Nature smiles at the irony
that is on display in the side step of land
that acted as the border between the heathen
appreciation and the Godly interloper. The whisper
that has seen the branches of green rise up
and mushroom their canopy of shade
over the entire wall and threatens to engulf
and convert the minds of all
who live down St. Andrews Road into saluting
the wonder
of environmental progress as the battle for hearts and minds
is out of control.
It won’t last of course,
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Some people leave you in your oblique and obliging darkness happy to see you suffer under the weight of their own expectant failure, they curse your own breath as well as damning their own and they make it harder for you to like and appreciate their work. Some though, such as Paul Wilkes, don’t just place the listener back upright again, removing the slant-thought perspective that has been dragging them down, they insist that once they are done putting back together the musical soul that you also Take The Sunlight they have brought in to dispel the darkness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Louai Alhenawi, Alia Alzougbi, Roskar Nasan, Sanaa Wehbe.
Storytelling is such an important facet of human nature that it strides, like music, across the many diverse and wonderfully different regions and countries of the world. Our own culture, derived as it is originally from many distinct and rampaging races and creeds, is full of folk tales and parables from many customs and backgrounds that it surely is a thrill when the sounds and stories of another area of the world comes and adds more influence to life.
I smile,
though I am no villain,
flawed and complicated, problematic and absurd yes,
but no villain am I.
I smile
because the alternative is to scream,
to take the point of existence out of the illogical equation
and drown it, submerge it, threaten
to immerse it under so much sea water
that the pain will stop
after a while
and the easy breathe of innocence, so sweet,
will fill my lungs with joy.
I smile
because the alternative is
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10
Sparkle Unleashed is a puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The game had previously been released on many platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows since 2014 and is the latest sequel to the critically acclaimed Sparkle series with this latest version also earning such acclaim too, but how does the PS4, PS3 and Vita versions compare to what has went before them?
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Even now there are few female stars that could hold a candle to the extraordinary all-round performer Judy Garland. A woman who was possibly the epitome of the saying of being born into show business as a famous old trunk in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, could attest if it could talk. She would become the ultimate star of screen as she made hearts melt in film roles such Love Finds Andy Hardy, Strike Up The Band, For Me and My Gal, Meet Me in St. Louis and of course as the young Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz.
It is the whisper of uncertainty that growls
softly next to my ear and throws punches that strike
between my ribcage and pummels the heart
over and over again. The shouts of derision
of the fear and loathing in the back of my mind,
whispering slowly, the crescendo damning with faint praise
and the suffering of the crested rejection never far behind
the swell of the tsunami breaking itself apart
on the polystyrene rock of my thoughts;
the erosion of Time left ever scared on my scared
and fractious mind.
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Who is really controlling who? That may as well be the burning question as Muse release their latest album, Drones, onto Britain’s music lovers’ ears. A question that gets murkier day by day, that gets lost in the very society which at times is preoccupied with being shown the way rather than living it and making their own mistakes, to err is after all Human, to do nothing is be an echo of one’s former self, the whisper of a murmur wrapped in a drone.
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Cast: Rob Castell, Nick Cavaliere, Tamzin Griffin, Sinead Matthews, Joseph Timms, David Webber, Tim Lewis, Simon Dormandy.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts…well not quite absolutely, especially when Time and the clockman are on your side.
However fleeting Time is, when naked ambition and naivety meet corporate greed and rank stupidity, Time is not adverse to having a laugh at the expense of the system so proudly held up as the shining beacon in which to chase a profit is seen as good. To knock someone the moment they have delivered that fortune seen as even better and in which some boardrooms up and down the country of late have saw fit to rival. It only takes one man though to make a mockery of it and The Hudsucker Proxy is born.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Secrets are what define us, whether its personal or the thought of how we would truly like to be seen but the fear of rejection is too much to live with; secrets haunt us, spur us ever onwards and by keeping one close to your heart, can endear you to a friend for the rest of their lives.