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 🤞.