{"id":3411,"date":"2014-09-12T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:22:49","slug":"david-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"Bill Laswell  +  David Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The first track from the album\u00a0City Of Light,\u00a0by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silent-watcher.net\/billlaswell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Laswell<\/a>.<\/strong> \u00a0It was\u00a0released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of <strong>Lori Carson<\/strong>, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 \u00b7 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cduniverse.com\/sresult.asp?HT_Search=XARTIST&amp;HT_Search_Info=Jah+Wobble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jah Wobble<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cduniverse.com\/sresult.asp?HT_Search=XARTIST&amp;HT_Search_Info=Lori+Carson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lori Carson<\/a>\u00a0\/ Featuring\u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trilokgurtu.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Trilok Gurtu<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0on Tablas\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4i3Acuoshgc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12350\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nothing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nothing.gif 281w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nothing-150x112.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There is nothing \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>There is nothing at all<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>either moving or not moving<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It was dark everywhere \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>There was no sun<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There were no planets, no stars, no moon<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was no day and no night <\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was no sound, no touch, no smell<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was no form, no taste<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There were no directions<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was only pure reality<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was nothing at all<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Not grasped [?] by mind or senses or speech<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There were no planets, no stars, no moon<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There was no day or night<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No sound, no touch \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>No smell, no form<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Without change \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Only pure reality&#8230;<\/strong><\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gyBUUlxlMM#t=182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohm Shanti [Asana &#8211; volume\u00a0 4]<\/a>\u21d0<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u221e\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bill Laswell &amp; Azzddine\u00a0\u21d2<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3FJN0SnS98#t=67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8216;Droub Al Lil&#8217;<\/strong> <\/a>[Barbarity 023]\u00a0\u21d2<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6aXnQQ0hjUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8216;Takassim&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0 Bill Laswell Sacred System\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 &#8216;Black Lotus&#8217; [Nagual Site] <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHqnLMfoyww\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZlvrMBxM-jE#t=26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8216;Lightning Teleportation&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0[Points of Order, 2001]<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7Bvv-88vx8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38038 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gigi.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi\" width=\"314\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gigi.jpg 314w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gigi-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gigi-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u03a6 \u00a0Tabla Beat Science<\/span><\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">[Live at Fillmore, San Francisco <strong>2002<\/strong>]<\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bill Laswell<\/strong> -bass;\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Ustad Sultan Khan<\/strong> -vocals, sarangi;\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Ejigayehu &#8216;\u00a0Gigi&#8217; Shibabaw<\/strong>\u00a0-vocals;\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Zakir Hussain<\/strong>\u00a0-tabla;<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<strong>Karsh Kale<\/strong><strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong>drums, tabla;\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>DJ Disk<\/strong> -turntables;\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>MIDIval PunditZ<\/strong> -laptop;<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<strong>Fabian Asultany<\/strong> -keyboards<\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022 \u00a0 Mengedenga \u00a0\u2192\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">How can I stop loving you, my love \/ My heart won&#8217;t heed my mind<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Better to love a mountain \/ The one that never leaves, never abandons you<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">True, it may not kiss my lips like you do \/ It may not caress my breasts the way you do<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">It may not let me look into its eyes the way you do \/ It will bask in the sun that washes its crest<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">I thought I had found the path to take me far from you \/ It seems to turn and bring me back to you<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">My heart be wise, be smart my heart \/ Be careful who you love, stay with the one that&#8217;s right<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Tasty, like a roasted nut \/ Can&#8217;t stop with just a handful<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Always on the move, always on the road \/ My nights are long, longing for your eyes<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Tasty, like a roasted nut \/ Can&#8217;t stop with just a handful<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">In love with a hawk, I&#8217;m now a hawk myself \/ Tell me which skies to fly<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Always on the move, always on the road \/ My nights are long, longing for your eyes<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Tasty, like a roasted nut \/ Can&#8217;t stop with just a handful . . .