Bowie: give me your love

Bowie, in his Tommy Newton persona.

I've never seen The Man Who Fell To Earth, so I've been trying to piece together the story from stills, which is like trying to read lips in a foreign language. There's this apparently pivotal scene where Tommy threatens his girlfriend with this bigass revolver (a metaphor, no doubt), shoots his television and then they get it on by the light of the shattered tubes. (Am I right? Anybody seen it want to correct me?)

I want to say it wasn't ferociously arousing. But that would be a lie. Would it be shallow to say I like a man with a big gun?

The text is the title of a great Macy Gray song, about failing to snag her crush, until out of desperation she resorts to violence.

It's amazing what a gun to the head can do
My baby loves me now as hard as he can
My methods may be suspect
But you got to get love however you can

materials: ink and Letraset illustration marker on bristol
music: The Fugees, "Ready Or Not"
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