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emmett

Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad

About Me

i'm 27, living in cork, ireland... i love music, films, photography, writing, driving in the countryside, walking by the sea... i've been working for a couple of NGOs in the last year, really enjoying it...

My Interests

Music, Photography, Movies, Amateur Film-Making, Writing, International Relations, American Politics, Toys, Stand-up comedy, Soccer

I'd like to meet:

nice genuine people... U2 fans... people who like finding shapes in clouds... people with funny professions... pretty girls... astronauts... and... dreamers

Music:

U2 , Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice (check out my site www.EskimoFriends.com), Lisa Hannigan, The Be Good Tanyas, Bell X1, REM, Coldplay, John Lennon / The Beatles, The Frames, Daniel Lanois, Van Morrison, Emmett Tinley, Josh Ritter, Neil Young, The Frank and Walters, The 4 of Us, The Prayer Boat, Gemma Hayes, Mark Geary, Mazzy Star, Trespassers William, Ryan Adams, Bjork, Silversun Pickups, Interpol, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Whipping Boy, Calexico, David Gray, Glen Hansard, Mic Christopher, Death Cab for Cutie, Mazzy Star, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, The Buena Vista Social Club, Sarah Mclachlan, Mariam et Amadou, Femi Kuti, The Cure, Jose Gonzalez, Elliot Smith, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Shades, David Gray, Rufus Wainwright, Kanye West, Now It's Overhead... lots more..... width="425" height="350" ..

Movies:

La Vita É Bella is my favourite film... others that come to mind... It's a Wonderful Life, In America, Crash, The Shining, The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, Rope, Toy Story 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Raging Bull, Fargo, Harvey, In America, In The Name of the Father, Mystic River, When Harry Met Sally, Harvey, Marty, On The Waterfront, Elf, Goodfellas, Good Night and Good Luck, An Inconvenient Truth, Wedding Crashers, Old School, Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3, the Indiana Jones movies, ET, Stranger Than Fiction...

Television:

by far my favourite program is The West Wing, it never fails to inspire me... also: Boston Legal, That 70's Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Seinfeld, and (shush, don't tell anyone) i really liked the OC...

Books:

The Tenderness of Wolves, The Idiot, Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Great Gatsby, The Ode Less Travelled, America: The Book by Jon Stewart, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes... as well as lots of crime novels... been enjoying some books by Stephen Hunter recently...

Heroes:

Bono, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jnr, Amy Goodman, Studs Terkel, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Will Ferrell (just 'cause he always makes me laugh), Michael J. Fox, my family, and some of the people I work for

My Blog

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but ...
Posted by emmett on Mon, 21 May 2007 02:41:00 PST

a new blog

i started a new blog yesterday. if anybody is interested, it can be found here: Power In Hope
Posted by emmett on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:55:00 PST

It's not boring!!

Everyone should watch An Inconvenient Truth and then tell everyone else to watch it... and then pray for a Gore / Obama Democratic ticket in 2008! ...
Posted by emmett on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:55:00 PST

Happy MLK Day

It's not an Irish holiday, but it's my favourite holiday!---One should seek to do his life's work as if God Almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it. And he must do it with a ...
Posted by emmett on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:45:00 PST

song for someone

I haven't been a big frames fan for awhile, they seem to disappoint me a lot. But there's one song on their new album that i love, called "Song for Someone"...Dryin' up in conversation, stillMy head w...
Posted by emmett on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:02:00 PST

Jon Stewart After 9/11

There's been so much in the media about 9/11 this week. I was really moved by watching an old clip of Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, on his first programme after the attacks... width="425" height="350...
Posted by emmett on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:17:00 PST

The Art of Losing

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hou...
Posted by emmett on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:21:00 PST

how come

People on the street now Faces long and grim Souls are feeling heavy And faith is growing thin Fears are getting stronger You can Feel them on the rise Hopelessness got some by the throat you can see...
Posted by emmett on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:36:00 PST

set the fire to the third bar

I find the map and draw a straight line Over rivers, farms, and state lines The distance from here to where you'd be It's only finger-lengths that I see I touch the place where I'd find your face ...
Posted by emmett on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

Pirahã

i've been reading about a tribe in the amazon... the Pirahã people... they have a language that sounds like humming or singing... and they have no concept of numbers... and then i went searching and f...
Posted by emmett on Sun, 07 May 2006 04:20:00 PST