people who inspire me

classical music has evolved as we have, and Caroline Shaw's to me is the frontier composer of the contemporary classical music. i love every piece of her music, there's this vibrance, this earthy feelings, this humming that just feelings like im closer to the soil, the rain, the moss. her music goes through you, it's not just pleasing, but... moving in a sense.

i love her work in let the soil play its simple part, the orangery, evergreen

i have a chaotic mind, like literally, and Caroline's partita for 8 singers is what i think it feels like in my head. just love it.

i can't remember how but in late 22, i found the film "the hand of god" and the filmmmm was so vibrant and filled this feeling of discovering one's self. it was my first time with a film that i'd refer to as art. because it is, everything is crafted so beautifully. the scenes, the music, the writing, the characters.

watched all the recent works of sorrentino, the way this man sees the world, there's unapologetic realness to it but also a bit of surrealism the way he portrays it.

sorrentino has a running style of layers, all the character with layers, there's contrast, and there's this interconnectedness among everything.

his way of seeing the world is beautiful, his way to seeing the frames, and filming, and MUSIC, oooh the music, thanks to him i discovered nadia sirota, and nico muhly, and eventually mozart in the jungle, and then gael garcía bernal.

try watching his films, the hand of god on netflix, and la grazia on mubi.

one of the coolest music artists. the way he refuses to be bound by a genre, so full of passion, and humble with it. the way he cares about articulation. like in petrichor where he says he's worried the cameras might disappear by the time he learns to draw. like i had a dream where we had kids, you'd cook i'd do the nappies, we'd go to winter wonderland and it was shit but we were happy.

like the feelings from about you, fallingforyou, sincerity is scary, tootimetootimetootime, and what not. absolute beauty. just love the music he makes, and ofc the 1975, equally talented George Daniel, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald.

his albums are a story, with all kinds of music that just articulates the emotions so well. they literally make whatever they want, a ballad, 808s, a spoken piece about a man's journey with the internet, rock music, simple instrumental music, whatever. and the emotional depth he adds to it, agh.

his albums are stories. not collections of songs but actual arguments about feeling and living. the 1975 got me into listening to complete albums instead of just particular songs.