The “Plácido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala Concert” To Air Exclusively on HDNet Sunday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET

Network to present special concert event in full 1080i HD and 5.1 surround sound

(DALLAS) Broad General Director Plácido Domingo will take the LA Opera into homes throughout the United States as HDNet presents The Plácido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala Concert on Sunday, June 1 at 8:00pm (eastern daylight time) with an encore presentation at 11:00pm ET to accommodate West Coast prime time. The concert celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the superstar tenor’s first professional appearances in Los Angeles and features arias and duets sung by Mr. Domingo and the internationally acclaimed soprano Patricia Racette. The concert is led by LA Opera Music Director James Conlon, conducting the LA Opera Orchestra.

“Opera is an art form for everyone, and HDNet is helping us to capture this experience for music lovers throughout the United States,” said Mr. Domingo. “Long before television existed, opera was the popular form of entertainment bringing theatre to the masses, so it’s exciting and ironic that we now can use television to bring opera music back to the public.”

“This is an exciting new development for LA Opera and an important continuation of our commitment to bringing opera to all audiences,” said LA Opera’s Chairman and CEO, Marc I. Stern. “The special HDNet presentation, combined with this season’s Great Performances telecast of our production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, our recent DVD releases of both Mahagonny and our production of La Traviata, as well as the coming second season of our ‘LA Opera on Air’ broadcasts locally on KUSC and nationally and internationally on WFMT and XM Satellite Radio, truly enable the Company to reach out to a large and enthusiastic audience around the world.”

“The Plácido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala is a perfect addition to the outstanding programming that HDNet has to offer,” added Mark Cuban, President and Co-Founder of HDNet. “Plus, our presentation of this concert in full 1080i high definition and 5.1 surround sound will let our viewers feel as if they are actually in the audience instead of in their own homes.”

About HDNet
HDNet (www.hd.net) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report,” “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the NASCAR Camping World Series, NASCAR Sprint Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and premiere Mixed Martial Arts from “HDNet Fights;” behind-the-scenes sports news with “Inside the NHL” and “Inside MMA;” groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including Coldplay, Gwen Stefani, Black Eyed Peas and more; entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Deadline!,” “Art Mann Presents,” and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development,” “The Black Donnellys,” “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Dead Like Me,” “Smallville” and the hit BBC series “Torchwood.”

HDNet Movies features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases - all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet Movies viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Only HDNet Movies’ exclusive “Sneak Previews” bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies “Sneak Previews” have included the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within,” and “Bubble,” the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films. Other featured films include “Cashback,” written and produced by Sean Ellis, “Broken English,” from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne, the critically acclaimed “Redacted” directed by Brian De Palma, and most recently, “Flawless,”starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Upcoming “Sneak Previews” include “Quid Pro Quo,” starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, and “Finding Amanda” starring Matthew Broderick and Brittany Snow, “Red” starring Brian Cox, “Special” starring Michael Rapaport, “Great Buck Howard” starring: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Tom Hanks, “Harlem Aria” starring Damon Wayans and “Humboldt County” starring Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich & Frances Conroy.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit www.hd.net

About the LA Opera
Currently celebrating its 22nd season, Los Angeles Opera has become, under the leadership of Plácido Domingo, the nation’s fourth largest opera company and a renowned producer of works from the classical and contemporary repertoires. The coming 2008/09 season will be one of the most ambitious and exciting seasons in LA Opera history, with seven new productions, the U.S. premiere of Howard Shore’s The Fly, the return of several of the Company’s landmark productions and the history-making launch of a new production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, a first for Los Angeles.

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Make It Your Own - you probably don’t know who sang “I Can Dream About You,” which makes it a perfect choice.

Futz With The Arrangement - It worked for David Cook with “Billie Jean,” and it can work for lots of other songs, including “Torn” and “Bizarre Love Triangle.”

Avoid The Overdone - “Unchained Melody” has run its course.

Does a great Karaoke song translate to Idol? Not according to the folks who do it for a living. Kimberly Starling of The Karaoke Informer explains: “The typical good karaoke songs tend to lack the uniqueness needed for an Idol contestant to stand out.” Her list of songs that work in Karaoke but would bomb on Idol include “Friends In Low Places,” “Santeria,” and a surprising choice by The Ramones that works every time.

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That said, the clips that are here–those moments–are exciting, at least in the first half of the show. If you know the story of those early Atlantic years–and most people do, a little at least, from the movie Ray– you know that these are the best years of mainstream R & B: Aretha, Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Lieber & Stoller, doo-wop groups getting on platters, Otis Redding, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, the early genius nutjob Phil Spector….[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hYD-jpB8ok][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbOYIo7SD4]Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler recorded black blues artists and sold them to a white audience & to a larger extent than Motown let them play and sing what they wanted.

