[THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE MUSIC!
screens Friday December 12th at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland
Cinematheque.]
Frank
Zappa once wrote, “American radio listeners, raised on a diet of
shit, have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin
to know what they like.” It's fair to say Zappa was not talking
about Chris Strachwitz, the subject of Maureen Gosling and
Christopher Simon's documentary feature THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE
MUSIC!. His musical tastes
cover everything from blues to zydeco to bluegrass to klezmer music
to, well, just about any style of music you can imagine. But as one
interview subject in the film says, as much music as Chris loves, he
hates even more. Anything inauthentic or “wimpy” he dismisses as
“mouse music”.
