Last friday i went to Mick Flannery concert in Dolans, brilliant act.
The Cork man himself
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And just for the pleasure, i am adding one of his song accompanied by Lisa Hannigan:
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Top 5 things I learned this Weekend
Top 5 Things I Learned This Weekend
5. A movie with Matthew McConaughey must contains a scene where is shirt is off, bad (Sahara) or good (How to loose a guy in ten days)
4. I should not trust my horoscope, even the Chinese one, and it's funny to see that my French horoscope is completely different from my English and at the same time both are completely wrong.
3. Irish radio show are brilliant, a full hour of Radiohead on Sunday night (great)
2. I am curiously incredibly productive on Saturday and Sunday early morning, when left alone.
1. I am proportionally more inclined to procrastination on Sunday evening.....
5. A movie with Matthew McConaughey must contains a scene where is shirt is off, bad (Sahara) or good (How to loose a guy in ten days)
4. I should not trust my horoscope, even the Chinese one, and it's funny to see that my French horoscope is completely different from my English and at the same time both are completely wrong.
3. Irish radio show are brilliant, a full hour of Radiohead on Sunday night (great)
2. I am curiously incredibly productive on Saturday and Sunday early morning, when left alone.
1. I am proportionally more inclined to procrastination on Sunday evening.....
Monday, August 24, 2009
15 books - 15 minutes
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. Lost Souls - Poppy Z.Brite
2. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
3. The Foundation Cycle - Isaac Asimov
4. Lancelot ou Le chevalier a la charette - Chrétien de Troyes
5. Robur le conquerant - Jules vernes
6. Truismes / Bref Sejours chez les vivants - Marie Darrieussecq
7. Poems ( Down By the Salley Gardens, my love.... ) - W.B.Yeats
8. MacBeth - W. Shakespeare
9. Sur le fleuve Amour - Joseph Delteil
10. Ailleurs - Henri Michaux
11. The Man in the high Castle - Philip K. Dick
12. Vies Imaginaire - Marcel Schwob
13. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
14. The Bloody Red Baron - Kim Newman
15. Les Onze milles verges - Guillaume Appolinaire
1. Lost Souls - Poppy Z.Brite
2. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
3. The Foundation Cycle - Isaac Asimov
4. Lancelot ou Le chevalier a la charette - Chrétien de Troyes
5. Robur le conquerant - Jules vernes
6. Truismes / Bref Sejours chez les vivants - Marie Darrieussecq
7. Poems ( Down By the Salley Gardens, my love.... ) - W.B.Yeats
8. MacBeth - W. Shakespeare
9. Sur le fleuve Amour - Joseph Delteil
10. Ailleurs - Henri Michaux
11. The Man in the high Castle - Philip K. Dick
12. Vies Imaginaire - Marcel Schwob
13. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
14. The Bloody Red Baron - Kim Newman
15. Les Onze milles verges - Guillaume Appolinaire
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Hymn - Francis Giacobetti
Great news, next year the Hymn project by F.Giacobetti will tour around the world in a series of expositions.
Giacobetti started that project in 1980, and it's a fascinating idea: basically he is photographying the iris ( and hands ) of famous people. I saw some of the picture, in an article in the French magazine Geo, few years ago, and the images of those iris are absolutely staggering.
See below a sample from the exposition website:
I'd love to be able to take pictures like those...
For your information: Giacobetti is a french photograph, famous for his pirelli calendar in the 1970, and for directing Emmanuelle 2.
Giacobetti started that project in 1980, and it's a fascinating idea: basically he is photographying the iris ( and hands ) of famous people. I saw some of the picture, in an article in the French magazine Geo, few years ago, and the images of those iris are absolutely staggering.
See below a sample from the exposition website:
I'd love to be able to take pictures like those...
For your information: Giacobetti is a french photograph, famous for his pirelli calendar in the 1970, and for directing Emmanuelle 2.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
5 movies for a desert Island
Imagine you're alone on a deserted Island, with a DVD player and 5 movies.... on a rainy days what movies would you bring with you and why ?
1. Monthy Python Holy Grail
To keep the moral up, a bit of laugh, can be watch over and over again... especially to hear french swearing (Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! )
2. Chung King Express (Wong Kar Wai)
A romantic stylistic movie, because i fall in love with Faye everytime i watch the movie.
(Full Movie can be seen there, and Quentin Tarantino talks about the movie here)
3. Mon oncle (J.Tati)
Another simple feel good movie
4. Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone)
A classic
5. MegaVixens by Russ Meyer
Alone, on an island, migt rise some tension, so here's the solution, more cartoonish than real erotic stuff.
Surprisingly, i did not put any pixar movie, nor Kubrick ....
Note: Based on a French Article on Ecran Large.
1. Monthy Python Holy Grail
To keep the moral up, a bit of laugh, can be watch over and over again... especially to hear french swearing (Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! )
2. Chung King Express (Wong Kar Wai)
A romantic stylistic movie, because i fall in love with Faye everytime i watch the movie.
(Full Movie can be seen there, and Quentin Tarantino talks about the movie here)
3. Mon oncle (J.Tati)
Another simple feel good movie
4. Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone)
A classic
5. MegaVixens by Russ Meyer
Alone, on an island, migt rise some tension, so here's the solution, more cartoonish than real erotic stuff.
Surprisingly, i did not put any pixar movie, nor Kubrick ....
Note: Based on a French Article on Ecran Large.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rodrigo y Gabriella ... summer 2009
Oh god i miss the free summer concert in Grenoble, fortunately there is some good bands playing in Limerick, most notably in Dolans, last night it was Rodrigo y Gabriella, absolutely brilliant.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
How many of these books have you read?
How many of these books have you read?
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.[Updated August 2016]
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brone
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible X
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X+
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
- Complete Works of Shakespeare X+ ( i might be missing 2 or 3 )
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X+
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell X+
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert [Update September 2023]
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X+
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X+
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville X ( not sure i finished it )
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *
- Ulysses - James Joyce *
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola *
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert *
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X+
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare X+
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
Instructions:
- Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
- Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
- Star (*) those you plan on reading.
- Tally your total at the bottom
2016 Update -> 15
2023 Update -> 20 (Also realised I missed some books)
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