Edel

Happy Pride Everybody!

2008-06-21T21:02:12Z

Gardens

2008-05-31T10:43:57Z

Wow it's hot out, yesterday was the first hot day we've had in so long. How it changes my outlook. It's a shame then that I just won my first proper job! Two weeks after the exams have ended.. quelle miracle. I was interested in another job outside Dublin but it was only for two months...still thinking about it.

Edward James ,English patron of Dali and Magritte. The Surreal Gardens of Las Pozas.

Urban Food Growing in Havana, Cuba

Introducing the true Eurovision hero heralding the summer, warning super cheesy... at 2.21 there's some leaping over the drums action "whoopie!".Not my favourite song but a bit of fun and sarcastic humour nonetheless.

Finally for literal lazy-sunbather music nialler 9 is quality "Summer Sunburn mixtape" http://www.nialler9.com/blog/2008/05/08/summer-sunburn-mixtape/.

I'm off now to wallow in sunshine happiness before work :) starts.

Sapphos' modern Lesbos

2008-05-10T13:06:48Z

Light article in the guardian about how the Lesbian(Lesbos islanders) have dealt with the lesbian(women who love other women) invasion. Still not sure if I'd put Lesbos on my list of places to go in Greece I don't think there are any classical sites to keep me happy enough despite the presence of lovely ladies you can have both culture and stunning females else where ie Barcelona.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/08/gayrights.greece

* still exams on-going gah*

My Summer Reading List

2008-05-01T10:19:33Z

I'm possibly getting a sofa for my room if it fits so yay! Comfortable reading area.

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S.Thompson
2. The man who mistook his wife for a hat-Oliver Sacks(currently reading)
3. The man in the high castle- Philip K.Dick
4. The road to Oxiana-Robert Byron
5. Ubik -Philip K. Dick
6. The teaching of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge-Carlos Castaneda
7. The master-Colm Toibin(currently reading)
8. Ginger Man- Donleavy
9. Surviving James Dean-Bill Bast
10. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid- Douglas R. Hofstadter

Ive read Disgrace-J.M Coetzee,The Story of the night-Colm Toibin, The old man and the sea-Ernest Hemingway and Norwegian Wood- Haruki Murakami.

I recommend Norwegian Wood just for the charachter of Midori, it's one for the beatnik generation. The Old man and the sea of course is a classic aswell.

Orange Juice- Poor Old Soul + Rip it Up (Classic!)

2008-05-01T09:59:30Z

My intellectual property

2008-05-01T09:52:51Z

Sunday night was gorgeous on campus, the sky was a dark blue colour before the black swept in. When the buildings are lit up the place looks really good it's only by day that the place looks like communist china or a blade runner dystopia. Still i'm over the moon to be leaving. 5 years in education is enough especially if you don't want to be a lecturer/researcher.

I miss my bike, waiting for the bus doesn't suit me,it's unbecoming, also it was keeping me fit there is an actual muscle on the back of my lower leg after the year. I must admit I'm not too cut up, it was a second hand bike that I bought for 160. When I've been robbed in the past, or somebody has damaged my belongings I don't feel a sense of loss for the item I'm not that attached to any of my property ("we have a greed on which we have agreed"-Eddie Veder), I feel more angry that someone has violated my space and been through my things. I'll probably get a new bike now I don't have to chain it up in a robbers/hooligans paradise.

Anyway I have more immediate concerns. A guy in my class(he's created an imaginary relationship with me where we are friends although he knows nothing about me and we don't spend time with eachother outside of the cabin fever environment of the labs), two weeks ago I sent him one of my assignments, he has helped me out in the past and it's only right that I should help him the only problem is he chose to change the name on the work to his and submit it completely un-edited. Anyway he got an email from the head demonstrator asking him what was going on. Luckily the head demonstrator is a friend of the class and very sympathetic towards us so she let him resubmit it. Anyway it doesn't end there he sent me an email apologising for what he had done in case I got into any bother over it. That was fine except for one paragraph in the "apology email" where he went on about how I should pray for him because he wanted to do a masters and this might effect his chances. Well I ask you the guy has just submitted my work and he is telling me to worry about his future, what about my future?!! I don't want to do a masters but I don't get the same grades as him so I kind of want to pass! and excuse me it's my work what about my future plans. The current problem is before I knew about the plagarism I gave him some of my code for the main project. Now he's emailing me asking me to show him how it works i.e 'I have your code but I don't know how it works so I can't make it work for me and hence submit it'. So I told him I wouldn't show him and that I wanted assurances that he wouldn't use my work. To which he replied oh don't worry my html is different so it won't be the same. The code is the main part of the project it's what gives the forms created by the html an action. So I told him this and he has just ignored me so what can I do. When I get sent work by other people I take a look at the code see how it works and then delete most of it and adapt it so that it doesn't resemble their work, then I submit it. You'd never have this problem in arts students are capable of completeing their own work and it is so unique there is no point in copying. I spent hours, days, weeks on this project in the lab with everyone else and he doesn't bother showing up. I'm concerned because this module is worth the marks of two modules and I don't want to be penalised by somebody utterly foolish who is hijacking my intellectual property.

