#Beautiful South

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I love you till my fountain pen runs dry

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TRACK REVIEW: Off Balance - Carl Green In Particular

Following the quintessentially quirky Off Guard, Carl Green has released his final EP of 2023: Off Balance. With a vocal likeness to Paul Heaton, Carl proclaims messages of love, bitterness and anger; a wonderfully eclectic mix of tales. Opening with The Union Hotel, a dreamy vibe creates a feeling of far-off, protected memories. Carl professes the importance of living in the moment as events are occurring, romanticising a relationship and the world of the Union Hotel. Arguably the best track of the whole ensemble is Algorithm and Blues: a critique of social media algorithms and how we are conditioned to feel as a result of the gaze of society. The track as a whole has an electronic and distorted feel to it - as though trapped within a computer screen - just out of reach from the rest of the world. Good Job You Screamed contains fast-paced strings and sparse piano notes which create an unsettling feeling of pressure. Tension builds up throughout the track as Carl describes the anger involved during a break-up, especially with the other person lashing out and victimizing themself. The closing track, Fine Arts Student, discusses the nature of an artist parting ways with the world of art due to society's now normalised standard of what 'art' must be. It questions why we must put 'art' into boxes of good and bad allowing it to lose all sense of creativity and freedom of expression. Once again, Carl has created a beautiful collection of songs, though all with a similar, quirky style unlike his usual genre-defying creations.

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Feature LP / Beautiful South - Blue is The Colour (1996) / 6pm ET

Blue Is the Colour is the fifth studio album from English band the Beautiful South, released October 21, 1996 through Go! Discs and in America through Ark 21 Records. The album was released following the two singles “Pretenders to the Throne” and “Dream a Little Dream”, which never featured on any album until the release of the second greatest hits Solid Bronze in 2001. The album continued the…

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How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

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A while ago, I found this pic, and then came across this on TV tropes:

Leslie Nielsen, who played Sgt. Buck Frobisher, was the son of a Mountie in real life. During his first appearance on the show, he took Paul Gross aside and told him that he was lacing his boots incorrectly and then proceeded to teach him the proper way for a Mountie to tie his shoes.

I find the whole quote extremely endearing (and also vividly Canadian).

P.S. If you want to see more Due South stuff, go check out the fest for the 30th anniversary! There's a lot to see! @ds30below

[iamtryingtobelieve]

And the Sunday sun shines down on San Francisco Bay

And you realise you can't make it anyway

You have to wash the car, take the kiddies to the park

Don't marry her

Fuck me

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Jeju Island, South Korea

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Make a Wish and Blow by Eury Kim

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South African women : Thabee Happy