<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u25ca\u00a0 Ejigayehu Shibabaw:\u00a0 \u21d2\u00a0 <\/strong><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ethiozeima.com\/2011\/12\/14\/nafekegn-ejigayehu-gigi-shibabaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nafekegn<\/a> <\/strong>\u2190\u00a0[Gigi &#8211; 2001]<\/em><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00abMissing home, my three-meal days \/ Mother&#8217;s sweet face \/ Extended family, that joyful place &#8230;<\/em><\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>. . . Stories in the house, gossip in the village \/ I miss it all, I miss that place I call my home.\u00bb<\/em><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2666\u00a0 \u00a0 Tala Matrix<\/strong>\u00a0 \u21d3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1SAGFbm6keg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-50656\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TalaMatrix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TalaMatrix.jpg 297w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TalaMatrix-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"yt watch-title-container\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Soundstage - 7-13-06 - Bill Laswell, Axiom Sound System, Musical Freezone\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qurVdB-HwUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axiom Sound System<\/a><\/span>\u21d0[feat. <strong>Nils Petter Molvaer <\/strong>2006]<\/h6>\n<h6>\u2666 \u00a0Material w\/ Nils Petter Molvaer \u2193 &#8216;Black Lotus&#8217;<\/h6>\n<h6>&lt;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xAD4IQccKE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h6>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\"><strong>\u2022\u2192\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J2FtKqLqYpc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bill Laswell &amp; Jah Wobble\u00a0_ Alam Dub<\/strong> \u00a0[RadioAxiom &#8211; A Dub Transmission]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u0398 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Fanu &amp; Bill Laswell _\u21d2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dw00wfGTr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Shroud&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 \u21d0 [Lodge, 2008]<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PvbCQIpA-SM#t=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Laswell, Eraldo Bernocchi &amp; Toshinori Kondo: &#8216;Cleared&#8217;<\/a> [Charged_1999]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2666 \u00a0Bill Laswell<\/strong> presents\u21d2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hFm_pUZLvCY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tokyo Rotation<\/strong> <\/a>\u21d0 w\/ <strong>Toshinori Kondo, Dj Krush<\/strong>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>Hideo Yamaki <\/strong>(2009)<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u221e \u00a0Hakim Bey &amp; Bill Laswell\u00a0\u2193\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/sniggle.net\/Manifesti\/poeticTerrorism.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetic Terrorism<\/a>&#8216; \u00a0(T.A.Z. &#8211; 1994)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzaCr_lWGr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50654\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poetic-Terrorism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poetic-Terrorism.jpg 480w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poetic-Terrorism-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poetic-Terrorism-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poetic-Terrorism-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone &amp; make them happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pick someone at random &amp; convince them they&#8217;re the heir to an enormous, useless &amp; amazing fortune &#8211; say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical manuscripts. Later they will come to realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary, and will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual experience..<abbr lang=\"la\" title=\"et cetera\">.<\/abbr><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Go naked for a sign.\u00a0Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does not satisfy your need for indolence and spiritual beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grafitti art loaned some grace to ugly subways &amp; rigid public monuments &#8211;\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>-art can also be created for public places: poems scrawled in courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks and restaurants, xerox-art under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Character Slogans pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to random or chosen recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet cement\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audience reaction or \u00e6sthetic-shock produced by\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>\u00a0ought to be at least as strong as the emotion of terror &#8211; powerful disgust, sexual arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive breakthrough, dadaesque angst &#8211; no matter whether the\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>\u00a0is aimed at one person or many, no matter whether it is \u201csigned\u201d or anonymous, if it does not change someone&#8217;s life (aside from the artist) it fails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>\u00a0is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets and no walls. In order to work at all,\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>\u00a0must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media&#8230;) Even the guerrilla Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well known and expected now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An exquisite seduction carried out not only in the cause of mutual satisfaction but also as a conscious act in a deliberately beautiful life &#8211; may be the ultimate\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>. The\u00a0<acronym title=\"poetic\">P<\/acronym>Terrorist behaves like a confidence-trickster whose aim is not money but\u00a0<em>change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t do\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym><\/strong>\u00a0for other artists, do it for people who will not realize (at least for a few moments) that what you have done <em>is<\/em> art. Avoid recognizable art-categories, avoid politics, don&#8217;t stick around to argue, don&#8217;t be sentimental; be ruthless, take risks, vandalize only what\u00a0<em>must<\/em>\u00a0be defaced, do something children will remember all their lives &#8211; but don&#8217;t be spontaneous unless the<strong>\u00a0<acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym>\u00a0<\/strong>Muse has possessed you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary. The best\u00a0<strong><acronym title=\"poetic