Google available offline?

The BBC says so...sort of

Chris Prince, the engineer leading the Gears project, told the conference in London: "We want a seamless experience between offline and online."

Read more here

Tunes

You know the drill

Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should have come over (Live in Japan)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fishbone

David Bowie - Heroes

Broken Social Scene - Canada V. America

The Donnas - Living After Midnight

The National - Fake Empire

Sufjan Stevens - In the Words of the Govenor

Cat Power - Dream

Camera Obscura - Super Trouper (Abba cover)

Gemma Hayes - Hanging Around

Michael Jackson V. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous with you

Pheugoo - Like I Love Your Generation (Justin Timberlake V. Bob Sinclair)

Tegan & Sarah - All you Got

Bell X1 - Like I love You Slow

The Kinks

I always forget how very very very very good they are.

Here's a reminder:

Lola


Waterloo Sunset


You Really Got Me


and again, you really got me...you really got me...

Aaagh!!

Last.fm has been bought by CBS in the "largest ever UK web 2.0 acquisition" whatever that means!

Full story is here.

Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd is a lifetime member of and official Hollywood consultant for the Mutual UFO Network.

Dali

I've said before how I love Salvador Dali, well I think I have, that eccentric crazy cool man! There's a good article here with some great video links including:

That crazy Pixies inspiration (?): Un Chien Andalou

along with...

NCAD Graduate Exhibition

The NCAD Graduate exhibition, degree show is on next week. It's gonna be fab, there is alot of talent in that place.

If you're around keep an eye out for Aileen Murphy she is amazing!

I'll get a link soon!



For more info check out the National College of Art & Design

Rufus Wainwright

I always thought he was a bit mad...



and a video to accompany the earlier download of Careless Whisper with Ben Folds *shudder*



Did I mention I love him,

and once saw lights coming from his head....

My New Favourite Band

Bonde de Role - they are so cool!

So wrong and so funny

There really are no words...

Tunes

Another dose of aural pleasure

Cowbell - Tapes n Tapes

James Bonde - Bonde De Role

Phantom Limb - The Shins

Another Sunny Day - Belle and Sebastian

Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins

They're Leaving Me Behind - Nick Drake

Quantum Theory - Jarvis Cocker

Cripple and the Star - Anthony & the Johnsons

Run - Conor O'Tuama

Grip like a Vice - The Go Team

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - Manic Street Preachers feat. Nina Persson

Listen to a never before released version of Lover You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley here

More Bionic Woman!

Wow

This is pretty amazing

Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Anyone who likes reading should read these books,

The Northern Lights The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman

They are really great, enjoyable books, and not there's a film in production!
In fact I think i may re-read them soon.

*Excitment*

Here are some stills and the teaser ... I cannot wait for this!

Eva Green, Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue.



Wow wow wee wow!

Whitest Boy Alive

Great band that was recommended to me, I like their style!

Check out their Myspace

They are from Berlin and they rock!

Voting

Oh yeah, and i voted today

I'm very excited about this election, and CANNOT wait for all the coverage tomorrow

Translation = I'm a nerd

Michel Gondry

This is one of the first ever works of Michel Gondry that I saw, it's so weird and fun



He also made some ads and probably became more famous with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep

Some Ads...



Drumb and Drumber



I think this is my fave...

Portishead

This is such a good song....

Portishead - Glory Box <3

Banksy

Ok so everyone knows about him, but he does fine work!

but i love this one in the circle!

for more anti establishment-ness look here

Interesting stuff...

The BBC seem to have started a new section on news thats a bit strange! It can be found here.





One of the first stories is on a man who has offered his own head for shrinking....

Cool!

David Shrigley

My artist friend told me to check this out...and i like it!

You can look at some more stuff here

The White Stripes - Premiere!

Icky Thump: great tune, check the video here

It's seriously good!

It got me thinking of White Stripes videos, most of them are so deadly including





and of course



and hardly that artistic but hot...

Spank Rock and MIA

Here's the gang at a festival in Brooklyn, i think it rawks!

Apologies for not the best sound, but ya get the drift!

New Tunes!

Here's a teeny tiny recommendation, of a recommendation to me!

sea wolf – You're a Wolf

Flickrvision

Found this and thought, oh my God what a weird invasion of privacy/place for people to show off!

Flickrvision

Silent Star Wars

I like what they did here!

7 Ages of Rock

BBC has made this pretty interesting series of programmes about the birth of rock!

It's got a timeline and everything!

Check out about Jimi and the gang here

Lists!

I love lists of fun stuff, music, art, whatever,

Here's a good one about top electronica music!

I think i'll make a list of my current favourite tunes later just for the fun like!

Happy Wednesday all!

John Cleese V. New Zealand

As International Herald Tribune reports

A town in New Zealand has unofficially named their dump after John Cleese, after he called Palmerston North the "suicide capital of New Zealand". I bet he finds it funny too!

Fairly Strange article about Life in Ireland

CSS in the Live Lounge with Jo Whiley on BBC, i <3 CSS

More Pirate News

This is sad news though, although not strictly pirate, you get the drift,

The Cutty Sark which was being renovated has been damaged by fire. It's being treated as suspicious. This is so depressing, why would someone ruin a historic piece like this.... :(

RTE
BBC

Give us the Night

Here's a site set up to try change licensing laws in Ireland

Give us the Night


I'm not really sure yet...

