The best bass player in pop.

Bravo, Battlecar Compactica. Bravo.

I don't really have a problem with her. I just wanted to make a bad gravity pun.

Yes, the thought of you being the only person alive from planet Earth is indeed crushing.

Bullock seems an odd choice. Cate Blanchett would have given the film more … er … gravity.

But does it have anything as exciting as that scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where the astronaut walks from one side of the room to the other?

Don't listen to Fluffy, Furry Bunny then.

That's Paul in the middle, right? He always was the pretty one.

I love Snake Eyes. Cage is hilarious in it.

Carlito's Way, bitch.

The middle eight. Turns a trite pop song into a fucking Norse epic. 
Then back to trite pop song.

Just when we thought peace was returning to the interwebs …

Unfact.

I just took a rapid poolshit. In my pool. My wife's upset now.

Is there a song about a laughing gnome?

Also, brilliant at picking collaborators. Nile Rodgers and Stevie Ray Vaughan are a pretty leftfield combination, but boy do they work.

Seconded. 
Great album, great song. Also an absolutely bizarre filmclip. What do those red shoes signify? 

He really does seem like someone you'd want to have a beer and an enormomous line of cocaine with.

Pretty sure a whole bunch of Krauts got to Krautrock before Bowie et al. 
That said, Bowie always had an ear open for new sounds, and a genius at assimilating them into his own music. Kind of like Madonna, but good.

Much of the ancient architecture in Mecca and Medina was destroyed when the Wahhabis took power in Saudi Arabia (including, I believe, the tombs of the Prophets Companions). They came very close to destroying Mohammad's tomb also.
More recently, there's been a massive expansion of the mosque in Mecca, which has…