March 2010
1 post
listening to "Christy Moore - Easter Snow" →
In Ireland today, no explanation necessary. Also, some sweet respite after the day that was in it. #nama #snow #cheerup!
February 2010
1 post
listening to "Tom Waits - Lucinda / Ain →
For Enda Kenny; having problems with both Lucinda and the well…
January 2010
1 post
The Dances No. 2 →
The summer is coming and so are the exams. Six youths: three lads, three girls, walk across a flat, marshy field to the cover of a ring of bushes. In the centre, the ground is always scorched – so…
November 2009
1 post
listening to "Hamell On Trial - Bill Hicks" →
Bill Hicks on Comedy Central now! Huzzah! Like Hamell, I wish Bill Hicks was alive
August 2009
3 posts
10 Things You Probably Won't Hear on The Rose of... →
Why is it so hard to discipline one’s self to write for an hour a night? Who knows. Anyway, in the spirit of doing precisely what every other half wit smart arse is probably writing - here is my…
listening to "Redemption Song - Johnny Cash and... →
Johnny Cash + Joe Strummer + “Redemption Song”. Listen to it for yourself if you can’t feel the genius!
listening to "WILLIAM S BURROUGHS →
Heard this on the Sopranos last night. There’s something about Burroughs’ voice that is just haunting.
July 2009
3 posts
Stand up for what you bleedin believe in! →
I can tell by the way he looks And this is quite certain: he cracks his eggs in such a way My wife and child could never be safe, Were he as free as I. A big endian, make no mistake, Would be…
A darkness →
This is totally unplanned. It just unfolds. We have to cut back on some things, but we don’t know what. She lies in bed, on her front. I lean in the door frame. We just can’t agree. “We don’t get…
A Walk →
The grass wet under bare feet. Squelching mud water squeezed between toes getting dirtier. How Do You Do? Nobody asks anymore; it;s all howya and hows it going and how are you. How you do whatever…
June 2009
4 posts
The Dances: 1 →
He tells her: I’m eight years old and that’s big enough to look after myself. She smiles and says, but could you look after the dinner? He protests he’s not allowed to use the oven. She knows,…
listening to "Things That Scare Me - Neko Case" →
@briangreene: “http://url.ie/1wo0 Scared? he was friends with Bush too.”
listening to "Tom Waits cover - Return of Jackie →
3 pm slump? Turn up the volume and go crazy!
listening to "The Final Countdown - Europe" →
@irishstu @sarahbourke it’s the final countdown… “Things will never be the same again…” but in a good way :-)
May 2009
4 posts
listening to "Banging In The Nails - The Tiger... →
For Minister Ahern, &c. If I had a million euro, I’d play this ten times.
listening to "Because I Got High - Afroman" →
i was going to the pub, but I had work. Much like this poor Afroman fellow here.
listening to "Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan" →
@Glinner when you said “Field music” I thought you meant a work song, like this one. Like Field Music tho. Must listen more
listening to "Ghost of his smile - Sparklehorse" →
@Glinner here’s one
April 2009
12 posts
Difficulties with Writer's Block →
A plot! A plot! My story needs a plot! There are words and ideas teeming. The soul, scathed is reeling. The searching is done and the story is won, but not plot! No plot! No plot! The mind and the…
listening to "Lille - Lisa Hannigan" →
Last day… “You went to sea for the day you wanted to know what to say…” (Lisa Hannigan, poetry in a voice)
listening to "Grounds For Divorce - Elbow" →
“There’s this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound To a chorus of supposes from the little town whores”
listening to "Mexican Blue - Jolie Holland" →
“You’re like a saint’s song to me, I’ll try to sing it pure and easily”
listening to "Eyeball Kid (blip.up) - Tom Waits" →
“How dies he dream, How does he think, When he can’t even speak, And he can’t even blink!”
listening to "Puff The Magic Dragon - Bonnie... →
“Noble kings and princes would bow wheneer they came, Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. Oh!”
listening to "ACDC - Thunderstruck - " →
“My mind raced, And I thought what could I do?, And I knew, There was no help, no help from you…”
listening to "Killing In The Name - Rage Against... →
“Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses”
listening to "Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash" →
“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”
listening to "Railroad Man - Eels" →
“And I guess I may never understand. The times that I live in are not made for a railroad man”
listening to "No More Workhorse Blues - Bonnie... →
“Ive written books for you. And I’ve held my own for you. Where’s my time?”
Poem →
The sun is climbing down there One last, blinding cry, the light’s goodbye, Dazzling the eye from the corner of A powdered covered sky. A light blue turns pink, an orangey red, Tucked under clouds…
March 2009
21 posts
Happy, But Hated. Why Not? →
IT was a great weekend for Irish sport. A shame for me as I don’t follow it. As a zeitgeist whore, I enjoyed the unbridled energy, goodwill and passion of Ireland’s grand slam rugby win. Later on,…
listening to "The Great Defector - Bell X1" →
RB: Brian Greene: love the colour of it all
listening to "Mexico City - Jolie Holland" →
Jolie Holland, Mexico City. Beautiful.
listening to "25minutestogo - " →
And I’m off so… with no minutes to go. But here’s “25 minutes to go ” by Johnny Cash
listening to "People Just Ain't No Good - Nick... →
@secrettweet a song reflecting some sentiments tweeted to you…
listening to "Uptight (Everything's Alright) -... →
Bay-beee. Everything’s Alright! Uptight! Out of Sight! Stevie Wonder!
listening to "I See a Darkness - Johnny Cash" →
Absolute melancholy. But hell, no one’s listening! Johnny Cash, I See a Darkness
listening to "Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy... →
continuing melancholy… Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart
listening to "Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads" →
… more melancholy than love song, but why the hell not?
listening to "Boys Don't Cry - The Cure" →
RB from willmaxpower Boys Don’t Cry by the Cure. Yes, it’s a love song!
listening to "There She Goes, My Beautiful World -... →
Nick Cave & TBS… picking up the pave with There She Goes, My Beautiful World…
listening to "Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley" →
Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah. Last of the slow melancholy. Moving on to something to kick a bit of ass next.
listening to "Lilac Wine - Nina Simone" →
Nina Simone sings Lilac Tree. Immortalised by Jeff Buckley (maybe)… we’ll kick it up soon, promise
listening to "Open Up The Gates> - Hamell on... →
melancholy… Hamell on Trial (def THE badass of music today), singing about his mother with true love
listening to "A Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues" →
OK, picking up the pace with the Pogues. Still love, still melanhcholy. A Pair of Brown Eyes
listening to "Mexican Blue - Jolie Holland" →
Jolie Holland, Mexican Blue. It’s love singing. It’s melancholy. And making me still, it’s Jolie Holland.
listening to "Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits" →
…yes, I meant love ‘sings’ not ‘songs’. Melancholy! Tom Waits, Johnsburg Illinois
listening to "Nick Cave - Into My Arms - " →
Sunday night melancholy. Love sings, reaching for something… few songs coming. Into My Arms for now
listening to "Way Down In The Hole - Tom Waits →
Wow. Tom Waits & The Kronos Quartet doing “Way Down in The Hole”.
listening to "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) -... →
Hey Man! Now, you’re really living! (Eels)