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The Hour Of Deadly - 3

Playlist:

Infadels - Godzilla

Nick Harrison - Oi Rude Boy

Elbow - One Day Like This

The Brilliant Things - Alone

Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Underworld - Ring Road

The Music - Strength In Numbers

Tokyo Police Club - In A Cave

Damien Dempsey - A Rainy Night In Soho

Ain - Sunday

Innerpartysystem - Don’t Stop

Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary

The Week That Was - Scratch The Surface

Ham Sandwich - Never Talk

The Flaws - Out Tonight

Teenagersintokyo - Very Vampyr

Bryn Christopher - The Quest

You can hear the show on RTE 2XM - Digital Radio this Wednesday at 12.00, Saturday at 18.00 and next Monday at 20.00

One Listener At A Time…

25 Words Or Less - XXY

Slow and painstakingly revealing and very much an acquired taste which is good for me! Great cast and the perfect comedown for a Sunday evening…

(And yes, I am aware the trailer is in Spanish but it was the only one I could find and I’d rather not ruin too much of the plot for you if you don’t know it already thank you!!!)

“I Need You Sooooo Bad…”

I wonder how many of us would stand the scrutiny of having our most private texts read out like this….?

Iron Man - The Epilogue…

Jesus.

Now I wish I stayed til the end of the credits the way I used to in the old days!!!!

Check it out on this Japanese site if that’s been pulled…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-80140381564642625&q=%22nick+fury%22&ei=-7MeSKyhAoa-qALI-tnKAg

Insert Punchline Here…

My second favourite BBC headline of the day…

“Frigid Robot Eyes Top Tech Prize…”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7396317.stm

Stop!

…before you break my heaaaaaaaaart!!!

Think it o-oh-ver……

Doing Your Recycling?

The Lighthouse

Finally made it to the new Lighthouse on Sunday!!!!! And what a glory of nature it is too so I got my design geek and my movie geek fixes all in one…

 

 

Like what’s on at the moment. Started with XXY. Very strange but my speed nonetheless. (Note to self - must review it later)

 

 

Then just wandered around for a while taking furtive snaps in case someone gave out to me, something of which I’m frequently afraid in life.

 

It’s very, very different from the old Lighthouse, obviously but it was always going to be. The building itself is glorious and, like the TARDIS, much bigger on the inside than it appears to be on the outside. I’m hoping that nickname will stick. As long as the programming spirit stays the same that’s good enough for me.

I know it’s a short trip out from town (and a bus and a LUAS from where I am) but I’m determined to make the effort on an ongoing basis. There are few anough new cinemas being opened in Ireland these days, those dedicated to showing more than the same 8 movies that are showing everywhere else are very rare indeed and thus need our effort to be nurtured.

Just a quick one lads. All you need to do to make me extremely happy is start showing the occasional oldie. You know what I mean - Touch Of Evil, Sullivan’s Travels, Easter Parade, Playtime, Ace In The Hole, some Hitchcock, maybe Lawrence Of Arabia? That sort of thing :-)

Microwaves ‘cook ballast aliens’

Unfortunately the story is slightly less interesting than the headline would have us believe…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7392072.stm

Street Art I Like

Blogger’s Are Pedantic

Ah, the glory of the headlines in the Metro first thing on a Monday morning…

My Car

Bow At The Altar

Is there anything the man doesn’t understand? :-)

 

 

You have to go here…

http://www.edwardmonkton.com/

Rock AND Roll…

An entertaining press release?

Nah… Well it made me smile :-)

The Pigeon Detectives have been forced to cancel their two Irish shows this week at Dublin’s Ambassador (Tuesday 13th) and Belfast’s Mandela Hall (Wednesday 14th).

A statement from the band reads:

The Pigeon Detectives have been forced to cancel 2 shows in Ireland this week due to singer Matt Bowman injuring himself on stage yesterday (Sunday 11th May) at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Maidstone.

Bowman badly injured his leg in the fourth song but continued to leap off the stage & scissor kick into the air off the drum kit until he collapsed. He managed to finish the set before being taken to hospital where they initially wanted to operate immediately, however after further advice he was transferred to Leeds where he is currently being treated. The band are now waiting anxiously to hear whether any more dates on their UK tour will have to be delayed, doctors are expected to have more news later today. They are due to kick off the mainland leg of the shows on Friday in Glasgow.

The band are looking to reschedule the Irish dates (13th May - Dublin, Ambassador Theatre / 14th May - Belfast, Mandela Hall) and profusely apologise to their fans who had bought tickets.

The irony of the fact the band were performing their new single (released today) ‘This Is An Emergency’ on stage, and then Matt had to leave the site by ambulance has not been lost on anybody…

This Week’s Chosen One…

I absolutely LOVE this song…

Phoenixcarraldo…

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet…

I love the Ice Cream Ireland lads. Not just because they keep turning up at my front door with samples. So go out and buy their book!!!

http://www.mercierpress.ie/index.php?pageID=2&bookID=256

(The voice used in this infomercial has not been paid for his time in product. Much.)

