Unicorn chaser inna box!
Here are the Blockheads with (Black Mirror’s) Charlie Brookner, playing the 2014 version…
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I applaud this effort, but I must admit that I have always been more attracted to David Byrne’s Bummer Period recordings, i.e., “Fear of Music,” “Remain In Light,” “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,” and “The Catherine Wheel.” Once the Talking Heads starting making chipper pop songs, suddenly my parent’s generation loved them and that simply will not do.
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It’s so trendy and easy to be a pessimist. Everyone brags about how anxious and depressed they are.
Gay marriage was made legal a scant 4 years ago! Finally! We are still making progress. Yes we’ve had some setbacks, but guys quit with the moping and navel gazing. It’s tiresome.
No, it was just my wishful thinking he’d really put his money where his mind is. I mean seriously, people would be over the moon for this.
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I mean, gay marriage being legalized in the US is awesome. Unfortunately that doesn’t really help the gay people in my country, where they still have to be careful about expressing affection in public.
Also, it’s pretty difficult not to be a pessimist when your (my, that is) country is sliding into authoritarianism and outright fascism, and you don’t have the money to get the hell out.
And the current administration started pushing on the supreme court to make it legal to discriminate against gay people a scant 4 days ago!
I do believe that, overall, things have trended for the better, but not as fast as people think they have. I don’t think there’s any denying that right now is a dark, dark time. We’ve got fucking concentration camps back. I am fine with people trying to point out what’s positive so that we don’t try to go insane. Actually I think it’s really important, because without something positive, people will burn out and not have the energy to fight the god damn horror show all around them. And I want you to understand that it *galls) me to say that. Trendy as you think pessimism is, there’s been a growing positivity movement that I have no doubt is well intentioned, but tends to marginalize people with real problems and legitimate grievances by insisting they be happy about it, or taking the real-life struggles of people with disadvantages and capitalizing them as feel-good stories for the privileged. I’ve grown to loathe the positivity movement with such a passion that it takes a lot for me to overcome my knee-jerk distaste and admit there’s a value here.
And no one is bragging about how anxious and depressed they are because it’s trendy. They’re saying it because they’re anxious and depressed and we’re only now even starting to get to a point where people can talk about their mental illness publicly (there, that’s your positive for the day). I only just now started getting help about my anxiety, which I can trace back to my early undergraduate days at the very least, because it finally got bad enough for me to start having daily panic attacks. Trust me, we’re not in this because it’s hip.
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If I had his money, I’d be pretty damn cheerful.
We might still be, for now, experiencing the sawtooth modulation on a slow upward curve, but those downsteps are a doozy.
I was a pessimist way before it was cool.
I love David Byrne, and I look forward to digging into this. I could really use some cheerfulness these days.
Yeah, got all excited there 
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Still, can’t complain - saw Byrne twice on the UK legs of his tour last year, so so good.
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