last year, Screenwriter Todd AlcottMy hobby has blossomed into a full-fledged side business.
This Etsy seller It’s not about peddling kombucha SCOBYs, letterpressing baby announcements, or repurposing old barns as cutting boards.
No, Alcott’s clever fate Pulp Fiction and Rock and Rollclassic song titles, lyrics, and other clever references replace the existing vintage paperback cover text.
David Bowie’s lifelong space travel, tormented anti-hero, and eccentric fashion interests Making him a natural fit for Alcott’s ongoing projectshas given similar attention to such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Talking Heads and Elvis Costello.
Alcott sees her mashup as a tribute to her longtime favorite music, saying: Open Culture:
Bowie came onstage dressed as an androgynous alien and told the audience, “You’re not alone. Give me a hand.” I can’t think of a more inclusive gesture to misfits. No matter how odd you are in your community, you can always find someone just like you at a Bowie concert. At a time in my life when I felt lonely and isolated,[Bowie]was one of the most important artists to make me feel like I was part of a larger world, an artistic continuum.
Meanwhile, Alcott pursues a different continuity by pairing great posthumous authors together. Bowie and Queen’s Freddie Mercury (Co-author on the theme of the deep sea) Under Pressure Their childhoods were marked by an exposure to adventurous, often exciting, reading material (cover above).
Many of these items end up in second-hand bookstores and thrift stores, worn and worn, but for someone like Alcott, who browses through the catalogs of his favorite artists with them etched deep in his mental hard drive, they are enormous treasures.
It must have been a great day when he stumbled across the 1970s sci-fi cover above. With a few clever tweaks and Life on Marsa new adventure by a non-existent author Space Oddity” was born.
(Avid FanPlease note Falsified publisher top left corner)
heroInspired by the 1981 X-Men comics Future Pastthere are a lot of things like that easter eggCan you find them all?
What a fitting tribute! Starman’s It has a lasting hold on the public imagination.
Browse Todd Alcott’s Bowie-themed pulp fiction collection His Etsy shop.
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Source: Open Culture – www.openculture.com