terrorism\">PT<\/acronym>\u00a0<\/strong>is against the law, but don&#8217;t get caught. Art as crime; crime as art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGAScndvRHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babylon Site<\/a> \u21d0 \u00a0 \/ \u00a0 \u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2dHPc-Z-4P4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban beat<\/a>s \u00a0\u00a0\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h6>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u00a4 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidbyrne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">David Byrne<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/a-mcsweeneys-books-preview-of-david-byrnes-how-music-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HMW.jpg\" alt=\"HMW\" width=\"177\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HMW.jpg 177w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HMW-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ex-vocalist of the <strong>Talking Heads<\/strong>, David Byrne\u00a0has just published a book: \u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/09\/12\/david-byrnes-how-music-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Music Works<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u21d4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idiosyncratic, informative, and drily funny, his book is neither the typical aging rock star\u2019s autobiography nor a how-to about performing or songwriting. Aimed at a general audience, it grapples with the ways music is shaped by technology, venue, and the expectations of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bKBgYeexk-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/D_Byrne.jpg\" alt=\"D_Byrne\" width=\"128\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/D_Byrne.jpg 128w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/D_Byrne-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a>audiences.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cPeople tend to think a piece of music is the way it is because that\u2019s the way the musicians wanted to express what they had to say,<\/em>\u201d Byrne says.\u00a0<em>\u201cAnd I\u2019m saying that there are an awful lot of other factors molding the finished product.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><em>[Malcolm Jones]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u2190David Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0on Mexican TV promoting the bicycle<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I\u2019ve been riding a bicycle as my principal means of transportation in New York since the early 1980s. I tentatively first gave it a try, and it felt good even here in New York. I felt energized and liberated. I had an old three-speed leftover from my childhood in the Baltimore suburbs, and for New York City that\u2019s pretty much all you need. My life at that time was more or less restricted to downtown Manhattan\u2014the East Village and SoHo\u2014and it soon became apparent to me that biking was an easy way to run errands in the daytime or efficiently hit a few clubs, art openings, or nightspots in the evening without searching for a cab or the nearest subway. I know, one doesn\u2019t usually think of nightclubbing and bike riding as being soul mates, but there is so much to see and hear in New York, and I discovered that zipping from one place to another by bike was amazingly fast and efficient. So I stuck with it, despite the aura of uncoolness and the danger, as there weren\u2019t many people riding in the city back then. Car drivers at that time weren\u2019t expecting to share the road with cyclists, so they would cut you off or squeeze you into parked cars even more than they do now. As I got a little older I also may have felt that cycling was a convenient way of getting some exercise, but at first I wasn\u2019t thinking of that. It just felt good to cruise down the dirty potholed streets. It was exhilarating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">By the late \u201980s I\u2019d discovered folding bikes, and as my work and curiosity took me to various parts of the world, I usually took one along. That same sense of liberation I experienced in New York recurred as I pedaled around many of the world\u2019s principal cities. I felt more connected to the life on the streets than I would have inside a car or in some form of public transport: I could stop whenever I wanted to; it was often (very often) faster than a car or taxi for getting from point A to point B; and I didn\u2019t have to follow any set route. The same exhilaration, as the air and street life whizzed by, happened again in each town. It was, for me, addictive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">This point of view\u2014faster than a walk, slower than a train, often slightly higher than a person\u2014became my panoramic window on much of the world over the last thirty years\u2014and it still is. It\u2019s a big window and it looks out on a mainly urban landscape. (I\u2019m not a racer or sports cyclist.) Through this window I catch glimpses of the mind of my fellow man, as expressed in the cities he lives in. Cities, it occurred to me, are physical manifestations of our deepest beliefs and our often unconscious thoughts, not so much as individuals, but as the social animals we are. A cognitive scientist need only look at what we have made\u2014the hives we have created\u2014to know what we think and what we believe to be important, as well as how we structure those thoughts and beliefs. It\u2019s all there, in plain view, right out in the open; you don\u2019t need CAT scans and cultural anthropologists to show you what\u2019s going on inside the human mind; its inner workings are manifested in three dimensions, all around us. Our values and hopes are sometimes awfully embarrassingly easy to read. They\u2019re right there\u2014in the storefronts, museums, temples, shops, and office buildings and in how these structures interrelate, or sometimes don\u2019t. They say, in their unique visual language, \u201cThis is what we think matters, this is how we live and how we play.