Not many albums dare to open with a track so super-charged with raw “spunk” like “Blind Promise” (sonically speaking). It’s big and loud and beautiful. Wait… we can do better than that lame description- dismissing the album as merely “loud” or “beautiful” would be to miss its essence of depth and power. So let us try …
The Record That Changed My Life: Thom Yorke on R.E.M.’s NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI (1996)
It may surprise one or the other reader, but I am not the most confident musician when it comes to my own lyrics. I don’t consider myself a genius there. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. is a genius. A master when it comes to conveying impressions. His lyrics are like a car ride along a street …
Akira Kurosawa – Ikiru (1952)
Director: Akira Kurosawa (Japan) Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March 23, 1910, as the youngest child of seven children by an officer descended from Samurais, and a woman that came from a family of merchants in Omori, Tokyo. Initially, Kurosawa found himself drawn to art. After finishing high-school, he studied at the …