Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's male alter ego, featured on her 2010 album Homeland, talks about recent cultural shifts towards the abstract, as money has become numbers on a screen and pictures have replaced things. "Pictures and Things" is also the title of the non-album track, featuring Antony Hegarty, on the B-side of the "Only an Expert" 12" vinyl single.

Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's male alter ego, featured on her 2010 album Homeland, revisits the early days of the financial meltdown of 2008. Here, he invokes a classic film trope to warn listeners of the impending doom, exclaiming: "There's trouble out at the mine!"