tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91454222024-03-13T00:02:00.097+00:00The Life and Times of Jimmny Homunculus1976-2008: celebrating 32 years of geekish gibberings.
lorcanmcgrane@yahoo.comLorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.comBlogger1215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-46035014897075410002013-02-19T22:20:00.001+00:002021-09-08T21:23:52.356+00:00Lorcan McGrane: Comedy Bio <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm mostly on my tumblr <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/">Lorcranium</a> and Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/lorcychief">@lorcychief</a>) these days, but thought I'd put my comedy bio and clips up here.</span><br />
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about cult comics and movies that would have even Jonathan Ross’s head
spinning.” – <i>Alternative Ulster Magazine</i></span></span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><o:p></o:p></b><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lorcan is originally from Monaghan. He started stand up in 2007 while doing a PhD on Superhero Movies and gigged in Norwich, London, and Edinburgh, where he performed Free Fringe shows in 2008 and 2009. Since then, Lorcan’s one man show ‘Geekdom’ has appeared in the Belfast Fringe 2010, The Black Box, Belfast, the Norwich Fringe 2011, and 10 Days in Dublin Festival 2012. Now performing regularly in Belfast, Dublin, and Derry, Lorcan has supported such artists as Ardal O’Hanlon, Colin Murphy, Kevin Eldon, Bec Hill and Kevin McAleer and also appeared on Today FM, BBC Ulster, BBC Radio 4, Newstalk, Phantom FM, and the Comedy Corner of Dublin City FM. He has also written comedy pieces for Buzz Magazine, Six Magazine, Temple Bar Review and Sun Zoom Spark. </span></span></span><br />
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Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-44110136149347863132011-06-30T17:17:00.002+00:002011-06-30T17:51:44.444+00:00Rock 'N' Rofl Luanch Night, Saturday 16th July, Aunti Annie's Belfast<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygmdPajneVs/Tgyv3frhSfI/AAAAAAAACRA/eJBXl3W8CbQ/s1600/Rock%2B%2527n%2527%2BROFL%2Bposter%2BJuly%2B2011.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygmdPajneVs/Tgyv3frhSfI/AAAAAAAACRA/eJBXl3W8CbQ/s400/Rock%2B%2527n%2527%2BROFL%2Bposter%2BJuly%2B2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624063402610608626" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Headlining this new club in <a href="http://www.cdcleisure.net/">Auntie Annie</a>'s with support from <a href="http://gemmahutton.co.uk/">Gemma Hutton</a>, <a href="http://www.omfj.ie/?page_id=1257">Cormac O'Donnell</a>, <a href="http://your-story.org/funny-man-writer-and-comedian-danny-mccrossan-10339/">Dannny McCrossan</a>, Johnny McCarthy, and<a href="http://iheartau.com/"> AJ Johnston</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240085946002791">Facebook Event here. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-75837277707352747452011-06-29T18:18:00.020+00:002011-06-29T22:56:30.098+00:00Boardwalk Empire Comedy Club Titting About<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkVqWXBZrzc/TgulJu5KzSI/AAAAAAAACQo/dFnSGfBVKHo/s1600/217663_628066415565_285403351_5456028_4175113_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkVqWXBZrzc/TgulJu5KzSI/AAAAAAAACQo/dFnSGfBVKHo/s400/217663_628066415565_285403351_5456028_4175113_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623770146327416098" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">or if you are in Sims land</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8SZkeekPMX0/TgumKwT2Q-I/AAAAAAAACQw/vRhZQhK-mrQ/s400/262088_10150202436995966_553475965_7350204_6430739_n.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623771263399248866" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pic courtesy of <a href="http://marcuskeeley.blogspot.com/">Marcus Keeley </a>who somehow digitally infiltrated the Batcave to render this cgi Lorcan, God help us all. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It's a while since I've frequented the auld blog, painful memories (all available in the archive forever and ever, or until there is no electricity like in a <a href="http://youtu.be/NRXKkUhe_B0">Snake Plissken in an Escape From L.A.</a> stylee.) I've been busy alternating between overseeing a bootleg alcohol operation in 1920s Atlantic City and killing skuttering aliens in a nanosuit, either that or overdosing on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Ra8PdXa9k">Boardwalk Empire</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyD7SoY7LU">Crysis 2</a>. Recently, however a few nonbleak things happened that I feel compelled to document.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The first was finding all of </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)">Preacher</a> graphic novels in a Monaghan charity shop for 1.50 euro a pop, which meant that after a bit of in-my-favor maths from the lady behind the counter and a wink, I got all nine volumes for 12 euro: Ladies in charity shops regularly think I am mentally challenged for buying 'funny books' from the children's section at the age of 35 and give me discounts out of pity, but I think we all know who the real winner is. Ironically they were in the religion section beside George W. Bush's 'Decision Points', (presumably the 'decision point' for Bush was seeing the advance and accepting one last chance to get a huge amount of money for selling bullshit to shitmunchers)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D1LhgCOV9UU/Tgt_lQNxMBI/AAAAAAAACPw/_T4IwHT1jEo/s400/PICT0164.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623728837686800402" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>There they are now, all the lads together.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Rereading it all in one go was an amazing experience, especially liked the cameo from Bill Hicks, put it up on Lorcranium <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/post/7052728891/bill-hicks-in-preacher-31">here</a> and <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/post/7052640955/bill-hicks-in-preacher-31">here</a> and it reminded me of a more innocent time when references to strap on dildos and sexual perversions evoked illicit thrills rather than mundane jaded tuts of recognition. It would have made a great HBO (home bosum ogling) series.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The second great thing was fulfilling a comedy ambition of playing <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/post/7052640955/bill-hicks-in-preacher-31">The Empire Comedy Club</a>. I did an open spot with <a href="http://www.seanhegartycomedy.co.uk/">Sean Hegarty </a>supporting and<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBudGOfNnac"> Simon Evans </a> headlining, all MCed by <a href="http://www.jakeokane.com/">Jake O'Kane</a>. Comedic brother in arms <a href="http://marcuskeeley.blogspot.com/">Marcus Keeley</a> kindly recorded and uploaded it, he says it's good, but all I can hear is some Monaghan mook going "eh" all the time while his gut strains behind a Primark cardigan that looks well the first time you wear it but is gets more embarrassi</span>ng each time you wash it. Check out the rest of his great videos <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Mernard47">here</a>. Think it went well though, got asked back in September.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LKzWmjGqCXI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><br />Last but by no means least, and I would say this was an unfulfilled comedy ambition as I didn't even think it was possible, but I supported<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Eldon"> Kevin Eldon</a> at his first (sold out!) show in Belfast organised by <a href="http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/">the Black Box</a> and <a href="http://www.nicomedy.com/">Big Laughs Belfast</a>. He has one of the most impressive <a href="http://www.debiallenassociates.com/clients_detail.asp?id=11">comedy cvs</a> of any actor in the contemporary British comedy world. I did a wee <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/post/6615881769/kevin-eldon-the-black-box-belfast-this-sunday">youtube tribute to Eldon</a> over on the <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>, and <a href="http://hotrodmccaughan.blogspot.com/search/label/hotrod%20mccaughan">Peter "Hotrod" McCaughan</a>'s review of the night can be found<a href="http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/4156/0/1/comedy-review-kevin-eldon"> here.</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wjR0fTbv8cI/TguK_CacW0I/AAAAAAAACP4/POwhsLA4Kw0/s400/264613_637090950325_285403351_5661337_891363_n.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623741375286369090" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I don't need to offer my tuppenny bits worth on how good Eldon's show <a href="http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2010/k/17873/kevin_eldon_is_titting_about">'Titting About' </a>is, the Paul Hamilton opening section expertly gets the audience in the mood for the sort of actorly character sections that will prevail and the quickfire nature of the show generally leaves little room for an audience to either stop laughing or get bored or agitated. I love the George Martin/Hitler section, the roots of which can be seen here:<br /><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yIA_NVFnXZ8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Upon meeting him, I had to suppress the fanboy urges to divulge favorite Eldon moments or reveal that whenever I apply for a job I am far too old for I always think of the office assistant/ear severing sketch in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Train">Big Train</a>. I also resisted the urge to ask who ended up keeping the Kevin Eldon/Chairman Mao painting from the Big Train Virginia Plain sketch, it must be in someone's living room:<br /><br /><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1tFF2oB4n6M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JDa6udolmc/Tgt0EC-ZQYI/AAAAAAAACPY/uSWF6CBSV3E/s1600/260326_637090970285_285403351_5661338_2537372_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JDa6udolmc/Tgt0EC-ZQYI/AAAAAAAACPY/uSWF6CBSV3E/s400/260326_637090970285_285403351_5661338_2537372_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623716172569067906" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Anyway, in the tradition of the Internet, pics or it didn't happen </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>(p.s. I'm pretty sure the ice age happened and there are no pics of that) </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div>In the manner of a comedy blog, as mentioned by the mysterious <a href="http://comedycourse.blogspot.com/2011/06/selling-yourself-website.html">Comedy Guru</a>...here are some gigs/my fleeting roster of self worth:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Monday July 4, 2011, <a href="http://failedhuman.com/">Morgan Hearst</a>'s '<a href="http://www.nicomedy.com/2010/12/07/morgan-hearsts-manic-monday-monday-4th-july/">Manic Mondays</a>', the Pavillion, Belfast, headlining: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212097265492929">Facebook event here</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Saturday, July 9, 2011, Millenium Forum Derry, headlining: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193178117394224">Facebook event here</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Saturday, July 16, 2011, Rock N' ROFL, Auntie Annies, Belfast, headlining: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240085946002791">Facebook event here</a>. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Friday July 29, 2011, Courthouse Comedy Club, support. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">other appearances include in the gutter and in the bushes outside your window. </p></span></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-73380825022863570972011-04-05T18:21:00.009+00:002011-04-05T18:43:24.919+00:00Some flyers for Geekdom, April 6th.<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Some flyers for <a href="http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event.aspx?e=1268">Geekdom</a>, April 6th at the <a href="http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/">Black Box</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fOqKrMecBGE/TZtiQ-xzVGI/AAAAAAAACOs/AsiYCUU9Uyk/s1600/wonderflyer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fOqKrMecBGE/TZtiQ-xzVGI/AAAAAAAACOs/AsiYCUU9Uyk/s400/wonderflyer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592171406179914850" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fBVhzP6TWRo/TZtiCsKt_AI/AAAAAAAACOk/a6EFAQ1SDkM/s1600/StarCrsh.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fBVhzP6TWRo/TZtiCsKt_AI/AAAAAAAACOk/a6EFAQ1SDkM/s400/StarCrsh.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592171160665979906" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ILpJp6UZ8l0/TZth3LCtWVI/AAAAAAAACOc/5mTWDgeJbws/s1600/blackbox%2Blarge.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ILpJp6UZ8l0/TZth3LCtWVI/AAAAAAAACOc/5mTWDgeJbws/s400/blackbox%2Blarge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592170962795452754" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SuprnfoW_co/TZtga16uPyI/AAAAAAAACOU/Y4JFARKc4K4/s1600/6940_box_back.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SuprnfoW_co/TZtga16uPyI/AAAAAAAACOU/Y4JFARKc4K4/s400/6940_box_back.