An alternate opening sequence for The Mandalorian by Malec, Martial Coulon, Antoine Bertrand, KronoMuzik, and Kenny dozo – re-imagined in Anime style with all the frantic action and classic poses of the genre.
Plus Baby Yoda, naturally.
A.S. Fanning – All Time
Love is in the air.
Berlin-based Dublin crooner AS Fanning (top) charms the pants off us with the new single from his second album You Should Go Mad, out later this month on Proper Octopus Records.
Filmmaker Mark Logan of Collective Films has also made a memorable video to complement the song, shot on Super 16.
Mark says:
“When we first heard A.S Fanning’s “All Time” it really struck a chord with us. It set us on a path to truly capture the rawness and beauty with which Fanning crafts each mesmerising note, melody and lyric…The video depicts three parallel stories that occur at different times and different stages of life, but all in magical West Cork, Ireland.
“This film is a response to the timeless nature of Love, which can be felt from this majestic tune.”
Nick says: Timeless.
James Joyce with Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare & Co, who published Ulysses in 1922
This afternoon.
Via AP:
Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France’s spring coronavirus lockdown put the future of the Left Bank institution in doubt.
The English-language bookshop on the Seine River sent an email to customers last week to inform them that it was facing “hard times” and to encourage them to buy a book. Paris entered a fresh lockdown on Oct. 30 that saw all non-essential stores shuttered for the second time in seven months.
…Founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, Shakespeare & Company became a creative hub for expatriate writers including Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce.
Reflecting on Beach’s decision to publish “Ulysses,” Joyce’s groundbreaking novel of more than 700 pages, Whitman said: “No one else dared publish it in full…She became one of the smallest publishers of one of the biggest books of the century.”
Virus-hit Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co appeals for help (AP)
The Idiots – Pinned
Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960 (unearthed by our recent Golden Discs music competition ), reader Tarfton Clax points us in the direction of 1990s Dublin indie guitar acolytes The Idiots, led by Brian Mooney.
Tarfton writes:
“A lovely ditty about sharing a squat with a heroin-addicted rentboy who overdosed on a number of occasions.”
Brian Mooney’s most recent project is The Next New Low album ‘And As For Loss‘ – a masterpiece.
Nick says: A tale told by The Idiots.
Don’t worry.
The people who did it want you to know they have your back this time.
Government Buildings. Dublin 2.
This afternoon.
Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe (above) and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin give an update on the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme.
The scheme will “assist those businesses whose trade has been significantly impacted or temporarily closed as a result of the Covid restrictions’.
Good times.
Hostels In Ireland tweetz:
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Them wild-eyed boys.
Lock up your daughters/drink cabinets/heroin, etc.
Year, anyone?
The votes are in.
After several lawsuits.
Last week, with a fancy €25 Golden Discs voucher offer, I asked for your most embarrassing incident of mishearing lyrics to popular songs in public.
You answered in your shameful dozens.
Alas, there could only one winner.
Third Place:
Cu Chulainn writes:
‘Has to be ‘Ireland’s industry’ an ad for the IDA I thought, and not Islands in the Stream…’
Runner-up:
Brother Barnabas writes:
‘Mine goes back a bit – while the rest of Sister Teresa’s Senior Infants were singing “he’s got the whole world in his hands” I heard – and sang with gusto – “he’s got the whole world in his pants”. Even a slap across the ear from the head nun (“forever the smart alec, aren’t we?”) didn’t clarify; it was years later that i uncovered my (genuine) error.’
Winner:
Mucho Gordo-Delgado
‘George Michael: “Cause I gotta have faith, I gotta’ have faith, Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith, I got to have faith, faith, faith.”
I heard: “Cause I gotta have Fanta, I gotta’ have Fanta, Because I gotta have Fanta, Fanta, Fanta, I got to have Fanta, Fanta, Fanta.”‘
Nick says: Thanks all (also this week’s competition coming up).
Last week Win Nick’s Voucher
Rebekah Fitch – Dust
Belfast’s answer to Adele?
Introducing 24-year-old Northern Irish alt.pop newcomer Rebekah Fitch (top) who can certainly hit those high notes with real emotional heft.
The affecting video was directed by KAM and stars Derek Halligan and Norma Hughes Ingram as Terry and Ellen.
Nick says: Dust never sleeps.