\u201d Riding a bike through all this is like navigating the collective neural pathways of some vast global mind. It really is a trip inside the collective psyche of a compacted group of people. A <i>Fantastic Voyage<\/i>, but without the cheesy special effects. One can sense the collective brain\u2014happy, cruel, deceitful, and generous\u2014at work and at play. Endless variations on familiar themes repeat and recur: triumphant or melancholic, hopeful or resigned, the permutations keep unfolding and multiplying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yes, in most of these cities I was usually just passing through. And one might say that what I could see would therefore by definition be shallow, limited, and particular. That\u2019s true, and many of the things I\u2019ve written about cities might be viewed as a kind of self-examination, with the city functioning as a mirror. But I also believe that a visitor staying briefly can read the details, the specifics made visible, and then the larger picture and the city\u2019s hidden agendas emerge almost by themselves. Economics is revealed in shop fronts and history in door frames. Oddly, as the microscope moves in for a closer look, the perspective widens at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Each chapter in this book focuses on a particular city, though there are many more I could have included. Not surprisingly, different cites have their own unique faces and ways of expressing what they feel is important. Sometimes one\u2019s questions and trains of thought almost seem predetermined by each urban landscape. So, for example, some chapters ended up focusing more on history in the urban landscape while others look at music or art\u2014each depending on the particular city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Naturally, some cities are more accommodating to a cyclist than others. Not just geographically or because of the climate, though that makes a difference, but because of the kinds of behavior that are encouraged and the way some cities are organized, or not organized. Surprisingly, the least accommodating are sometimes the most interesting. Rome, for example, is amazing on a bike. The car traffic in central Italian cities is notoriously snarled, so one can make good time on a bike, and, if the famous hills in that town are avoided, one can glide from one amazing vista to the next. It\u2019s not a bike-friendly city by any means\u2014the every-man-for-himself vibe hasn\u2019t encouraged the creation of secure bike lanes in these big towns\u2014but if one accepts that reality, at least temporarily, and is careful, the experience is something to be recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">These diaries go back at least a dozen years. Many were written during work-related visits to various towns\u2014for a performance or an exhibit, in my case. Lots of folks have jobs that take them all over the world. I found that biking around for just a few hours a day\u2014or even just to and from work\u2014helps keep me sane. People can lose their bearings when they travel, unmoored from their familiar physical surroundings, and that somehow loosens some psychic connections as well. Sometimes that&#8217;s a good thing\u2014it can open the mind, offer new insights\u2014 but frequently it&#8217;s also traumatic in a not-so-good way. Some people retreat into themselves or their hotel rooms if a place is unfamiliar, or lash out in an attempt to gain some control. I myself find that the physical sensation of self-powered transport coupled with the feeling of self-control endemic to this two-wheeled situation is nicely empowering and reassuring, even if temporary, and it is enough to center me for the rest of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">It sounds like some form of meditation, and in a way it is. Performing a familiar task, like driving a car or riding a bicycle, puts one into a zone that is not too deep or involving. The activity is repetitive, mechanical, and it distracts and occupies the conscious mind, or at least part of it, in a way that is just engaging enough but not too much\u2014it doesn&#8217;t cause you to be caught off guard. It facilitates a state of mind that allows some but not too much of the unconscious to bubble up. As someone who believes that much of the source of his work and creativity is to be gleaned from those bubbles, it&#8217;s a reliable place to find that connection. In the same way that perplexing problems sometimes get resolved in one&#8217;s sleep, when the conscious mind is distracted the unconscious works things out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">During the time these diaries were written I have seen some cities, like New York, become more bike-friendly in radical new ways, while in others the changes have been slow and incremental\u2014they have yet to reach a tipping point as far as accepting cycling as a practical and valid means of transportation. Some cities have managed to find a way to make themselves more livable, and have even reaped some financial rewards as a result, while others have sunk deeper into the pits they started digging for themselves decades ago. I discuss these developments, urban planning, and policy in the New York City chapter, as well as describe my limited involvement in local politics (and entertainment) as it pertains to making my city more bike-friendly, and, I think, a more human place to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/30\/bd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read an <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/30\/bd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excerpt<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0 A lecture on how architecture helped music evolve \u21d3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve?language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52785\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DavidByrne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DavidByrne.jpg 550w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DavidByrne-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DavidByrne-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DavidByrne-400x352.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0&#8216;Listening Wind&#8217; \u00a0\u21d3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhMt9V1rKdo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill<br \/>Mojique thinks of days before Americans came<br \/>He sees the foreigners in growing numbers<br \/>He sees the foreigners in fancy houses<br \/>He thinks of days that he can still remember&#8230;now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands<br \/>Mojique sends the package to the American man<br \/>Softly he glides along the streets and alleys<br \/>Up comes the wind that makes them run for cover<br \/>He feels the time is surely now or never&#8230;more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The wind in my heart &#8211;\u00a0The wind in my heart<\/strong><br \/><strong> The dust in my head &#8211;\u00a0The dust in my head<\/strong><br \/><strong> The wind in my heart &#8211;\u00a0The wind in my heart<\/strong><br \/><strong> (Come to) Drive them away &#8211;\u00a0Drive them away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mojique buys equipment in the market place<br \/>Mojique plants devices in the free trade zone<br \/>He feels the wind is lifting up his people<br \/>He calls the wind to guide him on his mission<br \/>He knows his friend the wind is always standing&#8230;by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mojique smells the wind that comes from far away<br \/>Mojique waits for news in a quiet place<br \/>He feels the presence of the wind around him<br \/>He feels the power of the past behind him<br \/>He has the knowledge of the wind to guide him&#8230;on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The wind in my heart . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2663\u00a0 Jonathan Demme&#8217;s concert movie:\u00a0&#8216;Stop Making Sense&#8217;_1984<\/h5>\n<address><strong>\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8216;Heaven&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3<\/strong><\/address>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EV412baN4yk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/talkingheads\/slipperypeople.