When I came across the scene, I researched it and couldn't find any other version of the phrase come up.
#Road to nowhere portable#
In Treehouse of Horror V, Homer holds a portable television and says "Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover," and is subdued from an urge to kill. A few months ago I was watching The Simpsons and came across those words again.
#Road to nowhere tv#
For example, the Look Into the Eyeball song " The Moment of Conception" has the line "will you be my secret lover / mother, father, sister brother, too." The song is about a man blaming his evil nature on the conditions of his upbringing, citing his family members, TV and movies. I've found other Byrne things that I could only trace to one source. I suspect the phrase has existed before, but it wouldn't surprise me if he got it from there.
The American Utopia album is also a lot about getting people out of complacency or learned helplessness. Or rather, urging us against complacency. It's just short of calling for revolution, really. It's about how a perfect future is impossible, but a better one is absolutely within our reach if we can unite against the forces that oppress us.
And in his mind, this struggle toward an unattainably perfect world is the heart of the American experiment. He is describing a future that cannot exist, but the benefit and the sense of purpose in trying to achieve it. "There's a city in my mind," "it's very far away," etc. The word Utopia literally means "no place" in Greek, and it's the destination Byrne is describing in Road to Nowhere. It's about nothingness, sure, but it's also about trying to make the world a better place, even though the kind of world we're trying to make is ultimately unattainable. You know how Road to Nowhere is the final song they perform in American Utopia? That's because the song is one of the earliest examples of the concept in Byrne's work.
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