{"id":965,"date":"2009-08-14T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=965"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:21:20","slug":"stop-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/08\/stop-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeah, I know this is an old song by The Talking Heads, but I just have to add a little revelation that I just discovered while on my recent trip to Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was talking with one of my digital pre-press gurus, Phil, who went to school at <a title=\"Rhode Island School of Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">RISD<\/a>, where David Bryne (lead singer of The Talking Heads also went to school), about things to do in Rhode Island. We come up here every year to spend time with my in-laws, so for more than 20 years, I thought I knew almost everything there might be to do here, especially in this small state. However, I&#8217;m open minded enough to realize that there&#8217;s always more to discover. Phil asked me if I had tasted a &#8220;gagger&#8221;? Not knowing what that was, he went on to explain, it&#8217;s a type of weird hot dog, in that the ends have been cut off, the buns are a strange size and there is this secret meat sauce with raw onions served on top &#8212; why it&#8217;s called a gagger. It&#8217;s really called a <a title=\"New York System on Quahog.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quahog.org\/cuisine\/index.php?id=54\" target=\"_blank\">New York System<\/a> by the locals, so my in-laws tell me. Typically when ordering these gaggers, the server lines them up on one arm and fills them with all the toppings. This is the same chopping down the arm movement that David Byrne was referring to in his music video for <em>Stop Making Sense<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/photo2_large-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-966 aligncenter\" title=\"New York System via Quahog.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/photo2_large-b.jpg\" alt=\"New York System via Quahog.org\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo2_large-b.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/photo2_large-b-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-967\" title=\"David Byrne, Stop Making Sense\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/image.jpg\" alt=\"David Byrne, Stop Making Sense\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I never knew that and always wondered why. Now I know. Strange uncanny connections are always out there&#8230;.and just in time to <a title=\"Kick Start the Weekend posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/music\/kick-start-the-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Start Your Weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JgP3WapymKo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hysterical video&#8230;Those shoulder pads bring back bad 80&#8217;s nightmares.\u00a0 I had never seen this whacky interview, so David Byrne (back then). I guess, he&#8217;d get a gagger to eat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click here for a more recent interview with <a title=\"David Byrne Interview by Richard Grant, via Telegraph UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/4986234\/David-Byrne-stay-hungry.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Byrne<\/a> to learn about his latest creative process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/bryne1_1366057c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-968\" title=\"David Byrne from the Telegraph.UK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/bryne1_1366057c.jpg\" alt=\"David Byrne from the Telegraph.UK\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bryne1_1366057c.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bryne1_1366057c-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a link to <a title=\"Previous posts re David Byrne\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?s=david+byrne\" target=\"_blank\">my other posts regarding David Byrne<\/a>. I find him intriguing. I love that Toe Jam video &#8212; another one for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know this is an old song by The Talking Heads, but I just have to add a little revelation that I just discovered while on my recent trip to Rhode Island. I was talking with one of my digital pre-press gurus, Phil, who went to school at RISD, where David Bryne (lead singer of The Talking Heads also went to school), about things to do in Rhode Island. We come up here every year to spend time with my in-laws, so for more than 20 years, I thought I knew almost everything there might be to do here, especially in this small state. However, I&#8217;m open minded enough to realize that there&#8217;s always more to discover. Phil asked me if I had tasted a &#8220;gagger&#8221;? Not knowing what that was, he went on to explain, it&#8217;s a type of weird hot dog, in that the ends have been cut off, the buns are a strange size and there is this secret meat sauce with raw onions served on top &#8212; why it&#8217;s called a gagger. It&#8217;s really called a New York System by the locals, so my in-laws tell me. Typically when ordering these gaggers, the server lines them up on one arm and fills them with all the toppings. This is the same chopping down the arm movement that David Byrne was referring to in his music video for Stop Making Sense. I never knew that and always wondered why. Now I know. Strange uncanny connections are always out there&#8230;.and just in time to Kick Start Your Weekend. Hysterical video&#8230;Those shoulder pads bring back bad 80&#8217;s nightmares.\u00a0 I had never seen this whacky interview, so David Byrne (back then). I guess, he&#8217;d get a gagger to eat&#8230; Click here for a more recent interview with David Byrne to learn about his latest creative process. Here&#8217;s a link to my other posts regarding David Byrne. I find him intriguing. I love that Toe Jam video &#8212; another one for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,90,71,97,543,47,135],"tags":[232,720,721,719,718,717],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-process","category-everyday","category-family","category-food-and-drink","category-humor","category-kick-start-the-weekend","category-music","category-trips","tag-david-byrne","tag-new-york-system","tag-rhode-island","tag-risd","tag-stop-making-sense","tag-talking-heads"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stop Making Sense<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stop Making Sense, David Byrne and the Rhode Island connection on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/08\/stop-making-sense\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop Making Sense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stop Making Sense, David Byrne and the Rhode Island connection on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/08\/stop-making-sense\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-14T12:24:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T19:21:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/photo2_large-b.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/stop-making-sense\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/stop-making-sense\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Stop Making Sense\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-14T12:24:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T19:21:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/stop-making-sense\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":344,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/stop-making-sense\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/photo2_large-b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"David Byrne\",\"New York System\",\"Rhode Island\",\"RISD\",\"Stop Making Sense\",\"Talking Heads\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Creative Process\",\"Everyday\",\"Family\",\"Food &amp; 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