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October 2009
The Archives
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10.29.09Cometh the hourThe National Campaign for the Arts calls on the Irish government to maintain arts funding in the upcoming budget. http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petition.html Please sign and forward this request onto any arts supporters you know.
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10.24.09Gimme gimme shock treatmentA surefire cure for the blues. Al Swearengen's Positive Mental Attitude Module. Tony Robbins eat your heart out. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/z2Q7YRDL90E" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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10.24.09Go tell it to the mountainrap·ture (rpchr)n. 1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. 2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural. 3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/oPOFNyvN2Y0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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10.20.09Nighthawks at the Project, Oct 27Nighthawks at the Project Arts Centre (in aid of CONCERN) Tuesday, 27th October, 2009 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Vyvienne Long (Solo) Vyvienne Long first came to prominence a few years ago as the cellist in Damien Rice’s band. Then, in 2006, Vyvienne released her wonderful debut EP, entitled Birdtalk, and it quickly became obvious that she was a hugely talented singer-songwriter in her own right. Vyvienne is also a wonderful live performer, and, not surprisingly, she has sold out venues all over Ireland. Vyvienne is currently putting the finishing touches to her debut album, ...
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10.17.09Never bet the devil your head... and never let a bird spit in your mouth. Harry Crews and David Eugene Edwards in Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/I_zVtsKSNOc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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10.15.09Reckon they missed the bit that says Thou shalt not kill"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." One more time, Lenny Bruce http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18448
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10.15.09He sure was funny and he sure told the truth and he knew what he was talkin’ about."Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." – Lenny Bruce
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10.15.09Unspeak Monkey, Unspeak"Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." – George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946 [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/eIqESwzCGg4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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10.13.09Rat Finks and Hot Rods.We are not fit to eat his dust. The god-like genius of Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth. http://www.bigdaddyroth.com [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/s__tEvOtLfs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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10.06.09No Shit"It was in the winter of my fiftieth year when it hit me: I was really alone and there wasn't a hell of a lot of time left..." [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/lifKUAVKBGU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]