They have a poll tho!

Animals...Free yourselves!

Hot on the heels of a story in today's Independent about some ducks' bid for freedom, we hear about a gorilla running amok in a zoo in Holland.

Dali

Just since I was thinking about him the other day,

in Dali news,

There are not one but three Hollywood features being planned about the artist. With Johnny Depp, Al Pacino and Peter O'Toole are all tipped to play the strange but talented coot.

Dali News

Transformers & Pirates

The SUPER brand new Transformers trailer is out

oh oh oh it looks so cool!

__________________________

In Pirate news,

aarrgghhhh a bounty be found!

The 17th Century pirate ship, the Whydah, has been located and hopefully will be raised! I can't tell you how excited i am by this!

The Times tells us about the Pirate Legend

There's also similar pirate reporting from RTE.

Some "ist" sites

Well just one or two

Scientific America Not an ist, but a great and interesting site all the same

The Surrealist - An interesting Gallery

The Economist - Because everyone should be informed

The Consumerist - Shoppers Bite Back

The Futurist - I'm not really sure.....


This is all i got so far...

Tunes

Another dose of quiggly music

First off, everyone should get that Beirut album, it's stunning

Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds - Careless Whisper (Live)

Rufus Wainwright - Instant Pleasure

Manic Street Preachers - Underdogs

Editors - Distance

Fields - If You Fail, We all Fail

Bette Davis - Anti Love Song

Au Revoir Simone - A Violent Yet Flammable World

Rock the Vote

I've been out canvassing (yes i know), so have gotten mad into the election, especially considering I will actually be home to vote, I can't get over how ridiculous it is holding the election on a Thurs.......GRRR.

Anyway on the back of that, i'm all for people making informed decisions and actually voting,

This is prob one of the main Go Vote sites!

Has listings of party leaders blogs, amongst lots more!

It's almost becoming....sort of cool to vote now?

Star Wars

Oh Darth! You are mean sometimes....

Bionic Woman

Ok this is like the first little bit of the new Bionic Woman,

Anthony Gormley

Some fantastic stuff

You can see his official site here.

Interesting Stuff....

Just some bits and pieces,

Some interesting pieces about Microtrends

Why Beth Ditto is the coolest

I want to do this in the Pheonix Park

I need to learn Scratch

Cool site for retrieving album art.

!!! - Must be the Moon

Because it's bleedin' deadly

Some Tunes

Just thought would share a few sound quivering waves

Some are older than others....obviously

Beirut - Brandenburg

TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun

The Tough Alliance - Silly Crimes

Elliot Smith - High Times

The Arcade Fire - Naive (Talking Heads Cover) 'cos covers are always great.

Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver

Anacaona - Algo Bueno

and check out some songs by the Martin Staunton Band here

Cat Power

Some pics from the gig...

oh yeah and we met her

Check her out, her music is lovely

Cat Power

Visited lovely Tripod on Thurs Night, to see the gorgeous Cat Power. Brilliant gig, although i heard the sound down the back was a bit rubbish.

She did a bunch of covers including Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, and the Rolling Stones - Satisfaction.

Great Stuff!

Support was by the Dirty Delta Blues. Like the White Stripes crossed with some rustic country roads

Pictures on the way!

oh and it's my birthday today!

Castlepalooza

Oh Yes it's back! i must find my pics from last year, it was pyjamas a go-go,

so who's playing?

Spring Break

Neosupervital

The Gorgeous Colours,

Sister Sledge

The Martin Staunton Band

Go to this gig, you will not regret it!

For more details visit the lovely the lovely organisers here.

Blast

My net has been severely reduced in work! blast blast!

in other fun things to do news:

The Political Compass

Tests the Lefties from the Righties

A celebration of Peace, Unity & Love

Some lovely people are putting on a soul festival here in Dublin!

Looks great, for more details www.dublincitysoulfestival.ie

Hope this works, blogging from work is un easy!

Happy Weds!

Turner Prize '07

Some Turner Prize 2007 pictures:

Me related news

In news about me, had to visit the doc today, blood tests soon, blugh

The wonderful Polyphonic Spree are playing the Electric Picnic (31st August - 2nd September 2007)

An 8 minute mash up of their entire album The Fragile Army is availble here from the good people at Download.com

Check it out!

A very unusual song...

I reckon it's great, sure give it a listen anyway...

MP3: Northern Soul - Marvin Gaye/Nick Drake

Van Gogh

Just 'cause it's great

And we thought my two year old nephew how to say his name!

MySpace news

Here's a great article on MySpace etiquette

MySpace Photos: more misleading than KFC menu boards

Hello

Welcome:
And here's the news

So, I'm just here to share some bits and pieces, all comments, feedback etc. more than welcome

1. CocoRosie - The Entire band has been arrested and their US tour has been cancelled.
2. I just bought a purple wig from Ebay, hope it's nice
3. Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel, great book!
4. M.I.A. is playing Electric Picnic....YEAH
5. Not everyone is happy with Sarkozy

thanks and g'night