Comments on: The Late Movies: Talking Heads

By: nikki

nikki — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:07:00 +0000

Best Late Movies entry yet! True Stories is one of the greatest things ever and, oh, David Byrne! How glorious is he? Thanks for this entry. It’s definitely appreciated!

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Taking a moment here with my fellow David Byrne fans and Talking Heads fans too! True Stroies is one of the most brilliant pieces – i have drawn a lot of inspiration from it over the years. Can’t wait to help plan a sesquasentenial for my town to celebrate special-ness!

By: grant

grant — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:21:00 +0000

i’ve been a talking heads fan for a long time. when we bought rock band 2, my two boys (ages 5 and 2) really dug psycho killer. both know most of the words now and while it might be unnerving to some to hear a toddler saying (rather angrily at times too) “psycho killer qu’est-ce que c’est? fa fa fa fa fafafa fa fa”, it brings nothing but joy to this dad’s heart.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:45:00 +0000

On This Must be the Place, the reason he is still singing even though he doesn’t get back to the mic in time is that the performance was actually recorded over two days. The audio from that clip is from one of the days, and that specific shot is probably from the other. Stop Making Sense was recorded like this to keep the viewer from seeing cameras and operators. One night, the left side of the stage was filmed, and on the other, the right.

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Perhaps my only claim to fame (at least until my first book comes out later this year) is that I have not only met David Byrne, but I gave him a piece of jewelry. After a _Rei Momo_ show in Tampa, Florida, he and the band came in to the same restaurant we had gone to eat. We’d had tenth-row seats, so we were in the spillover light from the spots and they had seen me dancing throughout the whole show. One of the backup singers told me I was a really good dancer, and I gave Byrne a necklace I’d been wearing, which was a bronze handmade art piece (made by a student at Ringling School of Art in Sarasota) of a skeleton crucified on a cross made of two bones. He was shy, polite, and genuinely seemed to dig the bone crucifix.

By: marc

marc — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:44:00 +0000

THANK YOU!
I love this man and pretty much anything he has ever done. I didn’t know about ‘true stories’ but it looks like something I want to see for sure!
If you havn’t already seen it, check out his book “arboretum” – it is also “weird, fun and… well, weird”