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Other Music Documentary Other Music, famously located on 4th Street with a view of Tower Records before it folded,was a destination stop for me. The small shop was neatly packed & stacked with the latest & the greatest vinyl records & CDs. This thoughtful, well crafted documentary truly depicts what it was like to be a guest at Other Music. Puloma Basu & Richard Hatch - Miller  clearly took their time to interview the owners, past staff members & the artists who got their start at OM.   Walking into OM always gave me a happy tingle. Watching this documentary evokes a similar feeling. It made me smile as if I was there pawing through the Big Star Category, the Latin flavored music & of course the latest releases. The scene with a composer clutching his hand written review card was priceless. Hearing one of the Berringer brother's bliss out about having a card at OM was a delight. He gushed "That meant the National was a 'real' ban

Whenever I think about a cello player I think of someone pristine and stately like Yo Yo ma or Jacqueline Du Pre. Wild haired & squinty eyed,  Arthur Russell pleasantly surprised me. He lived fast & died young in NYC during the AIDS pandemic of the '80s. Hanging with Beat Poets and photographers he was in the IT group. In fact Allen Ginsberg once read poetry while Arthur accompanied him on his cello. Arthur was a sweet ,troubled and tempestuous musical  genius. You can gather that he live the full life for only for only being around 40 years when he succumbed to AIDS which is very strange because this AIDS virus feels like the coronavirus we don't know what's going on so it might be timely to bring that back up the platform of the ocean just stuck struck me as many layered panoply of a song much like the other music record shop there was a little bit of everything in this song there was some electronica there is weird vocals there was a little bit of there