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slippery People&#8217;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2193<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"YouTube video player\">href=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HFS2oz-i3Ik\u00bb target=\u00bb_blank\u00bb rel=\u00bbattachment noopener wp-att-50120 noreferrer\u00bb&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50120 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ZhmsrUOezI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8216;What a day that was!<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Awy0cI_4RP4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;<\/a> \u21d0<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2666\u2192\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HldHtBxNK6k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;This Must Be The Place&#8217; <\/a> \u21d3 \u00a0[Live Jools Holland 2004]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5pvna8_Yfqc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Home is where I want to be<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pick me up and turn me round<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I feel numb &#8211; burn with a weak heart<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(So I) guess I must be having fun<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The less we say about it the better<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Make it up as we go along<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Feet on the ground<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Head in the sky<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It&#8217;s ok I know nothing&#8217;s wrong . . nothing<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hi yo I got plenty of time<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hi yo you got light in your eyes<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And you&#8217;re standing here beside me<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I love the passing of time<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Never for money<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Always for love<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Cover up &amp; say goodnight . . . say goodnight<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Home &#8211; is where I want to be<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>But I guess I&#8217;m already there<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I come home &#8211; she lifted up her wings<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I guess that this must be the place<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I can&#8217;t tell one from another<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Did I find you, or you find me?<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There was a time before we were born<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If someone asks, this where I&#8217;ll be . . . where I&#8217;ll be<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hi yo We drift in and out<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hi yo sing into my mouth<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Out of all those kinds of people<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You got a face with a view<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I&#8217;m just an animal looking for a home<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Share the same space for a minute or two<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And you love me till my heart stops<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Love me till I&#8217;m dead<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Eyes that light up, eyes look through you<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Cover up the blank spots<\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hit me on the head <\/strong><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ah ooh<\/strong><\/address>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EC8_4Xhn-qc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52374\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/soundofb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2666\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EC8_4Xhn-qc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;The Sound Of Business&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u21d1\u00a0 \u00a0 [Music for the Knee Plays] &#8211; 1988<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They were driving south on the highway<br \/>Their business was in another town<br \/>Bigger than the town they were driving from<br \/>Business took place during office hours in both towns<br \/>This drive was considered business<br \/>The feeling of passing other cars was also considered business<br \/>A feeling of business being done<br \/>The feeling of drifting slowly through a field of moving vehicles<br \/>This was the real speed&#8230;the speed of business<br \/>Not the numbers on the speedometer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of them was playing with the radio<br \/>Slowly changing the channel from one station to another<br \/>Sometimes listening to both channels at once<br \/>On another channel a man was talking to another man on the telephone.<br \/>The other channel was playing oldies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c<em>\u201cListening Wind\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cGone for Good\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cPuzzle Power\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cBeechwood Serenade\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cSunshine and Sugar\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cGolden Windows\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cTaste of Believing\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cCarnival Girl\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cLove Walks Away\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cWishing Well\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cI Knew You Could\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cA Face Like That\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cDark Highway\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cShakin\u2019 Venus\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cColored Wheels\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cSchool of Heartache\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cPainted Smiles\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cVisit Me Quick\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u201cLonesome Money\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The sound of business . . . \u00a0The sound of business being done.