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Yamaha Motif XS7
Bert is back! Damn he's good though; I want a Motif so bad! Can I afford one? Well, yes actually. Can I play well enough to justify spending so much money? Not a chance! lol Maybe I'll try one of the older ones, or perhaps I'll just download a copy lol
Gina Gershon in Red Heat (1988)
I watched Red Heat yesterday. A buddy-cop cold war film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger... yeah its as "good" as it sounds. Gina Gershon looked fabulous though, great hair!... I'll give her 8 Jackson Pollocks out of 10. I really need to get some consistancy into that scale.
Picture Of The Week
Ian Anderson at Cork City Hall, December 2001
I was looking through some of my old photographs when it dawned on me that I can no longer tell what I have or have not blogged about. I guess thats one of the milestones of blogging everyone looks forward to: internet-related-alzheimers! Oh boy, I can't wait for HTTP-colon-cancer to come along!
I took the picture back in 2001 when Jethro Tull played Cork City Hall. I also attended the concert they put on in Dublins Point Depot the night before. I got in early and found a seat near the front. Feeling brave from the night before I decided to bring my camera with me. Nothing fancy, just my old Olympus OM-2n, a Tamron 28-200mm lens and a few rolls of 1600iso fuji film. I can remember it all so well because after spending most of the night snapping the odd shot here and there, I got busted by one of their roadies. He threatened to take the camera off me and throw me out. There are two bits of ironry connected to this: one, I was actually putting the camera away at the time and two, everyone around me was taking pictures! I pointed this out to him and he pointed back, "ah yeah but they havent got a camera like yours". I apologised profusely and he let me off with a warning. I'd have been better off if he took the film out the camera cos when I got them developed they were all shite! Ian Anderson must have put a hex on me or something.
I wouldnt say it ruined the night but I do wish the pictures came out better, to justify the incident. Apart from the one above and a few others theres nothing to write home about. I'm fairly sure the instruction to "decommission" me came from Anderson himself. Another bit irony really since he started taking photographs of the audience, with the best ones of the entire tour ending up on the official Jethro Tull website. Where did I put that model release form....
More Dire VIP Photography
April 2007, 94 issues and still dire.
Whats that reflecting in the picture on the right?
Oh look its a flash umbrella, the VIP trademark.
At least its not as obvious as the last time.
Jon Lord And Scenit Group @ DivX.com
I came across this today. A
Jon Lord, wondering if "Beyond The Boobs" would be a good title for his next studio album
[EDIT 22.12.07]
I found the same video on youtube. Its really the sound quality lets the performance down. Be sure to check out the SCENIT Group website. Theres an excellent video for this song where they are preforming in front of the Matterhorn; truly beautiful scenery!
This years Telethon is shite
A lot of people have been complaining about the Telethon in general, I'll hopefully get to this later, but specifically, this years one is brutal.
Since its live TV and theres a good chance of the odd few cock-ups involving female presenters giving up the goods (up-skirt shots), I rushed home to view the proceedings. I knew it started at 7pm but I was running a bit late. I rushed in the door at 8pm, flicked through the channels and I saw nothing telthon'y! All I could find was some Britain complaining "cor' blimey" etc. about how his missus has run off with the local bobby innit? WTF is this!? There are people cutting off their hair, getting stood on, playing russian roulette and getting raped all for the great Telethon cause, but theres no way a handful of cretins could give up their Friday nights viewing of "East Benders" for charity!? Come on everybody!
Anyway, the goods up for auction are shite. A few old manky rugby shirts with scribbles on them, crap paintings... rubbish! Let me say what we are all thinking: why arent they auctioning off Glenda Gilsons knickers? Even I'd genuinely bid on them... although if I had a choice I'd bid on that Sinéad Ni Churnain wan who used to do the Dustins News thing.... mmmmm those leather pants she was wearing >:D Being honest I'd even bid on Blathnaid Ni Crusty Crack's pants! Cum on everybody!
