Always interesting to consider and reconsider Laurie Anderson. Stories from the Nerve Bible is a fascinating collection of things spanning the first 20 years or so of her career. It is a combination of the very familiar—United States Live, Home of the Brave—and the very unfamiliar —including some bits that didn’t make it to the recorded versions of United States Live, Home of the Brave, etc. One of the things I find odd in the collection is occasional confusion of dates. Anderson speaks of having written certain songs for the Home of the Brave film which were actually recorded several years earlier on Mr. Heartbreak. Similarly, she repeats on a couple of occasions the idea that she met Peter Gabriel in 1984 to work on “this is the picture (excellent birds)” but that was broadcast on 1 January 1984, so one suspects that they at least met, given the narrative about putting the piece together, on the afternoon of 31 December 1983! Still, Anderson is fond of the way minor things change and was always in her earliest days, anyway opposed to much recording of performances, as it “fixed” them — as one a “once this way always this way” manner, so these errors in the book are really in her performing spirit even if they are wrong.