The former Talking Heads frontman was recently in town to collaborate with a certain robot builder. You can read about it on Byrne’s blog (link props to KERA’s Arts + Culture). But I liked what Byrne had to say about the High Five, which he encountered on his drive in from the airport:
After about twenty miles, I turned north on Highway 75 on what might be the mightiest and most awe-inspiring interchange I’ve ever seen. At least five levels of roads are stacked up, all swooping over, under and around each other as if in some mighty concrete mating dance. It’s a truly incredible work, graceful, and of a scale so large that it is impossible to see the whole thing from any one vantage point.
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Although I appreciate the poetic observation of our highways, I have to assume this was not uttered at 8:00a on a Friday morning!
Clearly he did not try to access the 75 north HOV lane from LBJ. His rapture would have disintegrated into befuddlement, if not misery.
Byrne has Asperger Syndrome, you know. He sees the world differently than other people.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
…
And you may ask yourself-well…how did I get here?
Possibly it is time for Mr. Byrne to produce the sequel to True Stories….More Dallas Crap.
I’ve had the very same thougts on the High Five, but I also have thought that it looks a tribute to Chinese Communism with all those big stars…just need a portrait of Mao to hang there somewhere.
:b
We’re on a road to nowhere….
Come on, come on! The High Five is an amazement, a visual and kinetic knockout. If you’re too busy driving to work to look around, then you’re TOO busy.
Wanta bet, fumando como loco…
High Five!
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
Same as it ever was… [in Texas, at least...]