Since its live TV and theres a good chance of the odd few cock-ups involving female presenters giving up the goods (up-skirt shots), I rushed home to view the proceedings. I knew it started at 7pm but I was running a bit late. I rushed in the door at 8pm, flicked through the channels and I saw nothing telthon'y! All I could find was some Britain complaining "cor' blimey" etc. about how his missus has run off with the local bobby innit? WTF is this!? There are people cutting off their hair, getting stood on, playing russian roulette and getting raped all for the great Telethon cause, but theres no way a handful of cretins could give up their Friday nights viewing of "East Benders" for charity!? Come on everybody!
Anyway, the goods up for auction are shite. A few old manky rugby shirts with scribbles on them, crap paintings... rubbish! Let me say what we are all thinking: why arent they auctioning off Glenda Gilsons knickers? Even I'd genuinely bid on them... although if I had a choice I'd bid on that Sinéad Ni Churnain wan who used to do the Dustins News thing.... mmmmm those leather pants she was wearing >:D Being honest I'd even bid on Blathnaid Ni Crusty Crack's pants! Cum on everybody!
Blogger...
Yay! Blogger now allows follow-up comments to be sent via email to those who leave a comment. Now finally I can be sure that my "Go fuck yourself!" replies to comments get read by the people whom they are directed at :)
Jon Lord Website updates
It appears Jon Lord now has an official blog! Not written by himself unfortunately but we are promised personal posts from time to time. The interesting part is that I learned of this blog via picturedwithin.com, a fansite for Jon Lord, with a news update on the 18th of this month. This is the first update on the site for over 3 years.
I must remind myself to subscribe to the new blog plus add links to it here. Hopefully Lord will get the finger out and start releasing all the albums we were promised! :D "Boom of the Tingling Strings" anyone?
I must remind myself to subscribe to the new blog plus add links to it here. Hopefully Lord will get the finger out and start releasing all the albums we were promised! :D "Boom of the Tingling Strings" anyone?
RTE Comedy: Waste of TV Licence Money
I just sat through the worst 30 minutes of comedy I've ever forced myself to watch. Some shite about a guy teaching english to foreigners in Ireland. Not only is it not funny but I seriously think Steve Coogan should sue RTE for theft of one of his characters, namely Alan Partridge. Coogan should give Ricky Gervais a call while he's at it, theres some serious intellectual property theft going on. I wouldn't mind if it was funny, maybe its funny in Polish or something.
Oh god, now Podge and Rodge is back on again....
That said, I absolutely enjoyed the last two episodes of Kilnaskully. They've really come on leaps and bounds since the first season. That awful plasticy "old-fashioned" humor has given way to the more chaotic style associated to Pat Shortt in the era of the D'unbelievables. I just hope they kill off Dieter soon. I'm a bit confused about something though, I remember hating the episode with "Thriller" parody in it. I assumed it was a Halloween special but theres no way that was a year ago already, was it!?
Oh god, now Podge and Rodge is back on again....
That said, I absolutely enjoyed the last two episodes of Kilnaskully. They've really come on leaps and bounds since the first season. That awful plasticy "old-fashioned" humor has given way to the more chaotic style associated to Pat Shortt in the era of the D'unbelievables. I just hope they kill off Dieter soon. I'm a bit confused about something though, I remember hating the episode with "Thriller" parody in it. I assumed it was a Halloween special but theres no way that was a year ago already, was it!?
Willie Stroker
Willie Stroker on RTE's Nationwide. A well known internet phenomenon (although new to me).
[via A Welsh View]
Windows Vista: Coup de Shite!
Vista is Microsoft's worst O/S to date. Its a feeble attempt to copy Apple's dire system of animate everything you do. I can't stand MacOS, everything grows and shrinks and zooms around the place, and always throbbing.... listen, if I wanted to watch something throbbing all day I'd just look down at my cock. At least Apple can pull it off (pun) mostly and if you like that kind of thing then just buy an Apple!
I've always stuck my neck out and said that Windows XP is one of the best operating systems of all time. People bash XP all to quickly without even having the slightest idea how well it can handle people throwing all kinds of random shit at it. Then you have the Apple fan-boi wannabies who think its cool to put Windows down "ummm like I deleted my file like ages ago, but um, I found it again in the um, Recycle Bin? Man this XP is such buggy shit lulz!11!!"
