Al, the question is two-fold. What does he want to know, and what does he want to perform. University degrees should always be about self-improvement, and not about pecuniary benefit: that was an invention of the Gordon Gecko years under that unspeakable woman. Learning is the key virtue.

I agree that that's what folk can do. But anime is a different art form from the hollywood blockbuster, and that differs from the art movie. A film director needs to understand the silent movie to know how to tell a story visually - my favourite shot from the Mad Max movies from Mad Max 1 - the shot where you see the belt drive to the the GMC supercharger gradually, stutteringly take up drive - knows this. THe hugely overrated "Get Carter" knows this.

Likewise in photography (a medium I hate) - the photographer needs to understand black and white in order to be able to make meaning with a colour shot.

You can't make folk music without roots. And no artist should be in any art form purely for profit. It is his/her muse that that must rule.

If your man is a money grubber, tell him to go to a music management or music technology course at dunnamany places. If his muse is in English/UK roots, there is not much alternative to Newcastle. Or he can go out on the road....


Dammit, we simply HAVE to meet some time, and look for the overlap!