A Sense of Doubt blog post #3975 - Music Monday for 2601.05 - A Better Future - Bowie Reprint
Welcome to DAVID BOWIE MONTH 2026.
This week starts Bowie month as his birthday arrives on Thursday (would have been his 79th), and then the anniversary of his death lands on Saturday (ten years ago).
I am in reprint and low power mode for now as I catch up on work and recover from last week's huge 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW.
When I consider what Bowie song I would reprint from the 2016 Daily Bowie feature, "A Better Future" from 2002's Heathen cam to mind.
I am in reprint and low power mode for now as I catch up on work and recover from last week's huge 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW.
When I consider what Bowie song I would reprint from the 2016 Daily Bowie feature, "A Better Future" from 2002's Heathen cam to mind.
This song is more true now than ever before given what's going on with the Lunatic Trump administration and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, or even the pursuit of peace with a man who whines constantly about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
I DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE.
Thank you for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
The link to the original post I am reprinting below:
The Daily Bowie #67 - "A Better Future"
Maybe I should rename this feature the weekly Bowie.
Found a great remix by Air.
This is a happy thing for a Monday that is not clear in its emotional state.
I DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE.
And I have a very big wolf to help me get it.
Bowie, 2002, GQ cover.
DAVID BOWIE
HEATHEN
PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME: "A BETTER FUTURE"
What bred this irritation? Fatherhood and terrorism, it seemed. “I had rosy expectations for the 21st Century, I really did,” Bowie told the Observer in 2002. “The whole idea was lifting my spirits quite a lot during 1998 and 1999. But it has become something other that what I expected it to be. And it’s obviously a pretty typical parental concern to wonder what type of a world you have brought your child into.”
So “A Better Future” was meant as a plea “to whoever that higher spirit is…because I want a place where my daughter can grow up safely, walking open-eyed into her ambitions—not having to dodge bullets” (from PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME).
"A Better Future" - HEATHEN - 2002
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Rest in peace, David. We miss you.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1605.09 - 7:00
NOTE ON WHY THE DAILY BOWIE IS NO LONGER DAILY: For 53 days, I completed daily Bowie posts. My schedule is too demanding to make a post every day, so this will now be a feature that is called The Daily Bowie, but it will not be daily. I will post as I can. I will post often. But if I miss a day, I will skip it. Otherwise, I get in the position of making five Bowie posts all in one day, and that's a lot of Bowie for people to swallow all at once... (yeah, leaving that badly phrased, innuendo packed statement. I bet Bowie would have laughed at it).
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2601.05 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 3839 days ago & DAD = 494 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
I DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE.
Thank you for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
The link to the original post I am reprinting below:
Monday, May 9, 2016
Maybe I should rename this feature the weekly Bowie.
Found a great remix by Air.
This is a happy thing for a Monday that is not clear in its emotional state.
I DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE.
And I have a very big wolf to help me get it.
Bowie, 2002, GQ cover.
DAVID BOWIE
HEATHEN
PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME: "A BETTER FUTURE"
What bred this irritation? Fatherhood and terrorism, it seemed. “I had rosy expectations for the 21st Century, I really did,” Bowie told the Observer in 2002. “The whole idea was lifting my spirits quite a lot during 1998 and 1999. But it has become something other that what I expected it to be. And it’s obviously a pretty typical parental concern to wonder what type of a world you have brought your child into.”
So “A Better Future” was meant as a plea “to whoever that higher spirit is…because I want a place where my daughter can grow up safely, walking open-eyed into her ambitions—not having to dodge bullets” (from PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME).
"A Better Future" - HEATHEN - 2002
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"A Better Future"
Please don't tear this world asunder
Please take back
this fear we're under
I demand a better future
Or I might just stop wanting you
I might just stop wanting you
Please make sure we get tomorrow
All this pain and all the sorrow
I demand a better future
Or I might just stop needing you
I might just stop needing you
Give my children sunny smile
Give them moon and cloudless sky
I demand a better future
Or I might just stop loving you,
loving you, loving you
When we talk, we talk to you
When we walk, we walk to you
From factory to field
How many tears must fall
Down there below
Nothing is moving
Oo-o
I might just stop wanting you
I might just stop needing you
I might just stop loving you
I demand a better future
I demand a better future
I demand a better future
For I might just stop loving you,
loving you, loving you
I demand a better future
I demand a better future
I demand a better future
For I might just stop loving you, loving you, loving you
I demand a better future
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Rest in peace, David. We miss you.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1605.09 - 7:00
NOTE ON WHY THE DAILY BOWIE IS NO LONGER DAILY: For 53 days, I completed daily Bowie posts. My schedule is too demanding to make a post every day, so this will now be a feature that is called The Daily Bowie, but it will not be daily. I will post as I can. I will post often. But if I miss a day, I will skip it. Otherwise, I get in the position of making five Bowie posts all in one day, and that's a lot of Bowie for people to swallow all at once... (yeah, leaving that badly phrased, innuendo packed statement. I bet Bowie would have laughed at it).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2601.05 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 3839 days ago & DAD = 494 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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