For me, every week is Laurie Anderson week. For you, it’s this one right here.

I begin with “Language Is A Virus’ (above) because it’s a pretty good litmus for the the uninitiated. I have shown this video to many people in the hope that they will relate. Most don’t, really don’t. The best (most hurtful) response was (heavy paraphrase): “She says something clever-clever, does something surreal, has a bit of a dance. What’s the point?” To which there’s no real answer… Sometimes I point out that her dance partner at 2:00 is William S Burroughs, hence title (cue shrugs). No matter. For better or worse, I’m not sure you can talk floaters into this stuff. It feels pretty binary. You either light up with signal or get irritable.

Her spoken word, more discursively-conceptual side is represented by ‘Mach 20′, below. Pledge yr allegiance, opposition or confusion in the comments. More to follow.