Mysterious new Bjork song.....

I wasn't aware that Bjork was recording new stuff. Sports Review, interesting title. Haven't heard it yet but I'd imagine it's quite a departure.

Super Radiohead.

Cool 8-bit version of 15 Step by Radiohead.

Football

I'm in no way qualified to speak on the matter of Sir Bobby Robson passing away.

Reading the tributes to him have only confirmed my suspisions that he was a true gentleman, the likes of which football is never likely to see again.

Interestingly, on the Guardian football site, there are features on Sir Bobby and then, lurking underneath a story with the headline "Bent fined for inappropriate tweeting"

What a perfect way to illustrate how football has changed.

It (re) Started With A Mix

It Started With A Mix by jivemonster

Oh dear. it's been a while.

Don't be cared by the start of this mix tape.

Here's the tracklisting for this Mix.


1. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
2. High 5 (Rock The Catskills) - Beck
3. California Soul - Marlena Shaw
4. Mexican Policemen - DJ Yoda
5. Snake Mistakes - Dan Deacon
6. Busy Doing Nothing - Love is All
7. There's a Moon Out Tonight - The Capris
8. Titanic Vandalism - The Go! Team
9. Don't Let Go - Weezer
10. Just Dropped In To See What Condition My condition Was In - Kenny Rodgers & The 1st Edition
11. The Devil In Me - 22-20's
12. I Don't Believe You - Kool Keith
13. Garbage Man - The Cramps
14. Gouge Away - Pixies (Jaques Lu Cont Mix)
15. Mr. Pharmacist - The Fall
16. You'll Never Walk Alone - Kop Choir
17. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
18. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn



Peace!

Thom Yorke Keeps It Real

Some January Tunes.

January is usually crap. Because I enjoyed making my last mix so much i thought I'd make another one. So these particular songs are just to keep everyones head up during January.

Appetite for Distraction

Spent a little time yesterday making a mix loosely based around unemployment. This is for Deano and Brendan, and you of course.

2009

Finally recovered from various ailments from Christmas time (money worries, man flus, hangovers) to wake up and finally feel the magic the beginning of a new year brings. So I turned on RTE Radio 1 and was pleasently greeted by a fantastic lecture series curated by our president about the Ireland of tomorrow. Well worth a listen.

The Sunday Tribune Files.

The Sunday Tribune, are letting me do some images for them, here they are......

Sometimes I Photoshoppe

Music in 2008 & Fight Like Apes rant.

Hi everybody,

For the first 9 or so months I've been listening to music in 2008, I've found that most of it has been shite. Then I heard the new TV on the Radio album, and now my friends are going to have to listen to me going on about it until I put it on the stereo. Much like the way I've been going on about the Fight Like Apes album over the past month or so, it's excellent. Before I heard it wondered how they were going to make an album that would live up all of those great ep's and what not. I just didn't think they were capable of an album, I mean a proper album, not just singles and a few fillers. My oh my how they pulled it off, fantastic stuff.
Also, while I'm at it, I've been looking at a few peoples blogs going on about how they're beginning to be annoyed by FLapes, how "something global" is a real contrived single, and how they preferred the old versions of "Jake Summers" and "Lend me your face" how sad it is that as soon as an Irish band release something genuinely exciting that all the people "who preferred" the ep's go on about the glory days of FLapes circa 2006. Maybe we should just be proud of them because they're from our city and are sound and are absolutley fantastic.
Oh yeah, this year I've also been listening to Neon Neon and British Sea Power and then I listened to the new Cold War Kids album and then I didn't like it much.

Blog Friend

I was out on Friday night, and for the first time ever, someone said, "are you the guy from the blog?" This took me back a bit seeing as how they're are about two people who read this thing, me and my bro. Anyway, his (Thom) blog is excellent, so go check it out (John).

Small Talk

"How's things?" "Grand thanks, how are things with you?" "Oh grand thanks, what are you up to these days?" "Ah y'know, same old same old" "What have you been up to?" "Ah y'know, got back from Canada, having cans" "How was Canada?" "Ah it was grand" "Good stuff".

New look for me aul blog.

I love making my blog look nice, well I don't love it, but it's grand. The blog has seen some changes over the past year or so now, this one I think is the best, although Dre will always have a special place in my heart.
I dislike the way on Bebo people "say" stupid things, like "I'm bored" or "Can't wait til the weekend".

Painful.

He just can't do anything right it seems.

Prison Diaries.

Yesterday I had to go to Store Street garda station to drop in a wallet I found on the street. My friend Brendan is in South America and went to a prison in Bolivia for a bit of a nose around. Read it, here, it's amazing.

Football rant.

Jimmy Bullard has a better pass completion rate then Stephen Gerrard or Cesc Fabregas, 83% pass completion rate to be exact. The manager of West Ham, Alan Curbishley, is pondering a move for 32 year old Ben Thatcher, however Thatcher was booed by Hammers fans during Saturdays 1-1 draw with Villareal.
The Premiership is coming, the above is just some of the completly useless facts that a starved football fan might come across in a vein attempt to garner as much football knowledge as possible before the "big kick off" on Saturday when Arsenal face West Brom in approximately 4 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds. Yes I have my Premier League kick off widget set up, thank you.
But what is going to happen in the 08/09 season that is going to be so different to the other seasons? Nothing, probably. The three promoted teams (Hull, Stoke, West Brom) will of course just be looking to survive in order to build into the next season. Then there's a bunch of teams, Fulham, Middlesborough, Sunderland, Blackburn, who'll be looking to build on last seasons "success" which basically means if they have a nice quiet season and finish 12th they'll be happy. Then there are the teams just below the top, who think they can break into, the erm, top four, which basically translates into. Hoping that Arsenal or Liverpool have a shite season and we can squeeze into fourth. Then there is the almighty top four. Who's gonna win the Premier League?? Arsenal? Manchester United? Liverpool? Chelsea?
So that's all there is to know about the premiership really, isn't it? No not really, there will be awful tackles, silly decisions, mad fans, great goals, David James' haircuts, Newcastle hoping for next season, the Janurary transfer window and Arsene Wenger complaining about no Winter break, while everyone else sits back on Stephens Day with a Turkey Sambo having a great time.
So fair play to football, it's sound.


Been on Mars? Here's what happened when you were away:

Mark Hughes went to Manchester City, then City almost signed Ronaldinho and then and then and then, they didn't. Ronaldo spent the Summer acting like a twat, no surprise there really. Spurs went mad and spent loads of money, again no surprise. Chelsea brought in Phil Scolari and some bloke from Coolock called Deco. Arsenal bought "the new Zidane". West Ham...... got beaten by the MLS all-stars. Blackburn got a new manager, Paul Ince (he's black y'know). And Preston did a tidy bit of business and signed Ross Wallace on loan from Sunderland. Andre 3000, sorry, Emmanuel Adebayor reckoned he could play for Milan, Milan reckoned they'd love to buy him, Adebayor then said "I'd love to play for Milan. Then Arsenal said to Emmanuel "you're not allowed" then Emmanuel said "I have three years left on my contract and I'm putting two or three years more, so I'm very happy being part of this family." The FA started going on about referees getting no respect, so they told players to wear t-shirts before the community shield, with RESPECT written on them, then the token Scottish pundit on Setenta Sports branded the whole initiative a load of old cods wallop. Good for him.

Pizza

Realisation

My blog is deadly!