Damien Mulley

nofit state circus’ ImMortal2 is part of the Cork Midsummer festival. I saw it tonight and was blown away. In 2005 it was rated as the best ever UK Circus show and I can understand why. Take the worlds that Tom Waits creates in his songs and mix them with some prose of William S Burroughs and add a fun jazzy soundtrack that Waits might himself create if he was on ectasy, throw in Cirque de Soleil without the campness and you have something like this. If I could buy the soundtrack I would. There are not many shows that hugely impress me but this is one. Lots of hot guys too. I’d travel to see this and maybe you can too as they are staying around Ireland for the next few weeks. I strongly urge you to go see them. They play two more shows in Cork tomorrow and then that’s it for there and you can see them next on:

4th – 8th July – Clonmel – Junction Festival

24th – 29th July – Dublin – Draiocht, Millennium Park, Blanchardstown

Myself, Gerry and Ursula (his missus) went to see Neil Gaiman’s Coraline as part of the Midsummer Festival. It was shown at beautiful the Firkin Crane Centre, pictured below.

Coraline was classed as a family show though with scary elements so that kids under 10 were discouraged from going. Nothing really scary about it but then I’m not ten anymore, though sometimes act it. It was the never disappointing Gaiman blend of quirky humour, beautiful prose, dark elements and great imagination. Gerry said he’ll have to buy the book now. Now, next we need to try and persuade them to bring Wolves in the Walls over here.

Coraline can next be seen in Donegal in July.

Our own Joe Roch is starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch from July 5th to July 15th in the Projects Art Centre. I’ve got my tickets booked and come along if you’ve seen the show previously or watched the movie. IMDB page for Hedwig.

Fantastic way to market Pizzas.

Microsoft Ireland has a draw to win a tablet PC. Fill out a 4 question survey to avail. You need an MS Passport login or an MSN login.

Meetings are toxic. Great productivity tips from 37 Signals.

Why we split up.

Make your own posters for 12 euros.

I fell in love with a Dead Boy. Antony And The Johnsons – singing in the movie Wild Side. Warning, naked people in this and full frontal nudity. Brief description:

“This moody French film from director Sébastian Lifshitz tells the story of Stéphanie (Stéphanie Michelini), a jaded transsexual prostitute who leaves Paris to take care of her dying mother (Josiane Storelu) in the country. She brings along her two lovers, a street-hustling Arab boy, Jamel (Yasmine Belmadi), and a Russian ex-soldier named Mikhail (Edouard Nikitine). While Stephanie and her mother come to grips with their troubled past, Mikhail has his own problems dealing with his mother back in Russia, as does Jamel who finds his lifestyle not warmly accepted by his conventional family.”

Mustang sally now baby:

I suggested that someone create a Dáil visualiser and Keith Gaughan stepped up and did. Rockin. Nice one Keith.

Via Metafilter. Two FX firms worked on redoing the FX for the original Star Trek series. They were both told they can fiddle with the fx but not the story of certain scenes from an episode called “The Doomsday Machine”. This is what they did:

Take 1

Take 2

Trek fans are exploding all around the world as this is being watched. So pass it on.

My So-called life. Remember this TV series? I just managed to get a loan of this on DVD from a friend. Claire Danes. Jared Leto. Teenage drinking, drug taking, sex and very natural and realistic scenarios while also throwing in some shakespearean flare to the dialog. It only lasted one season but it was a damned fine show with some great music too. Brings back a little bit of nostalgia for me. Awww.

Egyptian blogger Alaa Seif al-Islam Abd al-Fattah has been released. C’mon Yahoo! Help Represistan to jail their bloggers so that Swampy and his mates can fire up their ethanol fueled iBooks and use the powers of the blog to reach out!

But being serious, getting jailed for blogging must suck. Great for traffic though.

As seen on Break.com

Damn. Rocket explodes. Made way more entertaining with dramatic music and the concerned voice-over. Still looks cool.

I mean this Hell. 100,000 visitors, well chuffed with that. Thanks to everyone who visited here and a special award goes to google for bringing so many people to mulley.net. Still no way as impressive as the million visits Gavin got.

But yeah, the movie rocked. From the creative team of the Three Colours trilogy. The little woman and her empty wine bottle showed up too.