Monthly Archives: July 2012

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Litany by Pat ‘Sam’ Carton

Peenieman writes:

I kinda ran the label [and produced/recorded same] that this was released on 10 years ago. It is a spoken word record and the accapella/poem is there in all it’s naked glory. Paul B, then a member of experimental pop group,Galway’s Cane141 added the musical palette in a kind of Martin Hannett“ish” stylee.
It’s still brilliant and so is Pat…who I know as “Sam” but that’s another story. He performed it on John Kelly’s “The View” at the time of release but
it was/has largely been overlooked. perhaps this visual prompt uploaded less than 48 hrs ago will give it some belated recognition.

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What you may need to know.

1. Roscommoner Chris O’Dowd is a movie star now.

2. Just to prove it, here he is getting off with Hellboy.

3. Frankie Go Boom premiered at SXSW earlier this year to a mixed response. Truth be told, we’re getting a bang of straight to DVD off it.

4. That said, his movie career is in rude health. He’s in the next Judd Apatow movie, and his Aussie comedy The Sapphires was snapped up by Harvey Weinstein at Cannes. Here‘s the trailer.

5. Chances of another series of The IT Crowd? Unlikely.

Release date (ireland): TBA

Met Éireann’s long-ish term forecast

“Possible evolution of weather pattern for next week: A cold front may begin to move down over Ireland on Monday with some rain but there is a possibility that warm Continental air may then push in over Ireland over the following days bringing some fine, summer weather with temperatures well into the twenties. Although this is still far from certain it is a distinct possibility”.

Prompting Andrew Sheridan to write:

 They should just say ‘to be honest, we haven’t a clue what’s going on…’

 

 Met Eireann (Forecasts)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Stefan Mitchell writes:

I know this is somewhat of a plug but we’re a brand new Irish tourism website start-up trying to promote Ireland (and getting our name out there is extremely tough). We found the Government-run tourism website as being quite cluttered so we designed Reveal Ireland.ie to be easy to use, visually appealing and informative.
The aim of the poster campaign (above) is to cover three distinct ‘ages’ from Irish history; The Ice Age, The Bronze Age and The Middle Ages. So (top pic) The Wicklow Mountains National Park with landscape carved out during the Ice Age. Middle pic: Dunbeg Promontory Fort, Fahan, Co. Kerry built c.500BC – the end of the Bronze Age. And, bottom pic, Dunguaire Castle built c. 1500 – towards the end of The Middle Ages. Thanks.

 

RevealIreland

Website reviews welcome below.

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Earlier: Escape The Madness