Space Face

A short comic about a first love and the long romance with David Bowie in all his beautiful forms. "You're not alone - just turn on with me" David Bowie

Ahhh, I just put Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on the record player. Five Years starts off like an old friend opening their arms for a soft tender hug. I know how I belong in this song. I belong in this song. I have always felt seen by Ziggy Startdust, even the Goblin King saw me.

Ahhhh music. And that music that gets written into your soul and becomes a part of your musical DNA. David Bowie watered my roots. David Bowie was the light they grew towards.

I remember sitting on my parent’s big bed, setting up my tape recorder to be on the ready to catch little snippets of movies I loved to get lost in. I would lay on my belly, hands holding my head - And Jim Henson’s puppets danced me into the most magical world. It was Jareth though, the first bad guy to win me over. Soul Love.

I moved a lot as a child and by the time I hit 5th grade I had already had at three moves under my belt. This school was a little different, everyone was so nice and welcoming. I made friends with another new kid - and she loved David Bowie as much as me. She knew all about Iman and filled me in. We were so jealous. We wrote a zine about the 5th grade teacher we hated and we wrote a zine about the Mamma Papa - Space Invader coming for us.

Then there was the Dancing in the Streets music video - hello. I couldn’t breathe. I slipped into a moonage daydream - freak out. Whatever magic was going on between David Bowie and Mick Jagger’s swinging and swaying - I wanted in.

By the time I ventured into youthful recreation with psychedelics - late night - early morning adventures had barely had me hanging on what I knew of myself. With numb skin, I would start Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in the CD player and Five Years took my hand, ever so gently.

Even still my go to Karaoke song, usually after Making Love Out of Nothing at All, is Moonage Daydream. It always feels like coming home, to the stardust and to the spiders.