Word: shinoda
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...with instructions, they might read something like this: 1. Argue with your mother. 2. Stomp off to your room. 3. Slam the door, crank up the stereo and sulk. Fitting this much angst into one album should be impossible, but this southern California quintet (vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson and DJ Joseph Hahn) proves conventional wisdom wrong on track after track of an album destined for heavy rotation in the stereos of disaffected suburbanites everywhere...
...Linkin Park's sound is the sort of sonic soup their audience hungers for: a handful of metal, a sprinkle of hip-hop and just a pinch of ambient. But the name of the game is consistency, and Bennington and Shinoda deftly pull together the squall of tracks like "Crawling" and "One Step Closer." Indeed, picking a first single must have been near-impossible, as there are no real duds on Hybrid Theory-each track offers something to hum or shout along with. At the same time, it's hard to ignore Linkin Park's packaged feel, from their myriad...
...meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. Except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted), Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meiji print...
...feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda's opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Dairen, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says, "People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted." But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers...
...planning and shooting a film. Oshima financed his last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk their own money and property to make movies...