Monthly Archives: August 2010

Most enjoyable music thing on Twitter is this account.

Their latest dispatch is a succinct run down of Van Morrison’s solo albums:

“Van Morrison: 1 hit+filler; 2,6,8 timeless classics; 3,4,19
crowd-pleasers; 5,7,9-18,20-34 beloved by dads, Mojo subscribers and
luddites.”

Here’s their U2 critique…
U2: 1-2 “Nice guy…”; 3-6 “…but what a windbag!”; 7-8 “He babbled
about art…”; 9 “…danced badly…”; 10-12 “…and repeated
himself.

Photo: Larry Ryan and Van Morrison (L.Ryan Collection)

Taken about an hour ago at the famine figures next to the IFSC. The people are students (USI take a bow) dressed up as professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) to highlight the ‘brain drain’ which is harming the Irish economy.

It is, is it not, the photographic equivalent of being lectured to by a first year arts student in The Stag’s Head? Still, the famine did have a resonance with our youth in that some days, and I’m not ashamed to admit it, we survived on little more than grass. Ker-tish.

(Photo by Photocall)