david byrne is the mr. rogers of new wave music because they both: 
A. exude the same earnest, comforting energy 
B. are known for their iconic fashion choices (cardigan sweater!!! big suit!!!)
and C. are the only men who do not immediately set off my fight-or-flight reflex

honestly the exact kind of beautiful, weird, specific, small town working class wonder-piece i needed time watch tonight. it’s a shame byrne didn’t direct anything else because he’s got such a specific style that feels like it could’ve been applied to an entire generation of eccentric comedies to great effect! i love you david!

a fucking masterpiece. the more i watch byrne do his thing, the funnier it is that i used to confuse him and david lynch without any real knowledge of each other, because i do think they do a lot of similar things– just with polar opposite auras about their work. could've switched names with american utopia and worked just as well, but that's more a credit to byrne's consistency in his work/message. i could write 1,000 words on how loving and celebratory and quietly funny and sarcastic this movie is, and one day on a subsequent viewing i probably will.

i'd like to believe david byrne has seen Joe Pera Talks With You and he loves it. :)

“i like sad songs. they make me wanna lie on the floor.” 

sometimes this True Stories line plays in my head when i’m listening to mitski and lying on the floor and i think about how natural and human it is to feel sadness and how it is proof that i am a real living person with thoughts and emotions and no, it’s nothing to romanticize, but it is something to accept, and maybe even appreciate, and a burning ray of hope will perforate the cloud above my head and even if just a tiny sliver of light peeks through it’s still enough to make a rainbow :)

Tremendous, meaningful nonsense. No one else can get me teary from one weird sentence. David Byrne’s surrealism never gives into self important witticisms a la Terry Gilliam’s. Surrealism often leaves people feeling like they don’t have an invitation, but David Byrne’s brand is inclusive, always focusing on feelings before intellectuality. That’s why the wacko-tacko Talking Heads didn’t get lost in their generation, and everyone I know listens to them with the same fervor as 1984. The same goes for this movie, which would have been celebrated as forward had it been released right now today, Tuesday 2020. Safe to say I had a very good time watching it!

i want david byrne to adopt me

david byrne in this movie be like:

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 “howdy, im the twink noises sheriff!”

Literally everything David Byrne says in this movie can serve as a quote in a Letterboxd review, you pick one.

Tempting to read this as pure satire, but if that's what it is it's extraordinarily condescending and unilluminating - instead I think the view voiced by Byrne, that suburban sprawl, shopping malls, prefabricated buildings, TV commercials, and even giant corporations can all be beautiful is more or less what's being expressed by the movie, albeit in a very funny tongue-in-cheek mode that should seem faintly familiar to fans of his band. And then there's the stuff that probably was intended as satire in 1986, like the "Puzzling Evidence" religion based on an unending conspiracy narrative, that have basically come true in the intervening 30 years. Extremely hard not to love.

i'm 6'3" and maintain a very consistent panda bear shape

Pleasant as David Byrne may be, but not exactly my flavor of movie

a blessed vibe

i would love to spend a day with david bryne, i feel like he and i would have a fun time. also young john goodman...... there's no words.

david bryne come narrate my life please

sometimes slow but who cares. that’s life baby!

the heads are talking

cool

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This movie is the best explanation for neurotypicals of what living with autism is like.

"A film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas."

With a new perspective on classic stories through the documentary aesthetic, David Byrne offers an optimist's perspective on life and loneliness by accentuating the eccentric as normal; this lens offers a hyper realistic perspective on people, showing character’s with a brief amount of screen time in a structurally atypical screenplay which spotlights Byrne’s focus on dreams and desire. With this and the music, it brings an enlightening, beautiful and heartbreaking film with his showcase of characters who only wish to be visible to others.