Square is a studio album by Canadian hip hop musician Buck 65. It was released on WEA in 2002. Though it consists of four tracks, each track consists of multiple songs.
It was nominated for the 2003 Juno Awards for Alternative Album of the Year and Album Design of the Year.
Rollie Pemberton of Pitchfork Media gave Square a 7.0 out of 10 and called it "a melodic mix of folk rock sensibility, smooth early 90s style production, clever lyrical observations and a relatively enjoyable train ride into the mental station of Halifax's best-known emcee." Meanwhile, Clay Jarvis of Stylus Magazine gave the album a grade of B+, saying, "Square is built solely out of his strengths: hazy introspection, sparse snare-and-kick beats and simple, dismal instrumental refrains."
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Square was a short-lived musical trio from Lincoln, Nebraska who moved to Southern California in early 2000. It was composed of Sean Beste (vocals and keyboards), James Valentine (guitars) and Ryland Steen (drums). Their sound has been described as including elements of rock, pop, and jazz fusion.
The band moved to Orange County after entering an Ernie Ball-sponsored band competition. They won the grand prize, beating 600 other entrants. Shortly after winning the competition, they released their only full-length album, This Magnificent Nonsence, on an indie label called Lucy Smith Music. The band started playing many gigs in the area, including some with local band Kara's Flowers.
In 2001, the members of Kara's Flowers asked Valentine to join their group, an invitation that he accepted, effectively dissolving Square. Kara's Flowers changed its name to Maroon 5 and became one of the most commercially successful acts of the mid-2000s. Steen later joined the established ska band Reel Big Fish. Beste (who was initially upset and unhappy by Valentine's decision to leave Square but says he no longer harbors any ill will) started a band called The Excuse and moved to Portland, Oregon for several years. He has since returned to the Los Angeles area and has done some work with the band Maxeen.
Square, Inc. is a financial services, merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California. The company markets several software and hardware payments products, including Square Register and Square Reader, and has expanded into small business services such as Square Capital, a financing program, and Square Payroll. The company was founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey and launched its first app and service in 2010. It has been traded as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange since November 2015 with the ticker symbol SQ.
Square Register allows individuals and merchants in the United States, Canada, and Japan to accept offline debit and credit cards on their iOS or Android smartphone or tablet computer. The application software ("app") supports manually entering the card details or swiping the card through the Square Reader, a small plastic device that plugs into the audio jack of a supported smartphone or tablet and reads the magnetic stripe. On the iPad version of the Square Register app, the interface resembles a traditional cash register.
Actors: Kevin Cline (actor), Andy Ferguson (actor), Sean Pierce (actor), Zach Harris (director), Zachary Harris (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Ian Fang (actor), Edwin Goh (actor), Patrick Pei-hsu Lee (actor), Nanxing Li (actor), Kai Chi Liu (actor), Xavier Ong (actor), Yida Phua (actor), Kimberly Chia (actress), Tsu-Ping Chiang (actress), Elizabeth Lee (actress), Li Nanxing (producer), Alex Oh (composer), Steve Cheng (director),
Plot: He Jianhao is released from the Boys' Home and his mother Huifang, is worried that he would be led astray again. Thus, she wants him to look after her stall in Bugis under her stepsister's supervision. Jian Hao's girlfriend Shanshan also manages to convince him to retake his O-levels. Jian Hao is getting back on the right path and his future seems promising. Jianhao's friend, Zach, joined a gang Yi Ren Tang to get protection as he is always bullied by Alex. Wang Guodong is a gang leader of 660 and also the father of Alex. Jianhao joined the Yi Ren Tang after much persuasion from Zach...
