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welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. inevitably, we associate artists with the times in which they emerge and the work which brings them widespread acclaim. so it is with my guest today, michael stipe, lead singer of the american band rem, who were pioneers of an indie rock sound which emerged from a georgia college campus in the 80s and won worldwide acclaim in the 1990s. now, he s a visual artist who records new music sparingly. he says the best art is about bravery, confronting fear. so what has he been frightened of? thank you. how are you, stephen? michael stipe in berlin, welcome to hardtalk. i am very well, delighted to see you. i think it s fair to say that we all think of you, first and foremost, as a musician, but these days, your primary focus seems to be visual art and i m just wondering whether that visual sense was with you from the very beginning. yeah, i actually started as an art student, but prior to that, i took up photography at 1a. it was wh ....
who were pioneers of an indie rock sound which emerged from a georgia college campus in the 80s and won worldwide acclaim in the 1990s. now, he s a visual artist who records new music sparingly. he says the best art is about bravery, confronting fear. so, what has he been frightened of? michael stipe in berlin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. how are you, stephen? i am very well, delighted to see you. i think it s fair to say that we all think of you, first and foremost, as a musician, but these days, your primary focus seems to be visual art and i m just wondering whether that visual sense was with you from the very beginning. yeah, i actually started as an art student, but prior to that, i took up photography at 1a. it was when i was 15 years old that i discovered the cbgb punk rock scene in new york and patti smith, and i bought her record the day it came out, and then i kind of never looked back. but i took photographs the whole time that i was performing and writi ....
committee. it includes medicare expansion for dental, vision dental care and vision care. oh, wow. this is really. these numbers are extraordinary, but the actual details of what s in this legislation, include things people have thought made sense for decades, literally decades but never saw the opportunity. but here we are on the on the democrats-only bill tonight, budget committee unanimous agreement. that means it s going to make it out of the budget committee. mark warner represents what you d probably consider the manchin wing of the budget committee. bernie sanders represents the other side of the democratic party. they re all in agreement. so, lawrence, on a scale of 0, nothing s happening to 100, joe biden is signing the legislation where does that put us on the number line in terms of how close we are to the beginning? what s that? it s way up there for this package. the bipartisan package is its own track and is holding together remarkably well. ....
big ufc fight this weekend. laura: yes! hannity, awesome show. all right, i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. last night, anthony fauci took to the airwaves and told americans to get over it, just go get the shot. well, one woman did just that. she is here tonight to share her harrowing experience. it s a story you will not see anywhere else. but first, hide your kids. that is the focus of tonight s angle. now, it s often said that the children are our future, and of course, that s exactly why the left wants to take them from parents who don t buy into their twisted agenda. everywhere you look, in a myriad of ways, forces are working overtime to undermine parental rights in and their judeo-christian values, from teachers unions to gender activist to biden s vaccine pushers, we are seeing a concerted effort backed by some of the biggest financial interests out there to indoctrinate our children into a dark mind-set of anti-americ ....
to nothing is happening, to 100, joe biden is signing the legislation, where does that put us on the number line in terms of how close are we to the end? this is way up there for this package. the bipartisan package is its own track. it s holding together remarkably well. president biden is going to do something truly extraordinary tomorrow. he s actually going to go to the senate, democrats, luncheon in the capital tomorrow. something he went two for 36 years as a senator, i know he went a few times as vice president i never saw the president do that in either party when i was working in the senate. it is really where thing. i can almost feel joe biden s eagerness to get up there. really lock in the deal in the full senate the full democratic side of the senate tomorrow after what they have accomplished in the budget committee tonight. so you think that this gets us closer to the end than the beginning? there has been so much news about every procedural step he ....