Random itunes

You can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod, phone, iTunes, media player, etc, and write down the first 20 songs. [Then pass this on to 10 people.]

So on the 10 June 2014 this was my playlist

01. Where Do We Stand? - We Should Be Dead
02. Mr. Green Genes - Frank Zappa
03. Cosmic Rays - Charlie Parker
04. The Boys Of Ballinahinch - The Castle/ Micho Russell's Jimmy Murray, Jimmy Murphy & Peter Horan Trad. Music At Matt Molloy's
05. Things Ain't Like They Used To Be - The Black Keys
06. Emerald - Thin Lizzy
07. Only Time Will Tell - Etta James
08. Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorillaz
09. Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
10. Daydream And Saunter - Kathryn Williams
11. I Want To Take You Higher - Sly & The Family Stone
12. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
13. One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson
14. Lilith - Jean-Louis Murat
15. Zigo - Les Têtes Raides
16. Satan's Theme - The Rondell's Rockabilly From Hell
17. Law Of The Bungle, Part II - Jethro Tull
18. Soir De Peine - Les Rita Mitsouko
19. Countdown [Alternate] - John Coltrane
20. Twentieth Century Fox - The Doors

Three years later it looks like:

1. All For Me Grog - The Dubliners
2. The Book I Haven't Read - Mercury Rev
3. To Binge - Gorillaz
4. Morning Dreams - Ladyhawke
5. I'll Show You - William Bell
6. Joga - Bjork
7. Streets of New York - Cerys Matthews
8. Slow Jam - New Order
9. At The Hop [Live] - Sha-Na-Na (Woodstock)
10. She is the Liquid Princess - Dionysos
11. Emily - Les Têtes Raides
12. For Reason Unknown - The Killers
13. Empty Spaces - Pink Floyd
14. Tú - Shakira
15. Ride The Rythm - Sly & The Family Stone
16. The New Religion - My Name is John
17. Night Prowler - ACDC
18. Travellin' Band - Creedence ClearWater Revival
19. Love is Kind - Lynched
20. Sunburn - Muse

Moist

MOIST ( Circa 14/05/2015 )

Oh sweaty purple polyp

It is time to be rejoiced

I have a full hoist

Of oysterly oyster

So moist

Moist, moist, moist

What a foist

This has to be voiced

Not even the salmon fishers moist

With their dribbling boat could hoist

Everybody like to be moist

So again let’s foist

And expectorate a fully voiced

We can grow more moist

Our sluggish eyes can feast

On the mucilaginous beast

Humid, putrid,

Dampish, crunchy and wet

Yes, bring us more sweat

We have our towel

Smear those damp cloth fouled

Let the towel growl

And howl

I hear the screeching owl

Beginning to rejoice

Moist, moist, moist

The towel is to be high hoist

Damp as a wovel

Let it be fuel

To make move our bowel.

Alternative facts, harcourt street and train wreck....

I have a postcard of the above picture on my wall, when my girlfriend first saw it, she declared:

"Oh this is the famous train crash in Dublin, Harcourt street"

No it is not, in the photograph you can read 'Gare de l'Ouest', and this train crash happened in 1985 in Paris, France.

There was indeed a train crash in Dublin, in 1900. And this is the picture:

12 years

12 years ago I landed in Ireland.

Robin encounter

Nice encounter near bray head...

  

Proust Questionnaire

What is your idea of happiness?

Reading by the sea

What is your favourite virtue?

Quietness

What do you most value in your friends?

Art of listening for the male. Confidence and humor for the women.

What is your biggest weakness?

Constant criticism

What is your most marked characteristic?

Beard and disorganised hair style

What is your idea of misery?

Losing my daughter

What is your favourite bird?

Red robin

Who are your favourite writers?

China Mieville, Philip K. Dick, Jules Vernes, J. Prevert, Henri Michaux.

Who are your favourite musicians?

Bach, Beck, Jethro Tull, Radiohead.

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction?

Hatteras, Mary Poppins.

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history?

Louise Michelle, Socrates, Isaac Newton, Grace Hooper.

What is your favourite food and drink?

Andouillettes. Diabolo menthe.

What event in history do you most admire?

The fall of the Berlin wall.

What social movement do you most admire?

May 1968 ... even if it failed. La commune de Paris.

What is your present state of mind?
Curious, optimistic, anxious.

Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?

Rudeness.

Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?

Extreme Introversion

Looking back at 2016

Well much like last year, I posted even less, found even less time to code and go diving.

However it has been a great year, a challenging one, but a great one. 

All thanks to my daughter. Love.

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I recommend : https://www.futureme.org/ to keep track of your new objectives for the year. I am still working on mine.