David Bowie drinks...FOSTERS??

http://www.bowiedownunder.com/letsdancevideos/letsdanceexclusives/1198206503.JPG

Welp, I can't listen to any Bowie ever again.

PS: NICE shorts.

Damn, wish I could find the video for that Fosters ad from the 80's. The one where the sports car arrives at the outdoor harbour side bar in the south of France? Goes something like this:

(expensive Lamborghini pulls up on the street by the bar)
Guy at bar: "I bet the driver's ugly"
(car door opens, dude in his 40's, wearing a suit, looking like an Armani model, gets out)
Barman: "Ah, well, I bet he's really unpopular"
Various people sitting at tables in the bar: "Bob!" / "Hey there, Bob!" / "How are ya Bob!" / etc.
Guy at bar: "He's probably an idiot though"
Man at table: "Ah! Professor! You will come and have a drink with us?"
Barman: "Well, I bet he'll order a stupid fancy cocktail"
Dude (approaches bar): "A snoball please" (YAY! NAMECHECKED!)
(Dude turns away briefly while the other guy and the barman exchange glances)
Dude (turning back to the barman): "...and a Fosters for me"

I highly doubt an educated man would consume such an inferior product!

Hercule Poirot: "Professor, you say you are an educated man, popular in high society. A man of influence and impeccable taste. However, I put it to all of you, Madams et Monsieurs, would such an individual as this man claims to be drink fizzy piss?!"

Paraphrasing just a tad there.

I don't think Poirot would be pretentious enough to use French words.

What's this about Fosters brewing an ALE??

I think that maybe they should get brewing lager right, before they move onto ale.

dont they brew that one beer all australians love best tho

no

thats not what crocodile dundee told me

Crocodile Dundee also said that he definitely wasn't out hunting crocodiles, because that's illegal of coarse...

The night I saw crocodile dundee I woke up screaming for my Dad to get a gun because there was a crocodile under my bed. I grew up in suburban NY. If I'd actually lived somewhere w/ crocs I probably would have gone nuts. What was this thread about again?

I love that picture. More men should wear shorts like that.

But they shouldn't tuck a shirt into those shorts like that.

Bowie is about as convincing as an Australian as he is as a bisexual extra terrestrial...

What, didn't you see him down in the pub in the "Let's Dance" video? He fitted in rather well, I thought.

holy shit i just noticed that in the "china girl" vid, bowie's got a PRIMA JUICE BOX

Would have been much better if he had a FRUIT BOX, through.

omg he is! prima was king juice box in '83

also his straw falls out AND THEN ITS MAGICALLY BACK IN THE BOX

btw this is the funniest thread on ilx by miles

Theory: if Bowie drank Fruit Box instead of Prima, he would not have been so crap as the 80s went on.

I wonder if he regrets this photo op more than that coked up Nazi salute...

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/1873/c17photogallery147listphotolis.jpg

Maybe DB is thinking "Bolan, Crosby, maybe third time lucky?"

i would (xp)

Danced to 'Let's Dance' last night TWICE...with the same girl both times!

And ONCE to 'Modern Love'!

'let's dance' is an intense dancefloor experience, 4real

"Blue Jean" is the last fantastic song he did and I won't hear anything negative about it. Top tune.

"Jazzin' for Blue Jean" is also the best of those 'long-form' videos they had in the 80s back before your kids had YouTube and the attention span of a goat.

Thriller, Blue Jean, and.. . ?

also his straw falls out AND THEN ITS MAGICALLY BACK IN THE BOX

Just watched the vid again and now I'm wondering HOW the straw is magically back in the box. It's starting to disturb me.

Let us take you back to Brisbane in 1978:

David Bowie today received some noisy feedback from Queensland's minister in charge of noise, Mr Russ Hinze, following the pop star's open air concert last night.

"These pop singers come out here to make a quick quid by disturbing our peace and tranquility," Mr Hinze said. "The fact that he's pommie as well wouldn't help".

what's pommie? a gay?

Damn these pommie pop stars, slogging all the way out to Australia on 25 hour plane flights just to take all your hard earned money...

BY DISTURBING OUR PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, MATE

AND ACTING LIKE POOFTAHS

http://bowiedownunder.com/letsdancevideos/letsdanceexclusives/1198206518.jpg

It's a shame that those Bowie-BDO rumours are probably nothing more than a stupid overblown lie :-(

David Bowie listens to...Chinese folk music and Scritti Politti??

some semi-serious pocket billiards going on in these photos.

Gathering Storm by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

If only Bowie had something by Steely Dan on his iPod, he would have qualified for membership of ILM.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/man-plums-beer-ads-pulled-from-the-internet-20100321-qo3t.html?autostart=1

Several things stick out:

#1: "spent the best part of the $200,000 in fees and production" - excuse me, wtf? I could have come up with something better than that in five minutes. Look:

Drink our beer
If you want to be a man
Drink our beer
in the pub or from a can
Drink our beer
people will think you're macho
Drink our beer
But not in the gay way, oh no
Drink our beer...
DRINK OUR BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!
(cha cha cha)

#2: "release it on the internet in the hope that somehow only its target market of 18- to 30-year-old men would see it. That strategy appears to have failed" - riiiiiiiight. When Al Gore said that the internet was a series of interconnected tubes, did Australian beer company executives get the wrong idea?

#3: "I believe our target market will go looking for Carlton Draught material online." - yeah, because men aged 18-30 spend all their time online looking for beer commercials, not pr0n or anything sensible like that...

#4: "$200,000" - I know I've already mentioned it once, but FFS people...

Also the folk trio look a lot like Trevor & Simon when they do their "singing corner" sketch...
http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/satkids/pictures/singingcorner.jpg

if someone sang about their man plums to me i would be tempted to crush them.

"I've got a tingle in my man plums"
"How would you like a sharp pain in your man plums?"

And presumably - if this beer works like all other beers - if someone drinks enough of it their "man plums" will become "man raisins". And they'll get a pair of "man melons".

I'm glad it was pulled so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of the internet.

ooh me plums

(xpost) they should make a ChatRoulette themed ad.

ooh me plums

That can be the slogan!

SHOT OF TYPICAL CHATROULETTE WINDOW - A SUCCESSION OF GUYS JERKING IT
voiceover (preferably a Bernard Breslaw impersonator) accompanied by D&B beat: "ooh me plums ooh me plums ooh me plums"
narrator: "Now you've seen all those man plums, you'll probably be reeeeeaaaally thirsty. So why not drink some lovely Carlton lager?"