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July 2010
The Archives
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07.30.10An Evening With Billy Roche…...will take place next Thursday August 5th at the Wexford Arts Centre. Billy will be doing a selection of readings and songs as a fundraiser for a forthcoming production of his play 'Lay Me Down Softly', which he'll direct during the Opera Festival. Gary Lydon will join him on the night to read one of his stories and he'll also have Mike Odlum on piano. Expect an airing of a brand new short story called 'The Dog And Bone'. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/OVgNVnXoe3s" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.29.10CloudbustingMany's the drama has been extrapolated from the mystery of what our fathers got up to of an evening in the garden shed. Some cultivated allotments, some concocted batches of homebrew (secretly watered down by dear old mother), some tinkered with crystal radio sets or tended their pigeons. And some dabbled in darker arts. Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats contains a haunting thread (omitted from the film adaptation) about the quest of Maryland man Eric Olson to uncover the truth about his father Frank, a civilian scientist who died under suspicious circumstances. The cover story was that ...
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07.29.10Metropolis Restored – Irish Premiere83 years after the fact: the Irish premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at The National Concert Hall, with a live orchestra. This from the National Concert Hall's website: Movie buffs will be treated to the Irish premiere of Fritz Lang’s restored sci-fi epic METROPOLIS at The National Concert Hall with live orchestral accompaniment on Saturday 4 September 2010 at 7.30pm. Not seen since 1927, the monumental silent film classic which was considered lost for decades will be shown to Irish audiences ahead of its release and accompanying season of Fritz Lang films at the IFI. A newly adapted music score for salon Orchestra ...
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07.28.10Old Moore’s AlmanacWe spoke to Alan Moore about Unearthing last night. Stay tuned for the results. Meantime, here's the NY Times on the case. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/books/27moore.html?_r=1&hpw [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/lMTWDYdVXV0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.28.10Seven months after the quake"They've got no blood." Sean Penn talks to Charlie Rose about his work in Haiti. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11127
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07.27.10Illuminati-ation"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill." Robert Anton Wilson on Fundamentalist Materialism [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7bAEfO9-pKs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.27.10It’ll Be Better TomorrowIf you get on down to HMV on Grafton St in a hurry, you might find a copy of the excellent Hubert Selby documentary It'll Be Better Tomorrow, paired with Requiem For A Dream, all for a fiver. Here's the trailer. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqvFfj_MKDA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] And here's a clip from an NPR interview with Terry Gross. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/lxES_CZRu74" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.26.10What Keeps Mankind Alive?"You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your preaching, that’s where it begins" Burroughs does Brecht and Weill: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJTIedZVIVQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.26.10Old AlbionElectric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young is the best music book we've read in years. Here's our review, a slightly shorter version of which appeared in yesterday's Sunday Business Post: The term 'pyschogeography' was coined by French Situationist Guy Debord, defined as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals." Largely pertaining to urban spaces, the word has in recent times become commonly associated with the work of English poet, novelist and historian Iain Sinclair. A juicy phrase, it suggests the occult ...
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07.20.10Is it a bird? Is it a plane?Nope, it's Cope, with the orgasmatronic 'S.P.A.C.E.R.O.C.K With Me'. Someone give this man his own planet. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/_-j16bat0sc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] While we're logged in, here's a clip from the frontal lobe massaging BBC series The Modern Antiquarian. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/-wSCUfp_-as" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] And here's a retrospective Island compilation review from way back in 1999. Julian Cope Leper Skin - An Introduction To Julian Cope (Island) IF JULIAN Cope didn't already exist, nobody would've invented him. The spaceman has comethed in many guises over the last 15 years: flight-jacketed Scott Walker obsessive, collector of psychedelic Nuggets and Pebbles, krautrock authority, maggot-brained space cadet and now, modern ...