I don’t care what colour
my passport is, I care
that I have one, I care that
many don’t and will not ever
have the chance to travel, to experience
love and hope, regret and passion
in another country.
I don’t care what colour
of the rainbow it wants to be,
It could be gold with regal spots
or have the emblem of the house
of fools tattooed upon its outer shell,
I care that this is our red line in the sandbox,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Chaos is the random art of unexpected beauty, the commotion that can be handled and ordered but to which somehow you let gather pace because when you see it unfold you start to understand that confusion is the Salvador Dali painting made universal and the turmoil of structure rebelling against itself. It is the dam that breaks, the hundred school children in a hall with one teacher, the island that sits in judgement on a group of boys and turns them to savages and chaos is at its finest when you appreciate that This Is What Happens When a Fly Lands In your Food.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Judy Davies, Jackie Hoffman, Alfred Molina, Stanley Tucci, Alison Wright, Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic Burgess, Joel Kelley Daunton, Kathy Bates, Kiernan Shipka, Molly Price, Serinda Swann, Sarah Paulson.
In many ways Hollywood has not changed a single bit since someone put up a soundstage, started the cameras rolling for the first time and a voice in the background shouted out with a booming voice, action. Men have always called the shots, it isn’t right, it can be downright obscene and for many, change has just not happened quickly enough.
Happy Holidays,
it was always worth a try
to inject a phrase into a time
to which I feel no connection.
Happy Christmas, goes, goes, goes
to the back of the pile,
not one for the season of Santa
and his air traffic controlled nose
reindeer, Blitzen and adding
Donner meat to the Kebab
rammed down the throat, drunk
on Christmas Eve, traffic cone on head
and singing loudly at midnight.
Having worked in retail and in catering,
the best thing about it was willing
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Any Moment Now; an outburst of declaration, a quiet inward wish, a spoken treaty with fate, whichever way you tend to look those three small words, they are weighted with expectation, demand and more than enough hope inside of them. Any moment now, the realisation of years of practise, of dedication and often setback will conjoin and see the lightning strike in the same place twice, leaving the onlooker dazed by the flash of brilliance but rejoicing in having been able to witness its arrival.
It is nearly time
to put my well worn shoes
at the back of the wardrobe, making sure to
cover them up so
nothing falls in
and causes me to yell out in surprise
come the middle of January
when I start this madness
once again.
Surprised that they have lasted all year,
the red boots, have served me well
and deserve the foot rest
that this festive period
that bleeds into New Year hope
and dreams already dashed
as other’s resolutions canker and spoil, provide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Don’t Let the Devil Drive, but then He does write all the best tunes and offers the finest scathing one liners to which he has no issue in you pursuing and making your own, when all is Said And Done, if the ride is free and you get to shoot the breeze with someone who is going to plant random gems in your mind then don’t just let the Devil drive, make him sing as well.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When the light becomes overpowering, when the tales and myths of the age of reason become too much and threaten to bring darkness, there is always salvation to be found, a restorer of balance, a new birth in which to celebrate and take thanks in. The Chronicles of Light may have faded under the weight of the scribe’s pen but in the following year, that self same scribe has come to realise there is now in the ashes of midnight’s dusk, the Dawn of Aquarius and it is brighter, more bold and adventurous than before.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
If you can imagine a smile, beaming in the face of adversity, usually thankful for just having made it through each day without causing some sort of incident in which the brain will replay it over and over again till the subject becomes engrained, scarred, indelibly stamped on the forehead and seared like a brand on a cattle farm somewhere deep in the heart of Texas. If you can imagine that smile, then it doesn’t matter what they call you, you are in the realm of the Dumb Animals and it is arguably the best place to be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Once upon a time, in a land far away from the shores of Britain, was a place in which almost anything seemed possible, it was to many who heard the sound of the siren like adverts, a place of opportunity and sunshine, of a fresh optimism, a definite sense of positivity compared to the grey and the soggy brow beaten of the British Isles.