Acrylic paintings by artist Josh Keyes who sez:
Who is to say what surface is to be kept graffiti clean? My personal concern is that this will be a reality some day and speaks to a larger issue of our relationship with the natural world. The satellite and space graffiti hints that even if we colonize other worlds, what mark will we leave? No matter where we go there is evidence of our presence.
Fair enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJKIBeb6nQs
A squadron of Russian snowploughs and sweepertrucks in mega-clearance formation.
First Dates Ireland is back
Melanie O’Connor writes:
Following the resounding success of last year’s series, First Dates Ireland is set to be bigger and better with 12 episodes due to air this time round. Which means more cameras, more hopeful singletons and even more access to those intimate, funny, often excruciating blind date moments. Here’s a sneak peek from tomorrow’s night episode when Paddy and Lauren both go on their first ever date…
*lobs telly out window, catches it at the last minute, replaces it on its stand, puts kettle on*
First Dates Ireland on RTÉ2 at 9.30pm.
The Redneck Manifesto – back catalogue reissues for Dublin post-rockers
What you may need to know…
01. Last we checked in with Dublin instrumentalists The Redneck Manifesto, they’d taken to stage at Clonakilty Guitar Fest ahead of getting in shape for a new record.
02. While there’s no further announcement on that front as of yet, the band have released their complete discography to date on streaming services as of this week, as announced through a post (and with a special playlist) on Nialler9.
03. Streaming above is the title track from 2005 long-player I Am Brazil. The band’s music is available now across Apple Music/iTunes, Spotify, Google Music and Tidal.
04. Live dates are happening next month. February 15th and 16th at Whelan’s, the latter being sold out; the 17th at the Roisín Dubh in Galway, and the 18th, at Dolan’s in Limerick.
Thoughts: A distinguished body of work that helped set the precedent for a generation of instrumental music from this island. Well worth the revisit ahead of new tunes.
For the week that’s in it.
Louis Le Fronde writes:
As global leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Conference above is a little comparison graphic between Ireland v Switzerland, reading left to right it makes for interesting reading.
Switzerland, the ‘happiest country in the world’ is smaller than Ireland and until 1900 had a smaller population. Today it has nearly 3.5 million more people. It was a poorer country than Ireland in 1871. In per capita terms, Ireland was among the richest in the world in the 1870s and on the eve of the Great War – the Irish economy lost ground after the 1870s to most of the advanced economies outside the United Kingdom, and Switzerland in particular….
Any excuse.
Davos Elite Fret About Inequality Over Vintage Wine and Canapés (New York Times)
Howzagoin’?
Irish music hero Ray Wingnut interviews Cork/Malmo jazz outfit Fixity, in the second of his Guerrilla Sessions, also being taped for his weekly radio show on Spin Southwest.
They’re back!
With the most important meal of the day.
Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ & ‘JohnnyBS’ taste test American beereals!
The Avia Lansdowne Road Nua, Dublin 4 on Tuesday night.
Thanks Lee Miller
The Nerdwriter deconstructs one of Louis C.K.’s monologues (‘Monopoly’ – watch it without commentry here) to understand how the comedian structures his humour.
Largely sucking all the fun out of the joke, but in the interest of science.
