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Directed by Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire is the story of two angels who descend to earth to watch and listen in on the lives of lonely Berliners. The two angels seemingly float through Berlin streets, focusing for a few moments on a slew of ordinary people and their emotions: despairing, weary, optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent...
...last couple of months, I’ve been listening to all kinds of music, in very large quantities, sometimes in order to review it, sometimes simply to check out some music I’d heard of but never really heard. In order to keep up, I hardly ever listen to any one song or album more than a few times before moving on. (My iPod informs me I haven’t listened to any song more than 10 times…one of the juicy tracks off Blur’s recent Think Tank...
There’s a distinct thrill to listening to music of all kinds (my playlist is apt to jump from ZZ Top to Handel’s Messiah…top that.) It’s refreshing, in a kind of hairpin turn, mind-bending sort of a way. If people ask you what music you listen to, you can shake your head slowly, with a wry smile and honestly say, “Oh…all kinds. That’s the kind of guy I am.” And wait for the women...
...listen. And I sometimes spot inconsistencies, pandering. You can’t do much about pandering because if that’s what they’re gonna do, that’s what they...
...Probably forcing my bad music tastes on other people. I don’t think the UN would look kindly on my making people listen to Devo and Duran Duran...