Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/27/david-byrne-brings-the-world.html
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I’ll give it a shot.
Counterpoint:
Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Brian Eno has contributed:
in a similar vein: Ever Widening Circles
https://everwideningcircles.com
you might also like this: The Happy Newspaper.
We came across it in The Allotment Café in Mossley, Manchester, UK.
Show me some one cheerful and happy and I’ll show you someone that isn’t paying attention to their surroundings.
Optimists live longer, apparently. Pessismists: “Whew!”
Accept no substitutes!
And to prove his point and going all in, David Byrne announces 2020 talking heads reunion tour. Many people become cheerful!
It’s all a feed back loop. If all you see is the shit in the world, your world become shit. You have to balance it out.
How about some vintage Fluke. Listen and tell me it doesn’t put a pep in your step.
Thumper
“Flutter of a happy heart.”
Side note, they gave me the Wipeout something collection on my PS4. It is a cool game, but super bummed I can’t get the music from the original game soundtrack. Oh I would lose my shit if I could have new graphics with the classic Atom Bomb by Fluke.
Fluke - where did they go? God damn they made some great electronica for a few years.
there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful
For example: It will all be over soon enough.
(David Byrne and I are very different people.)
Is that true?
For some reason, I read the text of his article in the same rhythm as “Once in a lifetime” …
I’m guessing he left off ‘having several million dollars in spare change’
What’s with all these posts lately about positivity?
Bump that noise.
I know, I know, optimists live longer, but ech: