"Facts": A story based on "Crosseyed and Painless" by The Talking Heads, as suggested by writer Kirk Nesset (3/100)

Facts

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Lyrics

Talking Heads are a band from New York City who are most famous for condoning arson as long as it involves a danceable beat and having an arrow in one of their song titles. Their music has often been confused with the sound of two robots fisting each other. Nobody knows why jam bands insist on covering their material ad nauseum. It turns out that their song "Once In a Lifetime" is completely different than "Love of a Lifetime" by Firehouse.

Kirk Nesset is the author of two books of fiction, Mr. Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction), Saint X (poems, forthcoming), and Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo (translations, forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Though he used to sell wood stoves, he now teaches at Allegheny College in addition to serving alternate years as writer-in-residence at the Chautauqua Writers Institute in upstate New York. He digs the Cure and the Smiths, as well as rollerblading, which leads me to believe we could be pals, assuming I don't have to listen to any of his Grateful Dead albums.
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Next week: A story based on "The Needle Has Landed" by Neko Case, as suggested by musician Mike Lust of Tight Phantomz.