Comments on: Have you ever seen Tilda and Bowie in the same room together?

Have you ever seen Tilda and Bowie in the same room together?

k8lin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:01:16 -0800

Are Tilda Swinton and David Bowie the same person?

Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton (previously) and David Robert Jones (previously) are both known for their androgynous good looks and enigmatic presence. If you elongate Bowie's neck a bit and make him smile, he'll turn into Tilda. In fact, she may be slated to play the rock legend himself in an upcoming rock-and-roll trilogy.

By: hrstruggle

hrstruggle — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:04:57 -0800

Pretty dumb - they're not even close.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:06:33 -0800

No. People have been ripping off Bowie's look forever. She's not the first and won't be the last.

By: facetious

facetious — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:09:18 -0800

lol

By: nadawi

nadawi — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:11:59 -0800

well, now i'm imagining a beautifully fashionable lesbian marriage between iman and tilda, so that's pertty awesome.

By: isopraxis

isopraxis — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:12:59 -0800

It would be a better fit to compare Tilda with C3P0. Still, East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:13:43 -0800

i knew the first link would be a tumblr as soon as I read the sentence. I move the stars for no one.

By: ThatCanadianGirl

ThatCanadianGirl — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:14:37 -0800

Clearly they are the same person. Or she is his sister. Or daughter. Or his little brother.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:14:39 -0800

It's fascinating to me that there's this cultural edge that orbits around Tilda (Justin Bond, etc.) and yet she seems so far removed from those scenes, being a product of distant, dusty royalty. She's like one of those nonlinear strange attractors that falls into a mysterious orbit that attracts the creative, for no apparent reason other than her general androgynous beauty. Fashion is inexplicable that way, I suppose.

By: coachfortner

coachfortner — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:14:39 -0800

Short answer: Yes with an "if"; long answer: No with a "but"

By: Forktine

Forktine — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:14:48 -0800

Bowie was ambivalently gendered. Tilda is ambivalently human.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:15:01 -0800

Tilda Swinton is Doctor Who.

By: sendai sleep master

sendai sleep master — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:19:00 -0800

They are both examples of why we need more awesomely gender-ambiguous and/or androgynous public figures and/or celebrities and therefore regardless of how much they are alike I support this tumblr.

By: Threeway Handshake

Threeway Handshake — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:19:40 -0800

I did not realize that David Bowie invented androgyny and nice cheekbones.

By: Kloryne

Kloryne — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:20:17 -0800

Yes... one amazing, glorious, breath-taking person.

By: strangely stunted trees

strangely stunted trees — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:27:49 -0800

David Bowie and David Bowie aren't even the same person.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:31:44 -0800

My favourite Tilda clip

By: edgeways

edgeways — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:32:29 -0800

70's, 80's, 90's or current Bowie? happy Bowie? Depressed Bowie? How about the Bowie that brought coke to Iggy when he was cooped up in an "institution" When people lambasted him for appearing with Muppets (for god's sakes) in Labyrinth, all I could think was.. well that's a step up for him. (and I kind like most of Bowie's music)

By: flippant

flippant — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:37:41 -0800

Tilda Swinton is the first of many successful human-greyhound hybrids.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:37:57 -0800

Artw: "Tilda Swinton is Doctor Who" Holy shit. Who do I need to kill to make this happen?

By: jetlagaddict

jetlagaddict — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:42:03 -0800

I am now answering all of my emails with STARDUST YOUR TILDA and making apologies to no one.

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:36 -0800

Swinton is probably just a fictionsuit for year-5372 Hyper²³GrantMorrison. Bowie, I'm not really sure, and it's probably not wise to poke too much into the issue.

By: book 'em dano

book 'em dano — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:57:50 -0800

More plausible than Benedict Cumberbatch and otters.

By: kenko

kenko — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:06:49 -0800

No. David Bowie and Katharine Hepburn are the same person.

By: ovvl

ovvl — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:07:22 -0800

My favourite Tilda clip I've wanted to see that.

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:14:19 -0800

Tilda Swinton is so f'ing hot it blows my mind. Bowie? Bit of a wanker, really. But I think this performance is one of his best.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:19:51 -0800

Only tangentially related, but this was Tilda Swinton's great-grandmother. I think David Bowie may have posed in that same gown at some point during the Hunky Dory period.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:35:11 -0800

No, but I'd probably watch them make out with each other.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:38:30 -0800

What I would like to see is Tilda Swindon ripped apart violently, then seeing her gurgling white foam and revealing herself to be an Alien-style artificial human. Then you wouldn't feel as bad that she got ripped apart (as she has no soul), and you can just hook her head up to a car battery and continue the conversation. Her new lover could do an interesting multi-media project involving her foam-vomiting disembodied android head.

By: sendai sleep master

sendai sleep master — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:40:15 -0800

Bowie? Bit of a wanker, really./em> En garde, sir!

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:27:41 -0800

Tilda as a mean Gabriel

By: hrstruggle

hrstruggle — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:47:35 -0800

Nice one, Meatbomb.

By: Drumhellz

Drumhellz — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:49:59 -0800

Tilda Swinton cannot be David Bowie, because she is already Conan O'Brien. PROOF!