Won't someone give her a gun?!

2008-04-27T17:09:22Z

*drum roll* It's that time of year again the late night essays, projects etc. At the moment my brain thinks that it's 8.30a.m when it's really 11.30 p.m. I stayed up last night doing a contender for one of the most boring essays ever, until last year the roman coinage essay was the front runner but then it was knocked off the top spot by the small market economies essay and then that was overtaken by this years A.I essay. Yup the A.I essay wins. What annoyed me even more is I put off doing my project work to do the essay because it was a part of a group project and now the lecturer has gone ahead and given us an extension, bastard! It would have been a good thing a day ago. One of the other group members got most of their references from "wikipedia" *cringe* that's okay if you're five and doing a project on squirrels or snakes but we're post- grads...come on!

And finally, A special fuck you very much! goes out to the drunk(I presume) person/persons who kicked nay jumped on top of the mudguard on my back wheel snapping off the metal parts that hold the mud guard away from the wheel and buckling the wheel itself rendering it a write off for the time being. It's surprising because one day I left it without a chain (nothing happened) another time I left it over night again (nothing happened). I was in the lab and I heard drunk high voices outside but thought nothing of it as this is a thoroughfare for football fans(hooligans not of the sweet and tender variety) to get to the pitches and also students coming from a terrible bar the atmosphere of which reminds me of a motor way service station. I was stopped the other night by campus security(I wanted to pick up my bag)..I was in high spirits lets say but minding my own business walking safely through the now almost empty car park "where are you going?" "I'm going to pick up my bag" "where?" "computer science". "Your eyes are very watery i'm not sure I can let you..." *barring my way with hand* "listen, i've been across the road at the pub celebrating with my class mates now I want to get my bag from the lab and go home". Couldn't believe it like the place is a night club! *not tonight love* it's a wide open plan university! Why weren't they walking around the other night when my bike was vandalised!

And relax... I like this song-

Trash Can Sinatras- Obscurity Knocks

Reckoner

2008-04-12T18:03:11Z

I didn't go to the David T gig but I did go to Q&A. The music was atrocious but I was drunk so I didn't mind also I got a free c.d even if it was "The foals" and they are a painful listen. On a side note, I can't stand people who have a "secondary school attitude", ignore you when they feel fit and then suddenly like a blue bolt out of nowhere deign to speak to you.

As you can see the "red mist" has descended can't wait until the exams are over. I should develop a five year plan now that I have a good foothold on a future career path. Everything I have applied for I feel confident about even if they aren't 'ideal' positions.

Paul Davidson- Midnight Rider - dedicated to the bikers and cyclists of Dublin.

Dancing on my grave ( 'till June )

2008-04-03T16:23:06Z

I'm impressed with this Dublin singer at the moment http://www.myspace.com/davidturpin

The tracks that are up on myspace aren't that great but I've heard him live and he has some good melo/electro tinged numbers. I saw him a year ago at Whelans. "Independent Records" were showcasing some new acts, I don't think they picked him up at the end or Pony Club for that matter who I was there to see. As always Mark(Pony Club) was brilliant, I didn't have the guts to go over and talk to him despite my friends persuading. Anyway David came on wearing a black top and slacks looking every inch the Parisian coffee house officiant, he had a female singer with him and two/three other band members. After he finished his first song we clapped as you do and hand on hip poe-faced he said "why are you clapping?". Probably like everyone else I thought 'this guys' a prick' nevertheless he drew me in and produced some great moments. Also he's about 4 times removed from some old acquaintances of mine so I know of him.

He's also featured in Sineads Gleesons "musical rooms"-

http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/04/01/musical-rooms-part-20-david-turpin/

Which is a great idea reminds me of the Guardians Writers Rooms-
http://books.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,,2126103,00.html

Incidentally I've composed a letter to Colm but I haven't sent it yet, have to get a proper envelope, if I got a reply I'd die.

