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Imagination

Art by Bob Byerley

Susan Calvin: So you’re never going to tell us, then? If you’re a robot or not?

Stephen Byerley: I suppose you could say I’m non-binary. :D

Calvin:

Byerley: :D

Robot Queer Eye

Based on the roles the show has on Queer Eye Germany

Daneel is obviously on fashion. The others try to convince him that burning the items the subjects previously chose for themselves breaks the First Law, but he’s having none of it.

Andrew Martin is on beauty. He had to learn a lot about it to design his own exterior, after all.

Giskard is on lifestyle, because he can read your mind and see what needs changing. He’s also always silently judging your life and your choices, but he won’t let you know that.

Stephen Byerley is on health. He has experience in the field, from looking after his old “teacher.”

And last but not least, Tony is on interior design. To be honest, he could carry the whole show by himself, but it’s more fun to let the others participate as well.

Plates of Cake — Got a Feeling That I Live Here (Western Revisions)

Got A Feeling That I Live Here by Plates of Cake

This is, apparently, the final Plates of Cake album, the last edition in a set of excellent guitar-centric, unjustifiably under-the-radar indie rock albums from the band headed by Jonathan Byerley. It is, like all the rest clever and hard knocking, unusually literate but not constrained by it, and full of layered, shimmering guitar textures. Byerley and his long-time collaborator Joshua Carrafa spent the pandemic building their own gear, Byerley constructing a Stratocaster-style electric and refurbishing a used Vox AC15 amp, and Carrafa experimenting with home-made guitar pedals.

You can hear their obsession most clearly on “Nickel,” which is long and radiant with twining, Television-like guitar interplay, one player crystalline and full of clarity, the other jetting off in rough, distorted bursts, all held together by the rhythm section, Ian Burns on drums and Aileen Brophy on bass. Byerley doesn’t start singing until halfway through the cut, and even then his voice is a secondary thing, hedged in and overshadowed by luminous instrumental clangor. Normally, you should pay attention to Plates of Cake lyrics, but this track encourages zoning out and drifting off.

Elsewhere the material is more song-like, though the guitars still dominate. “So Crude” chimes like a lost Big Star song, while “Over or Forever” chugs motorik-ally but also gets lost in the daydream. For whatever reason, Byerley sings falsetto in a bunch of these songs, which is fine in small doses but a little strained at length. “Everyone Got Over Last Summer (Except for You)” kicks the hardest, the drums right up front all the way through.

Though smart as always, these songs aren’t as lyrically jaw-dropping as “Gallery Girl” from the last album. Got a Feeling That I Live Here rocks in a less complicated way than previous albums. And that makes sense. If you’ve got to go out, why not go out with a banger? We’ll miss you Plates of Cake.

Jennifer Kelly

Robert Byerly the widely unknown American who served with Britain’s SOE

Robert Byerly the widely unknown American who served with Britain’s SOE

The American Virginia Hall and her wartime service with SOE is well known but Robert Byerly is less well documented and is sometimes wrongly described as a Canadian. When Germany invaded France in April 1940 Robert Byerly who has been noted for being pro-British was living in Paris and because he was a citizen of a neutral country was allowed to leave France and made his way to England and in…

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Robert Byerley (Missouri, 1941-2019)

Nude in Lamp Glow (1977)

The oil on artist's board from Byerley's earlier period is signed and dated lower left.

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Bev Byerley

Flower Shop. NYC 2023

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Kids by Bob Byerley

Per essere se stessi ci vuole coraggio… per essere chiunque solo apparenza! (Anonimo) art by bob byerley *************** To be yourself takes courage... to be anyone just appearance! (Anonymous) art by bob byerley