I dipped my toe in the acid
and came out scarred
but alive, still in possession
of a beating heart,
and doesn’t that just annoy you
as you sit tapping your little
finger on the side
of your chair, despair
at your failure
to push my head in to the caustic
bubbling green-eyed material,
at least not enough to blind me;
despite the damage and the loose
appearance of my skin and dying flesh,
I am still whole, you
have never been more
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The school of thought that argues you should always be seen Chasing The Horizon is arguably more enticing and infinitely more exciting than believing that life can only be fulfilling if caught staring at four walls. Home maybe where the heart is but it is to the far-flung corners of the world in which our imagination and our lust for knowledge is able gather pace, to stretch out beyond what we know is surely the point of being a human being with a mission.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There have been times when people have sneered at the thought of an artist who wears the badge of spirituality on their coat sleeve, the muffled laughter and scorn behind the one hand, whilst extending the other outwards in some scene of warped lie, eager to hear the music, but reluctant, often deaf, to the message being spoken and urged.
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We have got so caught up in trying to survive the whims and demands of those to who feel we owe them thanks and penance, that we have largely forgotten that we are the masters of our own imagination. In that land we control, anything is possible and the only rules that are worth are damn is that there are no rules, no impediment to the scene you can create, no image that is not possible to float as an idea into the heart of someone you don’t know.
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Cast: James Hurn.
There have been institutions of comedy that have had either the whole country tuning in to watch the latest episode, or which have captured the imagination of the television viewer to the point where upon even hearing their last name said out loud, the programme’s introductory music or just a simple but much loved catchphrase can have them smiling broadly. The memory of these special people is such that even after 50 years since their untimely passing, they still have millions of fans who regularly tune in to any repeat on the television or radio.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is no shame in taking it to the limit, for by admitting your love for the song, the moment in which art fuels one’s very being, it becomes the beauty in the obsession; and even if you only see that fascination come out the shadows on the very odd occasion, the only decent response is to play for all your money is worth, to take that limit and see it go beyond the stars.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michell Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristopher Joner, Wolf Blitzer.
The more the series goes, the bolder, more intricate, daring, it arguably gets, if played out right, the ideas keep coming, the bond between the actors grows stronger and like a team that has ascended the same mountain range every year, the more sure-footed they become, the more trust there is between the cast. In Mission Impossible: Fallout that trust not only shows, it is indomitable, even with the new addition of the excellent Henry Cavill coming into the series as the C.I.A. hitman and enforcer August Walker.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In all the character additions to the D.C. Universe since both Batman and Superman first had the duopoly of the public’s sense of change in the way that comic strips could intrigue, entertain and have the possibility beyond the realm of existence of the two dimension, no time world that lived in the heart of the funny pages, the shorts and the one joke barbed laugh, then surely The Joker is the one that has captivated the minds of the reader and film lover the most.
I saw my Granddad’s ration
book once, held out to me
as a symbol of patient loss,
from the fall of the Canadian farmland
scrubbed dry and parched
in the ’36 Depression
to the bombs and shells
that descended, rained and flooded
around his Grandfather’s old fruit
and veg shop
opposite Stirchley baths;
in Time,
do I also hold out
the passing of this failed belief
in the form of a book
that we all must feel free
to express our gratitude,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world is facing a storm, one perhaps that has arguably not been faced for as long as the vast majority of us have ever been alive, the dilemma of the path being taken, the ship of fools that are leading us into the damned unknown and making us the scapegoats for their decisions. It is no wonder that in such a period of uncertainty we find ourselves believing that the individual and collective soul has been placed in a Straightjacket, that our hands are tied, and our thoughts constricted.