The Moving Crib

This is one of the greatest video's I have seen, and I am now dying to go see the Moving Crib for real in Dublin this week! Compliments to the maker of this video and currently only 278 Views. It will explode at some point I am sure of it.. and a great way to highlight one of the greatest wonders of Catholic Ireland.

Worthy of a wile away...

Just need a one more now to complete the three. Well done to Polly Jean for her winning the Mercury again (for the second time). 
The tickets are in the bag for Gillian Welch and her next long awaited Irish performance in the Grand Canal Dock November 17 2011. 

What she's like?

Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like by Dexys-Midnight-Runners

BPM

Just Simply Love This

Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, tells the comical tale about the aged and blind Hamm and his servant Clov, co-existing in a mutually dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm’s parents, legless from a biking accident, for company.

Taken from the BPM Festival last year which I saw the above. Beckett, Pinter, Mamet Festival 2010. 

Gillian Welch Returns

Is it this or this..

Brooklyn, (Karaoke) Upper West Side, Manhatten, New york, Newark, Over Greenland, Europe, Ireland, Dublin, Kinvarra..


Oranmore, (Hitching) Clarinbridge, Kinvarra, (Driving) Lanesboro (Mourning), Athlone, Kinvarra, Athenry, Kinvarra, Oranmore, Westport, Croagh Patrick (Climbing), Westport (Bonding), Dublin.

House

Recently I have been thinking more and more about the well known social construct 'Home'. Having been a renter of property since commencing college in 1998 (at a cost of £35 per week), it has become an increasingly attractive option (and currently way more affordable) to break out and take the brave step of become a 'Home' owner myself. It is frightening to think how much one spends over the years feeding landlords with their monthly charges. Sickening. 'Cause I've been too long a lonely man, and yes I've been too long a rolling stone'. Perhaps it is time for to 'hone' the skills learnt as a boy in my own family 'home'.


Kind of funny that the Boy Wolf returns with such a smashingly apt interpretation of this concept with the new single 'House', which is on his latest album release Lupercalia (May 23rd). In recent times of ridiculous impulse house buying, property explosion fuck ups, horrible architectural afflictions, pyrite, and world wide crippling IMF debt, he manages to single handedly bring it all back, ..home. Ironic lyric mentions of conkers, rolling stones and Dylan Thomas are infused nicely with this earnest tune, and the tremendous video which encompasses growing ferns, and a handful of floating lemons. Of course a scattering of the usual household pets including blowfish, gigantic butterflies, parrots, snails, toucans, and Lizards allows it to achieve its universal appeal.



Another listen of late in times of needed cheering up. It any thoughts of real 'homes', past and future 'homes', possible 'homes' and missed 'homes'. I guess the timing of this is ironic in itself, in that I ain't got no home to go to.


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An Manhatt an

Young, Gifted, and Loud Mouths

A Stumble Across a Loud Mouth Blaggard.. 


Sol Live Music Interface from Cian Corcoran 
Sol is the result of research into the live performance of electronic music. It allows instant recording and playback of audio from various sources which can then be altered using onboard effects.
Research blog:https://designingmusic.wordpress.com/
Graduate Show Site: http://www.ideleven.com/
From http://loudmouthonline.blogspot.com/

This contains a treat tune called Yummy Mummy which is worth a listen
and finally introducing another Blaggard CFMeister.. http://cfmeister.tumblr.com/
Sure don't I know his older brother Daniel the bigger blaggard

CF has a show in the NCAD Final Year Show http://ncadmedia2011.com/ which I am to be sure going to check out. It's running until the 19 o June. 
Go Check it out 

Mirror in February

Happy Birthday Zimmy

"Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday". 

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc5ODcxNzA4.html

Here's to many more Bob...

Zounds

Have some musical fun here...

http://safe.tumblr.com/safe/video/2509512839/500

Shack Up presents.......... J. Rocc

J-Rocc is the founding member of The Beat Junkies

Established in 1992 in Orange County, California by J-Rocc who is African-American.

The Beat Junkies have won prestigious DJ battles and competitions like the DMC, the Supermen, and International Turntablists Federation competitions and going to world tour exhibitions. They have traveled and performed across the United States as well as Japan, Germany, Amsterdam, and Canada. The Beat Junkies as a Crew and individually have also featured in many other acts alongside artists such as Jurassic 5, The Visionaries, The Likwit Junkies with Defari, Phil Da Agony, Cypress Hill, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Dilated Peoples, andPeanut Butter Wolf who was so influenced by the Beat Junkies that he recruited Homeless Derelicts (Grand The Visitor and Architect currently members of Urban Umpires) whom were featured on Beat Junkies Vol.1 and released them as the second ever Stones Throw Records release.

