We all have a story, here's mine.

I’m Edward Julian Micu — a writer who loves picking apart the stories we stumble into, whether they show up in films, books, music, games, TV, or podcasts. I’m a lifelong cinephile and melomaniac, but not in the encyclopedic, gatekeeping sense. I don’t claim expertise. I just pay attention, follow my curiosity, and sit with the way a piece of art lingers after it’s finished.

What you’ll find here isn’t academic analysis or industry insider talk. It’s me thinking out loud about the things I watch, read, listen to, and play — the works that move me, unsettle me, blindside me, or quietly echo in my head days later. Sometimes that means a film’s emotional undercurrent or visual language. Sometimes it’s a song that reshapes my mood for an entire afternoon. Sometimes it’s a novel that hits harder than expected, or a game mechanic that carries more meaning than its surface suggests.

Cinema and music are at the core of how I experience stories. I’m fascinated by how films communicate without words — through rhythm, framing, performance, silence — and by how music can deepen, subvert, or completely recontextualize emotion.

I’m especially drawn to how soundtracks, songs, and musical choices transform scenes, characters, and memory itself. A single melody can say what dialogue never could, and I love tracing why that works.

More broadly, I’m interested in how stories operate across mediums and cultures: how narrative changes when it’s interactive instead of observed, how TV pacing alters our relationship with characters, how podcasts build intimacy through voice alone, how books create entire worlds out of language, and how music travels across borders more freely than almost any other art form. I like connecting those dots — not to arrive at definitive answers, but to enjoy the act of searching.

This blog is my corner of the internet to follow those threads. To wander. To sit with uncertainty. To be surprised. To share the films, albums, books, and ideas that excite me, frustrate me, or teach me something new along the way.

No pretence. No gatekeeping. Just a genuine love for cinema, music, and the many worlds we get to step into — and an open invitation to talk about them with anyone curious enough to join the conversation.