I am also surprised by my reaction to his death. I'm not weepy like I was when Robin Williams died, but it's David Bowie. He was an integral part of my life and the music I heard as I grew up, though I was a kid during the decade of "Let's Dance" and Labyrinth, so the Bowie I knew was not the Bowie that children of the 60s knew. He was creative in ways that no one was, he embraced the weird and made it a little easier on everyone else who had any kind of weirdness, too.