Laurie Anderson's "O Superman (For Massenet)," recorded in 1981 for her epic United States performance piece and also released on the stunning Big Science LP.
Anderson will perform at the Other Voices NYC music and lit festival taking place October 27-28 and featuring a wonderful group of artists including Glen Hansard (The Swell Season), Bryce & Aaron Dessner (The National), Thomas Bartlett, Sam Amidon, Bell X1, Iarla O' Lionaird, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and writers Joseph O'Connor and Colum McCann. The event is curated by Glen Hansard, Thomas Bartlett, and Philip King and benefits Dublin's Fighting Words creative writing center for young people.
Other Voices NYC
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From the Los Angeles Police Protective League email newsletter: "A man dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, officials said Wednesday. The man was questioned but not arrested Tuesday in what a Los Angeles Police Department official described as a 'brief incident with two females.' No other details were available. The incident was the latest run-in between characters who pose for pictures with tourists and then aggressively demand money, according to police." 
Over the summer, I used credit cards to pay for things I’d ordinarily have used cash to purchase: vacation expenses, back-to-school supplies, school books, clothes for my kids, and business travel expenses. It added up fast. As a result, I am now carrying balances on three different credit cards. The total amount I owe is large enough that I can’t pay it off immediately, so I needed to come up with a plan to get out of debt. 
And here comes Byrne himself, arriving as usual by bicycle, dressed all in blue, accented by his white hair, white wristwatch, and white leather sandals. He matches the oceans and ice caps, though he insists it’s a coincidence. “It’s big, isn’t it? It has some real mass to it,” he says, pressing on the South Atlantic with both hands and considerable force. The globe has just been inflated for the first time, and he’s happy with the result, which is different from the small models and renderings he’d sent off to the fabricators in Minneapolis. “It kind of looms over you. You don’t get that from the drawing.”
Vladimir Putin rides a horse, drives a race car, tags a tiger, does judo, goes on archeological dives, looks at leopards, stands on a boat, arm wrestles, attempts to bend a frying pan, rides a snowmobile, flies a plane, hugs a dog, rides a motorcycle, looks at a bear, swims the butterfly, signs autographs, shoots a whale with a crossbow, plays the piano, feeds a moose, talks with a biker gang, steers a boat, walks through brush with a gun, sits in a tank, blacksmiths, plays hockey, hugs a horse, dives almost a mile in a submersible, and adjusts sunglasses.