Bowie, Life on Mars, & the chicks in the white Firebird

this song will always be the soundtrack to one of my favorite memories with random strangers.   i'm standing at the corner of Fairfax & Melrose by Fairfax High in Hollywood....West Hollywood if you're gonna be a coose about it.

two chicks pull up to the light in a beautiful white T-top Firebird complete with a perfect black logo with orange flames on the hood.

i hear but the film is a saddening bore.........

i respond with for she's lived it ten times or more.........

all 3 of us continue with she could spit in the eyes of fools........

and at some point during as they ask her to focus on....... the driver throws it into park, turns the stereo up to eleven and they both reach their arms to the sky and exit with SAI-LORS fighting in the dance hall and do a fairy dance around the car while belting out......

(in their best drunken bachelorette party voices)

oh man!
look at those cavemen go
it's the freakiest show
take a look at the lawman
beating up the wrong guy
oh man! wonder if he'll ever know
he's in the best selling show

is there life on Mars? 

the light turned green somewhere around take a look at the lawman. cars honked. some road rage man yelled.  neither one dared to care.  and when it was over they jumped back in the car, waved goodbye, sped off down Melrose, & i've never seen either one of them again.

it has been accused of many things but THAT's Hollywood too.