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592169376576847650" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQJVuXMZFcw/TZtf3a_rDLI/AAAAAAAACOM/rh-Lmm-ntko/s1600/legoflyer1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQJVuXMZFcw/TZtf3a_rDLI/AAAAAAAACOM/rh-Lmm-ntko/s400/legoflyer1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592168768054430898" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1iacpL0RB5k/TZtfn9HmXsI/AAAAAAAACOE/Gq8kOSHicgc/s1600/lego-5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 396px; height: 394px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1iacpL0RB5k/TZtfn9HmXsI/AAAAAAAACOE/Gq8kOSHicgc/s400/lego-5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592168502336577218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pTI8gKE5f_8/TZtd2ROeHTI/AAAAAAAACN8/6lOU1g9MPhU/s1600/blackbox2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pTI8gKE5f_8/TZtd2ROeHTI/AAAAAAAACN8/6lOU1g9MPhU/s400/blackbox2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592166549229018418" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-35417460177540417652011-04-05T16:38:00.003+00:002011-04-05T16:47:32.235+00:00I was interview by AU Magazine in Belfast:<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GoMM2n5fH88/TZtF1TPirjI/AAAAAAAACN0/GXbujae8kHQ/s1600/au%2Binterview.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GoMM2n5fH88/TZtF1TPirjI/AAAAAAAACN0/GXbujae8kHQ/s400/au%2Binterview.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592140144311447090" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ahead of my one man show <a href="http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event.aspx?e=1268">'Geekdom' </a>at the <a href="http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/">Black Box</a>, Belfast, April 6, Andrew Johnson, of Belfast punk act <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedangerfields">the Dangerfields </a>fame did a nice we interview with me in <a href="http://iheartau.com/">AU Magazine</a>. </div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-69574994283691081872010-10-14T15:50:00.004+00:002010-10-14T16:07:18.140+00:00I was 'Buried' for '127 Hours' and then I got 'Wrecked'<object width="450" height="241"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/26741"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/26741" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="241" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried"><i>Buried</i> </a>trailer.<br /><br /><br /><object width="450" height="292"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/28579"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/28579" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="292" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_hours"><i>127 Hours</i></a> trailer.<br /><br /><object width="450" height="304"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/28801"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/28801" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="304" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecked_(film)"><i>Wrecked</i></a> trailer.<br /><br />I presume 'Wrecked' isn't about going out and getting blocked which is what the name would suggest in Irish markets. Maybe it's the scripts that make the rounds in Hollywood, does this constitute a genre? What would you call it 'Mantrap movies?' 'Restriction cinema'. In any event I smell film studies thesis material for someone in the future: 'Trapped White Masculinity' and blah blah blah etc.Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-33580195510672531802010-10-08T02:51:00.001+00:002010-10-08T02:54:50.087+00:00V for Vagina<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/TK6HbASlRYI/AAAAAAAACMI/3cRnjg5ACWI/s1600/vfor.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/TK6HbASlRYI/AAAAAAAACMI/3cRnjg5ACWI/s400/vfor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525502690834335106" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Inspired by the <a href="http://io9.com/">io9.com</a> story: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://io9.com/5656717/the-weirdest-wrongest-and-sexiest-new-costumes-for-2010/gallery/">The weirdest, wrongest and sexiest new costumes for 2010</a></span></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-19316671212439365272010-10-07T23:49:00.007+00:002010-10-08T01:28:09.162+00:00What was Udo's Choice in the end?....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evergreen.ie/product_images/070804_L.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.evergreen.ie/product_images/070804_L.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evergreen.ie/product_images/070804_L.jpg"></a><i>Udo's choice which I presume would be different to....</i></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/odo.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 456px;" src="http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/odo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/odo.jpg"></a><i>Odo's choice, which would be to change into a desklight and whine about things</i><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/odo.jpg"></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>So my guttywuts are<span class="Apple-style-span" > tying to kill me, although in thinking about it I started the war, and the "gut fire" to paraphrase William "Billy" Joel. I have acid reflux and various gut-related things through years of stress and misuse and also from going from PhD to stand up comedy, two fields synonymous with stress, cigarettes and</span> bad diet. I am also back in Ireland where coleslaw and cheese counts as "salad", chips are vegetables and thus one of the "five a day", and Guinness and Baileys are the "health drinks" you have when you are not meant to be drinking. Plus I am 34, when in evolutionary terms I should be fathering and minding children rather than worrying about when I can get the time to <i>really</i> play <i><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2136-Halo-Reach">Halo:Reach</a></i> properly, although as Scottish comedian Gary Croft pointed out the other day, having kids normally makes you want to drink and smoke <i>more</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>I recently had a Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with biopsy or 'gut scope' as it is more scientifically known. The nurse said not to worry as the camera was 'only the size of a chip', my geek mind went into overdrive and explained to me internally that while the camera end may have roughly the <i>diameter </i>of a chip, chips normally aren't 2 foot long with a plug hanging out the back and get washed in wee sinks like the tail end of an 'Alien' space hugger. I got sedated which was awesome, some people I knew went, 'don't bother with sedation, you'll feel drunk all day', yes, but what if you <i>want </i>to feel drunk all day. They accidentally wrote "colonoscopy" on my paperwork but I didn't need one, which was a shame as I had lubed myself up as precaution, as one does in any situation where women are approaching you with rubber gloves on. People think the dentist is expensive but you can pay a lot more for having two women approach you with vibrating equipment. </div><div><br /></div><div>Only joking I was a bit worried for two reasons:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I had not prepared and had not drunk the four liters of licorice flavored 'shit yourself juice' or 'laxative' as I believed it is called, and..</div><div>2. <a href="http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/">Stewart Lee</a> has already done pretty much the definitive 'comedian gets a colonoscopy' routine and it would be churlish of me, with the best will in the world, to claim that the last ten years or so of bad diet was an elaborate tribute act.</div><div><br /></div><div>So now I have to start eating healthily, I thought I'd start slowly by going to the health shop and asking for the unhealthiest thing in it, turns out it was the proprietor (haha sorry). I now have a fondness for <a href="http://www.nairns-oatcakes.com/">Nairns oatcakes</a>, Whole Food's '<a href="http://www.healingharvest.ie/whole-earth-wake-up-uplifting-coffee-alternative-p-218.html">Wake Up'</a> coffee alternative, which is thankfully made with<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarana"> guarana</a> and not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano">guano </a> as I had originally thought upon reading the label, and rice cakes. And the afore mentioned Udo's Choice which seems to me to be like a bad sci-fi movie, like he has to choose between a sexy alien and sexy cyborg but he loves them both! what will "Udo's Choice" be....</div><div><br /></div><div>It was a shame as I had my vice equilibrium finely tuned:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/TK5oeHr12HI/AAAAAAAACMA/-loXSsLc_UE/s400/21357c60-148f-44b6-93b2-ecf58f681e9c+(1).png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525468659498473586" /></div><div><br /></div><div>and now look at it!</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/TK5ny3ybu9I/AAAAAAAACL4/OvezzM3yOoE/s400/Picture2.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525467916496780242" /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's alright though as I now fantasize about an huge meteor coming to destroy earth ala the great Canadian film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0skcGu6A01w">Last Night</a> or Mick Farren's great short story <a href="http://www.amazon.com/More-Tales-Forbidden-Planet-Kaveney/dp/1852863323">'Fun in the Final Days' </a> when I can smoke and drink with abandon, either that or whenever I have sex again, although, it will probably be the meteor thing first. In the meantime, that'll be me crying and jamming rice cakes into my face and masturbating outside the window of your local fast food joint....</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-57281806841926965792010-06-28T03:03:00.002+00:002010-06-28T03:22:11.964+00:00Spot the difference...<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075830/">Chatterbox </a>(1977)<div><br /></div><div><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i49FXTM9X2g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i49FXTM9X2g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508245/">Chatterbox</a> (2010)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="450" height="304"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/23762"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/23762" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="304" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br />don't know which is worseLorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-67775414597206370522010-05-05T23:49:00.010+00:002010-05-06T11:26:50.296+00:00BBC Radio Ulster/BBC Radio 1, Voicebox and Sunday Strip Club<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-KLHpmZ2-I/AAAAAAAACLo/YhxdzgKm12c/s1600/lorc.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-KLHpmZ2-I/AAAAAAAACLo/YhxdzgKm12c/s400/lorc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468085861123480546" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's go at Lorcy central or 'Lorcom' as I refer to it, in my head. Last night was on <a href="http://www.hotrodmccaughan.blogspot.com/">Hotrod McCaughan</a>'s Hot Rod of Comedy, a regular segment on BBC Introducing in Northern Ireland with <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rorymcconnell/biography.shtml">Rory McConnell</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Which you can listen to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s6qnv/BBC_Introducing_in_Northern_Ireland_with_Rory_McConnell_05_05_2010/">here</a>, it's about one hour and 25 minutes in.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs327.snc3/28945_387489509759_794139759_4129924_1010341_n.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Myself and Hotrod at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/grapegatsby?ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=60601056522">Palookaville</a> at the <a href="http://www.ohyeahbelfast.com/">Oh Yeah Music Centre</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Telephone interviews are always a bit weird because you don't know if you are going on too long or not enough, I end up pulling Tim and Eric style faces to myself after each sentence....</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IJx8T-QuI/AAAAAAAACLY/chp_Sqvxclc/s400/vlcsnap-2010-05-01-16h16m33s194.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IM6jNMLqI/AAAAAAAACLg/uW-H8see098/s1600/vlcsnap-2010-05-05-10h42m53s43.png"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IM6jNMLqI/AAAAAAAACLg/uW-H8see098/s400/vlcsnap-2010-05-05-10h42m53s43.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467947097603714722" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I also always immediately think feck I should of said this that or the other. Will be doing some new character madness at the <a href="http://www.safehousearts.org.uk/voicebox-comedy-friday-7th-may">Voicebox Comedy</a> on Friday, at the awesome <a href="http://www.safehousearts.org.uk/">Safehouse Gallery</a> which I can't wait for,<a href="http://marcuskeeley.blogspot.com/"> Marcus Keeley</a>'s Voicebox nights have been growing steadily in popularity month after month, this one I think is the biggest line up yet, with about 20 acts with 5 minutes each, and us regulars will be doing character bits/sketches and videos in between, I made and overelaborate photoshop thing for it</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IGkBtp91I/AAAAAAAACLQ/WNblec9kzgc/s1600/lorpic.jpg"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IGCdlX1rI/AAAAAAAACLI/GP0pM-0ODPM/s1600/safehouse+quick+fire.