I’m only just after discovering My Brightest Diamond via the amazing Hymne à l’amour video below. Shane over yonder at the Torture Garden have been on about them for a long time and young Bracken had My Brightest Diamond in his top 10 for 2006. Worth checking out alright.
Check out this video:
Hymne à l’amour
Dragonfly:
This video is full of energy – Tainted Love Cover (Live)
Crazy and stupid. A giant catapult for base jumpers.
A virtual dog walking arcade game. Of course.
Via FatMammyCat – Jesus is back and now he’s pissed. Next Christmas forgivness comes down the barrel of a gun:
Jonathan Coulton – First of May
Fuck that godawful Police and Snowpatrol mashup, Rick O’Shea should play this on his show. C’mon Rick!
Via the Green Party Flickr account. (Kudos for having one lads and ladies.)
We already know Vincent is a badass but where does Irish politics’ baddest badass go when he’s hungry? (And also Politician of the year) Same place that Chuck Norris goes to when he’s in Dublin – The Badass Cafe. Badasses do in fact dine there. (They have a special box that goes on top of Norris’ chair so he can reach the table.) Oh and that’s milk they’re drinking. Enough of your Marc Almond jibes. In case you need to know Ciaran Cuffe dines in Govindas while Eamonn Ryan dines on tuna friendly baby dolphins in chez Jacques.
FYI, Chuck Norris, son of David, is pictured on the right below. Don’t let his Koala-like cuddliness fool you. Like a real Koala, he can take you:
Monday:
MySay.com interview.
Bertie Ahern on the Dragon’s Den.
Tuesday:
A guide on how to talk to Irish Journalists.
Charged by a VC group to hear how to get money from Irish VCs.
Resources for the 2007 Irish Election.
Wednesday:
The Guardian fix their badly researched article which misquoted me.
The National Broadband tender is another complete Government mess.
Thursday:
The blogging world meets John Bracken.
Friday:
Vincent Browne takes down Bertie Ahern.
Saturday:
Boyce on YouTube.
Or Batt O’Keeffe for that matter:
Via Fabulist is “Girls just want to have fun” by Greg Laswell. MP3 available from Fabulist or you can watch two video versions below. Didn’t even realise this was a cover until I twigged the song title. This
Live version of Girls just want to have fun:
This is the song with video clips from the awful OC programme to accompany it:
Mr. Boyce won a ticket to see Liverpool make it to the finals. Ahhh YouTube is great.
Vincent Browne taking on Bertie Ahern now on YouTube. Also taking PJ Meara down brilliantly. Quality not great. (see how long it lasts):
These are not so much fluffy as linky. Call it an early morning new blogs on the block.
First up is TÃr na nÓg aka Adventures of an Irish Mammy. Already great blog posts from this very new mammy.
Tiny Planet is the blog of David O’Mahony, a freelance sub-editor for the Irish Examiner.
Rough Hands – The blog of a Dairy Farmer in the South West of Ireland.
Bit old now but Dan Hardie has another great blog post here about Amir the carpet seller.
Finally! Woo! Yay! Rock on! Minister for Dialup Noel Dempsey has a blog. It seems his blog comments are not moderated so anyone with a blogger account can leave a message. And they have.