David Byrne ....Burning Down the House on the Road to Nowhere
Byrne discusses his latest project Theater of the Mind, encouraging larping into the metaverse. Creating artificial experiences that the user believes are real.
"The sensory and perceptual disruption must be strong enough.
Why are we doing this? Why are we going from one room to another? Where is this leading? What is this about?"
How does this guy who was a new waver at RISD end up in such powerful positions through the years? I remember at RISD, someone had written in over one of the urinals..."David Byrne peed here."
It seems to me that the transition was with Brian Eno
The curtain was truly pulled back with "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
The song includes a "found sound"—an exorcism performed by an anonymous exorcist—over Afrobeat music similar to that Byrne and Eno had used in the Talking Heads album Remain in Light.[2] The exorcism was to have been a recording of Kathryn Kuhlman, but her estate prohibited the use of her voice.[3] The phrase Jezebel spirit is referencing the woman Jezebel in the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Based on stories in that chapter, Jezebel has become associated with prostitution.
In my recent revisiting of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, the viewers could not understand that what they were seeing on the screen was fiction. Viewers were urgently calling naval and air force bases to assist in the rescue of the Gilligan's Island crew.
I assume Byrne is being used to further the blur between reality and fiction. Voting must be important in consent, as Byrne highlights how he embarasses those not voting during his shows. He says it is not right that 20% of the people should not be deciding for everyone. As if 99% deciding other's fate is appropriate.
And then there is the ultimate litmus test....the injection. Byrne performs like a lame marionette.
Greetings, Rochester College.
This is a message from David Byrne, acclaimed singer-songwriter and former frontman of pioneering new wave band Talking Heads. 92.2% of all Americans aged 18 and up have now been vaccinated against COVID-19, a figure which includes 100% of current students here at Rochester College (my favorite of all colleges). As a result, it is with great pleasure that I announce that you are all my thralls.
You see, many moons ago, I conspired with my good friend The Government in a mutually beneficial scheme to boost my album sales. Per the agreement, I would write, record, and perform a gesamtkunstwerk titled “American Utopia” in order to boost Americans’ faith in The Government. In return, The Government would insert a clause in the fine print of the COVID-19 vaccine consent form transferring ownership of the signee’s soul to yours truly, David Byrne, whereupon I would use my newfound power to force the American people to listen to my music. I will leave the implications of “American Utopia” being released two years pre-pandemic to the readers.
Soon, in any case, there will be no more Ed Sheeran. Soon, Beliebers around the globe will feel a sudden, profound sense of loss, and on some alien planet in the distant regions of space, Elvis Presley’s extraterrestrial friends will watch in abject horror as he disintegrates before their eyes. Amateur guitarists will strum the first few chords of “Wonderwall,” only to hear their instruments produce my own personal masterpiece, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).”
Do not let these revelations trouble you, however. In the end, humanity will live not in fear, but in joy. The elimination of lesser music will bring about a true American utopia — and indeed, a utopia across the globe.
Okay, maybe they can live in fear too. I’m not picky.
Yours truly,
David Byrne
DAVID BYRNE PENS CORONAVIRUS OP-ED: ‘WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME LEAKY BOAT’
With New York and surrounding states potentially on the brink of a forced quarantine, David Byrne penned an op-ed Saturday about self-isolation and “what connects us all when physical presence can’t.” An abridged version of Byrne’s op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, while the singer’s Reasons to Be Cheerful online magazine posted the essay in its entirety.
“It’s ironic that as the pandemic forces us into our separate corners, it’s also showing us how intricately we are all connected,” Byrne wrote. “It’s revealing the many ways that our lives intersect almost without our noticing. And it’s showing us just how tenuous our existence becomes when we try to abandon those connections and distance from one another. Health care, housing, race, inequality, the climate — we’re all in the same leaky boat.”
He continued, “Viruses don’t respect borders. They get in even with extra screening and travel restrictions. Maybe less, but some slips in. And until there is a vaccine, no one is immune.”
Byrne then focused on how some cities around the world responded to the pandemic; in Vo, Italy, site of that country’s first COVID-19 death, the city immediately went into lockdown, tested all the residents and quarantined the infected until the coronavirus patients dwindled to zero. In Taiwan, satellite-tracked GPS ensured that quarantined people remain at home. In both cases, personal freedoms were temporarily stifled for the sake of national security.
“We have changed our behavior before. Ignaz Semmelweis was mocked when, in the mid-19th century, he said that doctors washing their hands before working with patients could save lives. After his death, other germ theorists like Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister showed how correct he was, and the procedure was adopted. Doctors, and all of us, made this change willingly, without coercion. It became a social norm,” Byrne wrote.
“What is happening now is an opportunity to learn how to change our behavior. For many of us, our belief in the value of the collective good has eroded in recent decades. But in an emergency that can change quickly.”
He continued, “We might be too far down the road to test every asymptomatic person, but a change in our mindsets, in how we view our neighbors, could lay the groundwork for the collective action we’ll need to deal with other global crises. The time to see how connected we all are is now.”
Just another peerage connected spook with doors open from birth and no struggling to make it. Pushing all the mainstream narratives to stay relavent in the public mindset.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note that his father was a Westinghouse engineer doing defense contracting.
ReplyDeleteConcur the peerage spook, never liked their music. Two things of note caught here, the 92% looks like a curtain attempt to undermine the fact that they failed, as is likely closer to 40%, and "New York State" is a corporation. They code their rules carefully.
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