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Stand In The Place Where You Are

Now face West, and wonder why you haven't before. My eyebrow-raiser of the week is an airline-industry project to create 'standing seats' to save room and money on airplanes - passengers would simply be strapped against a perpendicular board. Have a lovely flight. Here's the Pasadena Star's a suitably skeptical editorial on this topic.

Pleasant surprise of the week: lovely dance remixes of the 'Brokeback Mountain' instrumental theme that will induce joy rather than cringing. Their biggest raison d'etre: 'The Wings,' clocking in at two minutes, goes by way too fast and isn't getting any other airplay. Interestingly, composer Gustavo Santaolalla, one of the leading producers and mixers in Latin rock and pop, was not even consulted on the project..