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IGCdlX1rI/AAAAAAAACLI/GP0pM-0ODPM/s400/safehouse+quick+fire.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467939536952088242" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One of Marcus' most recent videos from his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Mernard47">youtube channel </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/alSM7hN7nC0/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/alSM7hN7nC0&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/alSM7hN7nC0&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div>With great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKWJPmFAbns">outtakes.</a><br /><br /></div><div>and I'm doing a best of powerpoint things: "Sex and Superheroes and The Story of Poor Auld Jesus: The Highlights" at The Sunday Strip Club at the Pavilion on Sunday 9th May </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/198/122/n122742601069583_470.jpg" /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IGCdlX1rI/AAAAAAAACLI/GP0pM-0ODPM/s1600/safehouse+quick+fire.jpg"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IEy0FwR-I/AAAAAAAACLA/oG90YlQIlUU/s1600/jesus+title+page.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S-IEy0FwR-I/AAAAAAAACLA/oG90YlQIlUU/s400/jesus+title+page.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467938168603953122" /></a></div></div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-82193560392438925322010-04-17T02:32:00.004+00:002010-04-17T16:45:06.490+00:00The Revelation of St. Christopher of TooKee...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/01/article-1262948-08F639FC000005DC-879_468x444.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 444px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/01/article-1262948-08F639FC000005DC-879_468x444.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />If you are a resident of the UK and Ireland you will no doubt be aware of the </span></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daily Mail, </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">now available in Ireland..</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Daily_Mail"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">kinda</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. For non-UK and Ireland readers, if you can image </span></span><a href="http://gawker.com/5465299/im-not-saying-your-mothers-a-whore-how-fox-news-censored-jon-stewart-vs-bill-oreilly"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fox News</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> as a film of putrid bile thinly spread over newsprint you get the gist. Now the Daily Mail is an easy target, like a </span></span><a href="http://www.crooksdesign.co.uk/stock-photography-misuse.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BNP graphic design</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">* shaped fish in a barrel of boke. I don't want to slag it off per se, it's clever in what in does. What it does however, is waffle on until you almost fall asleep and then sticks the boot in with a sexist, homophobic, or racist phrase that gives you a feeling of peering into a parallel dimension, thinking, 'wait? did I just read that'. It's become a veritable sport among comedians to make fun of it. The best is </span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=269512464297"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the Daily Mail list of Things that give you Cancer.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But I digress, fundamentally, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">their film critic</span></s></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"; color:black"> </span></s></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tookey"><span style="text-decoration: none line-through;text-underline:none">Christopher Tookey</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration:none line-through; text-underline:none"> </span></span></a>does not like films</span></s></i></b></span></span></span></span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></i></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Update: see comment below, he does like films: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Check out <a href="http://www.movie-film-review.com/devtops.asp?param=Tops">Tookey's Tops</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">verus</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.movie-film-review.com/devtops.asp?param=Turkey"> Tookey's Turkeys</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>"</b></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>I have awarded marks of 6/10 or more to 2910 films so far, out of a total of 8,550 movies I have reviewed"</b></i></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, lots of critics from </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Walker_(critic)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Alexander Walker </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">to </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_kermode"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mark Kermode</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> to </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Charlie Brooker </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, all don't like </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">some</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> films or tv shows, that's their job, to critically assess things in the context of their culture, but fundamentally they love the medium they write about, and arguably Brooker has actually made more TV shows, and extremely good ones, despite what this </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuNAot7xH04"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">mook has to say</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, than most film critics have made films.</span></span></span></i></b></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></i></b></span></i></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Similar to the fact that most comedians rag on the Mail, and rightly so, for easy laughs, there was a almost urban legend that Kick Ass was going to cause a Daily Mail fuss when released. This is almost nostalgia for our generation brought up on </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Video Nasties </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and seeing it's pale mirroring in the '</span></span><a href="http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LJlZL7TSRXrj6xNfsN9jWGJ0RwtM3GmRsL92pvJhnyrSRqSW48gK!2024763545!-675626961?docId=98739345"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Crash debate',</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the anticipation of another tussle of censorship and moral outrage like wot we know and love, of course nothing of the sort happened. As Kermode pointed out, the </span></span><a href="http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/468baa2e2c8f4588802576d600411eeb?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1#_Section1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BBFC certificate</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> had a sense of the humor and irony involved...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Unlike Mr. Tookey, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bolder; "><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262948/Kick-Ass-Dont-fooled-hype--This-crime-cinema-twisted-cynical-revels-abuse-childhood.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Don't be fooled by the hype: This crime against cinema is twisted, cynical, and revels in the abuse of childhood </span></span></a></h1></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">with one of the most hilarious film ratings in the world</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Verdict:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Evil</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rating:</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/articles/ratingStars/rating_showbiz_1.gif" width="55" height="9" alt="1 out of 5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">how can a film be "evil", the majority of those killed are bad guys and drug dealers, by vigilantes no less, surely that's a demographic the daily mail can get behind when it suits them? Evil is such a metaphysical concept, it's a word created by people who don't want to comprehend the horrific capacities of humanity. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass_(film)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Kick Ass</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, in contrast, is an amazing smart funny movie. It would be churlish not to admit that I only went near the mail site because I knew it would slate Kick Ass but the amount of one star reviews yer man dishes out is unbelievable, Nanny McPhee is the only recent film that has has a positive review, god help us all surviving in this world where fictional characters some how want (need!?) to destroy our very souls. Quantum of Solace get's two stars, Law-Abiding Citizen get's three? </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><h3 class="sch-res-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 17px; clear: both; "><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262948/Kick-Ass-Dont-fooled-hype--This-crime-cinema-twisted-cynical-revels-abuse-childhood.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Clash of the Titans: Back to Argos, the whole lot of you</span></a></h3><div><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size:1.2em;"><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Verdict:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> A horrible myth-take<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size:1.2em;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rating:</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/articles/ratingStars/rating_showbiz_1.gif" width="55" height="9" alt="1 out of 5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size:1.2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bolder; "><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262946/Remember-Me-Steer-clear-unless-youre-teenage-girl.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Steer clear, unless your a teenage girl</span></a></h1><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size:1.2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Verdict:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Forgettable and regrettable<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rating:</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/articles/ratingStars/rating_showbiz_1.gif" width="55" height="9" alt="1 out of 5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></span></p><p></p></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"></span><p></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bolder; "><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1168833/RACE-TO-WITCH-MOUNTAIN-DRAGONBALL-EVOLUTION-These-burned-stake.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN and DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION: These two should be burned at the stake</span></span></a></h1></span></div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Obviously he love's <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1150643/GRAN-TORINO-A-miserable-grouch-resist.html">Gran Torino..</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>* I have a theory that right-wing Christians and political Web sites see graphic designers as a heathen band of homosexuals, atheists, and general reprobates so they deliberately make all there Web sites look like shit. </div><div>Don't believe me?</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/">Jesus, Dinosaurs and More</a> (gee I hope the 'more' is reasoned evidence based on physical reality)</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Impact, Arial, Helvetica, 'Sans Serif';color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:xx-large;"><br /></span></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-38974162768170449572010-04-08T22:40:00.007+00:002010-04-09T02:30:31.291+00:00John Hicklenton (8 May 1967 – 19 March 2010)<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/nemesis_the_warlock_complete_3.gif" /></div>I have foresworn <ahref="http://jhomunculus.blogspot.com/2010/02/lorcranium.html">twitter, and only found out today via a comment on Facebook by the great <a href="http://www.mamtor.com/">Liam Sharp </a>of the sad passing of one my favorite 2000ad artists, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185597/">John Hicklenton</a>. In my mind, it's the kind of news that should have been on ITN, BBC, and Sky all at once instead of something about Lindsay Lohan going on a holiday to find out that bad things happen in the world:<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" style="empty-cells: show; "><tbody><tr><td class="post" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 675px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; line-height: 1.3em; "><i><a href="http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,28044.0.html">From the 2000 ad forums</a></i><i><br /><br />"We have just been informed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mills">Pat Mills</a> that John Hicklenton has sadly passed away.