<\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2666\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;In The Future&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[\u00abMusic for the Knee Plays\u00bb_1988]<\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">We love each other so much &#8230;We love each other so much that little children kept their distance<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">We love each other so much that one can remember everything the other ever said<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">We love each other so much that one would smell the other one and cry<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">We love each other so much it was a pleasure to grow old &#8230;<\/address>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngVGxYLRrZ0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address><strong>In the future everyone will have the same haircut and the same clothes.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone will be very fat from the starchy diet&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone will be very thin from not having enough to eat&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future it will be next to impossible to tell girls from boys, even in bed.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future men will be \u00absuper-masculine\u00bb and women will be \u00abultra-feminine.\u00bb\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future half of us will be \u00abmentally ill.\u00bb\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be no religion or spiritualism of any sort.<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future the \u00abpsychic arts\u00bb will be put to practical use.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future we will not think that \u00abnature\u00bb is beautiful.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future the weather will always be the same.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future no one will fight with anyone else.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be an atomic war.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>In the future water will be expensive.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future all material items will be free.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone&#8217;s house will be like a little fortress.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone&#8217;s house will be a total entertainment center.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very happy.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very filthy.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very healthy.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future TV will be so good that the printed word will function as an art form only.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future no one will live in cities.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be mini-wars going on everywhere.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>In the future everyone will think about love all the time.<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>In the future political and other decisions will be based completely on opinion polls.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be machines which will produce a religious experience in the user.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be groups of wild people, living in the wilderness.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be only paper money, which will be personalized.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be a classless society.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>In the future we will only get to go home once a year.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future we will stay home all the time.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future we will not have time for leisure activities.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future we will only \u00abwork\u00bb one day a week.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future our bodies will be shriveled up but our brains will be bigger.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future people will live in space.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>In the future no one will be able to afford TV or newspapers <\/strong><\/address><address><strong>[&#8230;] no one knows what&#8217;s going on<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future everyone will have their own way-out style of clothes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>In the future we will all eat our favorite foods but they will all be synthetic.<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future we will make love to anything anytime anywhere.<\/strong><br \/><strong>In the future there will be so much going on that no one will be able to keep track of it.<\/strong><\/address>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0\u00a0 David Byrne &amp; Twyla Tharp&#8217;s ballet \u00a0\u2193\u00a0 \u00a0(1983)<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4KiBmWuTEU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48074 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/catherine-wheel.jpg\" alt=\"catherine-wheel\" width=\"182\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/catherine-wheel.jpg 182w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/catherine-wheel-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192 . . .\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pxs7EryeX9w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>His Wife Refused<\/strong><\/a> . . .\u00a0\u21b5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A great big house with nothing in it<br \/>He comes home, says, \u00abNow wait a minute\u00bb<br \/>He&#8217;s comin&#8217; in, she&#8217;s goin&#8217; out<br \/>He turns around says, \u00abWhat&#8217;s that about?\u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do what they like, the kid&#8217;s in school<br \/>Think she don&#8217;t know, now, who&#8217;s kidding who?<br \/>He turns around says, \u00abWho wants to know?\u00bb<br \/>Open the door and there&#8217;s nobody home<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go ahead fill their heads<br \/>Go ahead fill their heads with poison<br \/>Take a look these people are savages<br \/>Take a look at their misfortune<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m goin&#8217; up I got a message<br \/>I&#8217;m gonna wait till I close the door<br \/>I&#8217;m gonna wrap, myself in blankets<br \/>I&#8217;m gonna, roll out, across the floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well the bride, bride and the groom<br \/>Run in a circle around their house<br \/>They&#8217;re goin&#8217; out they&#8217;re comin&#8217; in<br \/>Inside a circle around their house<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These shoes don&#8217;t fit this tie don&#8217;t match<br \/>I&#8217;m gonna throw it away when I get home<br \/>I&#8217;m turned around I&#8217;m doin&#8217; my best<br \/>I&#8217;m gonna wait until the light comes on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes, he&#8217;s the king and she&#8217;s the queen<br \/>Run in a circle around their house<br \/>Open the door and let them in<br \/>Inside a circle around their house<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u221e \u00a0Brian Eno &amp; David Byrne: \u21d2 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u453lKyCOfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Regiment&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> \u21d0\u00a0 [\u00abMy Life In The Bush Of Ghosts\u00bb_1981]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[2008] \u2193 (A Calligraphic Tribute)<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9PGGTnfkdY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37997\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strangeovertones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strangeovertones.jpg 283w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strangeovertones-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27302\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/byrne_eno.