There is no such thing as a beautiful morning,
the hours, the minutes just click by
between light and dark,
both coloured a charcoal grey,
and I grow tired of them both
being the same, even
when there is a handsome sun
riding the clouds like a lover gasping for air
or the moon desperately seeking solace,
away from prying eyes, shrinking
in its magnificence;
I find them both worthy of the same attention
and that is why
my blue eyes are closed.
Thank you for your Time,
it was precious to you and for a while
it consumed me, it overwhelmed
me that you should choose
to place each minute in my company;
thank you
for not allowing me to waste it,
as much as I could have done.
Ian D. Hall 2017
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Adam Stubbs, Isham R. Redford, Eve Smith.
There are so many classes of lies, the half truths, the simply tarnished and embellished, whether to get us out of trouble or to enhance our reputation within a certain social circle of friends, the lie can always be seen as the spectre in the crowd but also the warm and comfortable friend who covers us in her shroud as the day wears on. The statements of I am fine, I can cope, all is well, these are the white lies that are acceptable to others and in so making us the accomplice to the well meaning deceit, that we are White Liars who spread the white lie.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Will Arnett, Ralph Fiennes, Zach Galifianakis, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Jenny Slate, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Jermaine Clement, Ellie Kemper, Adam Devine, Kate Micucci, Seth Green, Jason Mantzoukas, Mariah Carey, Billy Dee Williams, Riki Lindhome, Eddie Izzard, Conan O’Brien, Doug Benson.
There is nothing like a good Batman film in which to soak up a few hours, Bob Kane’s gift to comic book fandom has had its ups and down, whilst enjoyable in a kitsch, clique ridden way, the 60s television and subsequent film didn’t add much to the mystique of the Dark Knight, whereas Michael Keaton’s and Christian Bale’s interpretation of the man and the myth was completely and beautifully captured by their respective directors.
It would never be just one last trip.
I would promise myself
that once I uttered, with tears in my throat
catching my breath and stalling the moment
in my final
goodbyes to the stone faced French lady
on the waters, no sword in hand, a now skewed vision
of what it was to be part of a less free world
in her dead expressionless eyes,
a monkey on her back, damned dirty
politics playing games with a woman I love,
it still would never be goodbye.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Passion is playful monster that at times never knows the boundaries in which has been set down by tradition; passion finds a way to break past the limitations imposed on the soul and charges without a care into the dark cold world and illuminates it far beyond anyone’s expectations.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The deepest cut to the psyche is not always done by others, although their actions on occasions define us and how devastating a blow it becomes to us; the longest cut, the simplest straight forward incision into our skin is because we want to know how the pain feels when inflicted by ourselves. The cut is enough to make us grow our Second Skin, the face we wear when the world is against us, that face that can be marked and bruised but never one to bow under the pressure of capitulation, this is reality of putting two fingers up to the detractors and kicking on in style.
I am acting as if there is no hurricane
enveloping me,
sweeping skywards,
battering me with all the forces of nature
that life can control.
I am a bystander
in my own self written pantomime,
the star of the show somebody
once uncast and negligent
in their approach to physical theatre
and they dodge the cream puff pie
with ease; that
is not how it was ever supposed to be.
The hurricane, the wind inside ferocious
and tedious lands on the stage, the principal boy
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is our own perceptions that shape the world as we see it, not the start to some far flung science fiction novel in which reality is a fluid state and one controlled by dark forces, but the everyday in which one person’s view of a situation can be drastically or even subtly different to another’s; in that moment perception can be altered and it is a state of emotional attachment that can shape adoration or fear of the unknown.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The orange and bright white lights of the Academy Two capture the essence of many musicians who pass underneath the black curtain and stand in front of what can be a tightly packed crowd, the thin veil of sweat mixing heavily with the heady perfume and the rippling veins of muscles working a guitar or taking the drums on at full speed adding to the drama of the night; Academy Two offers much in the way of music fulfilment.