David Bowie was holding a press conference in Portland's Old Town to announce the arrival of a new set of "circumstances" in his life.

Simply put, these circumstances were "old age" and, well, "old age."

His senile mother was there, too, but Bowie wasn't doing so well himself in terms of having it together upstairs. He had a bowl of Coca-Cola with him (yes, a bowl), an empty Coke bottle, and two spoons. He handed these items to his mother and told her to spoon the Coke back into the bottle. She said that people didn't do that where she came from, but she was a good sport about it and gave it a try anyway.

Eventually, she gave up and decided to just fill the bottle with some leftover tomato and rice soup (which is what most people bring to press conferences), which she promptly gave to me (yes, me! touched by greatness - I was Bowie's mom's soup-in-a-Coke-bottle holder).

Bowie really wasn't looking like himself. He was complaining about old age, how hard it was to get around, how much his back hurt, etc..

Pretty sad.

I woke up during this little bit of pop depression...

To a bright new sunny day! Hello, flowers! Hello, sun! Hello, birds! Hello, hello, hello!