Although David Bowie is known around the world, he has a special group of fans in Japan as noted by last month’s David Bowie Café to celebrate his newest album in 10 years, The Next Day.
Among these fans is our very own Mr. Sato. The lovable reporter has always looked up to David Bowie, and one day recently slammed his fist down on the table as hard as he could proclaiming; “That does it! I’ve waited too long and am going to make myself look like Ziggy Stardust once and for all!” He then ran out the office to find a beauty salon.
No one in the editorial department actually noticed him though. Someone thought they had heard a small dog barking in the distance around the same time.
Armed with a photo of Ziggy Stardust on his iPad, Mr. Sato went from salon to salon asking the impossible; “Make me look like him!”
Finally he found one willing artist after pleading “Come oooooOOOooon! We have the same bone structure!” However, she warned him that to do the hair dye and make-up cleanly it would take four hours.
Time was meaningless to Mr. Sato who clearly had too much of it so he agreed. When the transformation was complete, a starman truly sat waiting in the sky-blue make-up chair, and he knew he’d blow our minds.
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The Japanese edition of RocketNews24 feels he went a little past Ziggy Stardust on the glammometer and into Boy George territory.
Those of us in the English edition seem to think he nailed the Joker – not the brooding Heath Ledger Joker nor the thinly veiled insanity of Jack Nicolson’s Joker. No, this is a dead-on Cesar Romero Joker from the ultra-camp Batman TV series.
However our opinions meant nothing to him. Making love with his ego, Mr. Sato sucked up into his mind. “This isn’t funny, it’s cool! What, are you people blind?” he shouted in denial.
If you agree with him, or if you want to join the rest of us in his intervention let him know your feelings on his Twitter.
Model: Stardust Sato
Original Article & Photos: Nakano
Cesar Romero Photo: Wikipedia
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