Apologies for the rather shaky shot, it was taken on Monkeys Moto (a style over substance purchase) The picture's from The Devils Glen, in Wicklow, where we went walking with the copywriter at the weekend. I'd heard about the glen before but it was my first time there and I'm definitely going back soon, with a better camera. Its a beautiful peaceful woodland with a Sculpture trail featuring contemporary sculpture by Irish and international artists. Dotted here and there are these little plaques with slightly poignant dog related thoughts, like "doesn't the dog look younger out here" (that made the copywriter sigh)
Doris Duke was a multi millionaire tobacco heiress who willed her fortune to a Charitable Foundation putting her butler Bernard Laffertty in charge. 3 years later he died himself but not without a little partying in the meantime. Lafferty was from Creeslough in Donegal about 12 miles from where I grew up and I first heard about him in a book by ex LLoyd Cole Bassist Lawerence Donegan. No News At Throat Lake (Creeslough in Irish) tells the story of some time Laurence spent in Creeslough working for a local newspaper, and in it he references Bernard and his unusual relationship with his mistress Doris. I remember seeing a documentary about Bernard, maybe on RTE, a couple of years ago and The Biography Channel have done a piece on him too. A 1999 Biopic about Duke cast Richard Chamberlain in the part of the Butler and now he's being played by Ralph Fiennes, opposite Susan Sarandon in Bernard and Doris. Can't wait to hear Ralphs accent.....
I dug around trying to find out a bit more about Bernard, but information is pretty scarce, he doesn't even have a wikipedia entry!!
The much lauded Super Tuesday has come and gone and the only thing it really determined was that I make some pretty fabulous pancakes - actually probably the BEST EVER pancakes.
Republican Mitt Romney, has dropped out leaving John Mc Cain to battle it out with Mike Huckabee for the Grand Old Party nomination . Though there has been a lot of heat around Obama and Clinton and how close the race is between them, Mc Cain has been trundling along securing a lot of support and being...well...kind of inoffensive. I've got to admit, this is starting to worry me.
The thing is that the Democratic vote is split down the middle, and a hell of a lot of energy has to be spent between now and decision time. The unfortunate reality is that closing in on the actual presidential election half of the democratic voting public are going to experience huge disappointment as their chosen one, Clinton or Obama, fails to make the cut. The winning nominee is then faced with trying to win over voters who up until the eleventh hour, were hoping and praying they wouldn't be running. After all that, will enough democrats take to the polls, come election day? You see, if Super Tuesday had been the deciding factor, disappointed Obama fans, or disappointed Clinton fans, whichever, would have a whole heap of time to get over themselves and focus on getting a democrat back in the Whitehouse. There's going to be a lot of election fatigue out there. Meanwhile, there's Mc Cain, with all that time to look presidential and......well.....ornery (that matters to Americans I think)
So, I'm wondering, Maybe Mc Cain??
Meanwhile, I think Scroobius Pip wrote this for Christocrat Huckabee and Morman Mitt.
Rapture Ponies started this and Rick has followed suit, so in the spirit of copying people, this is my current desktop. I am about to switch to Leopard so no doubt it will change soon. The Picture is of Astronaut Thomas. P. Stafford, with the NASA mascot Snoopy, taken prior to the Apollo 10 Mission in May 1969. On that particular mission the Command Module was called "Charlie Brown" and the Lunar Module was called "Snoopy" I know it's a little nerdy but could care less.
I went along to the Irish Music Television launch in 4 Dame Lane last night. Although there was plenty of Tiger Beer on offer I had to opt for the Red Bull as I had my wheels with me. Note to self - don't EVER drink 4 Red Bulls again, know the one that's one too many.
Entertainment for the evening featured a selection of bands from the Eircom Unsigned Bands competition, (check out Cirrus by Saccade, sounds a little like Silverchair do these days)
IMTV offers a fairly good selection of Irish music videos and plan to create all kinds of new programmes for and about the Irish music scene, made available on whatever techie gadget you prefer to use for your viewing pleasure. So far they're using the Joost platform, and you can also check them out on myspace.
The quite brilliant Dark Room Notes have a few of their videos included, including Shake Shake My Ceiling. I used to play Love Like Nicotine a lot on the show, and I love this track too.
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