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Romantic Works Before we get started, you need some context: The first time I listened to Rotten Fruit; Regular Orchard was Friday, January 8, 2021. It was two days after the attempted coup on the U.S. Capitol. I was reeling, but had to bottle everything up. I work in news and had to shut everything off so I could get the job done. I hadn’t allowed myself to feel it all. Then that Friday, I put my headphones in and turned on this album. It opened the gates to all that emotion I had been holding back and I just cried. This music hit me in a deeply profound way, and it helped me start to heal.
Review: 'Supernova' is a quiet burning star of a love story by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press Posted Jan 27, 2021 11:57 am EDT Last Updated Jan 27, 2021 at 11:58 am EDT The actors Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth have been friends for 20 years and that is plainly evident watching them play longtime lovers in the wrenchingly beautiful film “Supernova.” The award-winning duo are like a well-worn sweater onscreen, comfortable and lived-in, showing the kind of tart affection people show when ardour’s lust has given way to the slow burn of adoration. In a scene early on in “Supernova,” Tucci’s character asks Firth’s character how things are going. “It’s fine for me,” comes the steady reply. Tucci knows better: “Liar,” he says, simply.
Arlo Parks: On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self-confessed tom boy who was super sensitive and "uncool", she says it was like "I'm a black kid who can't dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class." By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album's worth of material. Growing up in South West London, half Nigerian, a quarter Chadian and a quarter French, Arlo Parks learned to speak French before English. A quiet child, she'd write short stories and create fantasy worlds, later journalling and then obsessing over spoken word poetry, reading American poets such as Ginsberg and Jim Morrison and watching old Chet Baker performances on YouTube. These days she references Nayyirah Waheed, Hanif Abdurraqib and Iain S. Thomas as her favourite modern poets, and it is clear that their works are as influential on her songwriting as any musician. Books too, such as The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Parks says, "the way Murakami writes in that book is how I aspire to write my songs; gritty and sensitive and human."
Best Comic of the Week: Post Americana #1 – Steve Skroce returns with a new series set after the fall of the American Empire. A secret government facility has been housing the remnants of the military, and a bunch of rich people, who are now ready to pull a First Order, and take over the Wasteland. A small group tries to stop them, and two escape. At the same time, a young woman is discovered by a tribe of cannibals and scavengers, who go to investigate the crash of the vessel the first two men escaped in. This is an irreverent look at post-Apocalyptic society, which owes as much to Garth Ennis’s Crossed as it does to movies like The Omega Man, and it’s kind of fun. Skroce is a great artist, and writes to his strengths, so there’s a lot to enjoy here.