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September 2011
The Archives
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09.27.11Old King Crow"I do get a scent from the novels I mentioned of the regions, or the margins, asserting themselves fairly angrily before a spoilt, complacent, metropolis-focused literary culture. Some sort of state of the nation thing going on?" J the R gets a mention over at the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize thread, under a review of Michael Stewart's King Crow... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/26/not-the-booker-prize-king-crow
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09.14.11Cork, tonightA quick word before we hit off. Mr Peter Murphy will be reading tonight, Wednesday, 14th September with Órfhlaith Foyle at 9pm in The Ballroom, Metropole Hotel, Cork, as part of the Short Story festival. Here's a Q&A on today's blog. http://corkshortstory.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/an-interview-with-peter-murphy/
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09.14.11I did it for Ireland and the money, nothing elseFrom Hot Press, July 2004 Reports of Shane MacGowan’s demise – artistic, physical, mental or otherwise – are always exaggerated, usually as a result of how the singer comports himself in public. Any reporter has to wonder how much of the man’s dissipated act is just that: a put on, a shtick. Speak informally with him about music and you hear someone talking with considerable articulacy about a very ephemeral subject – or at least as articulately as can be expected of someone with no teeth and a mouthful of Japanese food. Yet, his career has been on the slide for a ...
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09.13.11Tom Waits on Harry Partch'He’d worked as a migrant worker and had been on the road for half his life, and he was one of those rogue academics who worked outside the matrix. So they feared him and pretended to admire him. Like most innovators, he becomes gravel on the road that most people drive on. So he was the first one through the door and the crowd tramples him. 'But nobody has done anything like that since. The idea of designing your own instruments, playing them and then designing your own scale, your own system of music. That’s dramatic and particularly for the ...
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09.13.11Sun, Moon, Serpent, and Bull'Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.' - Joseph Campbell [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/iQ9HXKk4ztw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HNXC2gr6Nok" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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09.13.11You’ve made an old man very happyFrom Wired magazine, August 2010: 'Writer/comedian Rachel Bloom sent Ray Bradbury a very peppy, very public and very NSFW birthday message with her music video, “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury,” which has been viewed more than 630,000 times on YouTube since it was posted last week. In an interview with a SeattlePI.com blog, she says she’d have a less-sexually charged message for the writer, who turns 90 Sunday, if she met him in person. “I would say very earnestly that I am overwhelmed with how well he combines such mind-blowingly cool ideas with the realism of how humans deal with these ideas,” she told ...
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09.08.11Cork International Short Story FestivalThe Rev Murphy will be appearing at the Cork International Short Story Festival next Wednesday September 14th, reading with Órfhlaith Foyle at 9pm in The Ballroom of the Metropole Hotel. See today's festival blog for a few words on the glory of the short story. http://corkshortstory.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/short-story-collections-by-peter-murphy/ http://forum-network.org/lecture/peter-murphy-reads-john-revelator [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/O4bMIskxqcg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AMfUGUlHAU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/BjLcX9hWBiY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]