{"id":798846,"date":"2019-08-24T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876091"},"modified":"2019-08-24T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:40:00","slug":"david-byrne-launches-online-magazine-reasons-to-be-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/david-byrne-launches-online-magazine-reasons-to-be-cheerful\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Launches Online Magazine \u2018Reasons to Be Cheerful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/9916116aw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Nearly two years after first announcing the project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-byrne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-byrne\" data-tag=\"david-byrne\">David Byrne<\/a> has launched an online magazine named <a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reasons to Be Cheerful<\/em><\/a> that aims to be a \u201ctonic for tumultuous times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the former Talking Heads singer explains in the introductory video, he founded the website \u2013 \u201cpart magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world\u201d \u2013 where he can share \u201csmart, proven, replicable solutions to the world\u2019s most pressing problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we started a project and brought some of those reasons to be cheerful into sharper focus,\u201d Byrne said of his first foray into online publishing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/355120903\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reasons to Be Cheerful<\/em> launched Saturday, with Byrne contributing six stories so far, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/kochi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">India\u2019s Tiny, Amazing Art Hub<\/a>\u201d about the small city of Kochi and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/doing-good-is-good-business\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Doing the Right Thing Is Good for Business<\/a>.\u201d Byrne\u2019s longtime collaborator Brian Eno also penned an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/divest-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Necessity of Nuclear<\/a>,\u201d a response to Byrne\u2019s article about the concerns about nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne added of <em>Reasons to Be Cheerful<\/em> in a statement, \u201cIt often seems as if the world is going straight to Hell. I wake up in the morning, I look at the paper, and I say to myself, \u2018Oh no!\u2019 Often I\u2019m depressed for half the day. I imagine some of you feel the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cRecently, I realized this isn\u2019t helping. Nothing changes when you\u2019re numb. So, as a kind of remedy, and possibly as a kind of therapy, I started collecting good news. Not schmaltzy, feel-good news, but stuff that reminded me, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s positive stuff going on! People are solving problems and it\u2019s making a difference!\u2019 I began telling others about what I\u2019d found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his publishing endeavor, Byrne will kick off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-byrne-american-utopia-broadway-836666\/\">his <em>American Utopia<\/em> residency<\/a> at Boston\u2019s Emerson Colonial Theatre in September before migrating to Broadway\u2019s Hudson Theatre in October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-byrne-online-magazine-reasons-to-be-cheerful-876091\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years after first announcing the project, David Byrne has launched an online magazine named Reasons to Be Cheerful that aims to be a \u201ctonic for tumultuous times.\u201d As the former Talking Heads singer explains in the introductory video, he founded the website \u2013 \u201cpart magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:54:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}