Burco scrambles on Lili's couch
Friday, January 28, 2005
The 3 Muskateers
Lili has returned! So, now, the three muskateers of me, Burco and Lili are once again complete.
Here's the evidence from an impromptu all day Thursday session.
Rawk.
Una
Listening to - The Veils, Valleys Of New Orleans
Here's the evidence from an impromptu all day Thursday session.
Rawk.
Una
Listening to - The Veils, Valleys Of New Orleans
Monday, January 24, 2005
FILMS MOVIES WHATEVER
For some reason, movie soundtracks are a bit better these days.
Garden State. Come On. The Shins, Frau Frau. Actually Frau Frau - Let Go song rules. Weird thing. I watched this film in Boston and that song was totally stuck in my head and one day, I put on a mix CD Lili had made for me, and it was the first track on it. Strange.
Yeah, and Closer. The Blower's Daughter Damien Rice track is laid on a bit think, but yes, once again, the Devlin's song from the movie (the part where Clive Owen goes into the strip club down the stairs) was stuck in my head, and yeah, that ended up being on Lili's mix CD too. Random family.
Got the new Electric Six album today. They aren't laughing anymore. But it's not a comedown either, it's as iff they're in the middle of realising they've had too much to drink. Future Is In The Future is a great track - the last one.
U
Listening To: Brand New - Me V Madonna V Elvis
Garden State. Come On. The Shins, Frau Frau. Actually Frau Frau - Let Go song rules. Weird thing. I watched this film in Boston and that song was totally stuck in my head and one day, I put on a mix CD Lili had made for me, and it was the first track on it. Strange.
Yeah, and Closer. The Blower's Daughter Damien Rice track is laid on a bit think, but yes, once again, the Devlin's song from the movie (the part where Clive Owen goes into the strip club down the stairs) was stuck in my head, and yeah, that ended up being on Lili's mix CD too. Random family.
Got the new Electric Six album today. They aren't laughing anymore. But it's not a comedown either, it's as iff they're in the middle of realising they've had too much to drink. Future Is In The Future is a great track - the last one.
U
Listening To: Brand New - Me V Madonna V Elvis
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Saturday Night
Me and the girls hung out in my gaff and then went to a party full of hippies. The defining moment came when Ro turned to some girl and said, "is this, like a hippie themed party, or are you just hippies?"
Una - listening to 3 Colours red - repeat to fade
Una - listening to 3 Colours red - repeat to fade
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Eternal Dilemas
Well, after a too long MSN conversatoin with Fitzy, we ironed out some of the dilemas that will face us in journalsim, focussing mainly on music journalism, I suppose because that's what we're both doing at the moment.
Are we really all that career driven?
- Reading other people who write better than us makes us feel shit.
- Then you have to realise that these people are older and more experienced than us, and probably had to fail a helluva lotta times to get where they are.
- Why then is that point unconvincing and still makes us feel insecure about our abilities?
- Does this pressure stem from the realisation (albeit fatalistic) that none of us, and certainly not me, will ever make it to the top of the pile OR is it just your every day sociatal pressure?
- You have to abandon many things to become successful (or do you?); principals, beliefs, preferences etc.
- Abandoning these things will ultimately make you UNhappy, as these loves are seperate to the drive to carve out a successful career.
- Career is therefore seperate to a more organic happiness.
- If we chose to soley determine our lives via the achievement of happiness, we would be left wondering what would have happened in our careers.
- Conclusion; we're fucked! And nothing works.
- Funny thing about this conclusion - it's admitting defeat in order to create a sense that we don't need to set goals, as they are unachievable, at least within the realm you originally set them in.
- Funny thing about that conclusion - it assumes blind progress is what the human requires.
- Funny thing about that conclusion - I am subconsciously rejecting academic or career progress as a means to happiness.
Hmm. Anyway, step one on this mixed un-route to nowwhere is that this semester of college will be my last. No masters as planned. I want to leave college and chill with my friends. Wait, THAT is happiness.
Una
Listening to - the wind
Are we really all that career driven?
- Reading other people who write better than us makes us feel shit.
- Then you have to realise that these people are older and more experienced than us, and probably had to fail a helluva lotta times to get where they are.
- Why then is that point unconvincing and still makes us feel insecure about our abilities?
- Does this pressure stem from the realisation (albeit fatalistic) that none of us, and certainly not me, will ever make it to the top of the pile OR is it just your every day sociatal pressure?
- You have to abandon many things to become successful (or do you?); principals, beliefs, preferences etc.
