"Actor: Klaus Nomi"

• Nomi Song-Klaus Nomi Odyssey | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  He came from outer space to save the human race. Part documentary part music film part sci-fi The Nomi Song is a 'non-fiction film' or maybe even an oral history. It's not just the tale it's the telling. But it is also visual partly because Klaus himself was so visual someone who's main concern was putting forth an image of himself in everything he did - literally illustrated by the photos films videos and artworks that go with it and featuring many never before seen live performances. However there are also the images that the stories conjure up images that no actual picture could capture that emerge out of impressions memories and even exaggerations fermenting in somebody's brain for twenty years. It's like a novel with a whole cast of characters and supporting players - revealing themselves as much as (and sometimes more than) they do Klaus - with subplots background stories flashbacks and contradictions.

• TV Party: The Sublimely Intolerable Show | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £14.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start - the sound person is late overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux a droll singer songwriter is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff of the Dictators plays the Beach Boys' Be True to Your School backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film Kidnapped with Arto Lindsay Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the white people talk about reggae segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos it's art. Tracklist: 1.Glenn on Mardigras 2.'Lil Rico' Amos Poe 3.Nile Rodgers Call In 4.Luigi Ciccolini Intellectual Talk