Tech Cruise…

Tom Cruise joins the interweb everybody!!!!

Now it’s official!!!!

http://www.tomcruise.com

Romance Scams

Barb was just on!

http://www.romancescams.org

Be careful who you talk to on the interweb…

Winkles!!

They’re giving away 25 grand in Belgium to people who are nice. To strangers. Yup.

Knocking Down Little Old Ladies…

Busy tomorrow?

There’s an egg and spoon race down Henry Street…

Go Dublin Improv Movement!!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25475730832&reason=0

Chocolate Covered Bacon

Newspaper Blackout Poems

“I’m Charles Barkley….?”

Nazis From Space!!!!

I?

Likee…

On A Clear Day You Can See North Korea…

Out

Muse were playing. Or Coldplay. Or something.

 

 

I don’t remember much else…

The Last Green Field On Earth

Crack Man

I swear I wasn’t on crack when this was filmed.

http://breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mhgbaucwcwkf/

Swear.

Neigh Bother

Christ.

Yesterday, in what is sure to be the apex of my broadcasting career, I was depicted in a major national newspaper interviewing a horse.

Wanna have a listen?

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/rickoshea/couygriffin.html

“I Never Would Have Known…”

Was in Tullamore today. You’ll never guess who’s from Offaly!

 

 

No, seriously!!

 

 

Really!!!

 

 

I wasn’t sure so I quadruple checked…

 

 

These guys even changed their name for the day to get in on the act….. :-)

 

 

Eh. Vree. Where.

 

Happy Birthday To Me…

 

This is THE best possible present any of my blogging friends could have given me.

Ryan, you’re a legend…

http://www.glasseyalley.com/index.php?showimage=21

The Hour Of Deadly - 2

Playlist:

Republic Of Loose - Got

Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary

Foals - Red Socks Pugie

Autamata feat Cathy Davey - Cloud Seekers

Attic Lights - God

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution

Guillemots - Falling Out Of Reach

La Rocca - Non-Believer

Feist - I Feel It All

Martha Wainwright - Bleeding All Over You

Portishead - The Rip

Panic At The Disco - That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)

The Zutons - Always Right Behind You

R.E.M. - Hollow Man

Jape - I Was A Man

Does It Offend You Yeah? - Epic Last Song

Republic Of Loose - I.R.I.I.S.H 

You can hear the show on RTE 2XM - Digital Radio on Wednesday at 12.00, Saturday at 18.00 and Monday at 20.00

Anyhew…

Off for a couple for days just so’s ya know. Long story. Don’t worry about me :-)

Back on Friday…

Tom Waits Goes Mental…

Tom Waits?

My hero…

I’ll Have A Vowel Please Carol…

The Empire Strikes Barack!

Oh yeah baby…

 

The Dark Knight…

I couldn’t just show you this on a Youtube link, it just wouldn’t do it justice…

It’s blisteringly brilliant; if the film is half as good it’ll be THE Summer blockbuster of 2008 by a long chalk. Not that we expected anything different :-)

This is the hi-def link for the new Dark Knight trailer:

http://www.whysoserious.com/happytrails/trailer.htm

Messy. Very.

Sunday.

Yowsers.

There will be photos eventually.

It was here http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/about/bshaw/

followed by here http://entertainment.ie/venue_information/Club-Nassau/35904.htm

Messy.

Sky

Indy IV: Trailer II

Pedro has the scoop, as usual

Yes, this makes me very, very excited…

Crucidux

That Whirring Noise? Picasso Spinning In His Grave…

This? Morally wrong.

 

 

They’re using Francis Bacon to shill Arnotts! In the window! Jackson Pollock too! Lads. Seriously. Have you no souls?!?!?!?!?

Word…

I really should have nothing to do with this site. I turn 35 on Wednesday for Christ sake. Its world and mine should have nothing to do with each other (apart from being dragged (ahem….) into the George Bernard Shaw periodically.

Yet I like it :-)

http://dublinstreets.blogspot.com/

Le Savings

Wait. Hang on. Wait a cotton pickin’ minute.

 

 

H-E-N-R-I

Not Henry.

Doesn’t that make him Awhn-reeeee Hippo?

How come I’ve the only person who has noticed this?

It Takes Allsorts…

You have to check this out. I think he’s serious.

http://rickoshea.wordpress.com/2006/06/22/sheep-lipstick/#comment-4394

Infotainment On A New Level…

WTF?????

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=208928180&p=zx89z876x

No. There’s something very wrong with the world if that little nugget makes news anywhere…

No, I have no idea why it’s there either…

La Guerre Des Etoiles…

I just think these are incredible. French photographer Cedric Delsaux has taken Star Wars characters and put them in contemporary Parisian settings. There’s something magical about it…

 

 

http://www.cedricdelsaux.com/

25 Words Or Less - Iron Man

No Batman Begins certainly, but worth 100 Fantastic Fours. Surprisingly funny and reminds us why we loved Robert Downey Jr in the first place. Cool.