The Next New Low – How To Make Nothing

“And everybody wants to help
But no one can.”

Once the lead singer with cult ’90s indie rockers The Idiots, Brian Mooney (top) returned with the masterpiece that was last year’s EP ‘And As For Loss‘.

Now he’s continuing his creative resurgence with How To Make Nothing, which has echoes of John Lennon or Pink Floyd in its plaintive melancholia.

Brian writes:

“Audio recorded on my phone with additions in Logic 2020. James Smith added funky bass and keys. Video recorded in the kitchen on my phone with additions by Delphine Velut.”

Nick says: A tale told by an Idiot.

The Next New Low

This morning.

NCT, Deansgrange, county Dublin.

Carlosfandango asks:

How DO they know?

Anyone?

Update:

Carlosfandango writes:

The Tenerife Taxi (above) failed on a tyre and reg plate bulb. All will be well, a retest has been booked.

Only six tenders for the rollout of toilets as part of new cafe or retail kiosks across Dublin, instead of portaloos, have been made  to Dublin City Council

They promised, to me and to you
Plans that looked too good to be true
But alas now they say
There’ll be a delay
Before people have somewhere to poo

John Moynes

RollingNews

Yesterday.

Colum Cronin tweetz:

Beautiful blue sky summer’s day at the Custom House. Built in 1791. Burnt to the ground during the War of Independence in 1921. Restored in 1928. Further restorations in the 80s. And you can see the tarpaulin and scaffolding surrounding the building again today 

Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health

This evening.

Meanwhile..

Temple Bar, Dublin this afternoon

This evening.

Anyone?

RollingNews

Oli Cavanagh (right), co-founder, Strikepay with Mark O’Keeffe, Sugar Culture MD and Edel Kinane, Chief Growth Officer, Strikepayoutside Brown Sugar, South William Street, Dublin 2

This morning.

South William Street, Dublin 2.

The announcement of a new roll-out of Strikepay – an Ireland-based ‘cashless tipping and payment solution’ enabling customers to ‘thank their service professionals directly’ by tapping a Strikepay tag worn by staff or scanning a QR code using their phone.

Strikepay says the system has has seen the ‘average value of tips paid to hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, and nail technicians increase by 79% over the past six weeks’.

Strikepay

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Irish-made stuff to broadheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’.

Oompah.

And, furthermore, loompah.

Andy Pipkin writes:

I don’t know if you or your readers are interested but today marks the 50th (yes 50th!!!) anniversary of the release of the amazing movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971).

One of my favourite movies ever, Gene Wilder was born to play the role [of Wonka], considering it was 50 years ago the ‘special effects’ were way ahead of their time as in this clip above!

Original cast of ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ celebrates 50th anniversary of classic film (ABC7)

Alternatively…

‘…the film honors Wonka’s antisocial, child-unfriendly coolness, to the point of leaving the fates of most of its young characters unresolved. (The book’s coda, detailing the kids’ survival, is excised from a rushed finale.) Yet it cushions him in starry-eyed romanticism, too, from the first bars of its signature song Candy Man, which posits Wonka as joy-spreading visionary who wants only to make the world taste good. Is he an idealist of pure imagination, or a canny commercial opportunist and coloniser of cultures? The film defused the NAACP-stoked controversy over the book’s racialised depiction of Wonka’s Oompa-Loompa workforce by making them orange-faced alien beings, but the sour taste remains.’

Jayz.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at 50: a clunky film that Roald Dahl rightfully hated (Guy Lodge, The Guardian)

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