Irish Champignac Mayor

Bertie Aherne quadruple negative:
“For legal and professional reasons neither myself nor my advisors have been in a position to respond to any of the accuracy and completeness of the reports about those issues so it is not correct, if I said so I wasn’t correct, so I, I can’t recall if I did say, but I did not say, if I did say it I didn’t mean to say it that these issues could not be dealt with until the end of the Mahon Tribunal, that is not what Revenue said.”
30 January 2008, answering to a question about his tax clearance certificate in the Dáil.

He reminds me the famous mayor of Champignac in the comic book series: Spirou, here an example of his speech ( in French ):
« Je suis venu vous dire que chaque Champignacien n'a pas assez de ses deux yeux pour pleurer lorsqu'il lance un regard bourrelé de remords, en arrière vers les évènements violemment inexplicables d'avant-hier et vous ne pouvez imaginer, en particulier, combien ce souvenir est amer au maire... Mais cela ne se produira plus, car j'ai pris des mesures... Je viens d'interdire sur le territoire de la commune, tout rassemblement de plus d'une personne, jusqu'à nouvel ordre in-clu-si-ve-ment ! »

For french speaker, you can take a look at the Grand Prix du Maire de Champignac for more real ones.

Where I live in Ireland

Andrew Maxwell is an Irish comedian.

Scuba-Diving in Valentia

Few pics from my week scuba-diving in Kerry...

Relax... and enjoy

Thanks Sigur ros

Lahinch at high Tide

Lahinch beach at low tide.

On the news side, seems it's going to be a busy summer as i will prepare to pass the Leading Diver with CFT

Cinema 08

I've restarted to go more regularly to the Cinema, as there's some good movies at the moment ( i am not going to talk about Rambo ).

Be Kind Rewind
The last movie by the every imaginative Michel Gondry, it's cheerful and very pleasant. All about the pleasure of making movie, watching movies, sharing through movies.

The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert ford
Slow drama, hypnotic at some point, about the murderer of Jesse James, forgotten by history.
Other interest, alongside B.Pitt and Casey Affleck, Marie Louise Parker plays from Weeds in that film.

Sweeney Todd
Tim Burton merging this story into his own Gothic universe. For a musical, the song are not great, but it's a strong story, visually impressive.

No Country for old men
The Cohen brothers at their best, based on a great novel by Cormac McCarthy.
May be one of their best movie since Fargo ( though I loved "Intolerable Cruelty", "The man who was not there", "O'Brother where art thou ?" and the cultissim "No Country for old men" )

Juno
Very refreshing and funny. Juno the girlfriend i would have love to have in high school.

Off course I could not resist buying the latest Pixar DVD Ratatouille.
And in the following months some very interesting movies are coming:

There will be blood by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Burn after Reading by the Cohen Bros

Indy 4 by S.Spielberg/G.Lucas

Fear(s) of the dark an animation movie made by some very talented comics authors (Blutch, Mattotti, Charles Burns)

And off course the next pixar Wall-e




Links

An interesting irish blog about movies: Confessions of a Film Critic John Maguire

In French: critic radio show Le Masque et la plume (France Inter)

Seeing Dublin