Fuckin, rock on man. Brilliant piece of work. Couldn't agree more. It's all about the artist. Their story, their vision. The Tzadik vision. Anyone who's ever tried to produce something of their own knows that pressure to make it ACCESSIBLE or POPULAR. Everyone around you becomes an expert. 'You can't do that' or 'You have to do it this way, this is the way it's always been done' or 'You need a solid readership/ fanbase/ audience' blah blah blah. It takes real nerve, real balls of steel to put something out there that's going to alienate people, and that you believe in 110%. Teaches you things about your work & yourself. If there's one lesson to be drawn from Zorn & his success it's that compete artistic integrity has its rewards. In his case, global acclaim - which is a bit of a bonus - but there are other rewards. (I'm listening to the magnificent Jacques Brel right now on radio 3's Late Junction - another artist with total integrity.) Every Zorn fan had their own version of the film they thought Bookshelf was going to be, but Claudia Heuremann had the NERVE to release her own film - and as Mr Gottschalk's excellent interview on squid's ear showed, it wasn't the film she intended to make but the film that circumstances forced her to make. Another truth about art right there. c