The Barbadian online, music streaming platform, which was started in 2017 with the “mission…to extend the Music Industry of Barbados from Seasonal to Year Round and promote the music of the Caribbean to a global audience”, will be introducing user accounts on August 7th.
Selecta Charts made the announcement yesterday via its Facebook page in their “Feel the Caribbean” trailer. It features Selecta Charts ambassador, local singer Ch’An, using the Selecta Charts website in various locations across the island. Ch’An teased upcoming developments on the platform during her recent appearance on the INO Podcast, hosted by Marcus Myers (Research and Some Sense, Pulse Radio Show) and Kofi Jones (The Lab Radio Show).
Watch the “Feel the Caribbean” trailer below:
https://www.facebook.com/SelectaCharts/videos/1620674201375158/
I haven’t seen the entirety of Amy Adams’ body of work, but based on what I have, it’s a bit shocking to see her playing a character who is as broken and messed up as Camille. She plays her very well too. Camille is a character who could be very easily detestable or come off as pathetic, or maybe even both. Adams, however, makes her sympathetic and relatable. It’s also very easy to sympathise with Camille when her mother comes into the picture.
Camille’s relationship with Amma is really weird. Amma in general is really weird. She drinks almost as much as Camille; quite a few of the times we see her when she’s not playing the role of the perfect daughter to Adora, there’s alcohol somehow involved. Being Adora’s daughter has screwed her up too and that’s why Camille covers for her all of the time. She knows what it’s like to be raised by their mother. I can’t tell if Amma is genuine when she says that she wants to get to know Camille better and have a real relationship with her, because she’s seems to always be trying to provoke her. She comes off as calculated and detached at times. She’s a bit disturbing in general and doesn’t seem to care about either of her parents.
I wish Camille and Richard would just work together. She would be valuable to his investigation. She’s already started to help him understand the people of Wind Gap and I believe that she can get information that he can’t. I think she might have from Bob Nash. He was very open to talking to her and didn’t seem to mind. I think the fact that she didn’t think he killed his daughter, like everyone else did, and just wanted to hear what he had to say helped with that. The whole angle of her story – looking at how the murders affected the community – could help people open up to her, I think, more so than they would to someone investigating the murders. He’s said that they people of Wind Gap hate him. But we shall see.![Pose S01E08 [FINALE]](https://www.zgemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Pose-108_Header.png "Pose S01E08 [FINALE]")
Blanca was the heart and soul of this series and I loved her more and more with every episode. Truly, she is the most loving, caring, nurturing, kind, generous, inspiring and genuine character I have ever encountered in fiction. Her spirit is so pure. She is incredibly sympathetic and it’s hard not to love her as much as she loves everyone. Up to and including people who have wronged her. She has a profound capacity for forgiveness and compassion. She is one of the best characters to ever exist on screen.
Things were looking up for Damon and Ricky as well; they were cast as dancers in a music video and were going on tour with the artist. In more good news for Damon, he was accepted to his second year of university on scholarship. It didn’t seem like the tour would conflict with Damon’s school to me, the timing of the two wasn’t made clear. However, Damon had to choose and I’m glad that he chose school. It was hard to argue with Blanca’s argument that his staying in school to get better as a dancer for future opportunities.
The Ball in this episode was the best Ball in the entire season. The challenge between the House of Evangelista and the House of Ferocity was amazing, exhilarating and dramatic. It was perfection. It was such a triumph when House of Evangelista won. Candy and Lulu – Candy especially – were so unnecessarily mean and nasty, and not to mention arrogant, that for them to have lost to a house that they looked down their noses at was so satisfying.
At this point it’s safe to say that the ninth iteration of AnimeKon Expo – AnimeKon IX: World of Wonder – has more guests than the convention has ever had in it’s almost ten year existence. For the first time in the convention’s history, there will be seven featured guests in attendance.
I was so disappointed in Lil Papi in this episode – and to a lesser extent Angel and Damon. He may have been a pretty minor character in the grand scheme of the show, but he was so incredibly likeable. He had presence, charm and personality. All of that disappeared when Blanca confronted him about his drug dealing. There was an ugliness to him that I did not expect to see. He knew the rules going into Blanca’s home and he never had any intention of obeying them. Instead of apologising to Blanca and asking for her forgiveness, he was just unbelievably nasty to her and utterly disrespectful. And his fellow housemates as well.