Genres: Action, Crime,Actors: Jesse Adams (actor), Ash Davito (actor), Shawn Harris (actor), Michael Wayne Thomas (actor), Joy D'Lafose (actress), Monique Jeter (actress), Crystal Maywald (actress), Chantal Nicole (actress), Adrienne Dene (producer), Jason Jae Evans (producer), Jason Jae Evans (producer), Mike Fair (producer), Susan Fowler (producer), Joseph A. Elmore Jr. (writer), Kirk Greninger (composer),
Plot: The movie confronts the epidemic transmission of HIV/AIDS in the African American Community and many of the controversial issues surrounding its transmission including: prison relationships and the rapid transmission among inmates, bisexual black men that frequently practice unsafe sex with male and female partners, and the conflict between the homosexual lifestyle and the traditional values of the African American community. The story focuses on Jesse, a beautiful black woman, in love with an ex-con named Square, who portrays himself as an educated black man with a hip hop swagger, but is haunted by his double life as a bisexual, and who is burdened by a very "Dark Secret."
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Mark Goulet (actor), Evelyn Ciampa (actress), Biljana Labovic (producer), Bill Plympton (producer), Bill Plympton (director),
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Brad Baker (actor), John Blyth Barrymore (actor), Jonathan Benya (actor), Phillip Broussard (actor), Darren E. Burrows (actor), Kenny Curtis (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Joe Dallesandro (actor), Regi Davis (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Troy Donahue (actor), John Calvin Doyle (actor), Drew Ebersole (actor), Patrick Egan (actor), Steve Aronson (actor),
Plot: Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.
Keywords: 1950s, baby, biker, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, campy, courtroom, cult-director, dysfunctional-family, eyeglasses, fantasy-sequenceActors: James Cairncross (actor), George A. Cooper (actor), George Devine (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Albert Finney (actor), Julian Glover (actor), Hugh Griffith (actor), Wilfrid Lawson (actor), Jack MacGowran (actor), Micheál MacLiammóir (actor), John Moffatt (actor), Redmond Phillips (actor), Jack Stewart (actor), David Tomlinson (actor), Peter Bull (actor),
Plot: In eighteenth century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy's servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, was raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own after he sent Jenny away. Tom is randy, chasing anything in a skirt, he having a sexual relationship on the sly with Molly Seagrim, the peasant daughter of Allworthy's gamekeeper. Tom is nonetheless kind-hearted and good-natured, he who is willing to defend that and those in which he believes. Blifil, on the other hand, is dour, and although outwardly pious, is cold-hearted and vengeful. Despite his randiness, Tom eventually falls in love with Sophie Western, who has just returned to the area after a few years abroad. Despite Sophie's love for Tom, Squire Western and his spinster sister would rather see Sophie marry Blifil rather than a bastard, who Western nonetheless liked before he knew that Tom liked Sophie. Based on half truths, Tom, out of circumstance, is forced to leave his home and strike out on his own in London. While Sophie sneaks away in search of Tom, and Squire Western and Miss Western go off in search of Sophie, Tom gets into one misadventure after another on his way to London, some involving his randiness, and some which will reveal certain aspects of his life previously unknown to him. Through it all, Sophie, deep down, is never far from his mind, even when his life is in danger.
Keywords: 1700s, 18th-century, 500-pound-note, adoption, arranged-marriage, assault, attempted-rape, aunt-niece-relationship, based-on-novel, bequestActors: Edward Astran (actor), Norman Bartold (actor), The Blackburn Twins (actor), Ramon Blackburn (actor), Ramon Blackburn (actor), Royce Blackburn (actor), Royce Blackburn (actor), Edward Clark (actor), Larry Craig (actor), Louis Cutelli (actor), Don DeFore (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Raymond Greenleaf (actor), F. Herrick Herrick (actor), Jimmy Ames (actor),
Plot: Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her former teacher John Palmer, now a professor at Midwest State... where she decides to begin her new college career. She rents a room; her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Among romantic complications, Angela helps the downtrodden dramatic arts department put on a potentially popular musical show...but someone's discovered her secret past. Does she have an ace up her garter?
Keywords: based-on-play, college, dancer, professorthomas must have been confused
there's nothing in here we can use
every road in every town
how could he know anyhow
solo highway headed east
headlights on
but we won't see the distance that we leave behind
will catch up with us in good time
yeah let's put the windows down
the desert makes a lovely sound pretense
disappears difference is we're still here
lincoln runs so nice from it all
i know what you want to hear
that the end of perquisite is near
i won't interfere with your work
and when i cry
you won't see
you won't hear
yeah pull over
we'll sleep here
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