By: minervous

minervous — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:54:36 -0800

100% true story: I went to the hair salon a few weeks ago. All the hair was to come off. What remained was going from very dark brown to light peachy-white blonde. I looked up at my friend the barber and I asked him to make me look like a cross between David Bowie in the late 70s and Tilda Swinton. He shrugged and said "same difference" and began glopping the bleach onto my head.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:13:09 -0800

My favourite Tilda clip mine

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:13:37 -0800

Um ba ba be Um ba ba be De day da Ee day da - that's o.k.!

By: obiwanwasabi

obiwanwasabi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:03:08 -0800

No, she's the Prime Minister of Australia. Tilda Swinton, on the other hand, seems to be some sort of actress.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:02:18 -0800

David Bowie and David Bowie aren't even the same person. It's based on an old French tune called 'Bowie est un autre'.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:44:52 -0800

My first thought on seeing the title of this article: "Tilda Swanson? I dunno who that is, but they should have just used the chick from "Liquid Sky. She looked exactly like..." [reads more] Oh. Never mind! Proceed as planned.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:45:36 -0800

(errr...SWINTON, that is)

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:50:21 -0800

...and then I read a little more and realized I mis-read "Vanilla Sky" as "Liquid Sky" and my whole theory fell apart. I'll shut up now.

By: pomegranate

pomegranate — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:47:04 -0800

Tilda Swinton has a badass foundation to help kids learn about film. It's called the 8 1/2 Foundation. Sign your kid up. Sign your niece up. Sign your nephew up. Sign up that weird kid down the street who has her head in the clouds all day long. I once met her, she wanted to talk to my kid at an event. She was as normal as could be and just talked a lot about her own kids. And gardening, of all things. I think she plays the hand that was dealt her, in terms of her looks, because she loves film and wants to act. But I don't think she's all that etherial and otherworldly, she just looks that way. And of course she gets photographed and styled that way all the time. So she rolls with it.

By: infini

infini — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:15:49 -0800

Pity the Tumblr theme is the same as the one we looked at for the far more entertaining Maria doodles thread. Bowie is a lad insane, I have no idea who this other person is.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:18:47 -0800

Relevant to my interests.

By: newdaddy

newdaddy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:37:32 -0800

I'm amazed it's such a long tumblr. I thought there'd be, like, five entries.

By: Trurl

Trurl — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:49:14 -0800

Tilda Swinton is so f'ing hot it blows my mind. One of the many narrative problems in The Beach was that we were asked to feel sorry for Leonardo diCaprio after Tilda Swinton had used him for sex. I do not pity you, sir.

By: syzygy

syzygy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:53:22 -0800

My favorite Tilda Swinton clip.

By: zombieflanders

zombieflanders — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:37:47 -0800

Holy shit. Who do I need to kill to make this happen? Steven Moffat, apparently, since he seems to be a wee bit misogynist. Tilda Swanson So now I'm imagining Parks & Rec with Ron Swanson married (in-universe) to Tilda Swinton. Thanks for that. DAY=BLOWN.

By: Iridic

Iridic — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:13:34 -0800

Are Tilda Swinton and David Bowie the same person? Bah! This theory fails to account for Benedict Cumberbatch. The most elegant explanation is that they're all infiltrators from Atlantis. Donovan tried to warn us, but we were too dazzled by the nacreous complexions and non-Euclidean cheekbones to take heed.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:29:23 -0800

Tilda Swinton was the only reason to see the Narnia movie, and by far the best reason to see Constantine. If I had my choice of physical appearance, I'd pick her.

By: Nibbly Fang

Nibbly Fang — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:00:20 -0800

Tilda Swinton's been rocking my world since Orlando. And, yep, best thing in Constantine (though Peter Stormare was pretty great too). I read once that any English person (who isn't a recent immigrant) has a 1 in 4 chance of being traceably related to any other English person... so maybe David Bowie and Tilda Swinton had the same elf grandpa.

By: Edison Carter

Edison Carter — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:07:36 -0800

My favorite Tweet I've read recently (that is most tangentially related to this thread) was: ~ Swinton

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:41:20 -0800

Anybody else think it's cheating when they use one where Tilda is deliberately made up like Bowie, as in this one?

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:23:54 -0800

It's not "Swinton." It's SWINTON. Or. St. Tilda, if you prefer: "If more people were like Tilda Swinton, what a better world this would be. She looks people straight in the eye. She levels. She notices and cares about them--not just the big shots, but everyone. She still corresponds with Hilde Back, the 83-year-old Swedish woman who was the heroine of the great documentary "A Small Act" at Ebertfest 2011. She personally helps haul a trailer across the north of Scotland so that movies can be exhibited in towns without cinemas. She is formidably intelligent and forthright. She has a good heart. She freshens my faith in the cinema."

By: e1c

e1c — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:49:03 -0800

The thin white duke and duchess.

By: gofargogo

gofargogo — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:55:33 -0800

As this is likely my only chance to brag about my brief time working in the movie industry: I got to spend a week on-set with Ms Swinton, and she was unerringly sweet and nice to everyone. She was also even more elfin in person.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:27:50 -0800

They're both from the same planet. Not this one, of course.