Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month. Think of Dispatch as my hopefully monthly mixtape from the internet with no real theme except “this was neat.”
Videos
This School Is Now our Family Home… Come Inside! - Renovation videos scratch my home design itch and this does that very well. The house has a charm that most modern houses lack and the owner made some amazing design choices while actively honouring the house’s past as a school.
What do you do when life gives you a million lemons? - South of France is undoubtedly beautiful but add a lemon (yes, the citrus fruit) festival to it with a Luke O’Sullivan twist and that makes for an interesting video.
Something very weird is happening on Tinder - Christophe investigates why more and more dating profiles look normal up until you hit the last photo. The rabbit holes leads down to potential scams.
CHINA - Why did I not know China was like this? - who doesn’t love a hidden gem? This easily makes China climb up my travel wish list.
Music
2500 Montréalers sing L. Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in perfect harmony at Place Des Arts - It’s quite amazing what a bunch of people can do in a choral setup with minimal practice.
The only new full length album I listened to and really liked was WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA by Slayyyter. A friend of mine put me on CRANK and thank heavens they did cause the entire album is funky, ravey and stank-faceable. CRANK IT (UH).
Films & Shows
I absolutely loved these shows that had their season finales air in April:
- Shrinking - tender is the word.
- Invincible - they still need to improve the animation style but what a story.
- Abbott Elementary - thank the Lord for mockumentary shows.
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - this is the only one I didn’t watch this month but since Dispatch didn’t even exist when it aired, I’ll make the exception. The show is a great relaxed prequel to Game of Thrones following Dunk & Egg (think Pod & Tyrion) while closely resembling the books. It remains my favourite show of the year… so far at least.
While I also enjoyed these movies:
- Cruella (2021)
- Dune (2021) - I finally gave in and fell head over heels . My initial thought was I’d watch in bits just due to the sheer length of the film and my time back then but I ended up watching it in one seating. I’ll definitely get to the second part soon in anticipation of the third.
Podcast
George Michael: Beyond the Scandal, Behind the Icon - The hosts cover star behind “Careless Whisper” beyond the headlines and scandals. They describe is as “a moving reexamination of fame, queerness, and survival in a decade that preferred not to look too closely” and I couldn’t agree more. This podcast is quickly becoming one of my favourites, and some other amazing episodes for me are that of Amy Winehouse and Sir David Attenborough.
Articles
How I Discover New Blogs - I’ve been asked this question more than once before and Kev very nicely answers it. I love it when bloggers link to other posts/blogs in their post and that’s my primary method of discovery.
That’s all for this month’s Dispatch. See you in May 🤞.
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