David Byrne now has an Internet radio station of what he’s currently listening to.

It’s my kind of stuff—and he has mixed in a bunch of world music that I hadn’t heard (from his label, presumably). His journal is also good—he’s a good writer.

Speaking of which, I just read half of “This Must Be The Place” — a
poorly written biography of Talking Heads by David Bowman. Don’t go near it. It’s a potboiler for sure, “unauthorized” because I can’t imagine that DB and the gang would waste trees on the silly old rumors and downright solipsism. It seems like he’s writing to an audience of obsessed rock-n-roll fanatics. I was looking for more insight into process, and group dynamics. Knowing what a process-head David is, I thought I’d get it. But this book doesn’t deliver on that.

The book that IS delivering for me right now, however, is Against The Odds by James Dyson, the excellent British inventor who made that lovely cyclone vacuum cleaner. It’s beautifully written and very inspiring. A real review is forthcoming.

Speaking of Dyson— they have come out with a new vacuum: “the ball.”
Very smart looking.