Just remembered this. He's very funny.
He has a book out called Bicycle Diaries, about his travels around world cities, and his perspective from "just above eye-level" as he says in the video above. Here's a podcast from the Guardian where he talks about it.
Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts
28.8.09
22.8.09
David Byrne's Journal
Lots of impressions of various parts of the UK on Dave's journal this week, and a nice little slideshow of Edinburgh shop-fronts.
7.6.09
"The Coke and Pepsi of the primate world"
Great interview with Dave Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors in the Guardian today:
"Something of what he set out to achieve, though, might be read into his admiration for the deconstructions of Björk, whom he loved when he first heard her a decade ago because she combined art music and pop music, "as if the entire world doesn't have to believe they're opposed"."
"What was his particular gift as a child, I wonder? "My thing was that when I got into something, I'd obsess about it," he replies, thinking back to the age of nine or 10, when he became deeply fascinated by "gallinaceous birds" - grouse, pheasant, prairie chickens and ptarmigan, a species that, he informs me as if reciting from an encyclopedia, "lives in exclusively alpine regions out west"."
and this, which is my favourite:
""I wasn't into chimpanzees or gorillas, because I kinda felt like they were the Coke and Pepsi of the primate world.""
"Something of what he set out to achieve, though, might be read into his admiration for the deconstructions of Björk, whom he loved when he first heard her a decade ago because she combined art music and pop music, "as if the entire world doesn't have to believe they're opposed"."
"What was his particular gift as a child, I wonder? "My thing was that when I got into something, I'd obsess about it," he replies, thinking back to the age of nine or 10, when he became deeply fascinated by "gallinaceous birds" - grouse, pheasant, prairie chickens and ptarmigan, a species that, he informs me as if reciting from an encyclopedia, "lives in exclusively alpine regions out west"."
and this, which is my favourite:
""I wasn't into chimpanzees or gorillas, because I kinda felt like they were the Coke and Pepsi of the primate world.""
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- Mark
- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.