วีดีโอ

John Lennon was the SOUL and the mind of the Beatles. My personal hero.

I met Kolja in person! You are telling it very accurate) He was a magnificent and nice weirdo. He has never called his place a "museum", even though groups of people visited him when he was alive. His place was the temple of love and rock'n'roll. He commited suicide in 2018 in the main SPB's mall "Gallery" which was just across the road. Died very badly, jumped from the highest floor. About the temple he was about to build - he has received financial support from some entrepreneurs and created a project of this building. Yet, the local authorities declined him, as "this building would disrupt the architectural integrity and image of the city". Yeah. And the Lakhta-center doesn't do it. Kolja died cause' he "couldn't live in a country, where the temple of love and rock'n'roll is not allowed" (maybe i'm mixing smth up here). Rest in peace, Kolja!

Awesome video! Loved it keep up the great work

Thank you for this video! As a Russian speaking person from the former USSR I read about Kolya a long time ago and was amazed at what a superfan he was... too bad his death was so tragic. Glad that you had a talk with wonderful Julia. ❤

algorithm comment

Finally found the time to watch this, didn’t disappoint! Just watched Stalker for the first time a few months ago and was blown away, now to go watch Mirror. Love how in depth you went on this, the Tolstoy link was brilliant. Can’t wait for your next one!

Jim Johnson=musical genius period!!

Irving Layton brought him to hydra. A great Canadian poet who had taught Cohen at McGiil. They spent long days and nights talking poetry and life and everything.

loved this video brother🙏

i am 28. i am a lefty, i am very creative but kinda have adhd if i am not very disciplined.. should i buy a left handed electric guitar?

This is a beautiful video. Maybe it is my eqmt but the music is loud and overtakes the dialogue. thanks

i can't put into words what steve's music means to me...glad to see another interview with him

Facts bully is a dark game .

The shots here are chosen with love and awe and show it. There is a power in Greece and in the islands most especially, which enables history and myth. I caught this myself in Heraklion, even though the place has been remade many times, the feeling of ages past is there in the carbuncular concrete streets, suggesting that if you took away the gridlocked traffic, the fumes and the trappings of modern life, the past is still drifting up through the ground like some noble gas. Travelling to Athens, horrified by the fumes, the dust, the endless sprawl of 20th century low rise blocks with no identity and so little of character to see, I learned to feel the past through the soles of my feet at a tiny holocaust memorial overlooking the remains at Keramikos, as if long forgotten passions struggled to be known and revered through the many layered paving between my tread and those remnants of love and loss stored in the suffocated ground.

❤great video thank u x❤

Brilliant video. Thank you for introducing me to Tarkovsky’s films. I’ve watched Ivan’s Childhood and Stalker. Will watch again and concentrate on the music. Xx Your oldest fan

Greetings from Hydra ❤

I’ve been collecting entrance music for many years, and I always love seeing JJ talk about it. So great seeing his enthusiasm on being asked about melody, which is missing from many current WWE themes. For example, take one of my personal favorite JJ themes, Brother Love’s “Love My Brother”. If you REALLY listen to it, there’s an ascending three-note motif that recurs throughout the piece, played in different ways. That’s a lot of care put into a piece that only plays during a talk show segment on a wrestling show.

fantastic video thank you!

I’m pretty sure Jim Johnson didn’t make Roman’s theme

His music always makes me feel comfortable. I think he should keep on spreading his amusing anecdotes online as long as he lives since we enjoy listening to them.

I personally don't get the hype, sure the production is really interesting but I think that's the only thing carrying it for me. I think it's decent, but I can't enjoy it outside of a party setting unlike other party music I enjoy. Sort of like judging a comedy on how funny it is watching it alone. I do think she is one of the more interesting artists in the mainstream.

I visited Hydra the summer of '68, when anyone who knew anything at all about LC knew him as a poet and novelist. I recall renting a shared room for 70 cents a night, which might partly explain its attraction for artists. Even then, there were yachts parked in the harbor. Certainly one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, with magnificent sunsets.

you are so brat

Ten years from now the public will be utterly saturated with splendid but AI generated film. I foresee a revival of Dogme 95 in the next generation of film makers.

Mean girls is so underrated.

I loved this! So well done!

Undertakers theme deserves a classical music award and recognition. The "feel" of the theme song is magical. That song alone grants him legendary musician status. I stand on that 100%!

I don't know why, I've never been into music like this. Also, that next video sounds interesting.

I don't think there were all that many driven out of concert halls by Babbitt et al because their music wasn't played all that often. If you look at what was being programmed during that period it accounted for a tiny amount of the music being scheduled for playing.

For me the soundtrack is what sends bully over the edge and makes it a classic ps2 title. You can boot up the game today never having played it before, and you’ll feel right back in those early 2000s days anyway. Bully also has some of my favorite characters from rockstar ever.

amazing soundtrack, great dissection of it :)

I love the Bully OST the best vibes Shawn Lee is awesome

One of my absolute favourite composers - hard to believe that the same man wrote "It's gonna rain", Different Trains, Desert Music...and Music for 18 Musicians, You Are Variations, various Counterpoint works. Mr. Reich has really evolved his art. I can't believe Steve Reich is 87 here! Wonderful interview with great questions.

love the man

Great video! At 7:00, I see no3 in parentheses. I was wondering what that refers to?

Fascinating stuff! I can really feel your frustration that you couldn’t figure out that background noise, haha

i love the adams family gremlins mood

Great callout about the soundtrack embodying the dichotomy of the delightful absurdity and the dark underbelly of the game. Probably my favorite game soundtrack of all time, and quite possibly the most distinct ever.

😮🎶

why does the interview have horrible droning electronic music playing loudly over the speech?

In light of our current predicament, this line from the text of "The Desert Music" always stuck with me: "Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish." --William Carlos Williams

Yo this video deserves way more attention! I absolutely love the Bully soundtrack. I've made a few tracks in GarageBand just messing around and Shawn Lee's composition style in Bully has been a big influence.

Anotzer radiohead song that might be inspired by jazz is sail to the moon which reminds me of skating in Central Park by Bill Evans and Jimm hall

Marvellous!

Danke für diesen wunderbaren, bewegenden Film.

38:52?

what a fantastic short doc. Loved the lounging cats and pup! The mule was a nice photo as well. Don't be too hard on yourself, still glad you shared the photo's of the telephone poles...and they were interesting to look at, I had never seen Hydra telephone poles before...so thank you, now I can say I have. LOL. Cheers! Or should I say...OPA!

Many thanks for the video and for the world of 1960's Greece that it brings back to my memory (I am 4 years younger than LC). I remember visiting Hydra in the early summer of 1964, the year I left Greece where I was born and raised, for the wonderful world of Berkeley, California, that was even more inspiring than the Hydra of 1960's. LC, George Johnson, Charmian Clift, were unknown then among Greeks, and I didn't find out about them till I emigrated to Canada in the 1970's, where I still live. It is too bad that LC did not engage with Greece while living there. These were the years that Greek poetry and music soared, fuelled by the country's turbulent politics and the efforts to get rid of the stifling post-WWII rightwing climate and the wounds of the civil war. Dear L:eonard, as a fellow Montrealer that I was for 20 years, I feel affection for you, but your music and poetry leave me cold. Too much introspection brings what we saw in the Hydra group, divorces and suicide and children growing up in sigle parent families, and very little impact on the society where we live. In contgrast the Ballad of Mauthausen, written by a Greek poet and playwrite amd put into music by Mikis Theodorakis, continues to stir up my 86-year old soul many decades after I heard it for the first time.