Davy Dunne And The Shopping – Try
Sean Connolly writes:
You have MANY fans in Canada. Anyway, enough of that…I know you don’t normally plug stuff like this, but my mate in Ireland Davy Dunne and his band “Davy Dunne & The Shopping” have a great new video for their track TRY. It’s about inspiring people to get up and doing something in these tough times. It might bring a smile to someone feeling lowly, or at least get someone dancing around the kitchen to the catchy tune.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxMslIwsCZU
What you may need to know.
1. Hitchcock biopics are so hot right now. This is the one that doesn’t have Anthony Hopkins in it.
2. Toby Jones plays Hitch here: he’s one of the most reliable character actors in the game these days – AND his Dad’s in Emmerdale.
3. Remember Sienna Miller? She’s best remembered for her co-starring role as Jude Law’s girlfriend and, more recently, her role in the News International hacking scandal.
4. Hitchcock’s Vertigo was voted The Best Film EVER Made in the prestigious Sight & Sound poll earlier this year: our own choice, Sam Raimi’s seminal Evil Dead 2 (1978) (1987), failed to make the Top 100, thus making the entire poll utterly redundant.
Release date: October (TV)
Nice ink.
From the ‘History and Topography of Ireland’ by Gerald of Wales.
Gerald of Wales was born at Monorbier castle, in Pembrokeshire, in 1146. He was educated at Gloucester and Paris, and became Archdeacon of Brecon in 1175.
He visited Ireland in 1183, 1185, 1199 and again for about two years from 1204. A version of his text–which is largely concerned with the marvellous things he saw or heard about there–is known to have been read publicly in 1188.
This manuscript was written perhaps at Lincoln, probably before Gerald’s death in 1223, and it has been suggested that he personally supervised its writing and decoration. This manuscript was later owned by St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury.
Ireland has no reptiles, Gerald says, but it does have harmless spiders, leeches, and frogs. Gerald says that the only harmful animals in Ireland are fox…
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
Or film crew?
YOU decide.
North Great Georges Street, Dublin, NOW.
Via Conor Pope
Thanks Lars Biscuits
Eoin Kilkenny writes:
There’s always a holy one. At the Dublin pilgrimage to Lourdes [France]! [last night]
Fight Dub by Eclectic Method. What it says on the tin:
The first rule of Fight Dub is to tell everyone about Fight Dub. Eclectic Method explores the idea of fighting across the frames, mixing fight scenes so characters reach from one movie into another and punch the behoozle out of someone. James Bond steps into Snatch, Adam Sandler knocks out Indiana Jones and Bruce Lee repays Uma Thurman for borrowing his yellow outfit in Kill Bill. Oh and just for good measure, Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves self-harm. And who can say they never wanted to punch a panda?
We can.
Finally, Murray has crossed the Rubicon line. Finally, after four wrenching defeats in slam finals, he has claimed the prize he coveted above all others.
The scale of the achievement, as Murray became Britain’s first slam champion for 76 years, should not be underestimated – and nor should the determination it required for him to break this breakthrough.
