How are you coping with it 10 months later?

How are you coping with it 10 months later?

I'm still having trouble believing it. I know he's gone but it still pains me to think about it. He's truly one of the greatest artists to have ever lived.

Only until recently I still wasn't strong enough to listen to Blackstar again. Same as many Sup Forumstants, I listened to it a lot those few weeks prior to his death (since it leaked on-line before the official release) and I remember how we were making threads joking with "I'm not a pornstar", "I was looking for your ass" and similar lines, as well we were trying to decipher what do lines such as "Where the fuck did Monday go?", "Somebody else took his place", "I have scars that cannot be seen" and "I can't give everything away" mean. We really spammed him a lot on the board at the end of 2015 and beginning of January 2016. And also commenting the fact that this is the first album that doesn't feature him on cover (but it actually does, he's the blackstar...).

And then the news hit us and the whole jig-saw fell into place. Everything was clear. Seeing it was his swan song album, it just reminded me to much of his death and I just couldn't listen to it. All those hidden clues and metaphors. Only a few weeks ago I decided to give it a try and the opening beat to "Blackstar" song made me cry. This is not a joke. To forever lose such a brilliant musician, one of the best in history, and so unexpectedly was a real tragedy.

Yeah, I still remember the feeling of collective sadness that Sup Forums felt in January this year. There were so many threads about Bowie being made every day, sometimes half of the catalog were Bowie threads and discussion of both his death and his albums and work.

I felt the same way. Every time I the slightest bit of the album tears begin to well-up in my eyes. It's a little too surreal and hard to handle for me personally.

I haven't urinated since I heard the news. It hurts, Sup Forums...

I'm not.

What happened to Bowie? Did his cancer get worse or something?

...

we was...

i completely forgot about that shit

They say time heals all the wounds. But it doesn't.

I-it's just a publicity stunt, hell be back

>10 months already

why are we still here? just to suffer?

I'm doing just fine user, thanks for asking

Is there a point in a world without Bowie? We might as well just give up.

As a big Bowie fan, people need to shut the fuck up about him. People get old and die, we don't need to whine about it everyday.

RESPECT OUR GRIEF!

Poorly. One of my last and certainly greatest heroes, and now he's gone.

This about covers it.

So does this.

WILL YOU SAY THAT ABOUT YOUR MOTHER WHEN SHE DIES?

He died ten years too young, at one of the biggest creative peaks in his career.

b-but lazarus, it means he will come back, r-right?!

There hasn't been a lot of Bowie discussion on the board lately, why is that?

Changing times.
I'm surprised at the sudden Loveless and Spiderland hate. I"m also seeing less NMH shitposting.

Also, best Bowie album coming through

I still tear up when I think about his passing. I was in English class when I heard the news. Really sucked.

I've been listening to a lot more Bowie this year -- working on getting hard-copies of his essentials, though so far I only have Blackstar, Ziggy Stardust and Space Oddity.

Listening to him a lot reminds me of my childhood -- we had a set roto of CDs on long drives, and a two-disc compilation of his stuff from the Eighties and earlier was one of the most regular.

Before he died i have had always been meaning to get into him but i never got around to it. I first heard about him by looking through Metal Gear Solid trivia and that there's many references to him in MGS3. I started playing MGS5 around xmas and if you have played this game it opens with TMWSTW. With that and the news of his death i finally gave it a go and started with his first album and made my way up. I've been listening to him all year since then and now he's one of my favorite artists. All i have left is Blackstar and i'm to afraid to play it because i know i'll cry.

I'm not sad about it anymore. I remember the day the news hit pretty well, though. I hadn't checked it. Just started my day off early with music in my ears ─ his music. I hadn't gotten around to listening to Blackstar so I was listening to it then. I remember thinking it was a fantastic album, and one of his best. I remember thinking, "I'm excited for what he'll put out next, because this was fantastic!" Then I got home and saw that he had passed. It hurt a lot, which was weird to me considering I never knew him, much less saw him. I've always been big on Bowie, and listen to his works at least once a day. That hasn't changed, though I check some of his in-between works more often now (Tonight, his work with Tin Machine, etc.) He's my favorite musician, so it's unfortunate that he's gone. Fortunately, his library of music is expansive, and that'll never die. As far as musicians go, we lost one of the good ones.

Feels bad that Columbia is pimping the shit out of his catalog instead of finally opening the vaults to them amazing Bowie rarities