I watched a pretty awesome documentary yesterday called Air Guitar Nation. The movie follows a handful of Americans who are working their way up through air guitar competitions in order to win a chance to play in the Air Guitar World Championships in Finland. Everyone involved always seemed to take it as a complete joke at first, but after a while quite a few contestants describe it as a real art – one in particular calling it “the last pure art form,” or something of the like. Some never get passed the idea of it being a joke, others get hyper competitive. It’s all pretty wacky and fun to watch.

Something the movie does do well, though, is to not make fun of the participants. It simply presents them and lets them explain themselves – leaving you to decide for yourself it they’re crazy, just having some fun, or some kind of real performance artists.

All I know is that if there is ever an air guitar championship in Houston, I will be there, either as a competitor simply an observant – it does not matter.