There's really no way to top what other Bowie sites have already done so eloquently, so instead I have chosen to display some of my favorite Bowie photos that I have on file. A few of these are from my personal Bowie memorabilia files, and a load of them are screen captures.

I've been a Bowie fan since I was introduced to him through the movie "Labyrinth" at the tender age of six. My Bowie obsession developed further from thirteen onward, as I began to explore more of his back catalog.

David Bowie has gone beyond a simple high school crush for me. I look on him as a mentor for proving the impossible explosively possible. I see him as a kindred spirit, a man cut of many cloths, with the perseverence and audacity to excel in everything he attempts. Trying on personas like outfits of a wardrobe, exploring new ideas as each year of his life passes. He is proof to me that, not only can an artist live life fully, but a human can even go so far as to take on the gods and become one.

I've seen Bowie in concert three times. Once at the Area 2 concert in Chicago, once on his Reality tour in Seattle at the Paramount, and once for Reality in Portland at the Rose Garden.

Take a look at the Bowie monkey I got backstage for David on his Reality tour.

Here's a little something for you musicians out there.