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Top Signs

you might be obsessed with David Bowie (In Random Order)

  1. You actually like Tin Machine

  2. You have a T-shirt that says "F*** You, I Love Tin Machine"

  3. When you get your bi-weekly paycheck, you divide it into "Tin Machine" and "Other Bowie".

  4. You made a David Bowie Fan Page ("Like, ew! Who would do a thing like that? He's, like, OLD, and GAY! And he's MARRIED!")

  5. You play six degrees of David Bowie.

  6. You can play six degrees of David Bowie in your head.

  7. You can play six degrees of David Bowie in your head... and win.

  8. You seriously consider naming your kid Ziggurat or Zoetrope, so that the kid's nickname can be Ziggy or Zowie.

  9. You also consider naming your kid David, Davey, Jareth, Newton, Aladdin, Duke, Nathan, Baby-Grace, Ramona or Earthling.

  10. You name a really horrible computer after Angela Bowie.

  11. You visit Iman's website to look at the pictures of David.

  12. You name your beloved computer "David", just so you can turn him on.

  13. You mis-read a conversation heart as "Sweet Head"

  14. You look at your face in the mirror and wonder why both your eyes look the same.

  15. No matter how many times you click "Next" on the Bowie Webring, you don't see a site you haven't visited before.

  16. You spend five hours on the internet looking for other Bowie websites, and five more trying to decipher 1. Outside.

  17. You refer to the characters in 1.Outside by first names, and everyone knows who you mean.

  18. You sing Bowie songs in your sleep, and your roommate doesn't complain... much.

  19. Your nickname is "Queen Bitch".

  20. Your nickname is "Rockin' Rollin' Bitch".

  21. You have a Top Ten Sexiest Rock Gods list and David is #1.

  22. You have a Top Ten Sexiest Rock Gods list and more than half of them have worked with David.

  23. You have a Top Ten Sexiest Rock Gods list and more than half of them *are* David

  24. You buy Beanie Babies in order to name them after members of David's bands.

  25. You buy an "Iggy" Beanie Baby and put a "Z" before its name on the tag.

  26. You want to change your name to "Mick Ronson's Guitar".

  27. You want to change your name to "Ziggy's Ego"

  28. When you watch "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture", you nickname the fans.

  29. You try to steal the eye-dilation stuff from your eye doctor -- to use on special occasions.

  30. You and your roommate have very serious conversations consisting of: "Reevz? or Ronno?" "Reevz and Ronno."

  31. You have a thing for Mark Plati.

  32. You have a thing for Woody Woodmansey

  33. You know who Woody Woodmansey is.

  34. You start judging other rock stars by how weird their eyes are.

  35. You write a parody of Station to Station, and sing the words along with the CD.

  36. You think David looked good in 1983.

  37. You bought "The Idiot" and "Lust For Life" to listen to the originals of the 80's stuff.

  38. You bought Never Let Me Down, and listened to it more than once.

  39. You liked Labyrinth.

  40. ...And The Man Who Fell to Earth.

  41. ...And The Linguini Incident.

  42. You have more Bowie-related DVD's (or Videos) than any other kind.

  43. Even your pets have a favorite Bowie album.

  44. You save all the stupid little CD inserts that advertise BowieNet, even though you're already a member.

  45. Every time you see a "Ziggy" cartoon, you wonder where David is.

  46. Instead of stockpiling food at Y2K, you stockpiled Tin Machine... "Just in case."

  47. You own one of the three Tin Machine websites on the internet.

  48. You make obscure Bowie references in casual conversation, and everyone knows what you're talking about -- even your friends who aren't Bowiefans. (Thanks to Cantabile)

  49. Your desktop picture is always David, but it rotates every other day.

  50. Your desktop picture is always David, it rotates every other day, and you don't see the same picture for at least a month.

  51. You made a desktop image, made from 192 different pictures of Bowie, because you can't decide which picture you like best!

  52. You rotate your 192-picture desktops of Bowie every other day and *still* you don't see the same picture for at least a month.