This week the editors recall Scott Cook’s essay on Bruce Conner’s film America Is Waiting (1981), which was published in the magazine in January 1982.Taking its title from the David Byrne–Brian Eno song on their 1981 album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Conner’s America Is Waiting is composed of footage taken from newsreels, movies, television commercials, and educational films productions that each capture something of America’s idea of itself. Cook calls Conner’s films, which are often made of found materials, “resurrections.” “There is something about them that is both ghoulish and uncanny,”
| 07/31/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) I recently ponied up for the remastered CD of this fascinating & decidedly uncommercial collaboration between two of the great unsung guitar heroes of the pop/punk phase of the 1980s. And while it s disappointing on one hand that no bonus tracks of unreleased material/alternate takes of the compositions were included (and most likely exist somewhere in Mr. Fripp s formidable library of tapes) it is a genuine pleasure to finally have this vastly under-rated little album available on CD. I would heartily recommend it to any fan looking to expand either the Andy Summers/Police or Robert Fripp/King Crimson universes.