These guys loved, breathed, R & B and for awhile there they didn’t water it down. The hired terrific session players; there was a real excitement of people doing, for a time, exactly what it was they loved, and getting it out to the public because it was the right thing to do–they it did despite the fact that they weren’t making any money.

Before this documentary I always had the sense that Ahmet Ertegun was the guiding force behind all of this, and in the beginning he was. Ahmet was the wealthy son of the Turkish embassador, lived in many different countries, absorbed the culture and music, and when he and his brother lived in the States as a teenager he went crazy for jazz. Did whatever he could to go to the clubs, hung out. And he had the money and the time to be able to do something completely insane: start a record company.

He had the cash to back up his obsession. He knew enough about music to embrace what mattered to him. And he was aware that black performers were doing the most creative American music & getting no (white) play. And thus the beginnings of Atlantic Records.

I suppose there was a little part of me that was irritated by Ahmet’s wealth and contacts. It made it not quite as starry a story for me. Entirely unfair on my part. And surely the documentary doesn’t present it in any kind of negative light; this was a hero worship doc.

He was able to recognize the people to sign, like Ray & Aretha; he even wrote R & B songs himself, and they’re pretty good, too. The documentary shows him as a talky old man, full of attitude and ego and brightness, and (in his eyes) quick to assess human behavior.

The doc is structured around having famous people tell stories with him–people like Robert Plant, Aretha, Mick, Phil Collins, Ben E. King. Clearly, it’s one of those career retrospective, “better get this done before the old fart dies” tributes–which turns out to be the right idea, as Ahmet died shortly thereafter by falling at a Rolling Stones concert. For me, the structure got in the way. I hate Phil Collins. As for Mick, Atlantic signed the Stones after they’d done their best work. Don’t applaud those later years.

I read another story, spun very positively in the documentary: When Atlantic began to struggle financially, Ahmet started signing white acts. The company also waited until there was a monumental lawsuit to begin paying proper royalties to its original black performers.

In the 70’s, Atlantic went disco. I remember some of those cheesy records, which are loveable in their cheesiness, but look, they’re really not Aretha & Ray. And certainly this was a survival move, and it all happened when they sold Atlantic to Warner Brothers (which became Time Warner). And while Ahmet was still running things, it just wasn’t the same.

Here’s the moment in the story that struck me: the turning point in the company came when Jerry Wexler went to Stax/Volt. Jerry Wexler’s in Ray, too; it was really Jerry Wexler who had the soul, especially as times passed; Stax/Volt with its Southern roots really had the balls; Ahmet became more of a businessman who frequented the New York discos and (allegedly) screwed around with beautiful women while married (made clear in the movie) while Jerry Wexler went to Memphis and hung out with the blues people.

The documentary made it look like the move of Atlantic to Warners was Wexler’s fault. It seemed to me, more, that Wexler kept loving R & B and would rather work with the music than be successful. The movie spun the move to Warner’s as a savvy one, and continued to applaud Ehtegun’s discoveries, but for me: well, the documentary made me respect Ahmet Ehrtegun a little less. Not its intention. It also made me haul out by Atlantic Records box set and play that amazing music from the 1950’s and 60’s. The stuff that I taped off of my transistor radio as a kid, and the stuff that never made its way over the white Midwestern airwaves. Without Aretha, I would not be me. Without soul, I’d have understood and felt so much less. Less soul, less possibility for heaven.

This little blog entry could applaud all of the lost records labels, the little ones that did the same thing as Atlantic and passed into oblivion with the monopolization of the industry. But there’s no time for that story right now. **a note: I wish that this DVD had included full clips of the original performances by the key Atlantic players. This is just the straight-up documentary, nothing else.

WHAT: Wyclef Jean premieres on the HDNet Concert series from the famed Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia this Sunday March 30, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Jean plays from his catalogue of hits including “Gone Til November,” “Carnival,” “Ready or Not,” and “Stayin’ Alive.” He also performs his own version of reggae standards “No Woman No Cry,” and “Redemption Song.”

Coming from humble beginnings in Haiti, Wyclef Jean joined two school friends in the 90’s to create the seminal hip-hop group, The Fugees. Later, he embarked on a successful solo career and is also active in his support of his native country by creating the Yele Haiti Foundation, providing humanitarian aid and assistance to Haiti.

