Check it out!

Tom at My Top Five is doing cover versions...my favourite!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Talking Cats, oh mega lol-osaurus



Via Pedro

Also i learned something about Eyebrows yesterday. Apparently they show loads of your personality off...that's why coppers wear hats that cover them, so they look more authoritative. I did not know that before. I wonder what those women who pluck all theirs off are like. Maybe i'll never know.

It's Christmas time which makes me think of this: The River Cottage Multibird Roast
Ingredients:

You need a whole free range turkey (not a monster, 10-12 kilos is about right) and a whole goose (6-7kg). And then a selection of 8-10 smaller birds, all plucked and drawn (ie oven ready).

You don’t need all eight birds to be different – you could use, say, three pheasants and five pigeons. So choose from the following:
farmed duck
mallard
guinea fowl
chicken
pheasant
partridge
pigeon
woodcock.

NOTE: Please DO NOT use very high or well-hung game birds, as they will contaminate the subtle flavours of the other birds.
For the stuffing, you need 1 kilo of fatty sausagemeat, 250g streaky bacon, 100g breadcrumbs, fresh sage, brandy, port and red wine. You can also add chestnuts and/or apples.
You also need some good butcher’s string and a darning needle.

It makes me want to be a bit sick...

Here is a glossary of Literary Criticism. It makes me feel a bit clever.

And just for the fun:


and I love John Legend (i wanted Used to Love U, but that embedding dealy was disabled!)

New Hot Chip

Wopah! Shake a Fist via Shock.

Hot Chip - Made In The Dark

01 Out At The Pictures
02 Shake A Fist
03 Ready For The Floor
04 Bendable Poseable
05 We’re Looking For A Lot Of Love
06 Touch Too Much
07 Made In The Dark
08 One Pure Thought
09 Hold On
10 Wrestlers
11 Don’t Dance12 Whistle For Will
13 In The Privacy Of Our Love

Deadly. buzz. lads.

Look at this!

Rufus Rufus Rufus!

I want it.

If you have ever

Tried to stalk U2, you'll know about Paul McGuinness,

so to ask him some questions check out the Album Archive...

Radiohead...

playing Malahide Castle June 7,
so tickets will probably be about a million euro

More here.

Weirdo

Oh no!

Zac Effron in Footloose remake scandal... From cinematical

Justice/Weekend/Stuff

Ok let's start at the beginning. I was in America recently...Have i mentioned this already? :P

I got one of these Flip lads, isn't it dinky! I went to Mystic Aquarium in the States, with Seal Lions! they also had baluga whales, sea anenomes, sharks, penguins and all sorts of creepy crawlie types... this is all i got though, cos i hadn't figured out how to use it!

1,2,3 AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

So i brought my new toy to Justice, who were deadly on Saturday night, actually this weekend, was literally the best ever!

There's one: from the gig

and a longer one:

Rick has the stupidest girl alive on his site. Shudder.

In other news Matt the Jap is gone but not forgotten.

A few people have been talking about it, IHeartAU is mighty, the forum is good fun too.

Can't wait for this film The Nines.

America are annoyed by the international stuff on the internet.

I love Gram Parsons.

Banksy's got a Santa's Ghetto!


Dove Vs Internet Guerillas. Dove ads are done by those lads who make the Lynx ads and all the rest of it, talk about mixed messages.
This has that Dove ad, with bits of Axe (Lynx in the US) spliced into it.

Oh My God

Jim Carroll is a ledgebag extraordinaire

Dans le sac v Scroobius Pip at the X Factor

Everyone loves a montage

Lol

Radiohead coming to Dublin

Two Dates, June 08. More on their official site.

This is very weird

I think it's making me feel sea-sick: Cursor

I love Patrick Stewart, and i heard he won an award there the other day. So i went for an old sconce on the interweb and i found this site. It's pretty funny.

Patrick Stewart's starring role of MacBeth has won him the Best Actor 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Award. Director Rupert Goold also picked up Best Director award. More Details

Orwell on all sorts

Oh they are Springbreak by the way!
Playing Tripod Dec 22 - Sold out, but i have tickets. YES


And New Years
OH YES!

Mrs Coulter

Here she is!!!!!



Iorek, she pronounces his name way differently than i did.


Very exciting.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Jeepers, every year this lighthouse has its bulb changed and stuff. That is some sight.

More here.

NPR

The National Public Radio in the States has a whole pile of tunes to listen to, sessions, concerts all the rest of it. Ch check it out.

Tegan and Sarah are there too!

And because i'm on a Stax buzz

(lol, while youtubing Stax it came up with Stacey and Max in Eastenders loads of times!)

These lads and lassies were session musicians and all at Stax, imaginary jamming with Otis Redding.

Shaft - Isaac Hayes



Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs



Tram - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (another weird video)



Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding



Plenty more here at the Stax blog.

Because Sometimes you need a bit of drama

My flatmate L was meant to be singing with the choir in the concert hall on Friday but had to cancel cos of her wisdom teeth. I don't mean the drama is good for her, but Carmina Burana is so cool!

I'm sorry i couldn't find a proper choral version, but this has to do...
This is a weird video of it...especially the eyes at the end, very weird! Now you can sing along...in place. Or just close your eyes and enjoy the crap out of it.

Birds Do it

Bees do it, well probably. Anywho the buzz seems to be reviews of the year and all that jazz. So i was trying to think of stuff i've enjoyed this year. Haven't finished thinking yet, and it's still November. But soon.

In Honour of me

Getting tickets tomorrow, because I will be getting tickets. I am getting tickets. I love Bruce
Accoustic: Sigh.


Normal version


This Little Light of Mine in Dublin



Oh My God i love it.

