David Byrne's latest album 'Who Is The Sky' is playing where I am. It's sunny where David is. Not where I am . I woke to snow outside and snow on the streets. It felt like Christmas. I've been through a busy and eventful day. Taught my classes.
Now in darkness I'm listening to 'Who Is The Sky' again while my supper warms, I rather like it. It's everyman stuff, the kind of thing Byrne and his Talking Heads compadres have long specialised in. Truisms that set them apart, But essentially glass half thinking and positivity. And tunes and rhythms that invite you to get up and dance and then sit down and think.
'You can surrender to happiness, anger and frustration but that doesn't help anything,' said Byrne in Mojo recently 'You have to persevere, believe that things can be changed.' l'll go with that. The man who wrote ir at least co-wrote Psycho Killer, The Big Country Heaven, Cities and Once In a Lifetime and This Must Be the Place is still in the ring and punching above his weight. 'Same as it ever was,;
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