Teacher Plays David Bowie Dress-Up

“The levels of cocaine Bowie was consuming is not just illegal for a professor like myself, but it’s much too expensive — as well as unhealthy. So at the weekend I had a six-pack of energy drinks to try and simulate the experience of illegal substances. It made me very jumpy.”
 — “Will Brooker, who teaches film and cultural studies at Kingston University, is spending a few months at a time experiencing specific moments of [David Bowie]’s five-decade career — from adopting Bowie’s eating habits and poring over the literature he read, to visiting the same places as the English singer-songwriter.”