On Friday night last I went to see a band called the Twilight Singers. I didn’t know much about them, other than their lead singer used to be in the Afghan Whigs. One of my friends, Neil, wanted to go see them, so I obliged him. They were playing in Whelan’s, a pretty well known live music venue in Wexford Street in Dublin. So I would know what to ( Read more... )

This weekend is going to be pretty quite. Most of my friends are either gone home or working, so I'm just going to relax for the couple of days. Watched Zoolander last night on DVD, which was much worse than I hoped. Am going to watch Star Trek Nemesis later on, which I haven’t seen since it was out in the cinema.
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For the last couple of years I have being buying my CD's via the web from CD Wow at very cheap prices. A typical new-release CD costs about 13.95 Euro, compared to about 22 Euro in HMV or Virgin shops in Ireland. To buy music in traditional shops in Ireland has gone very very expensive. If I hear a couple of songs from a band, I used to be able to ( Read more... )

So it might be Wednesday, but its only now I'm getting to update my journal ( Read more... )

Its been about 2 weeks since I last updated my journal, not sure why really, just haven’t got around to it. New Year’s Day was the last proper entry ( Read more... )

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This makes for interesting reading. Good to see Brazil not putting up with any shit. More countries should do the same.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6D5A1BAA-8D80-432C-846F-7778AE624B61.htm

Ireland has today taken over the rotating Presidency of the European Union today, for the next six months. The biggest challenge will be to sort out the difficulties with the new European Constitution, and get agreement among the member states on its content. More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3360707.stm

Last night turned out to be a great night. We headed into town at around 6pm, and were eventually sitting in the pub at around 7pm, Pravda, a cool Russian themed bar on Dublin's quays. While there, I asked the lads to predict what song they were going to play at midnight in the club later on. Nobody was too sure. I suspected they might play "Clocks ( Read more... )