- Abandoning these things will ultimately make you UNhappy, as these loves are seperate to the drive to carve out a successful career.
- Career is therefore seperate to a more organic happiness.
- If we chose to soley determine our lives via the achievement of happiness, we would be left wondering what would have happened in our careers.
- Conclusion; we're fucked! And nothing works.
- Funny thing about this conclusion - it's admitting defeat in order to create a sense that we don't need to set goals, as they are unachievable, at least within the realm you originally set them in.
- Funny thing about that conclusion - it assumes blind progress is what the human requires.
- Funny thing about that conclusion - I am subconsciously rejecting academic or career progress as a means to happiness.
Hmm. Anyway, step one on this mixed un-route to nowwhere is that this semester of college will be my last. No masters as planned. I want to leave college and chill with my friends. Wait, THAT is happiness.
Una
Listening to - the wind
Monday, January 10, 2005
My Favourite Bands At The Moment, Are...
The Libertines
I'm still listening to the new album. Obviously, Cant Stand Me Now ans What Became Of The Likely Lads are the best tracks. Everythings loud, but it's so sad and gentle too. It's a bit sad that it's all over now, but hopefully something good will come of Babyshambles - namely that I'll get to see a gig in the new year.
JJ72
The new stuff sounds fucking amazing. I was just listening to 'Sinking' Live in Koln too. Rawk.
Bloc Party
Great white hopes for 05, I suppose. Anything I've heard rocks.
Laura Viers
I'm still tripping off Carbon Glacier and even more, the gig I saw on my own in the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. It was her and Karl with two guitars standing in a white gallery surrounded by paintings that echoed her songs, with the lights turned off and hundreds of candles surrounding the hundred or so people who were watching. Absolutely magical stuff. I thought no one really knew about her (on a large scale) until I read this review of the Nirvana box set in The Boston Globe (or, actually, I think it was the New York Times), which went on about one of her songs called 'Rapture' in relation to Kurt Cobain's achievement as an artist. The lyrics at first appear pretentious, but when you get down to it, it's about the futility of capturing art for creation's sake
"Doesn't the tree
Create great poetry
Doing itself
So well"
She cites Monet, who created a garden just to paint it
"Love of colour, sound an word
Is it a blessing or a curse?"
The reviewers point, for Cobain, it was a curse. A valid point, I suppose.
The Who
I suppose I only really got into The Who a few years ago, which is a bit belated. But what I love more than Tommy, which can at times be a bit tedious it the Live At Leeds album. My Generation goes on for 15 minutes, and it's only live where you can here how awesome Keith Moon really was.
Alexisonfire
I got this album last year, but I only played a little attention to it. Recently, I've started listening to it again, and regarding rock music, I think it's the best album I've heard since The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Commatorium. They have these amazing floating intros that go on and on, and then punk kick in, the song becomes completely different, and there's this fucking scorching rasping vocal that you think is going to ruin it, until a more melodic harmony comes in. This band really rock, I hope i can get to see them soon. Oh shit, they have this one song called .44 Calibre Love Letter which will literally BLOW you away. It's amazing.
Coheed And Cambria
My friend Jenna introduced me to this band, and they're bizarre but cool. The essence of emo I suppose. It's just soundscapes and storyboard lyrics, creating these amazing essays basically in music. It's dramatic and neo gothic and beautiful.
The AM
Yeah, the AM. I've been into them since they released the first album. Me and Burco and Lil went to see them play the Hub too, and it was a crazy experience. Last time I interviewed Michael Tighe, they were working on their second album and he said it was going to be the album of this generation, literally the best songs anyone has heard for a long time. I thought he was joking, but he was deadly serious. So I'm excited, and scared.
Frau Frau
I've only heard one song from these guys (Let Go - Beauty In The Breakdown, it's on the Garden State soundtrack), but it's beautiful. Note to self, listen to more Frau Frau
Una
Listening to - 'Polaroids Of Polar Bears' - Alexisonfire
I'm still listening to the new album. Obviously, Cant Stand Me Now ans What Became Of The Likely Lads are the best tracks. Everythings loud, but it's so sad and gentle too. It's a bit sad that it's all over now, but hopefully something good will come of Babyshambles - namely that I'll get to see a gig in the new year.
JJ72
The new stuff sounds fucking amazing. I was just listening to 'Sinking' Live in Koln too. Rawk.
Bloc Party
Great white hopes for 05, I suppose. Anything I've heard rocks.
