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dave

bonjour

About Me

seeing a particular bird reminds me of particular stories so I am trying to write a song about the birds I've seen and the people I've known. Some people need drugs, I need a stonechat or a house sparrow. There is a whole pile of doodlings below. thanks:)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/31/2005
Influences:
Building is currently taking place on
-the old remains of the day
-ropey church+gospel music
-George Harrison
-Tom Petty
-Richard Thompson
-Grant Lee Buffalo
-U2
-REM
-Pearl Jam
-The Saw Doctors
- Sufjan Stevens
- Vincent van Gogh
- Shakin' Stevens
-Wings (Mull of Kintyre)
-Nicklecreek
-Alison Krauss
-Steve Earle
- Mum
-Josh Ritter
-Kelly Joe Phelps
- Iain Archer
-Weezer
-Doves
-The Flaming Lips
- all the Freeburns (especially Patch the dog)
-the mushroom farm
-the lone corncrake I heard near Annies house, the garden warbler in the back lane,Deacon Blue, Gillian Welch, SOME Bob Dylan, Crowded House, pipe band music,John Denver and Ralph McTell, Kathleen Edwards, The Chieftans, The Hardy Boys, The Famous Five, Asterix, Tintin, The Beano (particularly The Bash Street Kids),Eugene Peterson, summer camping CS Lewis, every musical crime from the late 80's to mid 90's played on Radio 1,trips to the Port, chemistry at Queens (never again will lift a benzene ring in anger) Oh and not forgetting Potman Pat...or Helen:)
Sounds Like: it was recorded on his Fisher-Price
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fallowed Ground

Love   this fallow fieldMen  lay down its yieldThen   proceed with careDig   up treasure thereSacrifice    what you liftRemember   it's all a gift...
Posted by dave on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:13:00 PST

Chickpeas

Soak them in a bowl of water overnight.Boil them in a saucepan of water for 2hrs.Fry them for 10mins.And they will still be hard.I've been thinking life is very much like chickpeas....
Posted by dave on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

Yorkshire Sauce

Dandered down to my local Centra to pick up some Worchestershire Sauce, but they had none. However there was a bottle of Yorkshire sauce lurking in the extensive Centra sauce shelf.Has anybody have ex...
Posted by dave on Sat, 17 May 2008 02:39:00 PST

The Feel of Polyester Never Really Leaves You

While my work mates sweat to death in polyester shirtsCalculating the number of boxes of laminate flooringIt would take to cover an average sized bedroomIn West Dublin, I sit down on the wall of Westp...
Posted by dave on Fri, 16 May 2008 02:35:00 PST

Dodge

Sorry if any of you where getting dodge emails from my Hotmail account. The natives of Westport Co.Mayo obviously dazzle you with the beautiful natural scenery while sneaking into your computer.J...
Posted by dave on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:49:00 PST

Montober

When I picked the user name Montober for YouTube I thought 'now thats a truly unique name that nobody else will have on the web'Of course I had not factored in that well known fluting supergroup, the ...
Posted by dave on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST

Wine into Water

On the weekend that Ireland got beat by England in the 6 Nations I decided to turn wine into water using the old youth centre wheelbarrow.Over 48hours I collected 8 bottles or so.I can hones...
Posted by dave on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:09:00 PST

Dancing Toilet


Posted by dave on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

A Collection of Thoughts on Wexford

Everybody in Co. Wexford owns those nice new Mini's in bright colours. They can grow them there as it gets more sun than any other part of Ireland.If they don't drive a new Mini they'll drive a ...
Posted by dave on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:57:00 PST

Human Catalytic Conversion

I have less than a week to draw together my conclusions from trying to save the planet and be a human catalytic convertor changing things from bad to good, or from alright to better. This is for an ar...
Posted by dave on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:26:00 PST