rush to judge

I am in one of those phases, where work benefits from some unallied enthusiam which, I suspect, will eventually betray it. At the moment the unallied enthusiasm is a potential tour of Europe with Lambchop, performing a score Kurt wrote for Murnau's Sunrise. Really quite a great film - it's been almost a decade since I last saw it. Aside from inspiring me to at least plan some poster art for the first time in a long while, I've been really amazed at 1) the complexities of copyright law from an international perspective, especially with regard to the EU and 2) how totally lame America is about anything that isn't culturally "now" - why can't this kind of event work successfully in the EEUU?

sigh.