“After watching True Stories, it’s impossible to tell whether Byrne is saying 20th century humanity sucks because we are so in love with our boxed fried chicken and our gray shopping malls and our cookie-cutter houses or whether he is saying we 20th century humans are in love with our boxed fried chicken and our gray shopping malls and our cookie-cutter houses, but that doesn’t diminish the genuine happiness and joy and overflowing love we feel when we’re holding the hand of someone we can’t take our eyes off of, even though we’re all lumbering fat idiots. Which I guess is the same double-sided coin he gives us in his music.”
