The Little Theater tests the waters with movies by only giving them one showing. I was looking forward to the Joan Jett documentary and they have just announced it will be here for one screening, on a Wednesday this month when our band is playing in the Café. We’ll miss Dylan at the Auditorium because that too is a Wednesday. Tomorrow night “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda” plays the Little at 7pm. Our friend, Stan, called our attention it this one. Sakamoto was a member of the the Yellow Magic Orchestra and is an Oscar-winning film composer. After the Fukushima disaster he became an an outspoken social activist against nuclear power in Japan. A few weeks back I posted a link to a set of music he compiled for his favorite restaurant in NYC.
I’m starting to feel like that guy you see at every art opening chowing down the food. We went to two this weekend. On Friday we drove along the Parkway to Albion for Pete Monacelli’s “Searching For Home” show. This series is mostly flat, hard edged paintings with architectural shapes pulling and pushing the plane. On Sunday we stopped by Margaret Spevak’s opening in the Café. Her quilts happily cross the boundaries of craft and art. Both shows were delightful.
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Glad you could make it… Will’s work schedule conflicted with both showings, and I really wanted to see it with him. He’s a huge YMO fan & I’m a fan of Ryuichi’s solo work.
One of my fave records post-YMO is Yukihiro Takahashi’s “Neuromantic”; Ryuichi Sakamoto is on it (keyboards) as well as Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay. The album is well worth seeking out; here’s a cassette rip from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlN5V4rl5o