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Right, I’ve been stewing for far too long. I’ve been saying “Don’t get me started” for a while now, to anyone who’d listen. So, to put them out of their misery, I think I’d better get started. Time to get it off my chest.
To begin with. Nama. Or, more particularly, Anglo-Irish. I’m not an [...]
The following is a press release about a new film, The Truth about Kathmandu, by Paddy Bushe
The accusation that Cathal Ó Searcaigh is an exploitative sex-tourist is a lie. This is the conclusion drawn at the end of a twenty-minute film, The Truth about Kathmandu, which will be shown as part of Féile na Gréine: [...]
My evenings have been filled with work and evening classes recently, so I’ve not been able to see any shows, hence this blog has gone quiet. The advantage of blogging is that it is entirely voluntary, no one is expecting me to supply a weekly review, and if I see a show I really don’t [...]
Cathal Ó Searcaigh was invited to appear on the Late Late Show tonight. However, this morning they appeared to get cold feet about allowing him to speak live, and, perhaps under legal pressure from Vinegar Hill, the production company behind the controversial film Fairytale of Kathmandu, informed him that they would only proceed if his interview was [...]
The next village is a lovely idea – a line from Kafka, and people are asked to respond to it in various ways. Keith Ridgway asked me to get involved and I thought that doing something with audio would be good. Then I realised that there was something I had already done in Italy on [...]
The Arts Council New Media Conference was a very enjoyable day, not least because there was a lot of optimism around, people were very friendly, and there was a real interest in the topic. Perhaps those interested in the arts know, more than most, who invention’s mother is, and, as we are bracing ourselves for [...]
Am spending the day in Dublin Castle at the Arts Council New Media Conference. It seems to be a lively and interesting crowd, with enough differing viewpoints to make it a very worthwhile day. I had a fab dinner with some of the other speakers last night, cooked by Niall Harbison of ifoods.tv.
I suppose I [...]
The recent Irish Times/Behaviour Attitudes Men Today poll* makes for interesting reading. 30% of us are single, it appears, about half a million of us. 12% of us who are married or in long-term relationships have admitted to having had extra-curricular affairs, (nearly one in five of those under 25) and I imagine that the [...]
I’ve been scraping the bottom of the pop culture barrel recently. All in the name of journalistic research, you understand. Television is fascinating precisely because it’s so popular, there is no better representation of general human preoccupations: this is who we are. And yet, my fascination is also a sort of macabre masochistic experiment: how [...]
Neil Bartlett first grabbed my attention in the Project Theatre nearly twenty years ago in his production of Sarrasine, a scintillating reworking of a Balzac story, a dangerous, haunting and inspirational piece of musical theatre. I saw it twice and the poster adorned the walls of several of my flats for years afterwards. Bartlett’s perspective [...]
Interesting
