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Bouts – new EP – lovely stuff
Meaty music. So my old band have a new EP out. We Tried, which is a better song than The Script’s We Cry, is the lead “single” from it. It sounds massive. As briefly explained in this introductory tumblr post, … Continue reading
Posted in Bouts, featured, Ireland, Music, Sunburnt Jets, Videos
Tagged bouts, Dublin, green lights, recording, Sunburnt Jets
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Cru-ou-ou-ou-el // a short post about St. Vincent and All Saints Day
That was then… And this is now… [disclaimer – “Cruel” is a potential video and song of the year candidate, it will lodge itself in your consciousness] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTfiOuoAF20 So I talked before about my favourite ever show – Sufjan Stevens … Continue reading
Posted in featured, Ireland, Live Reviews, Music, Videos
Tagged all saints day, Dublin, gigs, olympia, pj harvey, st vincent, sufjan stevens, The National., vicar street
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Gandhi. Some fellah.
You think you know Gandhi? My arse you do. So the tenuous lead-in before the funny facts… Great South Africans was a 2004 TV show that looked to count down the country’s most important figures but was cancelled due to … Continue reading
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Ah!! Jessica Chastain is EVERYWHERE!
SEVEN films in 6 months?! So a year ago at TIFF, I saw The Debt (Aug 31). It was fine, but the fact it’s taken a year to see the light of day with a general release in North America … Continue reading
Posted in featured, Movies, Upcoming
Tagged al pacino, chastain, coriolanus, gate theatre, ginger, jessica chastain, redhead, take shelter, terence malick, texas killing fields, The Debt, the gate, the help, TIFF, TIFF10, tree of life, wilde salome
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My TIFF 2011 movie schedule!
336 films. 11 days. Another year has rolled around. It’s been 12 months since I kinda kick-started my blog for the first time after a hiatus and wrote My TIFF 2010 movie schedule! and TIFF thoughts & 123 movie reviews. … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Movies, TIFF
Tagged andrea arnold, ben wheatley, Binoche, Carey Mulligan, coming soon, coppola, dardenne, elles, fassbender, film, film festivals, gate theatre, herzog, into the abyss, jason segal, jeff who lives at home, kill list, martha marcy may marlene, Midnight Madness, olsen, preview, prison, prisons, shame, the deep blue sea, the kid with a bike, theatre, TIFF, tiff11, Toronto, twixt, val kilmer, wuthering heights
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Cyber Security in Ubuntu
Cyber attackers are always looking for different ways to gain access to your systems. For instance, some are exploiting open ports and unpatched systems. This often requires a level of sophistication to bypass some of the most protective firewalls available … Continue reading
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Tagged dentist, health, little shop of horrors, steve martin, summer, summer 2011, teeth
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Implementing SEO can lead to more conversions
Implementing SEO can lead to more conversions. There are no shortcuts! If you want to grow your business or gain an edge in Google search results, you need to put in the time, effort, and knowledge required to do SEO … Continue reading
Sunburnt Jets – retreat // out of here // blood brick
retreat. retreat. retreat. So last Friday, Sunburnt Jets aka Colin Boylan aka mybrotherfromanothermother (and father) released a batch of 3 new songs. This retreat // out of here // blood brick EP follows on from his Low Flying Crow LP … Continue reading
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Tagged Dublin, Ireland, melodic post apocalyptic noise pop, monaghan, Sunburnt Jets
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Imagine an alternative version of The Sound of Music…
The hills are alive… I really love The Sound of Music. Visiting the sets in Salzburg and taking the coach tour around the mountains was one of the highlights of my 2003 inter-railing experience. Most people would probably say getting … Continue reading
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Tagged auditions, Burt Reynolds, inter-railing, Mia Farrow, Salzburg, The Sound of Music, Tom Selleck
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I’m a scatman… // Scatman Crothers 1910-1986
It’s a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody. So if I said to you one of my favourite actors is famous for appearing in two of cinema’s best-loved celebrations of madness, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The … Continue reading
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Tagged attention bebe, Blackface, Chico and the Man, Disney, Jack Nicholson, Kubrick, NBC, One Flew over the cuckoo's nest, Orson Welles, Scatman Crothers, Scatman John, The Shining, Transformers
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Nice Winter! // Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Five dollar casio. The new Bon Iver album, “Bon Iver, Bon Iver“, is fantabulous and worthy member of my “best of the year so far” top 5. I think there are a number of reasons I feel this way. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bon Iver, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Vernon, Kanye, late-night TV, Sound Academy, Stephen Colbert, The National.
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Gail from Corrie looks really like Kermit the Frog
It’s uncanny right? And I’m not the only one to think this either, check out the Facebook group “gail platt looks an awful lot like kermit the frog???“. For once, 50 people agree with me. So this silly revelation does … Continue reading
I AM ONE // Happy birthday blog
Birthday Bumps!!! So a year ago I was just arriving in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA world cup and figured it would be useful to have an online depository for travel writing, videos, photos and your typical self-effacing and … Continue reading