I knew his banishment from the House of Evangelista wouldn’t stick. Blanca’s heart is too big and she loves those kids too much. So it was no surprise when she asked him to rejoin the house. She even apologised to him! Then to add further insult to everything he did, the ungrateful little git went and joined the House of Ferocity with Lulu and Candy. Just to be treated like nothing more than an errand boy! Lulu and Candy, much as I love them, are no better mothers than Elektra was to them. I’m looking forward to the rivalry between them and the House of Evangelista, though.
I wish her children had been a lot more supportive of her. She’d been quite financially irresponsible and lied to them about not paying the rent on the apartment, but still. As members of the same community, you’d think they’d have some sympathy for her plight. Plus, if Candy and Lulu had enough money to get another apartment and start the House of Ferocity, they certainly could have helped out financially at the House of Abundance. They’re just as ungrateful as Lil Papi.
The Ball was way too much for him. He was uncomfortable even before people were openly hostile toward him or tried to poach him from Angel. It was obvious that he was overwhelmed. It only became clear exactly just how overwhelmed he was when Angel returned to her apartment and found it completely empty. Like Patty said, Stan was weak. I just wish that Angel had gone back to Show World instead of the street corner.
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This episode picked up more or less right where the last left off with the confrontation between Patty and Angel. I was still surprised by how calmly Patty was handling everything. It was like she wasn’t even angry, only hurt. Perhaps that was the case. Angel’s reaction to Patty was a little disappointing simply because she was in no way apologetic. It’s one thing for his wife to be this person she knew existed and never interacted with, but seeing her in person and witnessing her feelings up close should have stirred something in her. Angel just…didn’t care.
I really liked Darius, incredibly corny as he was it was still very, very charming. His flirting worked on me just as much as it did on Blanca. It was so nice to see her getting that kind of attention and acting like a giddy school girl with a crush. It was adorable. Unfortunately he was just a giant man whore. That revelation just made me think back to Ricky at the start of the season and a part of me was hoping that, like Ricky, he’d give up his whoring ways because he found someone he really liked in Blanca. Who knows if that would have happened though, because she dropped him as soon as she found that out.
I’ve watched enough stuff to know that a character is about to die when they say something like:”When I die, don’t be sad. Move on and find love.” That was not in the back of my mind at all during Costas’ speech. All I was thinking about was how much Pray Tell needed to hear what he was saying because he had been avoiding the reality of Costas’ situation. He looked so much worse in this episode than he had in the last and it’d already been established that he wasn’t getting any better. It was honestly a shock when Pray Tell got the call that Costas had died. Especially given that he’d literally just given him the speech.
When Blanca got that phone call and screamed out, I was certain that she had gotten news that Pray Tell had died. Or Elektra had died during surgery. The last person that I expected was her biological mother. I loved how this episode explored, compared and contrasted mother-child relationships (Blanca with her biological mother, Blanca with Elektra, Blanca with her children and Elektra with her children) and familial bonds on the whole.
Fortunately, her sister at least came around. Literally and figuratively. The whole recipe book debacle was so petty and infuriating.I was surprised to see her sister since, if any of her blood relatives was to give her the book, I’d have expected it to be her aunt. I was quite happy when her sister turned down her breakfast invitation with “Not today.” It gives hope that perhaps one day she will. I’d like to think that the sisters are on the road to reconciliation and that their relationship will be repaired before Blanca dies.
As for Angel, she was busy pouting in a corner and playing games with Stan to try to get him to run back to her. I honestly found her to be rather irritating in this episode for being upset that the married man she got involved with, knowing full well that he was married, didn’t want to leave his wife for her. She knew what she was getting herself into. If she didn’t want to be a side chick…then why did she become his side chick?
Sons of Anarchy fans are sure to be in for a treat when they attend AnimeKon IX: World of Wonder this August 16th – 19th, because model, actress and dancer Natalie Skyy – who played Kiki, an Olsen Twin and a bartender on the hit show – will be guesting at this year’s edition of the convention.