mystery solved - the music is...

[scottobear]

From Alan Taylor, re: Mystery Music.
Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who helped in trying to find the Artist & Title of my mystery song ( http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/default.asp#07007200110 ).
The Mystery has been solved and I'm a pretty Happy Camper - it couldn't have been done without all of you.
Of course, most of you are probably wondering who it is...
It was composed by David Byrne.
From the Album '"Music for ''The Knee Plays''' released in 1985.
Full details and more thanks here: http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/default.asp#0717200114

Thanks to folks that offered help here!

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As long as the groceries lasted

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Gah-- now I wish I had made the time to listen to it (been so crazy busy of late)... I'm quite familiar with that work!!

Yiii-- The memories wash over me!!

I think I have it on an old (and likely quite deteriorated) tape somewhere... I should try to find a cleaner version one of these days.

Social Studies
I thought that if I ate the food of the area I was visiting.
That I might assimilate the point of view of the people there.
As if the point of view was somehow in the food.
So I would make no choices myself regarding what food I ate.
I would simply follow the examples of those around me.
I would study menus very carefully,
Making note of important differences and similarities.
When shopping at the supermarket
I felt a great desire to walk off with someone else's groceries
So that I could study them at length
And study their effects on me.
As though if I ate their groceries I would become that person; until I finished their groceries.
And we might find ourselves going to the same places.
Running into one another at the movies
Or in a shopping mall.
Reading the same books.
Watching the same TV programmes.
Wearing the same clothes.
Travelling to the same places.
And taking the same pictures.
Getting sick at the same time.
And getting well again simultaneously.
Finding ourselves attracted to the same people.
Working at the same job.
And making the same amount of money.
Living identical lives - as long as the groceries lasted.

Glad the mystery was solved : )

Re: As long as the groceries lasted

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad too! :)

I think this is the only Byrne work unavailable (Commercially) in digital format... so finding a cleaner copy will be tricky!