David Bowie in the City

From a Reuters article in the NY Times:

Bowie to Curate New Music Festival in New York

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Semi-retired rock star David Bowie will curate the inaugural High Line Festival, to be held next May in New York.

As part of the programming, Bowie will play a large outdoor concert, his first show in New York since 2003. He will also select musicians and artists to appear throughout the festival, which will take place in neighborhoods underneath the High Line, a public park being created atop a long-abandoned elevated railway line on the west side of Manhattan.

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He recently told New York magazine he is taking a sabbatical this year.

``I'm fed up with the industry,'' he said. ``And I've been fed up for quite some time. I'm taking a year off -- no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row.''

What a dull article. First NY concert since 2003? THREE Woody Allen movies in a row? Ziggy, where's the decadence? How do you expect the culture warriors to cry 'Decline and Fall!' when you sound like a columnist for Good Housekeeping? What, do you expect us to believe you stay up late playing gin rummy and drinking English Breakfast Tea?