From Haida Gwaii to Gregor Robertson to North Vancouver, he experienced a lot of what this city had to offer in just one day.
David Byrne
Purchased Talking Heads' Remain in Light album from iTunes Music Service Canada.
After seeing Tim Bray link to David Byrne Radio, I realized I didn't have any legitimately-purchased Talking Heads music in my collection. This album has "Once in a Lifetime", the video for which I saw on the plane recently, and which I now think is one of the best music videos of all-time. It's primarily Byrne bugging out, sweating, and convulsing, but also copying dance moves from cultures that are not his own with video of said cultural groups doing the moves he's copying in the background. I think he was trying to say that, by juxtaposing a white guy in glasses and a suit in front of an Indian-subcontinent woman and a group of Africans, there exist music nerds so in love with new sounds that they think of themselves as hip enough to unproblematically copy the moves of—and therefore claim a certain amount of membership in or understading of—cultures they never belonged to and never will. (Remind you of anyone?) See also John Alroy's review of the album.
I'm always interested in what music artists are listening too, and Byrne is one of the coolest music artists in history. (The video for The Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" is easily in my top 10 of all time.)