<br /><br />Here are a few words from Pat:<br /><br />John Hicklenton passed away peacefully last week. His ending was an expected one and he saw it as a triumph over his illness MS. Amongst his final words to me were "MS - you have a week to live, you've met someone you shouldn't have f***** with". A great artist and a true hero.<br /><br />Pat Mills" </i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><img src="http://scifimafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/JohnHicklentonWide-560x280.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>There was always a weirdness creeping around the edges of<a href="http://www.2000adonline.com/"> 2000ad</a>, and once you got used to its standard of amazing art and writing, even more weirdness crept in. Like when you got used to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Smith_(artist)">Ron Smith</a> and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ezquerra"> Carlos Ezquerra</a> every week, and then out of nowhere BAM! there was a couple of <a href="http://www.brianbolland.net/">Brian Bolland</a>s. I think every 2000ad reader has their 'golden age', a period of unrivaled quality and unbroken consumption of the comic. For me it was around 1988 to the early 1990s, not surprisingly coinciding with a rural Irish lonely adolescent geekdom. (compared with a lonely geek adulthood). I got to do Media Studies at the University of Ulster at Coleraine and wrote a thesis on <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/post/507067978">Dredd</a> in 1996(! shite that's ages ago), with a Hicklenton depiction of Dredd on the front cover, called: </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"Fascism, Fetishism and Fandom: Political and Psychoanalytical aspects of Judge Dredd".</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">with a description of his depiction of Dredd,</span></b></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Figure II: Dredd as Phallus </span></i></span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- John Hicklenton, from ‘Heavy Metal Dredd’, in Judge Dredd the Megazine, 23/1/93 - 5/2/93. </span></i></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hickleton appears to be an artist very much aware of Dredd’s fetishist like appearance and plays it up more than other more conventional artists.</span></b></i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>"It was a time of Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns", I suppose, would be a pop culture shorthand "when comics grew up" to use another cliche. There was an attempt to try something new when the likes of <a href="http://strangenessofbrendanmccarthy.blogspot.com/">Brendan McCarthy</a>, <a href="http://www.brettewins.co.uk/">Brett </a><a href="http://www.brettewins.co.uk/">Ewins</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaky_Kane">Shaky Kane</a>, and <a href="http://www.devicefonts.co.uk/cgi-bin/device2.cgi?action=news">Rian Hughes</a> expanded from 2000ad to'adult' titles in the anthology boom : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_(comic)">Crisis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_(comics)">Revolver</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_magazine">Deadline </a>and many others (Heartbreak Hotel, Overkill, Expresso, Strip, Meltdown.) Not to mention Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, whose intelligent subversion you may no doubt be aware of. </div><div><br /></div><div>For someone reading comics in Monaghan in the late 1980s and early 1990s this world, this was my equivalent of being invited into a trendy punk rock scene. One could imagine the above hanging out at some cool SoHo haunt with <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22766">Jonathon Ross</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ErKq4o4sQ">Neil Gaiman</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZf3YVxCus">Lenny Henry</a>, and <a href="http://www.paulgambaccini.net/">Paul Gambaccini</a>, and Tank Girl, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHo5w2WGZWA&feature=related">Transvision Vamp</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xp4tSsPU_8">Fuzzbox</a> (believe it or not this would have been a cool scene) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_(comics)">Zenith</a> probably or something, but who was that dark shadow in the background....</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.2em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size:24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">John Hicklenton was always a mysterious figure to place among this first wave of "comics are for adults and cool now" blah blah chatter. A Hicklenton story in 2000ad was a jolt of darkness and eroticism that was very <i>other</i> from the more popular strips. My teenage mind always wondered why they were so rare, and so odd and beautiful and unforgettable when they did appear. Why was he not in the comic more? did they have to go to a different dimension to get the artwork?</span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">His bio pic, and it's 'sisters of mercy' makeover version appearing on the back of the Nemesis Titan editions, such as Book 9, (you'd only need to go up to a 2000ad fan at the time and go 'Nemesis Book 9?!?' to get a knowing response), didn't help to dispell the myth. And yet his work was both intrinsically comic book and realistic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_the_Warlock">Nemesis the Warlock</a> is within the ranks of those comic characters that just <i>work</i> perfectly in comics yet seem ridiculous in 'real life' (how does he speak? what does he sound like?in what way does he float?) as a few Nemesis photo stories attested. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/deathb.jpg" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">Hicklenton brought and unsettling and beautiful realism to Nemesis you could imagine this thing <i>existing</i>, especially transposed onto the V for Vendetta-like fascistic background of the reapers and oi oi boys. It was only later that Hicklenton's battle with MS was more widely known, through the great documentary <a href="http://www.heresjohnnyfilm.com/">Here's Johnny </a>. There has seldom been such a heartbreaking yet grimly humorous depiction of the battle between the creation of art and the body that produces it. I'm reminded of Rorscharch's line <i>'None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!'</i> with any disease that would attack Hicklenton. The quotes from him on the transcendent nature of art are inspiring:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><p size="1.3em" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">"Drawing is my walking now, I run with it, I fly with it. It's keeping me alive. I have a thing with it. I can't wait to get a piece of paper with a pen because it's what I can control.</p><p size="1.3em" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">"I haven't got MS when I'm looking at my pictures and I haven't got it when I'm drawing them either. It gives me an ability to express that fear."</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">I'm sure many teenagers of the period annoyed many an art teacher, mine included, with endless 2000ad and sci-fi inspired opuses, many of which would probably get us sent to school psychologists in these current times, but we didn't have those then so we got to <i>draw</i>. I distinctly remember one project where there was some quote about a circus and something behind a curtain and I more or less drew the below, from a Megazine story called the <a href="http://www.2000adonline.com/vault/series/dredd/story/black_widow">Black Widow</a>, with an almost unrecognizable curtain as a border around it. </span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3627/nosferatumz5.jpg" alt="click to zoom" /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">one last bit, for what it's worth, it might sound like wank, but just a way of saying how an artists work can affect a comic fan:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;">When I'm wandering around with my ipod (or walkman as it was back then, still a lot of the same tunes, mostly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpGD1ZATcuA">Frank Black's Teenager of the Year</a>) I am usually thinking of really great potential 2000ad movies, like if they'd ever make a kick ass <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Anderson">Judge Anderson</a> movie or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_on_Gotham">Judgement on Gotham</a>. Anyway I always imagined a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolis_(Judge_Dredd_story)">Necropolis</a> film would be amazing if combined with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_Day_(Judge_Dredd)">Judgement Day</a>'s Magnificent Seven aspect of having all the judges from around the world (in my mind I was just trying to jam <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/spud-gun-to-chips/">Judge Joyce </a>in there) involved. Before they are dropped into a screaming mad cesspit of zombie violence though there would be a Q type character (cameo by Hicklenton) </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;">"Sorry lads, you can't go down there unless you're wearing "Hickle-Suits" </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;">And on saying this pressing a button with insane Mech-versions of his characteristic designs specific to each international Judge. For me Hicklenton's Dredd designs would have been the hardest to replicate in any film version, the scaled down versions in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9FTY3bv6k">Stallone film</a> (both in terms of costumes and the so-called perps/ random people in eye make-up) attest to how difficult bringing the true madness of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One">Mega City One</a> to the screen is.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;">I am genuinely shaken and sad at Hicklenton's death and my thoughts go out to those who knew him beyond his amazing body of work, which truly affected the history of British comics. It even inspired some goon to stick flower pots on his head to get the requisite 'highness' to attempt to replicate a Hicklenton-style Dredd luck </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0l6wolFJz1qb676mo1_500.jpg" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;">some articles: </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7527788/Comic-book-artist-ends-life-at-suicide-clinic-after-battle-with-MS.html">Comic Book artist ends life at suicide clinic after battle with ms, The Telegraph</a></span></div><div><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8590231.stm">BBC news</a></div><div><a href="http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/john-hicklenton-passes-away/">John Hicklenton passes away Forbidden Planet</a></div><div><a href="http://viciousimagery.blogspot.com/2010/03/farewell-john-hicklenton.html">Vicious Imagery blog</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/article.jsp?id=3596">Ms Trust</a></div><div><a href="http://bristle.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/and-comic-artist-john-hicklenton-has-died-too/">Bristle's Blog</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a210293/artist-john-hicklenton-dies-aged-42.html?rss">digital spy</a></div><div><a href="http://mindlessones.com/2010/03/24/john-hicklenton-rip/">mindless ones</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></span></ahref="http://jhomunculus.blogspot.com/2010/02/lorcranium.html">Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-56874789752085297632010-03-09T19:41:00.006+00:002010-04-08T22:33:39.579+00:00Ode to a Magnum 6D....<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S75Nqc0WDbI/AAAAAAAACK4/XaAhG5YhFMc/s1600/DSC00854+(1).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S75Nqc0WDbI/AAAAAAAACK4/XaAhG5YhFMc/s400/DSC00854+(1).JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457885190105206194" /></a></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kygJbw-sZJw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kygJbw-sZJw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5al6BkUHQI/AAAAAAAACKM/bHPPDJ4bQL0/s1600-h/halo3-nude.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5al6BkUHQI/AAAAAAAACKM/bHPPDJ4bQL0/s400/halo3-nude.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446723215622937858" /></a></div>...as opposed of course to the disposable lighter-esque <a href="http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M6_Series">Magnum</a> 6<i>G</i> Personal Defense Weapon System, or god forbid the plasma pistol, the 5 for a pound neon plastic purple disposable lighter of the Halo world. <div><br /><div>To help escape the horrible winter that has only recently seemed to let go its grasp, I finally got an Xbox 360 after much hmming haaaing and played <a href="http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/games/halo3/">Halo 3</a> on legendary. During <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(game)">Halo: Combat Evolved</a> on legendary there is much walking about looking for ammo and I developed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer!">Sledge Hammer! </a>like fondness for the <a href="http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M6D_Personal_Defense_Weapon_System">M6D </a> and it was one of the surprises that this lowly weapon became the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Ky5R-vxns">weapon of choice</a> and was a nice friend to talk to and say things like 'yeah you better run' and 'you better wait right there I'll be back in like an hour with some sniper ammo'. Which reminded me that first post I ever wrote on here was about Halo, <a href="http://jhomunculus.blogspot.com/2004/11/needler-dreams.html">'Needler Dreams'</a><div><br /></div><div>During Halo 3 when waves of feckers were coming at me, was to say in a very quiet voice..'well, that was<i> quite</i> the inconvenience'. It's strange the way 'realism' gets bandied about as a term. I would deem Halo 3 as realistic in that things feel real within the universe they have created, holding two weapons at a time and four grenades and health reviving etc. It's when you have to score points to buy abilities and such it gets to be a bit of a nightmare.