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An Eye for Arovision - Issue 14

What to watch on Welly’s local streaming service This week's focus: animation! Though this genre has become somewhat synonymous with family-friendly films (which do deserve credit themselves—The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) is in my top 4, after all), animation can also feature adult themes for older audiences such as yourselves to enjoy. This doesn’t necessarily mean sexy stuff—theres plenty of melancholia to go around. Arovision has a lovely selection of artsy animation, so go

ALBUM REVIEW: MOUNTAIN – “CLIMBING!”

Love, death, and the very essence and origin of hard rock. Taine Knox for The Mindstate. The disbanding of legendary band Cream in 1968 changed music history. The supergroup featured Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, who all went on to have solo careers of their own—to varying degrees of success—while others were left in the fallout. One such example was their producer and frequent collaborator Felix Pappalardi—a man who would go on to lead a career which was, more

Mount St. Cemetery

Gemma Moore The wind takes up the most space between us now. If I lie on my back and stick out my tongue, all you have to give me is one hundred years and a few more days, and I’ll grow moss like all the other gravestones that brave the wind. I’m braving it. The air looks thick, rosé and grabbable, floating just out of my swipes. I glare at the overbearing clouds, repugnant of their dominion. Moody teenage weather, I cussed it out, but all it could hear was something like unh

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