WHEN: Sunday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

About HDNet
HDNet ( http://www.hd.net ) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report”, “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the NASCAR Camping World Series, NASCAR Sprint Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and premiere Mixed Martial Arts from “HDNet Fights;” behind-the-scenes sports news with “Inside the NHL” and “Inside MMA;” groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including Coldplay, Gwen Stefani, Black Eyed Peas and more; entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Deadline!”, “Art Mann Presents,” and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development,” “The Black Donnellys,” “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Dead Like Me,” “Smallville” and the hit BBC series “Torchwood.”

HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases – all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet Movies viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Only HDNet Movies exclusive “Sneak Previews” bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies “Sneak Previews” have included the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within,” and “Bubble,” the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films. Other featured films include “Cashback,” written and produced by Sean Ellis, “Broken English,” from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne, the critically acclaimed “Redacted” directed by Brian De Palma and, most recently and “Flawless”, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Upcoming “Sneak Previews” include “Quid Pro Quo,” starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, and “Gonzo,” the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit http://www.hd.net

“I can think of many things that are commonplace today which I think are harder to justify than trepanation. Body piercing and tattooing are other forms of body mutilation, though we use the polite word ‘modification’. There is a psychological response that accompanies these acts for the people who have it done which is why they are drawn to them. The effect of trepanation might be a similar mechanism, or it may be physiological as well. Evidence of the latter would substantiate the procedure to a greater degree than the recreational forms of body alteration. Using drugs as a means to attain a state of consciousness has the drawbacks of being temporary and having side effects that either interfere with brain function or adversely affect health.”

The film won the Best Documentary Award at both Atlantic City Film Festival and Brooklyn International Film Festival, and was later broadcast on the Discovery and Learning Channels. ‘A Hole In The Head’ is now available on DVD at http://www.holeintheheadmovie.com

MusicWorld3D offers a free interactive virtual 3D chat environment with live and recorded music and video streaming, instant messaging, and games to play, as well as free hosted websites and virtual homes for musicians and bands.

Click on to MusicWorld3D to download the 3D browser
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WHAT: The venerable Stax Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, and HDNet is there to capture it for this special concert premiere, Sunday February 17th at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Randy Jackson of American Idol, the lineup includes Angie Stone, the Reddings, Booker T. and the MGs, Mavis Staples, Isaac Hayes, and more.

“Stax Records 50th Anniversary Concert” is a virtual music VIP list
including Eddie Floyd singing “I’ve Never Found a Girl” and “Knock on Wood,” Lalah Hathaway with “Try a Little Tenderness,” and Booker T. and the MGs performing the immortal tunes “Green Onions” and “Time is Tight.”

WHEN: Sunday, February 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET.

About HDNet
HDNet ( http://www.hd.net ) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report”, “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, NASCAR Grand National Division, NASCAR NEXTEL Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and premiere Mixed Martial Arts from “HDNet Fights”; behind-the-scenes sports news with “Inside the NHL” and “Inside MMA;” groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Coldplay, Gwen Stefani and more; entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Deadline!”, “Art Mann Presents”, and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development”, “The Black Donnellys”, “Blade: The Series”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “Smallville”, “Joan of Arcadia”, “Boomtown” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”.

HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases – all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet Movies viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Only HDNet Movies exclusive “Sneak Previews” bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies “Sneak Previews” have included the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within”, and “Bubble”, the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films “Cashback”, written and produced by Sean Ellis, “Broken English”, from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne and, most recently the critically acclaimed “Redacted” directed by Brian De Palma. Upcoming “Sneak Previews” include “Quid Pro Quo”, starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, “Hunter”, the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter, and “Flawless”, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit http://www.hd.net

The Film ‘Jack Says’ also stars Simon Phillips, Rita Ramnani, Aurelie Amblard, Daniel Roberts, Rula Lenska and Eric Cantona. Watch the trailer on YouTube JACK SAYS

Many other works by the film music composer David Beard can be downloaded from the website http://www.davidbeardmusic.com/ in MP3 format and include many full versions.

The marathon also includes concerts from Gwen Stefani, Joe Satriani, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Vince Gill, John Mellencamp and Chris Botti. The entire line up and timing is as follows:

11:30 a.m. ET Chris Botti Live with Orchestra and Guests
12:30 p.m. ET Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
2:00 p.m. ET John Mellencamp – Live at Walter Reed
3:30 p.m. ET Black Eyed Peas – Live from Sydney to Vegas
4:30 p.m. ET Satriani Live!
6:00 p.m. ET Alison Krauss and Union Station
8:00 p.m. ET Vince Gill – Live at the Ryman
10:00 p.m. ET Foo Fighters – Skin and Bones
12:15 a.m. ET (2/11) Gwen Stefani – Harajuku Lovers Live
1:40 a.m. ET (2/11) R. Kelly As Mr. Showbiz: The Light It Up Tour
3:35 a.m. ET (2/11) Willie Nelson: Live at Billy Bob’s

WHEN: Sunday, February 10, 2008 beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET on HDNet.