New White Stripes

Vroom Vroom

No no no no no

They are going to REMAKE Fr. Ted. Why would they do this??

Comedic actor John Michael Higgins ("Best in Show," "Fred Claus") has been cast in the lead role of an American remake of cult Irish comedy "Father Ted."

More on Dark Horizons.

Worst. Idea. Ever.

So

I've returned from my stateside adventure. It was great fun.

I was on this feckin unbelievable shop called Costco. With the dollar as it is, it's like you get half of everything for free. Which quite frankly is fantastic.
I was also in New York for the day, how excited can one person be? the answer is very. Even though we didn't manage to get up teh Empire State, (did you know it lights up for various reasons?)
There was zero visability so we were encouraged not to go up. So we didn't, but i saw Times Square, which burns the eyes in a great way, Macy's Windows, Saks of 5th Avenue, Rockefeller Centre, Hank Azaria(!!!)and Robin Williams! I had Grand Marnier Coffee and Smores in this gorgeous coffee shop, and bout my kids watch from that giant swatch watch store!

I was in an outlet store called Clinton Crossing (smirk) and i got about a million clothes from Gap with a 70% off coupon, that i got from another customer.

Anyway apart from all the Shopping, i was there for thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was a lovely thing. There were 26 people together at my aunts house, most were my relations and it was lovely to see everyone. We all set down together in the one room, had loads of wine and food, and then i went to see that Enchanted Film. Which was actually quite entertaining!

My favourite bits were: New York.
My new camera

Football Game
The Malls, they are so massive!
seeing loads of teh family again.
It was snowing one of the days, a deer ran behind the house where we were staying, it was lovely!
i've gotten over my fear of mice, more or less.
Generally it was very fun!

But i am glad to be home, and weirdly glad to be at work!

ok so

i'm in the us. I'm watching NFL, didn't ya know the patriots are on a winning streak, that tom brady! there's someone talking about spaceships,

i've gotten a touchescreen camera,
i've been to a gap outlet mall,
i've seen many many christmas lights already,
i've seen squirrels on drugs, probably
i've felt a sense of foreboding in numerous places,

it's due to snow maybe tomorrow (im gonna settle down)
i had a cookie today that nearly made me hurl
dunkin donuts does deadly,
and possibly most importantly...ive seen an ad for new heroes!

Woah

Big News

My Bloody Valentine are back, and gonna be playing some shows! Woah like! NME has the 411.

Hmm....EP vs Oxe?

The White Stripes are hooking up with Beck Hansen and Jack learns to bullfight with a professional. The White Stripes revealed that Beck was their secret collaborator there a while ago...I didn't even know they had a secret collaborator. D'Oh. Rolling Stone is all over it.

The most noteworthy revelation is that Beck has been cast as their “secret collaborator”. The duo recorded three songs in Mr. Hansen’s living room, with all three Beck-produced songs landing on the B-side of a trio of multi-colored 7″s for the next single, “Conquest.”

The “Black vinyl” includes “It’s My Fault for Being Famous,” which features Beck on vocals and piano, while the “White vinyl” has “Honey, We Can’t Afford to Look This Cheap,” which has Beck on slide guitar. The “Red vinyl” contains “Cash Grab Complications on the Matter,” which simply just has Beck as producer. If you can’t get your hands on any of these 7″s, or you just don’t have a record player, all three, plus a mariachi version of “Conquest,” will be available digitally.

and

I'm going to be eating some yams soon. They are different to Sweet Potatoes.

It's Science Week

Ta-da. I 've actually never been so intrigued about anything as i am about Superstrings, which was on in NUIM for science week last night.

Einstein + Violins = V interesting.

Anyway Damo (i hope he doesn't mind me calling him that), is asking all sorts of sciencey things including: “What invention do you want to see most in the future?”

Hmm....I've been thinking about this, and realised, i was thinking of what i think would actually be invented as opposed to what i would most like to see invented which really can only be held in by whatever you can imagine. I'd like some kind of brain paintbrush.

Ok that sounds weird, I'm not really sure how the invention would work, maybe through something like wi-fi, although i realise it would bring up a lot of brain washing ideas and the like.

I'd like it in relation to dreams, i hate that feeling where you wake up, and a dream is just at the tip of your mind, but you can't grasp it. Sometimes i'd like to be able to reflect a bit more on them. Although maybe there's a reason you can't quite figure them out, in fact there probably is.

hhmmm

Ha ha ha ha

I actually laughed at this!!! I think cats are so funny.

Sgt Podge is collected by car every day

Sgt Podge is collected between 0800 and 0815 GMT every day
A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place.

Sgt Podge, a Norwegian Forest Cat, disappears from his owner's home in Talbot Woods, Bournemouth, every night.

The next morning, the 12-year-old cat can always be found in exactly the same place, on a pavement about one and a half miles (2.4km) away.

His owner, Liz Bullard, takes her son to school before collecting Sgt Podge.

She said the routine began earlier this year, when Sgt Podge disappeared one day.

Ms Bullard rang the RSPCA and began telephoning her neighbours to see if anyone had seen him.

An elderly woman who lived about one and a half miles away called back to say she had found a cat matching Sgt Podge's description.

Ms Bullard collected him but within days he vanished again. She rang the elderly woman to find Sgt Podge was back outside her home.

From the BBC, hilarious!

I do like this

Cat Power AND the Flaming Lips HHHMMMM
"War Pigs"

"Where's the blood?"




I also like this: The Reindeer Section - You are my Joy

Darth Vader

Can you dig that??



Lol from my friend Aoife, who i'm just waiting for the blog. It's James Earl Jones in other films put into star wars...lol!

Something New

Well new to me anyway



His name is Ruarri Joseph (with 2 Rs)

I like it.