Laura Viers
I'm still tripping off Carbon Glacier and even more, the gig I saw on my own in the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. It was her and Karl with two guitars standing in a white gallery surrounded by paintings that echoed her songs, with the lights turned off and hundreds of candles surrounding the hundred or so people who were watching. Absolutely magical stuff. I thought no one really knew about her (on a large scale) until I read this review of the Nirvana box set in The Boston Globe (or, actually, I think it was the New York Times), which went on about one of her songs called 'Rapture' in relation to Kurt Cobain's achievement as an artist. The lyrics at first appear pretentious, but when you get down to it, it's about the futility of capturing art for creation's sake
"Doesn't the tree
Create great poetry
Doing itself
So well"
She cites Monet, who created a garden just to paint it
"Love of colour, sound an word
Is it a blessing or a curse?"
The reviewers point, for Cobain, it was a curse. A valid point, I suppose.
The Who
I suppose I only really got into The Who a few years ago, which is a bit belated. But what I love more than Tommy, which can at times be a bit tedious it the Live At Leeds album. My Generation goes on for 15 minutes, and it's only live where you can here how awesome Keith Moon really was.
Alexisonfire
I got this album last year, but I only played a little attention to it. Recently, I've started listening to it again, and regarding rock music, I think it's the best album I've heard since The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Commatorium. They have these amazing floating intros that go on and on, and then punk kick in, the song becomes completely different, and there's this fucking scorching rasping vocal that you think is going to ruin it, until a more melodic harmony comes in. This band really rock, I hope i can get to see them soon. Oh shit, they have this one song called .44 Calibre Love Letter which will literally BLOW you away. It's amazing.
Coheed And Cambria
My friend Jenna introduced me to this band, and they're bizarre but cool. The essence of emo I suppose. It's just soundscapes and storyboard lyrics, creating these amazing essays basically in music. It's dramatic and neo gothic and beautiful.
The AM
Yeah, the AM. I've been into them since they released the first album. Me and Burco and Lil went to see them play the Hub too, and it was a crazy experience. Last time I interviewed Michael Tighe, they were working on their second album and he said it was going to be the album of this generation, literally the best songs anyone has heard for a long time. I thought he was joking, but he was deadly serious. So I'm excited, and scared.
Frau Frau
I've only heard one song from these guys (Let Go - Beauty In The Breakdown, it's on the Garden State soundtrack), but it's beautiful. Note to self, listen to more Frau Frau
Una
Listening to - 'Polaroids Of Polar Bears' - Alexisonfire
Take 2
I'm sick of writing film reviews, but check out www.eventguide.ie to read them anyway.
Hopefully www.funkymofo.net will be up again soon.
Currently, I've been escaping reality and wasting time on www.nationstates.org My country is Unanistan. And I am set to rule the world.
Una
Listening to: 'Blinded By The Lights' - The Streets
Hopefully www.funkymofo.net will be up again soon.
Currently, I've been escaping reality and wasting time on www.nationstates.org My country is Unanistan. And I am set to rule the world.
Una
Listening to: 'Blinded By The Lights' - The Streets
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Photos From Boston
Burco took all of these when she came to visit in November
Una
Listening to: 'Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine'- The Killers
Una
Listening to: 'Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine'- The Killers
Return to Oz / Dublin
Following a four month 'sabbatical' in Boston, I've come back to Dublin. January sucks. It's an empty month; no money, nothing to do, except to think about putting your life in order. Talk about a daunting month. Fortunately, or not, I've been exiled by illness so I have plenty of time to think about the stuff I should be doing, but not enough energy to get around to actually doing it.
Topics of worrying are:
1. Event Guide work (which is basic get off your arse and do it type stuff)
2. Money (loan repayments start at the end of thins month. Oops)
3. Thesis (aggh)
4. Shorthand exam (aggh X 2)
This is trivial stuff. But, this is a blog after all. What do you expect, the Drudge Retort? (www.drudge.com)
Una
Listening to - 'My Beautiful Friend' - The Charlatans
Topics of worrying are:
1. Event Guide work (which is basic get off your arse and do it type stuff)
2. Money (loan repayments start at the end of thins month. Oops)
3. Thesis (aggh)
4. Shorthand exam (aggh X 2)
This is trivial stuff. But, this is a blog after all. What do you expect, the Drudge Retort? (www.drudge.com)
Una
Listening to - 'My Beautiful Friend' - The Charlatans
The Beginning Is Nigh
This must be the 4th blog I have scattered across the internet. Hopefully, I'll stick to this one.
Una
Una
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