i'll tell you what i love about the documentary — on the one hand, it is about the pain of making art, it's like if you're going to take music this seriously, it's not a lot of laughs. but the documentary is funny, because toby amies is a very sharp filmmaker who understands how to put something together in a way that, even amidst great sadness and great darkness and huge amounts of conflict — i mean, huge amounts of conflict — i found the film really entertaining. i think that no matter what you think about king crimson, you could enjoy this documentary. what's interesting is that i'm afraid i knew nothing about king crimson. i know an awful lot now. i was fascinated by some of it. it reminded me of whiplash. oh, that's interesting. because robert fripp is such a hard task master, clearly brilliant, but, you know, would you want him as your boss? and that reminded me of that whole theme in whiplash, where do you... he practices every day, but where does that cross over into just taking it too far, let the perfectionism, all of that. we saw him practising