As time passes, I only like Talking Heads more and more. Recently I’ve been revisiting their discography, one album/week, and it’s just staggering. This week I hit Stop Making Sense, a film I’ve always admired, but found a newfound respect for when I tried directing some theatrical events a few years back (really amateurish stuff). Stop Making Sense makes it all look so easy; every second is flawless. And when David Byrne dances with the lamp, during “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” I swear, it’s just so beautiful and so perfect…
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Designed by David Byrne
Featuring Talking Heads( & the Tom Tom Club!)
Enjoy!
A. D. Jameson is the author of five books, most recently I FIND YOUR LACK OF FAITH DISTURBING: STAR WARS AND THE TRIUMPH OF GEEK CULTURE and CINEMAPS: AN ATLAS OF 35 GREAT MOVIES (with artist Andrew DeGraff). Last May, he received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at UIC.
Byrne’s dance with the lamp to “This Must Be the Place” is one of the few things in life I do not get tired of. Ever.
Me, too! Our daily fix:
http://youtu.be/Cqg_ZGcuybs
“Home” was one of the ones that didn’t make the album. Never understood why it wasn’t a double album.