Mario Rosenstock, take a bow. I was glued to this on Tonight with Vincent Browne earlier. A perfect tip of the hat to Network. Timely, I’ve felt this way since the start of the election campaign.
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There’ll be no more criticism of Gift Grub from me….
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2011| 2 Comments »
Things I’m meaning to do this week.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2011| 6 Comments »
Merchants Arch (source unknown, anyone?)
On Thursday, Anna Livia (or the eh…Floozie in the Jacuzzi) is finally getting a new home. She’ll be up by Croppies Acre, next to the National Museum at Collins’ Barracks.
At some stage I’m still meaning to drop into The Merchants Arch Bar. Mixed reports on the sounds and vibe (a bit oirish?) aside, the Fishermans Pie is getting rave reviews all over. Any reports?
I really want to have a proper rummage through The Rage on Fade Street’s supply of vinyl and CDs. It seems, from reading a few forums, The Rage is the retirement home for a lot of the Trout Records collection?
At some stage, I’ll have to actually buy a ticket for At Swim Two Birds in the Project.
On Friday, I’m selecting a few tunes for the Punky Reggae Party, with Sam of this very parish, but it’s also election day. I’ll be off looking for a new camera to get the best possible shot of Curran or Gogarty crying at the count centre the following day. Both in the one frame?
On Saturday, I’m deffo going to see what the hell is up with Crackbird. Free food, too good to be true?
This weekend also sees the Flea Market at the Co-Op. You might think it’s all jumpers, but it was there I found the Aiseirghi Newspaper featured on this here blog before. Always rummage….
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Some Twits have come in from the Tweet Machine.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“FG Girl shows how to use Twitter.”
FG Girl. She doesn’t have a name.
“Digital revolution.”
Yeah, it’s just like Egypt.
Shameless plug:We have a page on the tweet machine.
Update: It gets worse.
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Sounds of Resistance Punk Night
Posted in Events, Music, Uncategorized, tagged Dublin Events, dublin punk, gig on February 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Next Saturday, Murray's Bar, O'Connell Street
Coinciding with the implosion of Fianna Fáil and the inevitable trundling in of our new Fianna Gael overlords is a great weekend of music in Murray’s Bar on O’Connell Street. It looks set to be a busy weekend for us here at CHTM! too, with our involvement in both gigs. JayCarax and DFallon are spinning the decks on Friday night at the ever excellent Punky Reggae Party while I’ll be hitting the stage at some point on the Saturday night at the above gig; a thumping line-up containing Dublin crust legends Easpa Measa, Droppin’ Bombs and newbies Dirge. Following the bands will be Punky Reggae DJs until 2.30 AM. The gig is a joint fundraiser for the IPSC, AFA and the St. Pauli Supporters Club Dublin.
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Doors @ 9pm, first band @ 10pm.
Entrance – €8 waged / €5 unwaged.
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Fine Gael: Throw lots of dosh at the internet, see what happens.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Have you played the Fine Gael ‘game’? Super Mario it ain’t. You get to throw little Fine Gael logos (spacebar) at other party figureheads and…..kill them. Look, Enda just killed Lenihan, and he’s about to kill Joan Burton with a lethal Fine Gael logo.
This whole election has been painful, with regards Fine Gael ‘viral’ campaigning. Sack someone.
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Panorama-How to Blow a Fortune. BBC1 8.30pm.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Want to live in Dev’s old gaff?
Posted in Dublin History, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged Dev, dublin, Eamonn DeValera, Easter 1916, Phibsboro, Properties on February 21, 2011| 2 Comments »
- Dev’s residence at the time of the Rising- 34 Munster Street
Day dreaming about winning the lotto and buying a house over the weekend, I came across the above on Daft (considering I have about as much a chance of winning the lotto as buying a house it was about as far fetched as daydreams get.) The house above is 34 Munster Street, Phibsoboro; Dev’s place of residence at the time of the Rising, and yours for just €290, 000. Phibsboro was a hotbed of activity around that period, with Dev, Harry Boland, Dick McKee, 15 year old Fianna member Seán Healy and 18 year old James Kelly amongst it’s residents involved in the fighting during Easter Week. Whilst Dev’s political legacy is “somewhat complicated,” his influence on Irish history is still felt today. If walls could talk…
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Take 2.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2011| 1 Comment »
Hooperman will burn the boldholders.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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A few quick snaps
Posted in Photography, Uncategorized, tagged Dublin Images, Dublin Life, Photography, Photography. Social Photography on February 17, 2011| 7 Comments »
Out of boredom and/or chronic procrastination (bills to pay, things to sort out,) I went for a stroll around the city this evening with the camera; its surprising the things you see in this city that you don’t notice unless you’re looking for them. Below is Georges Street Arcade, the place where I acquired my first studded belt, in my mind, it made me punx and I still wear it to this day, ill fitting as it is.
The Arcade- like diving into the past
Now you’d think that our comrades in Fade Street would flock to Dylan Haskins like scenesters to an overpriced Dubstep night in The Academy but not so. They’re all voting our Mannix.
Fade Street are voting Mannix
Just another victim, Waterstones bookshop closed it’s doors for the last time a couple of weeks back with the loss of 46 jobs. It wasn’t somewhere I shopped too often, I prefer Chapters myself but a pity all the same.
And another one bites the dust... Waterstones
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Vote No.2 Conor Lenihan.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2011| 11 Comments »
Rock the Vote, yeah?
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged election, Emmigration, Irish Election, Recession, Rock the Vote, The Celtic Tiger on February 16, 2011| 3 Comments »
Remember this? A concerted effort by those in Leinster House to get “the youth” out to vote by making it cool ala New Labours Cool Brittania across the water a few years back. The criticism was quiet but produced the following video, summed up as “a satirical take on the mind-numbingly vapid rock the vote campaign in Ireland.” The legacy left behind by that campaign is that a large number of those it targetted have been forced to flee Ireland for shores new once again. It started slowly for me, but that trickle has become a flood and I’m hearing of someone else emigrating every other day now. In the video below, some of the faces may have changed, (thankfully McDowell has disappeared back to Hades or wherever he came from) but the sentiment remains the same.
Oh, and to read another cringe-worthy piece of journalism from Ruth Gilligan where she descries the disappearence of “convoys of Volkswagen Polos up to UCD, [with] collars up and speakers up even higher, blaring Kanye for all to hear,” go here.
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