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Adventures in Cinema; Los Angeles, CA
“Any day where I have a prolonged free period of time, I find myself at the movies. Unattached from my AMC A-List, I traversed the independent cinemas of Los Angeles more frequently than I had in any other city. I’ve found that this behavior is normal and acceptable in a place like Los Angeles; there is so much to do, and most of it revolves around art and culture, that which lingers on the past yet reimagines itself over and over. How can I possibly capture the cinematic culture of a city like this in a blog post?”
Bloodless Summer
“Samia writes like she has nothing to hide, in detailed poems with fragments of reality and metaphor. In Bloodless, she investigates the self she is left with after the music is released, and the songs are all played out and the audiences project their own lives and fears onto her work. Samia continuously flips the subject of each song inside out, so that the feeling and the experience that she sings about is omnipresent – in her voice, her songwriting, and the production in every second of the album.”