May 2011

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  • 05.31.11
    “Silence… Uncategorized | Comments Off
    "... is the pause in me when I am near to God." - Arvo Part [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/TRZLxxR23K4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 05.31.11
    Imprecision is sin Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Fine piece from AL Kennedy in the Guardian about the rewrite process. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/17/second-thought-rewriting-al-kennedy?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/nSQ36uSamu0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 05.30.11
    We’re A Garage Band: Butch Vig’s analogue tales from Dave Grohl’s basment Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Butch Vig's career as an abbreviated discography: Nirvana's Nevermind. The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Siamese Dream. Sonic Youth's Dirty. Garbage, Version 2.0 (the first Grammy nominated album recorded completely on Pro-Tools), beautifulgarbage and Bleed Like Me. Green Day's Grammy-winning 21st Century Breakdown. And now Foo Fighters' Wasting Light, which, bar a couple of tunes on the band's Greatest Hits, marks the first time he's worked with Dave Grohl since Nirvana. For the past few weeks Vig has been alternating between production work and sifting through over 20 tracks earmarked for Garbage's first album in six years. On a Sunday morning ...
  • 05.30.11
    Said the fly… Uncategorized | Comments Off
    MOUTH: . . . . out . . . into this world . . . this world . . . tiny little thing . . . before its time . . . in a godfor– . . . what? . . girl? . . yes . . . tiny little girl . . . into this . . . out into this . . . before her time . . . godforsaken hole called . . . called . . . no matter . . . parents unknown . . . unheard of . . . he having vanished . ...
  • 05.28.11
    Let the bells ring Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The great Gil Scott Heron passed away on Friday afternoon. We will not see his like again. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/gbZVdj_d62M" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/qGaoXAwl9kw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 05.25.11
    Product Placement Uncategorized | Comments Off
    "Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, the story line of television shows, or news programs. The product placement is often not disclosed at the time that the good or service is featured." [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/F4wh_mc8hRE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 05.23.11
    Terrence Malick and the meaning of life Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Terrence Malick's fifth film in 38 years, Tree of Life, an elliptical, mystical tale starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, took top prize at the Cannes film festival. We await with baited breath. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/XW4cMNue4m8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/0zLPM8FLMtk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/3chv4eYU2MQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/X4SmYoVj9Po" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/lcFx06cBmbk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 05.22.11
    Paddy Chayefsky’s Jeremiad Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard. Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us ...
  • 05.21.11
    Bohane-ian Rhapsody Uncategorized | Comments Off
    City of Bohane Kevin Barry (Jonathan Cape) Kevin Barry's first novel proper, following his short story collection There Are Little Kingdoms, hums with more ambition than a hundred rainy realists. Be warned though: the book might present itself as a future-dystopian turf war tale, but it’s really an alternative urban historical, more Corkonian steampunk than post-apocalypse fantasia. Barry is an audacious and inventive prose stylist. Bohane is drunk on language, conjuring a world of Riddleys, Droogs, Raindogs and Euchrid Eucrows against a Gangs of NY/Guns of Brixton backdrop. It’s not a perfect book - Bohane sometimes reads like a carnivalesque cast searching for a ...
  • 05.10.11
    Kildare Readers’ Festival Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The Rev Murphy, in conversation with Maria Doyle Kennedy at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, this Friday 13th May, 19.30 - 21.00. Books, murder ballads, music, film and more. Murphy will read, MDK and Kieran Kennedy will play. Come on down. http://kildare.ie/Library/ReadersFestival/Authors/PeterMurphywithMariaDoyleKennedy/ [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/nFhT92_GbC0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]