The group was established in 1992 by J-Rocc. The original members included Curse, Rhettmatic, Melo-D, Icy Ice, Symphony, & What?!. Shortkut, D-Styles, Red-Jay, Havik, and Tommy Gun (who joined in late 1992) were later added. DJ Babu joined the Junkies by late 1993; the newest member is currently Mr. Choc, who was added to the crew in early 1996. 

Incredibly lucky to meet this guy last night in Kelly's Bar in Galway thanks to Dj Graham Dolan who warmed up for him and who both played an incredible set. One of my favourite hip hop turntablists. Reminded me of times Breakdancing in King's College London in 2003! Jim Scully from Melbourne was there doing the six step with me,.. in particular to this chewn below. Classic. 

Parkour - Free Running in Jerusalem

This is how Free Running is uniting Arabic and Israeli teenagers

Dani, 17, performs a jump flip

 Dani, 17, back flips in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem - a bustling thoroughfare that had been a terrorist target in the Second Intifada

Ibrahim, 16, pushes off on a tree near the city walls

 Yazan, 17, back flips on a road in south Jerusalem

 Dani, 17, side-flips on a painted wall

 Yazan, 17, also shows off a side flip, this time in an alley in the Old City

Ibrahim, 16, on a dome atop David's Tomb on Mount Zion

Matanya Tausig's outstanding photographic project. Courtesy of The Independent 

Chewn from the Tune Yards

This footage is slightly astonishing



Via Spherical Notions inspiring music blog
For more check out.:
http://www.tune-yards.com/

Patrick Wolf Nipples in the Sugar Club

Patrick Wolf played on Monday 21st of March in the Sugar Club in Dublin, and I was lucky enough to gather up enough energy, after my long weekend in Wales, to make it to the gig. Monday night gigs are tough, and as much as I was dying to see the man perform, he didn't really help himself by keeping the crowd outside waiting, by nearly one and a half hours, before they would allow entry. The excuse given, was a problem with broken sound equipment, awaiting replacement from Belfast. Either way, I sure don't let these things annoy me. In fact I have been known to share Herr Wolf's relaxed sense of time, on occasion. The mood was building in the Sugar themed club, and he played well to the adoring and forgiving crowd, helpless to the sound of his velvet voice. Onlookers in the crowd included Wolf's own family members which resulted in the man himself looking very proud in front of his committed Irish followers, amidst them of his own true blood. 
Here are a few moments captured by snaps. 

My favourite moment was after his beautiful opening song, when funnily enough I ended up at the VERY end of the entire crowd, as a man does. Having dreamt the night before of being right up the front, within spitting distance of the man himself, SLR camera in hand, snapping away with my new flash and winning smiles, this seemed like a dose of a reality kicking Monday. As my friends reminded me of how the ideal never quite works out that way, I had a private moment of extreme excitement during the second chewn when I decided to mirror his stage antics right behind the entire crowd (excluding one unenthralled bar man), and boy did it deliver me a slightly guilty pleasure. Happy with the attention, from the lucky few behind the sound desk, who were brave enough to look the other way, yes, I guess you could say I did have the Time of My Life. 


Bravely enough though, I managed to make my my ideal (previous nights actual dream) a reality by moving to the forefront of the stage. I managed to get a really good view of the performance and he even smiled at me as I was pointing at my green Gillian Welch T-shirt, during his astonishing encores. Wolf, dressed very much like a leprechaun, had won the crowd at that stage, some of whom had surmounted to the tops of their tables, in search of magical positions and pots of gold.  
Will post link to video uploads later here... (sorry about the sound Kwality, but equipment got damaged). 
And here is the Setlist from the night courtesy of Setlistfm.

1. Armistice 
2. Time Of My Life 
3. Bluebells 
4. Wind In The Wires 
5. The Libertine 
6. The Bachelor 
7. Tristan 
8. Vulture 
9. The Days 
10. Who Will? 
11. Together 
12. Damaris 
    Encore:
13. The City 
14. The Magic Position 
    
    
    * Other moments from the Gillian Welch experience from the long weekend that had just past which was simply sublime. 
    
    

Sings: 'Colwyn Bay, let's pull together, Colwyn Bay... '

I am Wild about that Thing

We'll meet again, at the same spot we parted, doing an Irish Jig.
Next time with Bowler Hats and a Beret, befitting of the situation, in memory of our time departed.
You whispered something in my ear, a wild thing I will never forget.
The night will continue forever..