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a4\u00a0 Ride, Rise, Roar<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>A<\/i><\/b> documentary film chronicling the\u00a0<a title=\"Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songs_of_David_Byrne_and_Brian_Eno_Tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Songs of David Byrne &amp; Brian Eno Tour<\/a>\u00a0conducted by\u00a0David Byrne\u00a0in 2008\u20132009.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-50662\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar.jpg 1134w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ride-Rise-Roar-400x529.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film includes concert footage, footage of the planning and rehearsals for the tour, and exclusive interviews with Byrne, Eno, and the supporting musicians and dancers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tabs\">\n<div id=\"tabs-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"track_2808_1\">\n<h5><a id=\"track_0\"><\/a>. &#8216;Once in a Lifetime&#8217; \u00a0 \u2193<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGVUfUmtgrc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack<br \/>And you may find yourself in another part of the world<br \/>And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile<br \/>You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife<br \/>You may ask yourself, <em>\u00abWell, how did I get here?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down<\/strong><br \/><strong> Letting the days go by, water flowing underground<\/strong><br \/><strong> Into the blue again, after the money&#8217;s gone<\/strong><br \/><strong> Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And you may ask yourself, <em>\u00abHow do I work this?\u00bb<\/em><br \/>And you may ask yourself, <em>\u00abWhere is that large automobile?\u00bb<\/em><br \/>And you may tell yourself, <em>\u00abThis is not my beautiful house\u00bb<\/em><br \/>And you may tell yourself, <em>\u00abThis is not my beautiful wife\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Letting the days go by . . .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was . . .<br \/>Same as it ever was, same as it ever was<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Water dissolving and water removing<br \/>There is water at the bottom of the ocean<br \/>Under the water, carry the water<br \/>Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Letting the days go by . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">You may ask yourself, \u00ab<em>What is that beautiful house?\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You may ask yourself, <em>\u00abWhere does that highway go to?\u00bb<\/em><br \/>You may ask yourself, <em>\u00abAm I right, am I wrong?\u00bb<\/em><br \/>You may say to yourself, <em>\u00abMy God! What have I done?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Letting the days go by . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Same as it ever was, same as it ever was<br \/>Same as it ever was, look where my hand was<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Letting the days go by \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Letting the days go by<br \/>Once in a lifetime . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/lyrics.wikia.com\/Talking_Heads:Road_To_Nowhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Road to nowhere&#8217;<\/a> \u00a0\u21d3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARhmeG691Xg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/roadtonowhere.jpg\" alt=\"roadtonowhere\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/roadtonowhere.jpg 207w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/roadtonowhere-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li id=\"track_2808_5\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"track_4\"><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zEnG20EIrgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;The Great Curve&#8217;<\/a>\u2190<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6NQaUhpU2k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li id=\"track_2808_8\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"track_7\"><\/a>. &#8216;Houses in Motion&#8217; \u00a0 \u2193<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfQWxvpXdGQ?si=_fJQO15XrDeJ87pa\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For a long time I felt without style or grace<br \/>Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather<br \/>I knew my heart was in the right place<br \/>I knew I&#8217;d be able to do these things<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And as we watch him digging his own grave<br \/>It is important to know that was where he&#8217;s at<br \/>He can&#8217;t afford to stop, that is what he believe<br \/>He&#8217;ll keep on digging for a thousand years<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m walking a line, I&#8217;m thinking about empty motion<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, just barely enough to be living<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Get out of the way, no time to begin<br \/>This isn&#8217;t the time, so nothing was done<br \/>Not talking about, not many at all<br \/>I&#8217;m turning around, no trouble at all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You notice there&#8217;s nothing around you, around you<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, divide and dissolve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never get to say much, never get to talk<br \/>Tell us a little bit, but not too much<br \/>Right about then, is where she give up<br \/>She has closed her eyes, she has give up hope<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m walking a line, I hate to be dreaming in motion<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, just barely enough to be living<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Get out of the way, no time to begin<br \/>This isn&#8217;t the time, so nothing was done<br \/>Not talking about, not many at all<br \/>I&#8217;m turning around, no trouble at all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m keeping my fingers behind me, behind me<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, divide