Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Joy Ride’ to ‘Earth Mama’ “Stop Making Sense” was like a “Koyaanisqatsi” you could dance to, and it’s star was just as lost as we were, the only difference being that he could find the rhythm in a world that felt like it was spinning off its axis (when Byrne “tripped” over the drum fill at the end of “Psycho Killer” it almost felt like the music was playing him). Rogers welcomed us into his neighborhood by singing about the building that he wanted to live in and pointing out the highway that would lead us there he bent the confusion of being alive into an olive branch and mapped out how our race to the future left us speeding along on a road to nowhere.
As radical in his humility as he was humble in his radicality, art rock’s very own Mr. The signature image from Jonathan Demme’s totemic concert documentary “ Stop Making Sense” finds Byrne getting lost inside his own comically large silver business suit maybe it was a Kabuki-like expression of a man being swallowed alive by runaway capitalism, or maybe - as Byrne maintains - he just wanted to make it look like his head had shrunken down to a funny size. Even in an era when rock shows were all about orgiastic excess, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne made a warm and inviting spectacle out of his own smallness.
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