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an Crane struts onto the

stage, hurls off his sunglass-
es, rips his T-shirt to shreds
and rocks his way through a knee-slid-
ing, tongue-flicking performance so
awesome that groupies' squeals drown
out the amps.
They're cheering so loudly you'd
think Crane represents the second
coming of Jimi Hendrix — except that
his guitar "performance" is sans guitar.
This self-proclaimed "nice Jewish
boy from Denver" stars in Alexandra
Lipsitz's documentary, Air Guitar
Nation, about aficionados who mime
strumming to songs by actual bands
such as Motorhead. The tongue-in-
cheek, exhilarating film follows Crane
and others who hope to make the 2003
air world championships in Finland.
Nation particularly spotlights the
rivalry between Crane and C-Diddy
(a.k.a. David Jung), whose convulsing
fingers and kung-fu moves make him
a perpetual winner.
Crane — whose stage persona is

Bjorn Turoque (pronounced B-yorn
to-RAWK) — is the perpetual runner-
up. He is regarded "as a sort of Dan
Marino-Jay-Z figure: fantastic ability,
highly beloved, but never quite able
to win the big one the Village Voice
wrote last year.
"I'm the perennial bridesmaid of
air guitar," the wry, erudite Crane
says over tea — not beer! — in Los
Angeles recently (OK, he has a cold).
But Crane — and Turoque — knows
how to please a crowd. "Bjorn's the
kind of sexy, glam-punk performer my
8-year-old self imagined a rock star
should be: a hard-drinking, hard-par-
tying, groupie-laying god;' Crane says.
"You have to embody that fantasy
for yourself and for the audience he
adds. "That's what we call, `airness;
the moment you transcend the genre,
and people feel they're in the presence
of a stae
Apparently, the jury is out on the
importance of airness. One CNN
anchor proclaimed the genre "the stu-
pidest thing I've ever seen." London's
Sunday Times called it an art that
"has exploded into a huge spectator

