Thank Frank it’s Friday.

With all eyes on the election in America, the question this week is: What’s your favourite song whose title features an American state?

Here’s mine.

Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a star-spangled €25 Golden Discs voucher.

The winner will be chosen by my gun-totin’ Trump-votin’ Yankee cousin.

Please include video links if possible.

Lines MUST close at Saturday 10am.

Nick says: Good luck, y’all!

Golden Discs

1970.

50 computers.

Two coders.

But how much RAM, anyone?

https://vimeo.com/478504402

Stills and footage from an ongoing project by photographer Søren Solkær in the marshlands of southern Denmark where every spring and autumn, an estimated million migrating starlings converge in vast murmurations. Sez he:

At times the flock seems to possess the cohesive power of super fluids, changing shape in an endless flux: From geometric to organic, from solid to fluid, from matter to ethereal, from reality to dream—an exchange in which real-time ceases to exist and mythical time pervades. This is the moment I have attempted to capture—a fragment of eternity.

A book of the project is released this week.

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From the man behind The Lonely Beast…

comes …Eggcorns.

A world where things are a bit off.

Like real life, only WEIRDER.

Triona Marshall writes:

Have you ever seen a Bumbum bee, or an Elelamp? Award-winning author and illustrator Chris Judge has brought them to life in this hilarious new book Available from your local bookshop or at link below….

Eggcorns by Chris Judge (O’Brien Press)

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. 

Behold: the 1959 Porsche 365A Coupe, or rather, an immaculate ‘outlaw’ restomod by Emory Motorsports. You’ll recall an equally impressive job they did on a 1964 Porsche 356 C4S (commissioned, like this one, by a private client).

On the surface, modified B-pillars and 1960s inspired access to oil filters and cooler. Underneath, a custom modified crankshaft, headers and cam, independent rear suspension, disc brakes and a 260bhp 2.6-litre, fuel-injected Emory-Rothsport Outlaw-4 engine.

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An Emotional Fish – Grey Matter

Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, reader axelf pins his colours to the mast for An Emotional Fish – one of many bands dubbed “the next U2” in late 1980s Dublin.

Signed to U2’s Mother Records, they toured with Bono and the lads and Simple Minds.

Singer Ger Whelan (above second right) went on to transform into the consummate showman Jerry Fish.

Grey Matter was a single from their debut eponymous 1990 album.

Axelf writes:

“A lovely ’80s video of a snowy Dublin and lyrics like ‘I drilled a hole in my head to let the sun shine through’. What’s not to love?”

Nick says: Thrills, gills and bellyaches.

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