See Hear Podcast Episode 117 - True Stories

Did you ever read rags with headlines like “I had an alien love
child” or “Psycho seagull stole dog from my garden” or “Monster
rats the size of cows”? No? You're missing out on a
Wild...Wild....Life. Welcome to episode 117 of See Hear Podcast.
Writers Stephen Toblowsky and Beth Henley met Talking Head, David
Byrne, and had a conversation about newspaper articles he'd read
with bizarre things happening to ordinary people, and wouldn't it
be interesting to come up with a script for a film using that idea
as a basis. Beth and Stephen came up with said script, but Byrne
rewrote much of it....the result is his 1986 film, True Stories.
True Stories looks at a fictional town in Texas celebrating its
150th anniversary. In particular it looks at some of the
peculiarities of the town using a 4th wall breaking Byrne to guide
us around that town. Where's the music connection???? It is a
musical of sorts, but more relevant to the story, I contend that
the town is like an enclosed snow cone and music is the very air
the town breathes. Unfortunately, Tim wasn't available to record,
but Kerry and I had a fine conversation about Talking Heads,
finding love, conspiracy theorists, community, the fine line
between gentle parody and being patronising, constant lying to get
attention....and of course, music....cos that's what we do. Was the
film ultimately satisfying? Tune in and find out what we thought.
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