This Bolloxology needs some Tuckervision |
It's difficult not to imagine a seething pack of Malcolm Tucker-like 'spin-doctors' turning the air blue as they scream expletives into their mobile phones down the corridors of Westminster at present...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 06:40:00 GMT |
Life as a Cyber-Exile |
"The sky was all purple
There were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' 2 run from the destruction
U know I didn't even care"
A couple of weeks ago I was out on a mate's stag-do and we ended up at...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:51:00 GMT |
Lent and a big hairy Irish arse |
Today is the first day of what we, the sleepless and repressed, call 'Lent'. I don't partake in it anymore; I gave up on all that stuff long ago. The last time I gave up something for Lent was when I ...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:23:00 GMT |
Bring Back 'No Disco' |
It's late-night television 1993 on RTE2, back when it was called, for some absurd reason, Network Two. A skinny, static and seemingly nervous young man called Donal Dineen from Kerry takes to the scre...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:09:00 GMT |
My completely objective review of Morrissey's new album |
This was my review for the new Morrissey album 'Years of Refusal' for Alternative Ulster magazine. The editor refused to read it because he's such a Moz fanatic and wants to review the album himself w...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:16:00 GMT |
The life, death and tragic legacy of Andrea Dunbar |
Flicking over the telly tonight I saw that 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too' was on. For those of you who don't know, it's a British comedy from the 1980s directed by Alan Clarke and based on a play written by ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:00 GMT |
Hey Cowell, Leave Them Kids Alone! |
I've never been a fan of the 'X-Factor'. I never liked the manipulative nature of the programme or the manner in which it suppresses youthful endeavour; something that pop music should be about in ess...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:46:00 GMT |
Natalie Merchant and Katell Keineg |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jma-2XtU-JQ
Two of my favourite albums from the 90s are 'Ophelia' by Natalie Merchant, and 'Jet' by Katell Keineg. Natalie is the former lead singer of 10,00...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:42:00 GMT |
Soap Box |
Where would we be without those moral guardians behind our favourite soap operas? Without them keeping us in check with the grim realities of this world, we'd all be walking head first into one crisis...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:30:00 GMT |
Weddings, Stags and Various Other Forms of Captivity |
"Too many weddings to live between
Too many weddings, I'm dizzy with deciding
It's the way you look at me
When we receive
The calligraphy
The prophecy
The postman brings too many weddings."
&nbs...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:42:00 GMT |
