Yearly Archives: 2014

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The Filmography Of Guns – a new illustration by Belfast born, Brooklyn based designer Cathryn Lavery – 115 intricately detailed representations of movie-related shooters, blasters and launchers from Harry Callahan’s ’44 Magnum’ to the esoteric cannons of Forbidden Planet and The Terminator.

The edition, currently funding on Kickstarter, is limited to 1,500 signed and numbered 60cm x 90cm prints (on ‘100lb archival recycled cover stock with fade-resistant organic archival quality inks’, if you don’t mind) and we have two of these lethal compendiums (with an accompanying  collector’s book) to give away.

If you do in fact, feel lucky, punk, just complete the following tiebreaker:

‘If I had my sweaty mitts on an EM-1 Rail Gun right now, why I’d…….’

Entries accepted until midnight Sunday. Winners announced Monday.

Previously by Cathryn: In Flight Movies & Cars In Film

Calm The Ham

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Cáit O’Riordan

“When I was a 17 year old London-Irish kid living in a Kilburn hostel I became a founding member of The Pogues. I was dubbed ‘Rocky O’Riordan’ and spent the next 4 years gigging and recording. The Pogues became successful very fast but my favourite memories are of those small pub and club gigs in the early days, when the chaotic energy of both the band and our audience still owed as much to the Sex Pistols as to The Dubliners.
“I quit the band aged just 21 and over the next 17 years I battled addiction and depression, finally picking up my bass again in 2003. Since then I have played with many legends of the Irish music industry, including the Radiators from Space, The Hothouse Flowers, Mundy, Jerry Fish and Gavin Friday. As well as returning to the music business I went back to school, earning a Master’s degree in Psychological Science in 2013. I am currently enrolled in the PhD programme at UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.”

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Cáit ‘Rocky’ O’Riordan returns to the Dublin live scene with a new band for a series of intimate gigs at The Stag’s Head (starting October 12).

They promise to blast out the classics from Red Roses for Me & Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, and “recreating the sweaty, manic fun of a Pogues gig circa 1984…”

Yikes.

The Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin

4pm €10

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The Old Beach Front Tearooms and (above) in the 1960s

Killiney beach, Killiney, Co Dublin this morning.

Sam writes:

“The former tea rooms on the beach of Killiney Hill known as the Gold Coast (with Bono, The Edge, Enya, etc. up above) is now occasional refuge for homeless addicts and a canvas for street artists.  A poem entitled Grief, about drugs and death, has been stencilled on the front of the building. The poem includes the lines ‘Kill the pain, numb the brain’ and ‘A death in darkness and death in light…’.
The buildings were sold at auction in 2001 to businessman Declan O’Regan, who sold on 75 per cent of the property to fellow businessman Kieran Tarbett and Dun Laoghaire architect Ross Cahill O’Brien, according to planning applications in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council. he main building was gutted by fire in 2004 and has been derelict since.”The last of the applications, lodged in 2009, was for a €5m euro, 30-guest room hotel, two dwellings, roof terrace and a boat-hire facility. Anyone have an update?”

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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Further to reports that some female asylum seekers, who have children, are engaging in prostitution to supplement the €19.10 a week they receive from the State, and the €9.60 each asylum-seeking child gets a week, the Irish Refugee Council has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness about the €9.60 asylee children receive from the State.

Some contributions so far…

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Samantha Arnold tweetz:

“Contact lenses for a month= 1/4 of adult #DPAllowance 1/2 child’s allowance.”

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Irish Refugee Council tweetz:

“A father of two sent us in this. They cost €12. How quickly does your child grow out of their shoes?”

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Irish Refugee Council tweetz:

“€5.24 for some apples and bananas. That leaves me with €4.36 from my weekly #DPallowance.”

Irish Refugee Council

Previously: “He Took Me Around Some Bushes”

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Sharon Corr and Saoirse Ronan at the launch of the ISPCC Brown Thomas Fashion Show at the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin today.

Sharon wears a Peter Pilotto Dress while Saoirse is wearing whatever the hell she damn well likes.

Also: Late Late guest tonight so?

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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What you may need to know:

1. While visiting his brother in Colombia, Surfer Nick Brady (Josh Hutcherson) falls in love with the niece of drug lord Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro).

2. Nick becomes embroiled in Colombia’s criminal underworld as he falls increasingly under the influence of the charismatic Escobar.

3. And you thought your in-laws were overbearing.

4. So, not an adaption of John Milton’s blank verse epic, then.

5. For our money, Del Toro’s career-defining role of was as Oscar Zeta Acosta in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). Let’s not mention The Wolfman (2010).

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Meet The Parents meets Traffic.

7. Pardon our French poster/subtitles.

Release Date: November 26 (USA)

(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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Fupping better be, in fairness.

A dispatch from the rental front.

Aisling writes:

“Roommate and I are house hunting and saw a particular ad on Daft we liked that was in our price range so we arranged a viewing for today. Went to check its location on a map this morning and saw that the price had gone up by over €300 per month. I called to ask about the larger price and the person told me that it had always been that price and that “Daft had made an error” and that the person who made the appointment with me should have told me. He didn’t, though he somehow remembered to ask me to bring photo ID and my PPS number. Nobody will know because they took the ad down and renewed it completely, so Daft don’t have the price tracked like they usually do….”