Tasha mentioned Stephen Tobolowsky, who is the source of my favorite story-behind-the-art. In four parts:
1) Stephen Tobolowsky had ESP as a child, and accurately perceived that a camp counselor was living under a false name.
2) When working on "True Stories," Stephen told this story to David Byrne.
3) David Byrne was so…

Vito's murder of the Lake Woebegonian he rear-ended is part of a trend throughout the show of mob characters hurting innocents shortly before they themselves are dispatched.

Exactly. The "I'm EVIL" line ostensibly comes out of nowhere, until you remember that Tony B's fiancee, while  sweet and normative on the outside, is the kind of woman who 1) wrote letters to a stranger who was in prison for organized crime, 2) had that stranger's gangster cousin sneak his semen out of prison so she…

Um, "Losing My Edge" by LCD Soundsystem? The whole song is name-dropping, it mentions like 40 bands.

I bet you all thought this Ted was alive. Nope. He's not. He's dead.