April 19, 2004

The Onion A.V. Club Interviews David Byrne. ...And I feel as fresh as 1983!
posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • "..swept up in some kind of weird, feverish hallucination" Ah, so that explains it! Whew, thank God! It felt so terrifyingly real to me. So, Dizzy, did that 'John Hughes' post have you campin' out in the '80's? Not that I'm complainin'. It's nice to hear that he's (David) been keeping busy. I expected nothing less of him, though. He's aging well, too. Alas, the '80's....good times, good times. Makes me feel so damn old reading things like this. I even remember when MTV (well, cable in general) actually stuck to their program, commercial free.
  • Darshon-- You Are Wise--- My mother left not 10 minutes ago, and here I am confessing to the assembled Monkeys... Yes, I am proud to be a child of the 8o's, just like those hapless creatures who are children of the 70's, 60's,50's, etc... What is this dark impulse to forever enshrine those reckless years? Why at 41 do I keep in my basement every Enterprise I never wrecked, a legion of armless Spock and Kirk dolls, the Mount Vernon paperweight from that time I was stuck in Virginia and begged my folks for money to get home? Believe me, Darshon, I had a hoot in the 80's (how could I not, coccooned in undergrad from '80 to '84, and Grad School from '87 to '90?) but for the rest of the world Ronnie was seeing Morning in America and ketchup was a vegetable. I have drunk deeply at the well of nostalgia, what with my mom holding the cup to my mouth. Hell, I bathe in it every day, filing away stories to bedazzle my unborn child. I want to be as cool as David Byrne, even though all his former bandmates call him a jerk! I saw him play about two years ago, I think at the 9:30 Club in DC supporting his "Eyeball" album, and he blew the roof off the place! I'm rambling.
  • That was a good interview. He is the coolest. His cover of Lambchop's 'The Man Who Loved Beer' on the new album is really fantastic. The rest of the album is a mixed bag (I don't quite buy the Opera stuff), but certainly better than the last few he has released. In my seldom humble opinion.
  • David Byrne's journal. Pretty cool