No Restraint

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.
And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake c1790-1793)

London Sleep

This is all that is achievable right now.

Maybe the answers will come while here. 

In the virtues of sleep. (from weekend in London). 

Who Else Lives in the Dark?

Just beautiful, stay beautiful..



For Nasa, and Safeera..

Worrisome Dissatisfied Individuals

Every illness is a narrative. What matters is the version you tell yourself. 
(Tim Parks)
Confronting the profound contradictions of ones character, the trait theory of ones ever essential being, can be a difficult task. The kind of thing worth knowing how to do though. Having such awareness. 
Look at the painting below. 

The Waterseller at Seville - Velázquez (1618-1622) 

I am My Own Wife

A play by Doug Wright and winner of a Tony and Pulitzer prize for drama (2004), is based on conversations with antiquarian Charlotte Van Mahlsborf who lived in Berlin and survived communist and Nazi regimes around the period of the second World War.  
A new production of this play is showing in Dublin's Pearse Centre and is running until the 5th of February. It really is a lovely way to wile away a weekday evening at this time of year. 

This one man show acted by Donncha O'Dea who plays over forty, yes forty characters throughout very effortlessly. He gives a fascinating portrayal of controversial character and life of an extraordinary boy, woman and wife. I was also lucky enough to meet the actor afterwards and got the opportunity to chat more to him about the play. Donncha is just as fascinating off stage as he is playing the forty characters. 
Go check it out! You will not be unimpressed. 

"Ich bin mein eigene frau" 

There's no escape from my masterplan

Notes.: on a Snap!

Jocelyn Brown, famous legend soul singer and Dance Diva, is one of the most sampled voices in music history with her rear pair of lungs. Her track from 1985 'Love's Gonna Get You' contains the line 'I've Got the Power' which was famously sampled in the global smash hit of the same year by German electronica group, Snap! She is probably more famous now for her voice sampling in music and was since used by Moby hit 'Go'. This is the power of sampling Jocelyn Brown and the result taking the world by storm.

More than interesting, and in original format is that tune 'Love's Gonna Get You' by poor old JB.
Listen out at 5.40 for the surprise.
Listen out also at 7.00 for another.



Not so much is Michael Mind's (as little as 2009) version of the same track. This one from young German deejay from Aachen (Real name Jens Kindervater; 'Show me Love', 'Blinded by the lights','Feel your body'), is possibly known more for the famous line in this same tune "Why waste your time, you know your gonna be mine, (there's no escape from my masterplan)" being repeated ad nausuem. Perhaps there are reasons why some people forget these things. Listen if you dare, remind yourself of this anseo.

Won't let this mystique take the roof above our heads

This is becoming a routine of late posting on this happy chappie.
Set on the beach of Santa Monica.  
Something of a breaking point perhaps for a young gentleman. 
Patrick Wolf with the newly released video for his single The City. 



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Excuse me I can't seem to find the door, and my feet don't find the floor

Stumbled across this video earlier while flicking through some blaggards blog. 
Made by local artists in Dublin by the names of Xnthony and Patrick Hough, NCAD 'heads'. 
It is frighteningly terrific 

Deserved of a watch and probably more... 
Below is the original from Shirley Bassey in 1972 Talk of the Town Concert. Loll, my uncle in London was a huge fan back in the seventies and did some impersonations himself around the London Club scene and afar. I really must delve more into this with him..  
Check out that lip quiver.. 

Blue Monday

On officially the gloomiest day of the year (third Monday of the year, known as Blue Monday), how about a rather refreshing burst of optimism from the boy Patrick Wolf. His follow up track to the also amazing tune, 'Time of my life' mentioned previously and released in December. The boy is back again with yet another triumphant hit called 'The City', is vibrantly upbeat and wreaks of positivity, with hundreds of joyous handclaps to keep tempo. It is released on March 14. 

You can listen to the tune anseo. {Repeated listens suggested to enhance mood}.


Just secured tickets to his Dublin gig in the Sugar club on March 21. A steéal at just €18, go get them quick. 


Equally, another classic track of the same name, and a well known by New Order, needs no introduction. However this day it shall be played, as it should be most days and not just this gloomy day. 

Is it still OK to say Happy New Year, Still?

If I snap at you today it's only because my brain has been replaced with 20 pounds of snot. Sorry.

Quote from Twitter