Monthly Archives: August 2012


Michael D’s pre-Presidential (May 2010) bitch slapping of US right wing loon Michael Graham [on The Right Hook, Newstalk]. Joyously rediscovered and currently burning up the world wide webnetsphere.

Previously: Tenacious D

Thanks all 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCk95TArPJ4

What you may need to know.

1. Shut Up… documents the 48 hour period directly before and after the farewell concert by LCD Soundsystem at Madison Square Garden. Directors Southern and Lovelace also made the Blur movie No Distance Left To Run (2010).

2. It’s playing in Irish cinemas for ONE NIGHT ONLY, at selected venues nationwide on September 4th. The screening will be followed by a live ‘interactive’ satellite Q&A with LCD head honcho James Murphy. It’s gonna be a scene.

3. LCD had to cancel Irish shows in 2010 due to that pesky volcanic ash cloud – Murphy talks about it in the movie.

4. What do hipster rock stars do when they retire? Murphy nearly starred in a TV show based upon Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. And he’s opening a shop. Oh, and he’s about next weekend to DJ at the Electric Picnic.

Release date (Ireland): September 4 , one night only.

UPDATE: Shut Up… will be on general release from September 7 at The Lighthouse, Smithfield, Dublin, and Eye cinema, Wellpark Retail Park, Galway.

Getting grimmer.

Fresh from the Central Bank:

At end-June 2012, there were 761,533 private residential mortgage accounts for principal dwellings held in the Republic of Ireland, to a value of €112 billion.

Of this total stock of accounts, 83,251, or 10.9 per cent, were in arrears of more than 90 days. This compares with 77,630 accounts (10.2 per cent of total) that were in arrears of more than 90 days at end-March 2012.

* The number of accounts that were in arrears of more than 180 days was 65,698 at end-June 2012, equivalent to 8.6 per cent of the total stock. At end-March, the number of accounts in arrears of more than 180 days was 59,437, or 7.8 per cent of the total stock.

* There were 45,165 accounts in arrears of less than 90 days at end-June 2012. This figure reflects a fall of 2.4 per cent since end-March, when there were 46,284 accounts in short-term arrears.

*While the number of accounts in arrears of more than 90 days increased by 7.2 per cent during Q2, the total value of arrears outstanding on these accounts increased by 11 per cent.

Residential Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions Statistics: Q2 2012 (CentralBank.ie) 

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Mmm.

Trippy.

By Grace McEvoy who sez:

This week and next week’s cover are animated gifs. For a while I’ve been collecting and reblogging images I like or find relate to one another on my tumblr as an archive of material to use for future projects. For this cover I’ve re-appropriated and re-mixed a selection of these images to form a kind of ‘techno-mental dreamscape’. I’m interested in this idea of altered states of mind mediated by technology, imagined landscapes and our desire to conjure up ideas of ‘the future’.

 

Le Cool Dublin

If you’re lying to plain speaking folk,
And you’re caught out while pulling a stroke,
You’ll be taught by some cynic,
In a spin doctor’s clinic,
To smile, and announce you “misspoke.”

John Moynes

Unless you think you can do better?

Oh yes, it’s a  Thursday ‘Rick OFF.

Free Darklight Film Festival pass to the best Limerick on the theme above.

Lines close at 12.30pm

UPDATE: the winner:

Enda Kenny has egg on his face,
From a visit that never took place,
Now historians moan,
About the National Loan,
And his speechwriter’s going to be replaced.

Clifford Killeen

Barry J Murphy writes:

Moany French and English rugby unions complaining cause they don’t get enough silverware. Belittling the huge achievements of Irish clubs who have not been finishing in the lower tiers of the Rabo12 that the article suggests.

 

Premiership And Top 14 Clubs Threaten Breakaway From Heineken Cup (Guardian)