screenplays and so on (click images to follow links).