</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-IE">Like the other day,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I started Fallout 3, where you have to choose important things like your sex, race and bad haircut etc about six seconds after your born. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Now, I was balancing up options whether a heavy set black man would be able to survive the harsh post-apocalyptic <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>more than a hot Asian lady, who might either bamboozle the mutants with sexual wiles or get killed easily.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then I thought I was over-thinking the game and chose a generic Caucasian goon. Plus, my name in the game is ‘Cuntybollix’, only because I wanted Liam Neeson playing my da to say it. He did say it was a lovely name though and I look forward to the day when the dread king Cuntybollix rules the postapocalyptic wasteland with and iron mutoid claw. I gave up and am still wandering around the vault looking for fucking bobby pins to open a door and getting pummelled because you have to pull up a computerized system and click loads of options to get a gun to fire and then you end up in your pants for no reason (mmm achieving nothing and ending up in my pants for no reason, maybe Fallout 3 is like real life.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-IE">Where to start with Bayonetta! As per usual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Croshaw">Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw</a> of</span><span><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation"> Zero Puncuation </a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-IE">gets it right:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><embed src="http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" flashvars="config=http://www.themis-media.com/videos/config/1420-5752b6b2dbf2b3768cb21ec5885479ab.js%3Fembed%3D1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" width="650" height="389" wmode="opaque"></embed><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">See I really was more first person shooter kind guy, it had that lovely fluid quality and movement compared to watching the <a href="http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/04/bringing-bayonettas-butt-to-life/">arse</a> of some thick soilders are they give each other high fives and blow up terrorists (I'm looking at you Army of Two, idiots). But Bayonetta is like 8 foot tall and has guns attached to her high heels! If I am to play a third person game, at least make it something interesting to watch. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-IE">I had not really experienced quick time events before, it's like you're watching a cut scene that you can get killed in repeatedly for no reason. Again there are certain 'realism' rules, you fight flying upsidedown angel things, some shaped like ships! some just a big weel on fire or a gigantic pixalated planet with a red fiery ball inside it but when you get a pair of haunted ice skates you can only wear them on your feet, I mean I can already fly a bit and turn into a panther and my body hair comes off and turns into a parrot the size of a double decker bus to eat some angel gobshite why can't I wear haunted ice skates on my hand if I want to? Check out the madness:<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iZFLYO1UKwY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iZFLYO1UKwY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div></div></div><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Axza7s0dlQc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Axza7s0dlQc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-91745148594388089232010-03-04T23:52:00.019+00:002010-03-05T01:03:10.323+00:00Some special puddings...the artwork of Gentlemen Broncos<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BYIz_mo7I/AAAAAAAACKE/Hrn5QtcelaE/s1600-h/vlcsnap-2010-02-21-16h36m16s243.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BYIz_mo7I/AAAAAAAACKE/Hrn5QtcelaE/s400/vlcsnap-2010-02-21-16h36m16s243.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444948857910109106" /></a></div><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qdpFpfIBkXc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qdpFpfIBkXc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><div>For those of a geeky sensibility Jared Hess's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1161418/">Gentlemen Broncos</a> is a cult treat with a similar timeless setting and awkwardness to Napoleon Dynamite. For some odd reason, it has taken a critical fecking and been <a href="http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42899">accused</a> of <a href="http://io9.com/5395479/the-gentlemen-broncos-response-to-bully-porn-accusations">'bully porn'</a>, but I feel it is full of sympathy for the outsider geeks that inhabit it. Similarly to Art School Confidential, though I felt it could have reveled in and spoofed its milieu even more. As <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNfQ0ORwSDM">Darkplace </a>shows in comedy, and <a href="http://www.shaunhutson.com/">Shaun Hutson</a> shows in reality there is endless comedy to be had in the character of a totally unself-aware writer who feels that his mind-bending visions are almost to much for the human mind to comprehend. </div><div><br /></div><div>A highlight is the great sci-fi book covers '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525">In the Year 2525</a>' title sequence. One of my favorite books growing up was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kyle">David Kyle</a>'s <a href="http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Kyle/Pictorial-History-of-SF.html">A Pictorial History of Science Fiction</a> and I noticed some of the covers straight away but presumed some were mocked specifically for the film. </div><div><br /></div><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/izQB2-Kmiic&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/izQB2-Kmiic&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><div>Anyway, I thought it would be cool to reproduce them here just as covers with the originals I could find, which were a lot less than anticipated.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BQXgsEZrI/AAAAAAAACJ8/YuvSPYD9g-I/s1600-h/montage+1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BQXgsEZrI/AAAAAAAACJ8/YuvSPYD9g-I/s400/montage+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444940314332915378" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BQPxgM_WI/AAAAAAAACJ0/w3FjZuMaSDM/s1600-h/montage2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BQPxgM_WI/AAAAAAAACJ0/w3FjZuMaSDM/s400/montage2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444940181407595874" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNnwTnLjI/AAAAAAAACJc/miIVQuvTQd0/s1600-h/bronco1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 330px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNnwTnLjI/AAAAAAAACJc/miIVQuvTQd0/s400/bronco1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444937294868327986" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kellyfreas.com/">Frank Kelly Freas </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNgcaP8_I/AAAAAAAACJU/FT-LCihQDJ0/s1600-h/ASF_0622.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNgcaP8_I/AAAAAAAACJU/FT-LCihQDJ0/s400/ASF_0622.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444937169268372466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNZBOmSbI/AAAAAAAACJM/6sN_2S1D5nU/s1600-h/FKFreasSeparateStar.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 258px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNZBOmSbI/AAAAAAAACJM/6sN_2S1D5nU/s400/FKFreasSeparateStar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444937041712662962" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNMyimN2I/AAAAAAAACJE/d4tt5yMNSgE/s1600-h/bronco13.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 189px; height: 330px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNMyimN2I/AAAAAAAACJE/d4tt5yMNSgE/s400/bronco13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444936831611582306" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNFMfFHUI/AAAAAAAACI8/PVImnoGZ8Qc/s1600-h/Shepard_Pilot.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BNFMfFHUI/AAAAAAAACI8/PVImnoGZ8Qc/s400/Shepard_Pilot.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444936701137198402" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This one was a surprise, an uncanny likeness of Sam Rockwell, not created specifically for the film but by <a href="http://www.davidleeanderson.com/main.html">David Lee Anderson</a> :</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><i>"This was the first science fiction painting that I used myself as a model, painted in 1989. The background is taken from a shopping mall in Dallas called The Galleria. It had a nice perspective, which had become one of my specialties, and I developed the shuttle-like craft as if they were in a large hangar." </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMz7KvM1I/AAAAAAAACI0/JjJDRke4BD4/s1600-h/bronco5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 335px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMz7KvM1I/AAAAAAAACI0/JjJDRke4BD4/s400/bronco5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444936404430697298" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMl9LcriI/AAAAAAAACIs/KW6YDb7DeRk/s1600-h/Astounding5502.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMl9LcriI/AAAAAAAACIs/KW6YDb7DeRk/s400/Astounding5502.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444936164452380194" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMMsIzilI/AAAAAAAACIk/_DzCncwRRoE/s1600-h/bronco18.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 195px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMMsIzilI/AAAAAAAACIk/_DzCncwRRoE/s400/bronco18.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444935730381163090" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMEtI8iEI/AAAAAAAACIc/AjGcDjGLQUc/s1600-h/asf_0516.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BMEtI8iEI/AAAAAAAACIc/AjGcDjGLQUc/s400/asf_0516.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444935593211234370" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BLxWSTKHI/AAAAAAAACIU/ph5k7tvKPa8/s1600-h/bronco25.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BLxWSTKHI/AAAAAAAACIU/ph5k7tvKPa8/s400/bronco25.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444935260658935922" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BLkpHPrNI/AAAAAAAACIM/cgtVz7l2mB0/s1600-h/the-incredible-shrinking-man-remake-ratner.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S5BLkpHPrNI/AAAAAAAACIM/cgtVz7l2mB0/s400/the-incredible-shrinking-man-remake-ratner.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444935042374544594" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-85804205440765452822010-02-25T00:01:00.007+00:002010-02-25T01:43:54.854+00:00Dentistry and Doofuses<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://beaut.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/opt.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 550px; height: 370px;" src="http://beaut.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/opt.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://beaut.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/opt.jpg"></a>"ooo look at me with some fat people, I'll knock them into shape with my pie regime.."<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S4XDbJvaRAI/AAAAAAAACHk/hqGpERfaAB4/s1600-h/090108_dentist.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S4XDbJvaRAI/AAAAAAAACHk/hqGpERfaAB4/s400/090108_dentist.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441970595985769474" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">"bit more suction here please..."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Not one to be adverse to having two ladies approach one of my orifices with vibrating equipment, it was an interesting experience going to the dentist today to get a filling, although the most painful part was the fact that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Ryan">Gerry Ryan</a> was on in the background, not to be confused with this <a href="http://www.wearetheborg.com/">Jeri Ryan,</a> God no. Admittedly my notions of dentistry, as with most of my life's experiences come from movies and science fiction:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bOtMizMQ6oM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bOtMizMQ6oM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8RvRBXmyU-8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8RvRBXmyU-8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div>When most people think of famous dentists I always think of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Death">Judge Death</a>'s da. </div><div><br /></div><div>But to have Gerry Ryan warbling on about a lady caller's bed bugs and saying "and I suppos' they creep up your thighs and emmm into your 'how's your father'' made me a 100 times more uneasy than when the drilling started. For those of you who don't know who he is, this is his <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Gerry_Ryan">Uncyclopedia entry</a>, which I can't stop laughing at.</div><div><br /></div><div>So who is Gerry Ryan? Well we all know RTE, Ireland's major state-and-advertising-and-your-money funded broadcaster has a sense of humour, listen closely to the poor fella saying 'oh shit!' at the end of the below 'news' report. I would say something like, 'oh, swearing, the priests won't like that', but they have recently lost all claim to moral authority by fucking kids. In your face Popey! You've got a celibate workforce of deluded oddballs in a hierarchical system that favors secrecy who think they can 'absolve' sins that are in constant contact with vulnerable children! What's the worst that can happen? Oh yeah, what did. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7CT0a-Hgumo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7CT0a-Hgumo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Anyway, to add insult to injury, RTE have a show called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp2MGQSvNAg">Operation Transformation</a> where a fat rich person tells fat poor people how they are going wrong in not being fat. When I saw it first in the listings, I thought it might have been something fun like <a href="http://www.logoonline.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/season_1/series.jhtml">this </a> but no, it's like<a href="http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser/"> The Biggest Loser</a>. You see, RTE's R&D department is like a simple child with a crayon and notebook looking at other TV shows like they're toy ads and RTE commissioners are like their mammy and daddy and when the R&D kid sees something it likes it goes "mammy! daddy! can I have one of those?" and the parents reply, "yes, but we can only afford a really cheap shit knock off version will that do", and the kid laps it up and goes "yep I'm delighted <i>and</i> excited" <div><br /></div><div>Now I don't want to criticise RTE too much, for the size of our country they do a great job with news, documentaries and arts programs but when they attempt reality shows, light entertainment and comedy the results are sometimes excruciating. As a small country we don't really have celebrities, so anyone on RTE claiming to be a celebrity is clinically insane, also as everyone knows each other and they don't want to piss off the main broadcaster there is no genuinely satirical comedy although <a href="http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/thats_all_weve_got_time_for.html">this one</a> <a href="http://www.face.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055772196">tries</a> but there is nothing genuinely critical, so all the chat shows exist in this odd feaful vacuum, worrying in case someone has a negative opinion on the broadcaster, admittedly some, hilariously break through...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OiIsIE8iT28&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OiIsIE8iT28&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yxucWmoQfN0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yxucWmoQfN0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Gerry Ryan seems to have some sort of blackmail-like hold on RTE as they keep giving him shows that no one likes and pay him <a href="http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryan-lines-up-euro3m-pay-day-1046299.html">astronomical amounts </a>of money for doing so. We had (eight seasons of!) <a href="http://www.rte.ie/tv/ryanconfidential/">Ryan Confidential</a>, where he came across as more of a dick than Gordan Ramsey, in a horrible moment of television, captured forever, below:</div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2p6cerxq4rk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2p6cerxq4rk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />He got to interview Conan O'Brien and failed to get any of the comedy master's jokes, it was like watching a master archer hit wee hilarious darts into a bemused zeppelin.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6z8cNpv3AnY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6z8cNpv3AnY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />In Operation Transformation, this overweight, overpaid imbecile gets to judge other poorer people's attempts to lose weight, its like people who can't sing judging singing competitions, or people with no discernible talent judging talent shows...oh wait we have that too...<div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kzFiFTbZ66g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kzFiFTbZ66g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-127337421118230492010-02-24T23:32:00.005+00:002010-02-25T00:00:01.011+00:00Lorcranium...<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S4W6Ffd63bI/AAAAAAAACHc/piqxILPlhls/s1600-h/1934+Original+Sunset+version+of+Tumbling+Tumbleweeds.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S4W6Ffd63bI/AAAAAAAACHc/piqxILPlhls/s400/1934+Original+Sunset+version+of+Tumbling+Tumbleweeds.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441960328256216498" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>I started a Tumblr called <a href="http://lorcychief.tumblr.com/">Lorcranium</a>, a name inspired by the likes of "Magic" George Quinn who occasionally calls me Lorcan McGranium or some such, which I am really enjoying. Had a twitter account but deleted it as it all looked like random syllables and bits of punctuation dipped in hero worship and reminded me of the line in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy">Idiocracy</a> <div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005561/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Pvt. Joe Bowers</a></b>: Why me? Every time Metsler says, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way," I get out of the way.<br /><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615663/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Sgt. Keller</a></b>: Yeah, when he says that, you're not supposed to choose "get out of the way." It's supposed to embarrass you into leading - or at least following.<br /><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005561/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Pvt. Joe Bowers</a></b>: That doesn't embarrass me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:13px;">Plus twitter seems to have been invented by lazy journalists so they can just repeat celebs' and politicians tweets' as research...<br /></span></span><div><br /><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L0yQunhOaU0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L0yQunhOaU0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div></div><br /><br />In other online news <a href="http://www.add-productions.net/scottandstacey">Scott Calonico</a> the Plerplexin' Texan of <a href="http://www.nicomedy.com/comedians/scott-and-stacey/">Scott and Stacey</a> fame has been hard at work sorting out the <a href="http://www.nicomedy.com/">NI Comedy</a> Web site with all the details of wicked upcoming events at places like <a href="http://www.nicomedy.com/comedians/marcus-keeley/">Marcus Keeley'</a>s Voicebox at the Safehouse, The Pavillion, Lavery's, and now The Black Box, which I am very interested in entering as you can imagine.Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-51652609717206420722010-02-05T00:12:00.007+00:002010-02-05T02:12:07.214+00:00Boregasm!!<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBgZlDCvaQ8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBgZlDCvaQ8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MJJmoYp_2tw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MJJmoYp_2tw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div>Ah, I don't want to be down on Irish movies, and like, look at the above mooks, it's not like others can portray Irishness any better, but whenever I go to Tescos, there's all the normal films sitting there in their fun boxes and spaceships and that and then a separate sort of quarantined section for Irish ones that form a bleak wall of worthy depression, Catholicism, 'the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRov2-LZ51s">laaaand</a>', politics, historical period dramas, gangsters, and of course <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hga3kqwuBSc">abuse</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LjPae2YwKPI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LjPae2YwKPI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I've got very specific criticisms of certain Irish films, like did Stephen Rea really not know what sort of a pub he was in in The Crying Game, did his reaction not paint Irish fellas abroad as sexually naive, insensitive idiots? Sure a fella's head is all messed up with the troubles, he don't know what way is up...look out for the 'hilarious' twist etc.</div><div><br /></div><div> I remember thinking <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126952/">How to Cheat in the Leaving Cert</a> would be good, a heist movie to steal exam papers, but inevitably the plot was that one of their classmates had committed suicide because of exam pressure and that's why they were doing it. It had to be some worthy reason rather than a fun heist. I recently saw <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZyco6D_Rv0">Middletown </a>(both the town and the film, both equally bleak), viddy the trailer all shouting and classical strings and religious hypocrisy...we know, we get it! This imagined 1950s borderland bleakness must have been terrible. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvN-SG_fBVk">When Brendan Met Trudy </a> inched Irish films into the rom com market but the trailer implies FEMINIST TERRORISTS!...jaysus lads could you be up to it at all...</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a lot of funny people, smart people, intelligent people in Ireland but once a film project goes through the government sponsored route where half the running time is logos of cross border initiative and EU funding gubbins they get ground down in lengthy boregasms of identity and current issues. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of my favorite Irish films ever is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337999/">The Eliminator</a>, an unashamed Peter Jackson/Sam Raimi type low budget horror that's very funny. The only picture I could find was a postage stamp sized scan of a Film Ireland cover, does anyone have any pics/clips of this gem? Surely even the a brief synopsis would pique interest</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>"Set in Northern Ireland of the future, Computer genius O'Brien is working hard to build the VIPER, a military supercar..." </i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Which brings me to <a href="http://entertainment.ie/cinema/reviews/movie-reviews_ulike.asp?cat=Film&ID=17552"> 8.5 Hours.</a> </span></span></i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qqDhkBaBY74&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qqDhkBaBY74&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />When I saw the trailer first (yesterday) I was much more bitter, like this is an affront to sense and intelligence, and movie literacy, but then I thought well, I haven't made a film and my film studies knowledge attests that for any film that even gets made, there are probably 20-30 worse ones that didn't. So for that we should be thankful for 8.5 hours, not its actual running time, this isn't <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-DHMqICNkU">Fanny and Alexander</a>, chance would be a fine thing. Instead I made up a dialogue between the director and the trailer guy:....<div><br /></div><div><b>Directo</b>r: We want something classy..<div><br /><b>Trailer guy</b>: classy or classs-i-cal?</div><div><br /><b>Director: </b>It's set in Dublin...</div><div><br /><b>Trailer guy:</b> Perfect, shot of Dublin then...</div><div><br /><b>Director</b>: it's about..</div><div><br /><b>Trailer guy:</b> I know, the end of the boom years, when was that? wendesday 4pm wasn't it? everyone's sad, even though some of them are getting the ride, what's that great line in it?...'oh fuck me that was good', perfect, we'll put that in, everyone says things like this during sex...</div><div><br /><b>Director:</b> It's about four working lives...</div><div><br /><b>Trailer Guy</b>: yeah! working alright! Working at the sex and drugs and bisexuality, and that, hohup! jaysus, so yeah they work at an office? I'll show the clock ticking, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhvS522uHko">Clockwatchers...</a> hey! maybe they'll smash office equipment up like in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCYzJAgwrw">Office Space...</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Director:</b> I wanted to deal with contemporary issues like the property collapse and immigration...</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trailer Guy:</b> Yeah! I know, like a shady Eastern European guy/pimp maybe, he's the reason Ireland's lost its moral soul...plus we get to show ladies in corsets! high five! no, sorry, yeah, it's about the issues. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Director: </b>It's about the emptiness of meaningless sex...</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trailer Guy</b>: Hey! I just saw the trailer to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUTv3LH3ss">A Serious Man,</a> maybe a bit of headboard banging and an actress looking uncomfortable...perhaps a tough guy, or an office guy who <i>thinks</i> he's tough, with a cool catch phrase like ...'shooting...fish...in...a...barreeeell..."like that cool movie <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuWR3sD527w">Shooting Fish</a>, with the speech rhythms of genius <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJJhx6DoC0">Maaaat Beerry</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Director:</b> It's about sexual emptiness in Catholic Ireland...</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trailer Guy:</b> Fuck yeah! I forgot about the church, a scene in a church where someone gets accused of having sex with a 19-year-old, implies the abuse scandal but won't get us into trouble...genius director dude ..oh yeah and drugs!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Director: </b>It's about four lives that start to unravel....</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trailer guy: </b>Hey, we'll get one of the characters to speak directly to the camera like in the trailer for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTqhmzROko">Magnolia</a>...awesome...hey wasn't there some gayness involved, better include that too as a sign of decadent times...and then we'll end with uplifting strings and people understanding each other...and...bam!! see ya at the Oscars dude! ...I'll be out the back offering my 'services'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Director:</b> ahh thanks, I guess...</div><div><br /></div><div>CF: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrFVuiE7_y8">Ken Korda's Speeding on the Needle Bliss</a></div><div><br /></div><div>and of course...The Room</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCj8sPCWfUw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCj8sPCWfUw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-59162675834134255832010-02-01T23:55:00.007+00:002010-02-02T00:50:41.325+00:00Congrats everone, we made it through January....<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S2d1zmTG8vI/AAAAAAAACHU/jPpMttTtcnA/s1600-h/556px-BenTurpinBeachGals.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S2d1zmTG8vI/AAAAAAAACHU/jPpMttTtcnA/s400/556px-BenTurpinBeachGals.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433441004760265458" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S2d1uT8DwZI/AAAAAAAACHM/bhTUDYRz7ig/s1600-h/congrats.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/S2d1uT8DwZI/AAAAAAAACHM/bhTUDYRz7ig/s400/congrats.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433440913932403090" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><br /></div><div>Officially, the most bastardingly shite of months ever, hence the lack of blogging as trying to articulate the horror would only increase it. I made it through, but only just, using the time honored Irish way of hot whiskeys and copious TV shows and films. Mostly my <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laurel-Hardy-Collection-21-disc-Box/dp/B0001K2KE8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265071612&sr=8-1">Laurel and Hardy box set,</a> a thing of immense beauty, the great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgIste-VBz0">Fringe</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDcEKo4V7fA">Dollhouse</a> and still amazing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byB3dsnLN-A">The Twilight Zone</a></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/77SEuyeQAAg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/77SEuyeQAAg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Speaking of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdlDyNcPko">the Twilight Zone </a>and feeling like you're living in it, <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I've also been being </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jan/06/freedom-of-speech-press-freedom"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">blasphemous </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">about 30 times every day, and at 25,000 euro a pop that doesn't come cheap...p.s. God doesn't exist...and is a cunt...fact! sorry for the language, but he made me say that for the laugh. Full listing of Ireland's new blasphemy law </span><a href="http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0031/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, I suppose you could read it along with the <a href="http://www.dacoi.ie/">Murphy</a> or Ryan reports and decide what is truly blasphemous.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wording </span><a href="http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0031/sec0036.html#sec36"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="10" style=" ;font-size:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border- display: block; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></p></td><td valign="top"><a name="s35._p0" id="s35._p0"></a><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: 1em; "><b>35</b>.— The common law offences of defamatory libel, seditious libel and obscene libel are abolished.</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link" style="text-align: left;"><br /></td><td valign="top" style="text-align: left;"><br /></td><td valign="top"><a name="s36._p0" id="s36._p0"></a><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: 1em; "><b>36</b>.— (1) A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €25,000.</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: 1em; text-align: justify; ">(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if—</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(<i>a</i>) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(<i>b</i>) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: 1em; text-align: justify; ">(3) It shall be a defence to proceedings for an offence under this section for the defendant to prove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value in the matter to which the offence relates.</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: 1em; text-align: justify; ">(4) In this section “ religion ” does not include an organisation or cult—</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(<i>a</i>) the principal object of which is the making of profit, or</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(<i>b</i>) that employs oppressive psychological manipulation—</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 8em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(i) of its followers, or</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="language_link_paragraph"></td><td></td><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 8em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; ">(ii) for the purpose of gaining new followers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 8em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 8em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; text-indent: -2em; text-align: justify; "><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="10" style="font-size: inherit; "><tbody></tbody></table></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mmm, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">employs oppressive psychological manipulation" not the Catholics then, oh no. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anyways, mark your diary or scrap of paper that you lose for Voicebox on February 5th, it's going to be great with Enda Muldoon, Marcus Keeley, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Scott Calonico & Stacey Mead, Hotrod McCaughan, Aaron Marshall Anne-Marie Mullan, Ed Goodall, and Robert Best, with Ruaidri Ward MCing. I can't wait. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261287038700&ref=nf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Facebook Event page</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.safehousearts.org.uk/category/upcoming/comedy">Safehouse site event</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Stand up bit that includes my blasphemy routine, which I would not have written were it not for this ridiculous law, so will they fine themselves?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hEh5dnXDrwM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hEh5dnXDrwM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-40309947627429376442009-10-28T01:48:00.003+00:002009-10-28T02:44:21.835+00:00Three more days to Halloween...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2tvVla5AHmA&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2tvVla5AHmA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div>I do love Halloween and I also love horror films, but Halloween also seems like the season where imbeciles who have never seen <i>any</i> film at the cinema recently go and see a horror film and bore all us year-round rather than fair-weather horror fans to death about the scary film 'that actually happened'. When teaching once I had to do so much to explain that the Blair Witch was not real, it was just designed to look real, like this year's offering in the OMG! stakes: </div><div><br /></div><div><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_UxLEqd074&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_UxLEqd074&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><div>It's also a sign of my getting older that an actual vampire, zombie, or Frankenstein's monster would scare me less if they turned up at the door and three actual kids. I would have something in common with these classic movie monsters rather than this actual apathetic grunting violent creatures that would probably hold up a wee phone and terrorize me with shit drum and bass music coming from tiny wee speakers and then stab me in the neck for giving them sweets instead of crack. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can chart the evolution of my geekdom thusly, loving dinosaurs begat loving dinosaur movies that begat loving science fiction movies and horror films and comics that begat a lonely life, the true actual real world horror. My major teen period of comic buying mid to late 1980s to early 1990s was also my major horror period, but the movies I remember actually watching on Halloween were always a bit apart from my regular Horror film watching: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUlClqrTjA">Dracula (1958)</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdshG0lWac">Cat's Eye (1985)</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkzPpaHqM9s">Misery (1990)</a> are all films I associate with Halloween purely because of a memory rather than they were 'scary'. I loved Hammer Horror films and was always amazed that my father had actually seen them in the cinema, the Hammer Dracula series was lovingly recorded on VHS and made into makeshift video box sets before could buy amazing artifacts like <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Hammer-Collection-Disc-Box/dp/B000HN31KQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1256695727&sr=8-1">this</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>To an extent one always grows out of horror films, I don't mean their technique or any aspersions on the genre, but the idea of a film being 'scary' is a malleable one. Like Kermode when he used to on about 'extreme' cinema, I would always paraphrase him like 'the film you are about to see is so extreme it'll burn your eyeballs out of your head!'. Once you're and adult and can watch want you want, the teenager idea of sitting through a terrible 18 cert horror film just because it that might have some bosums in it goes out out the window. </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway this Halloween I will probably stick with The Exorcist or The Shining, not because they are 'scary movies' but because they fucking awesome movies! </div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=589190853152027984&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4745727919325920852&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x98qcNZ8Fz0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x98qcNZ8Fz0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-39704950009523483042009-10-23T10:31:00.002+00:002009-10-23T10:57:50.323+00:00Electic Micks signing November 14, 2009.<div>It always nice to have something to look forward to, apart from a cosmic scale apocalypse that will blink all existence in a nanosecond, and once such thing is the signing of the Electic Micks sketchbook at Forbidden Planet, 5-6 Crampton Quay, Dublin from 3-5pm on November 14. </div><div><br /></div><div>Check out this great collective of Irish comic artists: </div><div>Their blog: <a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-377966301618150764#">eclectic micks</a></div><div>Will be great to see the great <a href="http://clamnuts.com/rants/">Bob Byrne </a> currently secluded in Spain, I imagine, in the manner of Ray Winstone in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ihhUR8lkI">Sexy Beast </a>with the Eclectic Micks calling him back to do 'one last job'. </div><div><br /></div><div>Will be doing a gig in bankers that day too so it will be a full day of geek madness for the Jimmny. </div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5fwZNyyCwSo/Ss40cS-kDoI/AAAAAAAAAGk/zt-arWtID7c/s1600/micks-poster-flat.jpg" alt="[micks-poster-flat.jpg]" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs243.snc1/9026_183441204282_697049282_3807911_1476887_n.jpg" /><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs243.snc1/9026_182928219282_697049282_3804656_4639021_n.jpg" /></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-12609739276108074732009-10-22T19:01:00.004+00:002009-10-22T19:31:22.504+00:00Some pictures....<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCyi7R_eQI/AAAAAAAACGA/4on-KXHu2DM/s1600-h/Untitled.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCyi7R_eQI/AAAAAAAACGA/4on-KXHu2DM/s400/Untitled.