This year’s Flat Lake Festival in Co Monaghan, Ireland is June 4-6. This year I’m bringing my friend Lee (who you might know as the star of some of my movies). Who’s coming with us?!
[W]e merge our myths with our facts according to our feelings, we tell ourselves our own story. And no matter what we are told, we choose what we believe. All ‘truths’ are only our truths, because we bring to the ‘facts’ our feelings, our experiences, our wishes. Thus, storytelling—from wherever it comes—forms a layer in the foundation of the world; and glinting in it we see the trace elements of every tribe on earth.
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shameless self-promotion department - Flat Lake ‘09 - Jinx Lennon & Miss Paula Flynn (via vicarious evolution)
Is it wrong, that I am an American, participating in Irish TV contests? If so, it would make it wronger for me to convince others to do the same. Ah well.
Even wronger would be, I suppose, saying: Vote for Chez Spuds.
Five months ago the call went out for new and established programme makers with exciting ideas to take part in a unique web drama competition.
The talented finalists have produced some brilliant content with buckets of tension, comedy and thrills. However it’s up to you to decide who goes through to the next round.
Watch episode one and vote for the drama you’d most like to see make a second episode. Voting opens 5pm Monday 16th March and closes 5pm Monday 30th March.
Pat Mc Cabe wants you all to watch this.
Chez Spuds (via rte)
Last year, was one of the most awesome times of my life. This year, my ticket’s for Aug 5-22. Who’s coming with me?!
A Dublin-based newspaper has received a call supposedly from the Real IRA which claimed responsibility for the attack at Masserene army base. Using a recognised codename, it claimed responsibility for the attack in which two soldiers were killed. Four other people, including two pizza delivery men, were also injured when gunmen struck at the Antrim base.
Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein President: “Last night’s attack was an attack on the peace process. It was wrong and counter productive. Those responsible have no support, no strategy to achieve a United Ireland. Their intention is to bring British soldiers back onto the streets. They want to destroy the progress of recent times and to plunge Ireland back into conflict. Irish republicans and democrats have a duty to oppose this and to defend the peace process. There should be an end to actions like the one in Antrim last night. Sinn Fein has a responsibility to be consistent. The logic of this is that we support the police in the apprehension of those involved in last night’s attack.”
Brian Cowen, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of the RoI: “Violence has been utterly rejected by the people of this island, both North and South. A tiny group of evil people can not and will not undermine the will of the people of Ireland to live in peace together.”
The triffid lamps of Bellingham are calling you
Their crocus lengths are leaning towards you
Their insides are made of alloyed steel
P.E. and Wu Tang tapes in the car you start to feel…
You’ve got to get out for a while
You can’t be sitting in the house fucking around like that
Smell the coffee, Drive around
Look to the left of you, look to the right of you
Go on, go a little faster
You hearts caving in like a mining disaster
Jinx Lennon: Raw punk folk poet. Musically very hip-hop influenced (despite performing mostly with an acoustic guitar) and “primitive” (according to himself), his lyrics deal, often humorously, with the minutiae of everyday life in a bleak Irish country town. [from Last.fm]
I saw him and Paula Flynn (best known for her cover of “Let’s Dance” with StellarSound), at last year’s Flat Lake Festival in Co Monaghan, Ireland. This year’s festival is August 14–16 hint hint nudge nudge.
I love this man!!
Patrick McCabe wanted to be a writer from the age of seven. “I tried to draw and I couldn’t, so I thought maybe I could pull it off with words.”
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life? Sydney Greenstreet, because of his physical configuration.
What do you eat while you write? Custard creams and Jammy Dodgers.
How do you relax? I watch Columbo box sets.
What is your current favourite word? Gawk, in its Shakespearean sense, meaning a foolhardy person, prone to random outbursts of nonsense.
What are you most proud of writing? Those books that are perceived to be my failures, such as Emerald Germs of Ireland. I have a mischievous defiance.
What does it mean to be a writer? It’s a toss up between anxiety and bliss.
Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it’s long been recognized that city life is exhausting — that’s why Picasso left Paris — this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
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How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com I KNEW IT. Take me back to the Irish countryside, please, where I felt better than I ever had before (I mean that); even small-town Ohio is too much for me anymore… |
Sometimes, early in the morning, the cows sound like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
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| — | Vee describing mornings in Ireland (via therandomnessofyes) - Vee’s note: specifically the Irish countryside i.e. Monaghan but hey I’m not being picky or anything no not me never. |
Remember how I said Boston was so Irish? Well, Ireland is way more
Irish. Boston’s got nothing on Ireland in terms of Irishness.
Irish. Boston’s got nothing on Ireland in terms of Irishness.
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| — | Vee (via therandomnessofyes) (Reblogging someone else quoting myself is much less pretentious than myself quoting myself, right?) |
