🎁 byrning4u
Merry Christmas ♡ Your DB gift needs no explanation. Enjoy the ride. Hope to keep sharing a lot of thoughts with you about the wonderful human being called David Byrne in the year to come as well. <3
// PART 1 - A Self-Made Man
[source: This Must Be The Place by David Bowman]
"On Twitter/X, a clip recently started circulating giving us Byrne in 1989—at peak levels of cuteness—judging a vogueing contest. And it’s every bit as wholesome as you’d expect. The evening in question took place at Tracks, the legendary New York nightclub that opened in 1985 and started hosting balls starting in 1988. (...) As we can see from the short clip, Byrne looks thrilled to be there, and who wouldn’t be? Though we do have to wonder why he only gave House of Xtravaganza’s incredible moves a stingy 8 when all the other judges are giving 10s, 10s, 10s across the board.” [x]
"In 1997 I put David Byrne in drag... but the look got cut from the video. Great photo though!" [x]
// PART 2 - Popsicle
[May, 1981 - Snippets of Scott Cohen's interview with David] SC: Who was the first rock star you wanted to fuck? DB: Mia Farrow. Though she wasn’t a rock star, she did marry Frank Sinatra. [...] SC: Do you believe in love? DB: I believe it’s something real and happens to people. I fall in love now about the same as before. It’s a job, sort of. It’s work. SC: Is sex everything you thought it would be? DB: No. Sometimes you think it’s what you want but it’s not at all what you needed at the time. I really don’t think about it that much because I’m personally happy without it and I don’t mind waiting until I find someone who I really get along with. I don’t go out on the prowl too much. SC: As the Talking Heads got better, did your sex life get better? DB: About twenty-five percent better. SC: Did the beds get better? DB: The beds in the Holiday Inn always seemed comfortable to me. They’re all made up before you get into them, which is more than I can say about my bed at home. SC: Do you talk a lot in bed? DB: Not during sex. [...] SC: Where would you go on a dream date? DB: Sometimes when I meet a girl I think, Could I ride on a Greyhound bus with this person? So I suppose I have romantic notions about that, but maybe it has more to do with two people going someplace. I guess dream dates turn out to be where you go to all these different places in the same night, maybe spending an hour at one place and an hour someplace else. It ends when I come home, listen to a record and go to sleep. SC: Did you ever get caught fucking? DB: Yes, and I felt real silly. A friend of mine caught me fucking his girlfriend. It was in their house. I felt pretty bad and the guy felt pretty bad but the girl thought it was real funny. But it didn’t change our friendship very much. SC: Did you get a song out of it? DB: I think I wrote "Psycho Killer" shortly after.
[2001, David interviewed for Trip]
VIK: DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIST KISS? BYRNE: Yes. It was awful [laughing]. I remember I was dancing at a party with a girl. I watched what my friends we doing and followed suit.
VIK: HOW DID YOU LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY? BYRNE: It was confusing and not very sophisticated. One of the first times I was naked with a woman, when I was young, we had nowhere to go. So we went to her basement and lay down on top of a pile of trash.
VIK: SEX ON TRASH? WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER FROM THIS EXPERIENCE? BYRNE: Nothing good! [Laughing] We put a blanket or sleeping bag on top of the trash and got down to it.
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[sorry not sorry] [source of these out of context screencaps: this post by shirleyschmidts]