Posted in The Fall, aesthetics, Art on May 14th, 2008 11 Comments »
Mark E Smith’s most distinctive texts echo both Lovecraft and Dick’s methodology. According to caricature, The Fall proffer a naturalism whose dreariness is leavened only by its humour. But it was only in their earliest mode that The Fall were comic naturalists, introducing an amphetamine-driven garage punk to the bingo halls, industrial estates and cracker […]
Posted in great irish bands, aesthetics, Art on Mar 4th, 2008 7 Comments »
There are people out there who do not see the three minute pop song as an art form. They need help. Now, there are thousands of pop songs to choose from, but here´s one that I find particularly wonderful.
The Divine Comedy will be a subject of our Great Irish Bands series soon, but for […]
Posted in aesthetics, muppets, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Dec 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
although it may have been the norm there was nothing forcing people to follow the norm, he said some people dye their hair yellow some people put rings in their nose and that’s not normal’.
Bertie Ahern, the fucking brains of the operation, today compared his financial acumen to a fashion statement. He was talking about […]
Posted in Irish journalism, aesthetics, Media on Dec 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Taken from articles since July this year.
Posted in great irish bands, aesthetics, music on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Most of all
I love you all
and wish you well” (This is not a song)
Sean’s post about Brian led me to Setanta records, and from there back to the Frank and Walters. It turns out that they’re playing tonight (8 December) in Whelan’s, Wexford Street, Dublin. Tickets are €20, which, you’ve got to admit, is […]
Posted in aesthetics on Nov 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
For once, words fail me.
Cheers to Sean for the link.
Posted in aesthetics on Nov 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Straight out of Flann O’Brien, except it isn’t. It happened in Scotland. From the BBC.
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also […]
Posted in aesthetics on Nov 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
WHAT shall I do with this absurdity -
O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature,
As I would question all, come all who can;
Come old, necessitous. half-mounted man;
And bring beauty’s blind rambling celebrant
W.B. Yeats – The Tower
Quick everyone, Paddy in Letterkenny needs advice. He has to build a tower in the middle of his 4500sq ft […]
Posted in memory, aesthetics, Film on Nov 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
Lumière and Company (1995, original title “Lumière et Cie”) was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules:A short may be no longer than 52 seconds;No synchronized sound;No more than three […]
Posted in philosophy, Zaragoza, aesthetics, Working Class, Labour, satire on Nov 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sometimes, just sometimes, ideology can be piss-funny. I mean, intentionally so, not in an Eoghan Harris piss-funny kind of way. The following is taken from Wikipeida:
La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?, in English, “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?”, is a 1973 Situationist film produced by the French director René Viénet which explores the resolution of conflict […]
