Posts Tagged ‘David Byrne 11-07-08’

Performance Anti-Anxiety

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

David Byrne played in Pittsburgh two days ago.  I missed it, but my pal Jae went and talked to a girl who was filming it for YouTube.  One song up so far, added 32 minutes ago.

My pal Joe told me about this next one yesterday.  If you’re nervous about an upcoming musical, public-speaking, dance, theatrical, sexual etc. performance, relax and be grateful you don’t have to perform during brain implantation surgery.  Banjo virtuoso Eddie Adcock did just that recently, in a scenario putting me in mind of Westworld, which I watched last night to honor the late Michael Crichton.

Hopefully, nothing goes horribly wrong for the newly cybered-out Adcock.

Have a deeply stimulating day!

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Friday, November 7th, 2008

David Byrne and Brian Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today dropped on 8/18/08.

In the weeks following its release, everything that happens has happened consistently, with each successive day’s happenings following, as a matter of course, their own occurrences.  The album’s insistence on daily happenstance has permeated the fabric of today’s hectic routine, to the point at which the aforementioned fabric could include a trip to the laundromat (to gently lift out the link between any and all which transpires), or to the Carnegie Music Hall, where Byrne will perform tunes new and old, as it happens, at 7 pm.