a piece by me on xenomania -- the new exoticism/loving the alien, a.k.a net-enabled music tourism

it's at MTVIgggy.com (part of MTV World)

not forgetting this musical



plus

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

plus

Ken's video for "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" by Pandora's Box, Jim Steinman's post-Meatloaf project

(which is weird because when I reviewed that LP I compared Jim to Ken, and I'm sure I never saw or even knew about the video)

oh yes and this, Russell's film about Isadora Duncan



reminding me of this





oh, and Ken done all these too:

1961 Portrait of a Soviet Composer
1962 Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1964 Bartok
1966 Don't Shoot the Composer
1984 Vaughan Williams
1988 Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1990 Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner


obsessed

RIP Ken Russell



Ken's wacky doc In Search of the English Folk Song, so good i kept it on our tivo-equivalent for about four years, then when the cable box went on the blink and it disappeared, just had to buy the DVD



first time i watched Tommy, this scene was what prompted me to turn it off. but i've come to appreciate the film subsequently

are there any other film directors who've been quite as obsessed with music as Ken?







Liztomania -- "the film that out-Tommys 'Tommy'"!!