Codenamed "Longhorn" and after using Vista for close to a week, I can safely say that I felt that "long-horn" force its way up my arse on manys a night. Nothing works with this piece of shit! Got an XP driver or XP application you like? Well don't try and install it on Vista! At best, you'll get a BSOD and have to restart, at worst you'll find yourself doing a system restore via DOS because that old faithful XP app has managed to bust your PC. Of course, thats if you ever manage to get as far as installing the program. Vista has so many "Warning, you are about to exercise your free will" popups for you to click through, you might just get tired and impale yourself on a corkscrew instead.
Then theres the stability, or lack there of. Now in the old days of XP, when the shit hit the fan you just hit old faithful "Ctrl+Alt+Del" and usually you could close the non responding window down within a few goes. No such luck here... if you do press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" you'll get brought to a lovely little page of options, one being the task manager. If you click on this, nothing happens... its like constipation: you just add to the shit. Nothing happens, everything's going nowhere fast. You press them again and again you get the nice little option screen.... do this enough times and Candy Man will appear behind you, with his Longhorn perhaps...
It's all so clunky... Explorer is unnavigable now, Columbus found America faster than you'll find the directory you want.... perhaps its an anti-pedophilia system, cos theres no way in hell you'll manage to navigate around your hard-drive in time to delete all your illicit files in the time it takes the police to get from your front door to your pc.
Lets suppose you're a sadist and you want to buy yourself a copy of Vista, well forget it! You'll end up in knots trying to figure out which version to get. God bless the good old days with Windows was windows. Now you have a a snobbish element entering the scene: "Oh you only got Vista basic? ha! I got me a copy of Super Ultimate Vista!" the only difference being an extra €200 you need to spend for a few shitty backgrounds and a copy of Media Player.
Microsoft must have done this on purpose, as a way of showing us what life would be like if they got sick of all the anti-trust shite and just decided to pull the plug on us all. Sweet jesus, Vista is the apocalypse of the PC world!
Killer Buses
I only posted about this two weeks ago but this week had yet another bus accident. At least nobody was killed this time! Oh by the way, check out the year of registration on the buses number plate...
Kate Beckinsale grows bottom
Seems like a lot more there since I mentioned her last, or maybe its just a good angle :) When it comes to bottoms, bigger is always better; ignore the nay sayers.[More via usemycomputer.com]
[update 20.07.08] Larger image removed due to hotlinkers. Email and ask if you want it.
Picture of the Week
The greatest photograph ever taken, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Click the image to view it full size.
"In total, the image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days for the ACS and 4.5 days for the NICMOS."
For those of you too lazy to read, you can also watch a video about the photo. I think its perhaps the most haunting video on youtube; gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it. Even the cheesey panpipes version of "Ride On" works for me.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Screen Shots
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I had these lying around for months now, decided to upload them as I think I might give the game another go this week. Its an excellent game but runs like a dog. Looks beautiful when its running right.
New Blog On Zeuhl
I came across a relatively new blog (although not updated recently) on Zeuhl music a little while ago. It's got a great selection of rare zeuhl albums you can download, such as Michel Altmayer`s "Troll - Volume II". You probably wont like it if you don't like the 80's Magma stuff such as "Merci". It's got a great track on it though called "ankh", which is similar to Magma's "Zess", it even includes a little theme from it as homage. Anyway the blog is here:
http://zeuhlmusic.blogspot.com
And it's owned by this dude:
..his name is Tom-Erik Løe and he's a zeuhl fanatic, or perhaps just a fanatic if the picture is anything to go by. He's working on his own zeuhl piece at the moment, "Gorkeulhzenht". It sounds pretty authentic and you have to give him kudo's for the fact that he's multitracked himself playing all the instruments on it. You can find it on his myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/tomerikloe.
http://zeuhlmusic.blogspot.com
And it's owned by this dude:
..his name is Tom-Erik Løe and he's a zeuhl fanatic, or perhaps just a fanatic if the picture is anything to go by. He's working on his own zeuhl piece at the moment, "Gorkeulhzenht". It sounds pretty authentic and you have to give him kudo's for the fact that he's multitracked himself playing all the instruments on it. You can find it on his myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/tomerikloe.
