Movies night..

The movies this weekend were slim and pickins' but the two I got to watch were very good..  First was The Ref

With Dennis Leary and Kevin Spacey and the question I had after watching this comedy was how did they get it done.. Such a great cast that had to be fun to go to work on every day.. It reminded me of the movie House Arrest where kids took their parents hostage to try to keep them from getting a divorce.. Really that was a cute movie...

Then there is this movie: Out of The Clear Blue Sky

The movie about Cantor Fitzgerald that was almost completely lost on September 11, 2001 at the world trade center.. The events of that day transforming the company over night..  I had seen bits of the movie as a preview type of thing.. I fast forwarded through it to see if all it was about was everyone that was lost that day.. It isn't, it is however about everything having to do with the days and years following that event.. I was prepared to be pissed off at the company that promised so much but while previewing didn't look like they would deliver.. Well watching the movie I knew the guy who made those promises had to be able to make them happen, because he was in the movie to start and through the entire movie.. Turns out this was a really great movie to show how he made every promise he made be true.. That almost seems so unAmerican.. In this day and age of money first and foremost..  I rated it quite high.. A very good feel good movie..


Friday night seems to be music night and this past Friday night was a replay of the very first ever concert by my favorite band (right now anyway) :

Schiller the Klangweiten show, was a four member version of the band.. This is the first video I ever saw of them, and the first time I ever heard them.. The first song sounds like the start of Echoes by Pink Floyd but turns out to be their own song as with the entirety of this concert..   When I first got into them a couple years ago, or how I should say.. The way was simple, i was looking for the latest music by either Kraftwerk or Weiten or Klangweiten.. .  Both bands from the German experimental music scene..  The Klangweiten being the reason Schiller popped up in the search.. So I checked their music via i-tunes and youtube and youtube yielded the show above.. They remind me musically of Kraftwerk, yes they do but they don't.. From the onset of the show above it looked like a two member band, the two keyboard players, but then they had two drumset players, one playing more rhythm and the other playing percussion parts..  With Kraftwerk the live video I have they have four members, of which none of them seem to actually be playing the keyboard but rather "doing their taxes" as some one once remarked.. And it really looks that way (check their Minimum Maximum show available on youtube I think).. Schiller also reminds me of Tangerine Dream, a very little because as with Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream looks like none of them are actually playing.. The latest shows I have seen the three keyboard players look to be playing the identical same thing. They can have as many as seven people on stage at the same time all looking board out of their minds.. Except for when Zlatko plays guitar..  Schiller reminds me of Pink Floyd, they play some of their new music live before finalizing it on records (compact disc) like the Floyd did from Dark Side of the Moon through the early parts of the Wall... And Schiller reminds me of King Crimson when they play live they can change the songs araingment making their songs always sound different live, from the studio version and really they should sound different live.. King Crimson have so many live albums out and I could pick and choose which is my definitive live version of any song.. The Circus (the young persons guide to live Crimson) is my definitive to pretty much every song I care about by the Crims...

This live Schiller is only music, instrumentals.. They had vocals by this time but for whatever the reason they didn't include any here.. For the best of the entire of what they have to offer, check this one out :

Sonne.. This is the ultimate of Schiller.. and at just under two and a half hours is like being there.. This band I would love to see here in the states, like at Red Rocks.. Trouble is they aren't really even known here in the states.. Everywhere else they are HUGE. Here they aren't even on the radio, anywhere.. Very sad.. Oh well.. Friday night music night returns..

Badge Henry