and dissolve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m walking a line, visiting houses in motion<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, just barely enough to be living<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Get out of the way, no time to begin<br \/>This isn&#8217;t the time, so nothing was done<br \/>Not talking about, not many at all<br \/>I&#8217;m turning around, no trouble at all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two different houses surround you, &#8216;round you<br \/>I&#8217;m walking a line, divide and dissolve<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li id=\"track_2808_10\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"track_9\"><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ovmH6W20TyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Life During Wartime&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u21d3<small><br \/><\/small><\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ER0vQssXUrg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li id=\"track_2808_12\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"track_11\"><\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t6Tx7lC2ugA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8216;I Feel My Stuff&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> \u21d0<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">I think I waited too long<br \/>I&#8217;m moving into the dollhouse<br \/>Some days we exercise &#8211;\u00a0Some days we harmonize<br \/>Look away, look away, look away- oh yeah<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">Emily said she&#8217;d suddenly waken<br \/>Look at that guy with the government coupon<br \/>Yoo hoo, yoo hoo, gonna get you<br \/>Japanese chairs in somebody&#8217;s concert<br \/>Telephone bills on the company paycheck<br \/>Who knew?, who knew?, I do<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">Emily lost her mobile phone<br \/>Last nights dance on a bumpy road<br \/>I won&#8217;t go out in the cold<br \/>Lebanese Chinese in my school<br \/>Imagine who can make you cool<br \/>and in my [&#8230;?]<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">Fiercest cat, the hottest sun, the cheapest dog\u00a0and the fastest gun<br \/>You got to hold the peelings in your hands, baby<br \/>It&#8217;s a little thing, it&#8217;s a Christian crime,it&#8217;s a bigger thing and you can&#8217;t hide<br \/>I took away the parts that need controlling<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">Lebanese take their sailors home<br \/>The broken stuff in the outer wall<br \/>I&#8217;m moving out in the road<br \/>Memorize toilets, Chang Mai School<br \/>I like my song but I lost my cool<br \/>I need my laser, don&#8217;t move<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">Put him in the ground where the Duchess grows<br \/>Where the word is true and the girls are strong<br \/>Gonna make it, step it, break it, going bye<br \/>Take another life of a wretched soul<br \/>When they get too high where the bushes grow<br \/>They rope it, stag it, push it side to side<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\">The chicken shack, the rising sun, the written word in a foreign tongue<br \/>You got to hold it all before it drops, baby<br \/>It&#8217;s a little bit, it&#8217;s a lot inside, it&#8217;s a bigger thing than you can hide<br \/>I took away the parts that need controlling<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hooligans jump in the budget sign in the tropic zone, where the fix is fine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gonna make it, shake it, face it with my eye<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stinky little bird in a dirty tree Gonna figure out it&#8217;s your lucky day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If ya smell it, sell it, tell it to my mind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lowered in the ground where the Duchess grows<br \/>Where the word is true and the girls are strong<br \/>Gonna stuff it, shake it, make it, going bye<br \/>Take another life of a wretched soul<br \/>If they get too high where the bushes grow<br \/>And they make it, squeeze it, push it side to side<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I feel my stuff<br \/>I get enough<br \/>I come back to be stronger<br \/>I feel my stuff<br \/>I changed my luck<br \/>I come back to be stronger<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u221e\u00a0 St Vincent &amp; David Byrne \u00a0\u2193 Live @ Strathmore Music Center_2012<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98KiqCJSGWw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">00:00<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/david-byrne-and-st-vincent\/who-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hpPYKJAnwUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192video\u2190<\/a>]<\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">04:33<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbyrne.com\/music\/cds\/everything_that_happens\/lyrics.php#strangeovertones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strange Overtones<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">08:24<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/stvincent\/marrow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marrow<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">12:22<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxilyrics.com\/david-byrne-%26-st.-vincent-the-one-who-broke-your-heart-lyrics-ab8b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The One Who Broke Your Heart<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">16:12<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/david-byrne-and-st-vincent\/i-am-an-ape-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am an Ape<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">19:26<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/stvincent\/theforestawakes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Forest Awakes<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">24:42<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/david-byrne-and-st-vincent\/i-should-watch-tv-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Should Watch TV<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">28:20<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxilyrics.com\/david-byrne-%26-st.-vincent-lightning-lyrics-189f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightning<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/qello.com\/concert\/Ride-Rise-Roar-2808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-2xiTidpJ8#\">32:50<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/talkingheads\/burningdownthehouse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnin&#8217; Down The House<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0On Broadway:\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0David Byrne and \u00abAmerican Utopia\u00bb<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_MKZealkps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. 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