John Cusack & Dylan Moran
After watching 1408 a few weeks back I thought the two should star in a movie together. Perhaps the story could revolve around two brothers seperated when they were young. One being left in bog Ireland and the other shipped off to some family in America. A rich aunt dies or something leaving them money on the stipulation that they must live together for a year. The unoriginal original odd-couple.
Or perhaps they are reunited by a magic crystal skull that grants them three wishes.
What about this... they are living together, Cusack being an american brother (however that works) and they are both used car sales men living in Connemara (beacause Cusack is on the run from the IRS). Cusack tries to bring his flashy car sales techniques to a little car lot in the bog-land of West Ireland somewhere, and Moran adopts the same "people annoyed me all day looking at cars" Bernard Black type of character. Hilarity ensues!
On the Rag
I hope she appears on Glas Vegas soon! They certainly do things differently in mainland Europe.
[via CAFE 'T SPIEKE]
Nob Nation - Linguaphone Cork
Play Nob Nation Episode
Kevin Myers and Plastic Sheeting translate Cork slang in the latest Linguaphone experience
Thank god for Nob Nation... I was begining to think that all radio satire had been reduced to that GiftGrub shite. I've been a fan since the first episode on 2FM.
As a side note, I'm using PlayTagger to embed a little audio player when ever I include a link to an mp3 file in my posts. It makes it very handy for the reader to listen to something without having to download it all first. At the moment I'm just including the javascript tags within individual posts but as time goes on I might put the script in the blog template to make it a global feature.
Kevin Myers and Plastic Sheeting translate Cork slang in the latest Linguaphone experience
Thank god for Nob Nation... I was begining to think that all radio satire had been reduced to that GiftGrub shite. I've been a fan since the first episode on 2FM.
As a side note, I'm using PlayTagger to embed a little audio player when ever I include a link to an mp3 file in my posts. It makes it very handy for the reader to listen to something without having to download it all first. At the moment I'm just including the javascript tags within individual posts but as time goes on I might put the script in the blog template to make it a global feature.
When Public Transport Kills
I love public transport, I really do. I like driving, but I like letting other people get me there too :) We have this wonderful system in Ireland, with everything really not just transport. Its all stick and no carrot. We love screwing drivers, pushing them away from their cars, but theres fuck all to take the cars place. The train system is a joke, we have three tracks and they all go via Dublin. Cobh to cork is via Dublin. We have the buses. Yes we have a few auld buses traveling along the shambles on Irish roads. The problem with the bus system is that it keeps killing people.
I was going to post before this recent accident (when a female bus driver blacked out and a 20 year old passenger did his best to steer the bus out of danger) but now I just have to give it a lash. I have no facts and figures, I dont know what its like in other countries, but I just think we have a really fucking high percentage of bus accidents on our roads. If the drivers arent gone mad, theyre blacking out. The buses are too old, theyre going on fire... the buses are too new, they have power surges. The buses have too many school chlidern in them, theyre turning over... or the children are flying out the emergency door, or getting high on leaking exhaust fumes... What the hell is going on with our buses!?
[I had wanted to include links to all the news stories involving bus accidents with this post. I might do later when I'm at HQ]
I was going to post before this recent accident (when a female bus driver blacked out and a 20 year old passenger did his best to steer the bus out of danger) but now I just have to give it a lash. I have no facts and figures, I dont know what its like in other countries, but I just think we have a really fucking high percentage of bus accidents on our roads. If the drivers arent gone mad, theyre blacking out. The buses are too old, theyre going on fire... the buses are too new, they have power surges. The buses have too many school chlidern in them, theyre turning over... or the children are flying out the emergency door, or getting high on leaking exhaust fumes... What the hell is going on with our buses!?
[I had wanted to include links to all the news stories involving bus accidents with this post. I might do later when I'm at HQ]
Watching Glas Vegas on TG4
Holy sweet mother mary jesus of god christ, what a show! This is way better than the celtic vs. milan match. It goes way beyond the cliche of watching a train wreck in progress. No, its far too funny for that, but a sickly type of horrendous funny, a bit like vomiting potpourri and sugar.
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