Faber Author Blogs
12.13.09: The Limits of Multiculturalism
Posted on December 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM
on David Byrne Online blog 
I was told that a powerful rabbi based in Williamsburg objected strongly to the bike lanes that run alongside their ghetto on Bedford Ave. We were informed that the sight of hipster girls, their heads uncovered and sometimes their lower...
12.12.09: Art Funding or Arts Funding
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 9:52 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
The LA Opry production of Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” is budgeted at $32 million. 32 million! Jeez, Broadway shows don’t cost that much; U2’s concert tour might, but then that’s a stadium show… and in those latter two instances the people...
11.26.09: Thanksgiving
Posted on November 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
On this day we sincerely give thanks for life, for being alive — an experience unlike any other. Well, we don’t know any other anyway, most of us. The floats and balloons go by a couple of blocks from my...
11.14.09: And the Winner Is…
Posted on November 14, 2009 at 5:34 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
I was invited to be on the jury of the Estoril Film Festival, which, like many others, has a number of sections — tributes to directors (David Cronenberg, Victor Erice — Spirit of the Beehive) and actors (Juliette Binoche), a...
11.10.09: Sintra — A Mystical Home in the Clouds
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 6:47 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
Slightly inland from the seaside town of Cascais, nestled on a low mountain that seems to generate its own cloud cover, is the retreat of former royals and wealthy citizens called Sintra. The mountain and its cloud cover must have...
11.09.09: Estoril, Portugal — The Future, the Past, the Present and…
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:08 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
C & I accepted the offer to be jurors along with a couple of others at a modest film festival in an off-season, seaside town 25 minutes outside of Lisbon. For me it’s a way of taking a forced vacation,...
10.24.09: Internet Antichrist
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
I started thinking a few days ago about how the digitization and networking of so much of what we hold dear has changed things. I see that in my lifetime I will witness the end of books, or most of...
10.18.09: A Cooking Ape
Posted on October 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
I read a review of the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human in the NYRB. As usual the article summarized much of the book’s ideas. The author, Richard Wrangham, argues that the eating of cooked food by early...
10.13.09: Space Is Deep!
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
I had a dream in which I was on a tractor, lurching along, pulling a wagon that was piled with large backpacks. Along for the ride were some rather well-known German DJs, one of whom was named Luke Vibert. (Luke...
10.02.09: Bikes and Cities So Far
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM
on David Byrne Online blog
I did a week of events (NY, Austin, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and LA) around the theme of Cities and Bikes and how we get around. I began each one with a broad introduction that I hoped would set the...