We all gotta have it. As you may have noticed, I’ve been redoing the site; mainly this has been after complaints about the speed. It had gotten pretty durned pokey. And while at it, we made a couple of other changes. So…

A couple of announcements:
1. The whole Freebie download thing is much easier now. So for those of you who want something for nothing? You have to do even less of that nothing. If such a thing is even possible.

2. If you purchase individual songs directly, they are now a one-click buy if you use PayPal. No forms to fill out or goofy logins. So it’s as easy as iTunes or Amazon and you get CD audio quality instead of that compressed stuff.

3. I temporarily took down the Detroit site after some bizaare hacking. I noticed this a couple of weeks ago but… as so often happens in life… I didn’t act immediately for the simple reason I just refused to believe it was happening. I mean seriously, with all […]

The very best movie I’ve seen in a -long- while is Pina; a performance piece commemorating the life of choreographer Pina Bausch. First of all, it’s the first 3-D movie I’ve seen that was worth a shit. In fact, it just wouldn’t work well in 2-D. Director Wim Wenders cleverly exploits the formats innate tendency to render depth in discrete layers. He intentionally creates scenes that look almost like grade-school dioramas. In addition to being extremely cool looking, it also solves another problem of filming dance—what to leave in and what to leave out. How does one choose the angle you want the viewer to see? Well, with 3-D you can show it all in focus, but put the layer you want to emphasise highlighted.

And the choreography is amazing enough to warrant such imagination. It’s so good, in fact, I fear lots of people who aren’t big ‘modern dance’ fans will be so captivated by Pina that they go out and buy tickets […]