About HDNet

HDNet ( http://www.hd.net ) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report”, “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, NASCAR Grand National Division, NASCAR NEXTEL Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and Mixed Martial Arts through it’s new HDNet Fights initiative; groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Coldplay, Gwen Stefani and more; entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Deadline!”, “Art Mann Presents”, and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development”, “The Black Donnellys”, “Blade: The Series”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “Smallville”, “Joan of Arcadia”, “Boomtown” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”.

HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases – all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet Movies viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Only HDNet Movies exclusive “Sneak Previews” bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies “Sneak Previews” have included the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within”, and “Bubble”, the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films “Cashback”, written and produced by Sean Ellis, and, most recently, “Broken English”, from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne and the critically acclaimed “Redacted” directed by Brian De Palma. Upcoming “Sneak Previews” include “Quid Pro Quo”, starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, “Hunter”, the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter, and “Flawless”, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit http://www.hd.net

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Certainly I’d run across pieces about him in the music press–he has that kind of weird underground following that lets true popular music aficionados feel all warm and superior inside. He’s a late 70’s/mid 80’s new wave performer who was on the edge of a type of music called to mind by David Bowie as alien-Kraftwerk-Devo-and a bit of the New York Dolls–heavily costumed, theatrical, and deeply indebted to Berlin cabaret.

Some would say that those who got over (Bowie et al.) got it from Nomi. Hard to say. The effect of Nomi on Bowie was direct enough that he had Nomi back him on a Saturday Night Live performance in 1979. (Nomi and Bowie, The Man Who the World) And who was this odd little German?: Nomi was an operatic falsetto. He was serious. He was trained, but mostly he was obsessed with opera. While he briefly performed in a professional company, he left it (whether because he couldn’t make money with classical singing or because he was bored or both, we’ll never know).

After moving to New York, he scrounged around cleaning offices and the like until his need for a following led him to create Nomi. Using the Nomi persona, he found an audience while performing in experimental cabaret in New York City.

The documentary The Nomi Song has much moving footage; one of my favorite clips is one of the first in the film, an ethereal, truly heart stopping song. It comes early and then it’s lost. (I’d love to show you a clip from that, but I couldn’t find it–instead, here’s Nomi singing that great old song Lightning Strikes:

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And here’s another:

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And here’s another of Nomi singing Puccini shortly before his death:

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After gaining a small arty following, Klaus Nomi split from his band and the New York theatrical scene to, well, try to become famous. It’s at this point that his work begins to lose some of its strange beauty and turns into something closer to the cross-dressing costumed spacey send-ups of Devo. And just as it seems he might “make it” he becomes one of the earliest casualties of AIDS.

The film does a nice job of making his sexuality and death NOT the point. While certainly Klaus Nomi does have a gay following (the Internet Movie Database tags the movie as “gay theme” and “AIDS”), director Andrew Horn keeps the focus straight on the performances. I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more about Klaus himself, though, as a person: we find that he was “lonely” and we see that his aunt adored him and that he was a “sweet guy,” yet I never truly understood what was driving him, what he thought and dreamt about.

My suspicion is that the Nomi alien persona was adopted mainly as a means of getting over, and that his passion was truly opera itself–but really, I’m not sure. They discuss the costumes, but I never really understood if the man was trying to actually say something in the performance itself, beyond the music (as in: we are all aliens? he is an alien and we are not? there is beauty in the strange?–it’s never discussed).

More interviews with Klaus himself would have been welcomed–I got a little bit tired of seeing the same old bitter bandmates trotted out time and again. Even some fans, some lovers, some friends, some family–anybody–. While the point may have been that Nomi had no one, I still would’ve liked to have known a little more about this man, and a little less about how so-and-so got shoved out of the band.

That said, how lovely that this footage is out there, getting attention, getting scattered about on youtube. I particularly liked the clips from the New York days–the cabaret, the humor, and the peculiar sincerity of that particular time and place. (The clips from New York cable TV reminded me of that year I spent there in grad school–I’ve seen nothing like those shows again.) The people in this clips are so excited about being young outsiders, and so in love with themselves and with their songs. I found the film to be quite sweet.