{"id":185637,"date":"2014-09-20T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/20\/i-finally-know-where-it-comes-from\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T02:25:00","slug":"i-finally-know-where-it-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/20\/i-finally-know-where-it-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"I Finally Know Where it Comes From!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"293\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1wg1DNHbNU\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The first chopping motion is at 1:18<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered where the chopping motion on his arm that David Byrne uses in the video for <i>Once in a Lifetime<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I just came across an interview where <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/interviews\/6382-david-byrne\/\">the Talking Heads front-man explains the meaning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Pitchfork<\/b>: I just had one last question. A friend of mine played a show in Providence and went to a hot dog stand. They&#8217;re in a band, so the hot dog stand guy says, &#8220;Oh, David Byrne used to work here. We&#8217;ve been here 30 years and he worked at this hot dog stand.&#8221; And at this place, when they do the hot dogs, they line them up on their arm and they take the condiments and they go like this [I make a chopping gesture along my arm, as seen in the video for &#8220;Once in a Lifetime&#8221;]. &#8220;That&#8217;s where he got that!&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>DB<\/b>: I did work at a hot dog stand, a place called New York System, where you put the hot dogs on your arm like that. But I got that thing from, I saw these Japanese kids dancing in the park in Tokyo, these kind of rockabilly dancers, and then there were these kind of space cadet kids that had a completely different set of movements. I videotaped a bunch of them, and that&#8217;s where I got that.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, now you know too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first chopping motion is at 1:18 I&#8217;ve always wondered where the chopping motion on his arm that David Byrne uses in the video for Once in a Lifetime. I just came across an interview where the Talking Heads front-man explains the meaning: Pitchfork: I just had one last question. A friend of mine played &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1011,1137,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}