talking_heads raze i know everyone says "remain in light" is their masterpiece. but "fear of music" will always be the one for me. maybe it's a case of nostalgia blotting out what's true. i can live with that. the teenager i was when i first heard this music would have been far lonelier without it. "paper" told me everything i knew but didn't want to believe about how thin a threadbare love built on letters could be. the guitar break at the end of "mind" was all the anger and uncertainty i couldn't seem to shake. "drugs" was sweat and psychosis. slow twitching in an airless room. and "heaven" forced me to imagine an afterlife in which something otherwise beautiful might become a strange sort of hell when stretched past the point of breaking. if heaven is a place where nothing ever happens, is that really where you'd want to go? i think i'd rather be a dream in someone else's head. even nightmares sometimes get to have good beginnings. 241020 what's it to you? who go blather from