Always Loved A Film
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Taken from Underworld‘s forthcoming album Barking.
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Huck Finn “Smiles”
Thursday, March 11th, 2010“Smile” – Flashback Two from hadleyk on Vimeo.
A clip of a short film with some nice music.
It’s Still Funny
Monday, January 11th, 2010Remember that time it snowed in Dublin and that guy was on the news and he slipped and fell over? Yeah, it was only three days ago, but it’s still funny. In fairness, who didn’t have one of these pratfalls on the ice? I know I did. 
Temptation
Monday, January 11th, 2010Two weeks off the booze now and what happens? Bars start to offer half price drinks all day! Thanks Panti… lead me not into temptation and all that. For now I’m keeping the Naïve Melody that goes “giving up drink is easy and I don’t miss it all” going round in my head. 
Kick-Ass
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
I never got around to seeing Watchmen, and probably never will. Maybe this movie can fill that void? Judging from the trailer though it looks a little bit like it’s going to fall into the “trying to hard to be funny and cool” category.
How Not To Wash Your Bugatti Veyron
Sunday, November 15th, 2009The driver blames this little million dollar mishap on a “low-flying pelican”. I kid you not.
[Via Geekologie]
R.E.M. Live At The Olympia
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
R.E.M. at the Olympia
In 2007 R.E.M. decamped to Ireland to write and rehearse, culminating in a series of five live gigs in the Olympia in Dublin, which were recorded for release at a later date. That date is October 27th, 2009. The release will consist of a double CD with 39 songs called appropriately enough R.E.M. Live At The Olympia, and a DVD movie called This Is Not A Show, taken from the graphic displayed on stage before their performances as pictured above.
Here’s a clip of R.E.M. playing an old favourite of mine, Drive, taken from the movie, which has its premiere on September 29th at Sound Unseen in Minneapolis.
The full tracklisting of the CDs looks like this:
1 Living Well is the Best Revenge
2 Second Guessing
3 Letter Never Sent
4 Staring Down the Barrel of the Middle Distance
5 Disturbance at the Heron House
6 Mr. Richards
7 Houston
8 New Test Leper
9 Cuyahoga
10 Electrolite
11 Man-Sized Wreath
12 So. Central Rain
13 On The Fly
14 Maps and Legends
15 Sitting Still
16 Driver 8
17 Horse to Water
18 I’m Gonna DJ
19 Circus Envy
20 These Days
21 Drive
22 Feeling Gravitys Pull
23 Until the Day is Done
24 Accelerate
25 Auctioneer
26 Little America
27 1,000,000
28 Disguised
29 The Worst Joke Ever
30 Welcome to the Occupation
31 Carnival of Sorts
32 Harborcoat
33 Wolves, Lower
34 I’ve Been High
35 Kohoutek
36 West of the Fields
37 Pretty Persuasion
38 Romance
39 Gardening at Night
FC Kahuna Are Back
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Machine Says Yes from FC Kahuna was one of the best albums of the last ten years, and amazingly ahead of its time. It came out on the short lived first run of the City Rockers label in 2002. After the temporary demise of the label, the album was picked up by Skint in 2003. It spanned a lot of different electronic styles, from the breezy chill-out of Hayling (video above) to the blissed out tech house of Glitterball, via the nasty stuttering of Nothing Is Wrong.
I was expecting FC Kahuna to go on to bigger and better things, to maybe take their place as the newest live electronic act on the circuit, but for some reason they just faded away after a few Skint singles and remixes (as far as I know).
So it was a pleasant surprise to hear via Alex Metric that they’re back and have been sending out new material. I’ve not heard any of it yet but I’m really looking forward to it. Anyone with any more details, pass them on!
The Tenth Dimension
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009This videos a few years old, but is an interesting introduction to the idea of dimensions beyond the four we normally talk about.
The Space Shuttle And The Sun
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
The Space Shuttle In Front Of The Sun
[Via: Dubliner.ie]
I think this falls into the category “Don’t Try This At Home Kids!”. Taking pictures of things flying in front of the sun does’t sound like the safest thing in the world to be doing, but judging from the above the results can be very pretty. However, it does also remind me of that very valuable leason from Fr. Ted: