Tis many a handsome fur or sunset rubdown that has taken place since Wolf Parade last visited Dublin and a nearly full Vicar Street was on hand last night to hail their return. However, the band was not quite at full strength, with Hadji Bakara having stayed behind in Canada. In any event, things still [...]
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This week’s mixtape gives pride of place to that great Canadian songstress, Joni Mitchell in response to a shameful and unprovoked attack on her by that villainous prince of vulgar vaudeville Extreme Listening Mode during the week. May he become a Keane groupie!
By the way, for those of you who do not know it, Judee [...]
Filed under: Mixtapes, Music | Tagged: Alela Diane, Cat Power, Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill, Keren Ann, Patti Smith, Rachael Yamagata, Regina Spektor | 4 Comments »
It is often said that all that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. In this play by Bertolt Brecht, good men either are entirely subsumed into the poisonous system or are quickly and permanently silenced at the first sign of their discontent. Justice becomes a mockery and [...]
Filed under: Theatre | Tagged: Aidan Kelly, Bertolt Brecht, Bosco Hogan, Conor Murphy, Des Cave, Eamon Morrissey, George Seremba, Jimmy Fay, Karl Shiels, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor | Leave a Comment »
This Wednesday sees the start of the annual German-language film festival at the Irish Film Institute. Sixteen films will be shown there over a 10-day period. To whet your appetite for it, here are a few that sound of interest to this film buff. However, definitely check out the full programme if you are interested!
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If it is Friday come again, then it must be time to showcase the musical talent of yet another Portland band on these august pages! This time around, we have Horse Feathers, a three-piece band consisting of lead vocalist Justin Ringle and brother and sister Peter and Heather Broderick. Their sound is created mostly by [...]
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You have two brothers, the elder has been on the wrong side of the law since his teenage years and the other is a police detective. You set them in a provincial French city in the 1970s and you dream up a set of scenarios whereby they clash on both a personal and a professional [...]
Filed under: Cinema, Films, Movies | Tagged: François Cluzet, Guillaume Canet, Jacques Maillot, Les liens du sang, Rivals | Leave a Comment »
This incredibly innovative war documentary took four years to make, beginning with an entire year spent interviewing Israeli soldiers who had fought in the First Lebanon War in 1982. Once a screenplay had been written, all of the scenes photographed, and a storyboard developped, the subsequent animation process, led by Yoni Goodman, began. This advanced [...]
Filed under: Cinema, Films, Movies | Tagged: Ari Folman, Max Richter, Ori Sivan, Ron Ben-Yishai, Shmuel Frenkel, Vals im Bashir, Waltz With Bashir, Yoni Goodman | 4 Comments »
Dressed, quite honestly, like a cross between a pint of Guinness and B. A. Baracus, Lykke Li took to the Button Factory stage last night. Her black outfit recalled a Cat Power gig from last year. That evening, most of the audience were a little disgusted that Chan Marshall was having one of her infamous [...]
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Near the end of the show, last night, Stuart Staples admitted that this was one of the venues that he had always wanted to play in. With its fine sound and intimate nature, Vicar Street does seem the ideal location for a band who turn up with a five-piece string ensemble in tow. In the [...]
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News is now emerging that Citibank is the target of an unsolicited major international takeover bid. A spokesman for the group of Somali pirates (*) believed to be behind this audacious raid commented that they were hoping to raise the requried funding by way of proceeds from both the issuance of ransom-backed securities and the holding of plunder [...]
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Admittedly, this week’s mix is a bit downbeat. but I hope that you enjoy it all the same, as there are some good tunes in there! Listen here!
* The Twilight Sad – And She Would Darken The Memory
* Grizzly Bear – Don’t Ask
* Two Gallants – Ribbons ’round My Tounge
* Speck Mountain – Blood Is [...]
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Parenthetical Girls’ third album Entanglements sees the Portland band throw themselves headlong into some fantastic- and rich-sounding orchestral pop music. The album required hundreds of individual trackings to be recorded, making it a near-impossible challenge to reproduce with exactitude on tour. Perhaps wisely so, the band opted to play a diverse mélange from all three [...]
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Further details to follow shortly, but the new institution will be known as Sachs & The Citi.
UPDATE:
A few anagram-based possiblitities for the merged Citibank Goldman Sachs entity:
* Damn Slacking Cohabits
* Scam Can Hold a Big Stink
* Mind Chaotic Glass Bank
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This week’s music video comes from New Jersey singer Tim Fite and is called Big Mistake. It is a pretty catchy tune, so consider yourself warned!
Ha en trevlig helg folks!
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The market view is clear: a severe recession is coming and big banks need a lot more capital.
If you were not feeling freaked out before, this post ought to do the trick:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/11/20/guest-post-markets-test-us-resolve/
So that you know, the credit default swap market accurately predicted the September crisis a couple of months before it hit. Given that the world is struggling [...]
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