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395508666688305410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">.... from last night's great show at McKenna's for <a href="http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Alison-Curtis/BLOG.aspx">Alison Curtis</a> on <a href="http://www.todayfm.com/Home.aspx">Today FM </a>for the <a href="http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Alison-Curtis/PlatinumPubCompetition.aspx">Bulmers Light Platinum Awards</a>. With great band <a href="http://www.thedominicanaffair.com/">The Dominican Affair</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedominicanaffair">their myspace is here</a>. Thanks to Alison and producer Ed, and technician Brian and of course Seamie McKennas senior and junior! It was a great night and an interesting experience doing my first proper comedy interview. </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(52, 52, 52); line-height: 19px; font-family:Tahoma, Arial, 'sans serif', 'trebutchet ms';font-size:12px;"><h2 align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHxcltdI/AAAAAAAACF4/IB9yh4uThnw/s1600-h/PICT0071.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHxcltdI/AAAAAAAACF4/IB9yh4uThnw/s400/PICT0071.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395504901657048530" /></a></span></h2></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHhkJdyI/AAAAAAAACFw/_FPP0Ur74_0/s1600-h/PICT0079.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHhkJdyI/AAAAAAAACFw/_FPP0Ur74_0/s400/PICT0079.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395504897393784610" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHSb36JI/AAAAAAAACFo/5pdlSt9hk8M/s1600-h/PICT0086.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHSb36JI/AAAAAAAACFo/5pdlSt9hk8M/s400/PICT0086.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395504893332547730" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHNo_ivI/AAAAAAAACFg/bYJdRNY5Who/s1600-h/PICT0088.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvHNo_ivI/AAAAAAAACFg/bYJdRNY5Who/s400/PICT0088.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395504892045396722" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvG1IIssI/AAAAAAAACFY/lNN_rPld4P4/s1600-h/PICT0089.JPG"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvG1IIssI/AAAAAAAACFY/lNN_rPld4P4/s1600-h/PICT0089.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/SuCvG1IIssI/AAAAAAAACFY/lNN_rPld4P4/s400/PICT0089.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395504885465133762" /></a></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-21478278703439135192009-10-20T22:08:00.006+00:002009-10-20T22:59:14.394+00:00Hello there, would you like a lick of me cone....<p align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St42pjCFvRI/AAAAAAAACFI/3QGRg-we8BM/s1600-h/7032_182272953412_507853412_3749248_5955211_n.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394809491042974994" style="WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St42pjCFvRI/AAAAAAAACFI/3QGRg-we8BM/s400/7032_182272953412_507853412_3749248_5955211_n.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div>Must have a think about my dress sense as I have recently been mistaken as a priest twice in the last few weeks. I suppose I do dress in black, read books, and am celibate, although not by choice. Will be on Today FM... tomorrow and have some other top stand up dates coming up: </div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St4_gu_66UI/AAAAAAAACFQ/7EIiPI-w5Kc/s400/McKenna%27s.sflb.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 388px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394819235240929602" /><img src="http://media.tribune.ie/site_media/photologue/photos/2009/Feb/28/cache/01notes_Alison_Curtis_Red00_display.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 451px;" border="0" alt="" /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Wednesday, October 21,</b> Alison Curtis of <a href="http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Alison-Curtis/BLOG.aspx">Today FM</a> will be broadcasting from McKenna's in Monaghan, home of McKenna's Brew Ha Ha Comedy club between 10 and 12am. Will be doing an interview talking about comedy and club. McKenna's is the Ulster finalist in the <a href="http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Alison-Curtis/PlatinumPubCompetition.aspx">Platinum Pub Award 2009</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Friday November 7</b>, Voicebox, <a href="http://marcuskeeley.blogspot.com/">Marcus Keeley's</a> night at the Safehouse, Belfast</div><div><br /></div><div><b>S</b><b>aturday November 14</b>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/stand_up_at_the_bankers">Stand up at The Bankers</a>, Dublin,</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Friday November 27</b>, Mr and Miss <a href="http://getonthesoapbox.wordpress.com/">Soapbox</a>, St. Gregory's Centre of the Arts, Norwich</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Saturday November 28</b>, Laugh out Loud at the Rose, Norwich.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div align="center"><b>In other news: </b></div><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St42Y4_ap1I/AAAAAAAACFA/k3ISwNoC8R0/s1600-h/jodie+foster.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394809204879566674" style="WIDTH: 231px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St42Y4_ap1I/AAAAAAAACFA/k3ISwNoC8R0/s400/jodie+foster.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"><b>Jodie Foster is super-pleased to be in a brass band. </b></p><p align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St40-HhMNsI/AAAAAAAACE4/L0KgBRkk5bU/s1600-h/clooney+and+obama.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394807645411227330" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tdHEb3gxUr8/St40-HhMNsI/AAAAAAAACE4/L0KgBRkk5bU/s400/clooney+and+obama.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p align="center"><b>...and George Clooney discusses digital stimulation techniques with President Barack Obama. </b></p><br /><div></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-85274106071910502942009-10-16T02:32:00.001+00:002009-10-16T02:32:13.835+00:00WATCH THESE MEN (SYTYCV)<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/vRNLBAISU2g' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/vRNLBAISU2g'/></object></p></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-63464541745494165642009-09-25T01:26:00.006+00:002009-10-16T02:19:44.688+00:00You know things are bad...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Star-Trek-Cologne.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Star-Trek-Cologne.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P3s26C1Qyc8&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P3s26C1Qyc8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />....When you watch an episode of Star Trek Voyager on <a href="http://www.virginmedia.com/">Virgin </a>plus one (insert your own joke here) and think...mmmm this is good I should buy the box set, maybe of just the last series. It's a slippery slope. No offense to the more hardened Trek fan, but when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PlNJU7qBaU&feature=related">Firefly</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BvP99-Ci6k">Serenity</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95nMKRUI0j0&feature=related">Battlestar Galatica </a>have passed through the 'verse, watching Star Trek is like seeing a quaint Edwardian play about morals or something. <div><br /></div><div>I remember living alone in Rathmines and Star Trek was there like emotional crack for the sci-fi fan. I spotted and bought in a Virgin Megastore sale the <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_-_Data_Box">Data Head</a> box set and the one that was like a transporter with all the episode that had <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek_-_Crossovers_Set">crossovers</a>, especially <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwRaMdoeHE">Relics</a>, that always brings a tear to the eye, and got hooked on Sky One reruns of<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayLwwvn77s"> Star Trek: The Next Generation </a><div><br /></div><div>I've just finished three weeks of substitute teaching where, bizarrely my nickname is '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDY0hiMZy8">Mr.Bean'</a>, I don't know why, maybe some kid misheard '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1566125/">Mr.McGrane</a>' but it stuck. I was covering English and Religion. I was proud of a moment when a pupil asked: 'but aren't priests breaking their pledge when they drink wine on Sunday?', and I replied, 'well, no, because it's technically the blood of Christ when they drink it.' I also had to explain that banshees and the Blair Witch don't exist and dodge the question of whether <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbmxw6befyQ">Lady Gaga</a> 'is a man'*</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, today I was on the verge of genuine tears while watching the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'The Eye of the Needle', will they get home, well as it's only about 8 episodes in to the first series...no. </div><div>This guy's has a good take on it: </div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8tvzQHQucLc&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8tvzQHQucLc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Although it tries to be all nicey and inclusive, the Star Trek franchise has stuck to a simply, cut-out-and-keep male white chauvanism, which goes thusly:</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFUuFGHlWM">Star Trek</a>:</b> Male white captain, off to conquer the universe, and ride green women. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pDl903okdQ&feature=related">Star Trek: The Next Generaton</a>,</b> male white captain, off to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOw_2f4lpY">conquer</a> the universe in a more uradite way, and drink tea, and kinda ride a red-haired lady, sometimes, I think. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XFc35FDUvw">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</a></b>, black captain, he's going nowhere! stick him in a sorta ghetto in space with an Irish man. Oh yeah, and make it roundy, we don't want him in charge of anything phallic. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5WKLsUvgE&feature=related">Star Trek: Voyager</a></b>, lady captain, she's got lost and whines about getting home for seven seasons. Yeah we'll explore and that, but the main aim is to get home as soon as possible. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ">Star Trek: Enterprise,</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> '</span></b>It's been a long road'...but at least all the minority English/French, African-American and Lady captains are out of the way, so it's back to a male white captain, off to conquer the universe, and something about a dog and not the 'realistic' depiction of space exploration that was touted at the beginning. It doesn't count to just have a cgi clip of a space ship landing on yet another life-supporting planet instead of a cgi teleporter clip. For a franchise that's never <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YXswgyoBlQ">'Out of Gas'</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>It's not auld Rodenberry's fault it's just that bad periods of my life have coincided with times were I suddenly got into watching Star Trek regularly and evaded problems with it's simplistic world. The only character I liked really was yer man <a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Reginald_Barclay">Barclay </a>because he was a fuck up. He was the only one I could identify with...'Where's ensign McGrane?'...'mmm there was that synthetic whiskey and holodeck Bangkok incident, captain...' and poor ensign McGrane arriving late to the bridge with his uniform all in disarray and having not done his space sums about how to press the wee buttons and that. No one in Star Trek is bad at their jobs or has an untidy room. A little too much time in the holodeck and that's about it with human foibles. </div><div><br /></div><div>*I can conclusively reveal that Lady Gaga does in fact have a penis, but only occasionally...and in my masturbation fantasies. </div><div><br /></div><div>P.S. w<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU&feature=fvw">hy hasn't Patrick Stewart done a Curb cameo! </a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>I'll leave you with a great triple bill:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJTi7KJPx_E&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJTi7KJPx_E&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VPFUuFGHlWM&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VPFUuFGHlWM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ko1YIxIBbVY&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ko1YIxIBbVY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145422.post-14426884910387921832009-08-28T00:27:00.001+00:002009-08-28T00:27:07.367+00:00Sugar Lumps<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/CHOTN16IgzE' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/CHOTN16IgzE'/></object></p><p>I know I'm late to the Flight of the Conchords love in but this song never ceases to make me bust my 'cannibals' laughing. I'm not even going to try to talk to ladies any more (plus ça change, plus c'est la même) I'm just going to learn this off and dance around....plink plink...</p></div>Lorcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567819811056688076noreply@blogger.com0