Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by gfmurphy101
Reblogged this on <a href="http://gfmurphy101.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/sunday-independent-stupid-statement-of-the-week/" rel="nofollow">gfmurphy101</a> and commented: Sure sunday would'nt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
What a genius he was. http://youtu.be/xauZHRX5cyk http://youtu.be/eXj9dOF_vb4 http://youtu.be/fhM7iTZubeM
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
Not yet. I must get around to it because I like Dyer, But Beautiful in particular. He also wrote a brilliant essay on ECM a while back. Though he seems an odd fit for Tarkovsky, that blokey London...
View ArticleComment on Bodenstown by eamonncork
Reblogged this on Little Known Appearances By Miles Davis.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
There was an excellent documentary made on Tarkovsky by Chris Marker, the French director who died a few months back and was also a genius. His most famous film is La Jetee which is only 26 minutes...
View ArticleComment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
Apologies. Grin without A Cat, not Grin On The Cat, (Too much Ramones in my head).
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
Here’s a bit of the Tarkovsky documentary.
View ArticleComment on Destination: Amaltheia and other artifacts of Soviet Science...
His photography book was great, I thought. I have the one on Tarkovsky but haven’t started it – waiting for a DVD of the film to watch while I’m reading it.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Garibaldy
I did wonder for a minute if this was satire.
View ArticleComment on ‘Convicted’ or ‘The Good Old Home Rule Party’ by Dr.Nightdub
OK, this might throw a little light on the pamphlet’s design – from the RIC City Commissioner’s report for Belfast in April 1921, where he’s talking about the run-up to the general election which took...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by WorldbyStorm
For some reason I’d assumed FF almost inevitably would pick up seats in Dublin. Very telling if they’re not able to pick up and suggests that their ‘comeback’ is built – at least in the capital – on...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by anarchaeologist
I don’t reckon they’ve much chance of regaining control of Clare CoCo on the basis of conversations I’ve had with older die-hards in the east of the county. Timmy is well disliked, even in the village...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by Blissett
Good analysis. I think there is a point in that it will be hard to analyse LEA by LEA until we see what any boundary commission comes up with, but broadly accurate pic. “Though one point is that the...
View ArticleComment on That “other context”… by ‘Another context’ redux « The Cedar...
[...] I’ve already noted one explanation for the latter turn of phrase, but the Phoenix offers another. It suggests that above and beyond the general noise about Croke Park, and an ‘increasingly...
View ArticleComment on EUscreen by irishelectionliterature
Great stuff from the 60s in Kilkenny. Newsbeat visits Kilkenny where the film ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’ is being made. There are rumours among the local population of immorality in the film....
View ArticleComment on ‘Convicted’ or ‘The Good Old Home Rule Party’ by Red Hand
‘even the curb stones in the footpath were painted red, white and blue in loyalist Districts. Green, white and yellow in Sinn Fein Districts, and Orange and Green in Nationalist Districts.” Even the...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by irishelectionliterature
There’s quite a gap between their 2009 performance (and larger parties tend to fare worse in Local than National Elections) and their 2011 performance. To be back at their 2009 support levels would be...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by PaddyM
The reduction in seats in the rural counties, combined with larger electoral areas, could actually increase the incentive to vote locally. A county council candidate based fifteen or twenty miles away...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fail and the 2014 Local Elections by DJ
Of course it’s possible to run too many candidates in rural areas – but the rules are different from urban areas. In urban areas, you’d use a similar candidate-cap rule to that which you would in...
View Article