Still have to post my Roundhouse review but I don't see me getting around to doing that any time soon. I had a terrifying exam this morning. If this course could take human form I'd be lying on the ground my neck under the steel capped heal of its boot. Roll on June and Belgium. Q&A tomorrow night and maybe David on Sunday. I've been drinking lots lately, was out in 21 with course mates and there was lots of drama to keep me amused, still I'm too old for a place that's frequented by "tanorexic bleach blond tottering nymphs". I am none of the aforementioned :) There are two jobs coming up that I'm interested in, I am ignoring my inabilities and short comings in the area of computers and trying to remember that for my purposes this course is above and beyond what I would need to land either of these positions. Finish assignment then home for beer and a nap. The perfect end to an exhausting day.

Show me love

2008-03-09T18:56:37Z

The l-word is good but sometimes it's just a little too glamorous and off the wall, not engaging enough so here's an alternative.

Ci Qing aka Spider Lilies 4/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVhU8j84os
"Spider Lillies"- Spider Lillies demonstrates the strong symbiotic relationship between memory and forgetting. There are some gaps in the plot but this only furthers the loss of memory theme. The relationship between the two women is not as strongly portrayed as in other films but I would suggest that this is the case purely because the overall theme of remembering and forgetting would suffer if there was instant recognition and an obvious bond between the two.4/5

Saving Face 4/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVQq9Hkjuk

So funny, well shot good for cheering you up on a cold day.Loved the characters. The sex scene is left out from this series for some reason but you can search for it.

Fucking Amal(Show Me Love) 100/5
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5599594765620844277

Amazing.
I love it! two beautiful girls. Agnes is so lovely and cute, those lips and that compelling sparkle in her eyes, (she has a morrissey pic in her room). It's very realistic the growing pains of being a teenager, irrationality, lashing out , growing feelings - It's all there. Best lesbian film ever it's almost heroic!

Naked angel basketball

2008-03-05T21:11:45Z

.... a thousand words.

Parisian postcard

2008-03-04T12:56:09Z

You have to love European architecture! Parisian weekend get-aways have always been the best :) Didn't make it to the absinthe museum. I'm looking forward to the bars in Brussels for my next dalliance...

Alternative Ulster!

2008-02-27T12:55:09Z

I found this 7 inch in an antiques shop in Carlingford but didn't purchase it, it's way cheaper on ebay. The cover is class! And the song raises my blood pressure, speaks Belfast to me still.

Take a look where you're livin'
You got the Army on your street
And the RUC dog of repression
Is barking at your feet
Is this the kind of place you wanna live?
Is this were you wanna be?
Is this the only life we're gonna have?
What we need is

(Chorus)

They say they're a part of you
But that's not true you know
They say they've got control of you
And that's a lie you know
They say you will never be

Free free free

Get an Alternative Ulster
Get an Alternative Ulster
Get an Alternative Ulster

Black and White

2008-02-24T20:12:38Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/244974.stm

Simone De Beauvoir, the feminist existentialist writer of "The Second Sex".

Brief modern living

2008-01-30T12:56:03Z

Ikea Enters The Housing Market

Ikea, the Swedish furniture retailer that made flat pack furniture trendy, has become Britain's newest housing developer.

The homes are cheap and cheerfulAfter selling an estimated thirty million Billy bookcases around the world, the company is now building prefabricated wooden homes on Tyneside.

Shipped over from Scandinavia, where the firm has already put up 3,500 of its BokLok homes, the buildings are being erected on site and will be sold as low-cost 'affordable' housing.

The development, opposite Gateshead's International Stadium, is a mix of shared-ownership, rented accommodation and outright sale.

There are 36 flats and 47 houses available for households earning between £15,000 and £35,000 a year who are not already homeowners.

They cost under £100,000 per flat and £150,000 for a house.

The firm says the houses will have a Swedish feel - with open plan rooms, high ceilings and big windows.

People wanting to move in had to register their interest at Ikea's Gateshead store in October, and Britain's first BokLok tenants and owners will be moving in soon.

Only then will they discover if they have got all the bits they need or whether they have to go back to the store for more of those strange screws and an allen key.

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It's a novelty but is it an investment? Cycling home along the Stillorgan road, I watch the cranes arrive with ready made concrete walls and giant panes of glass. I asked an architect friend what the shelf life of such buildings are and he said that the manufacturer would only guarantee the building for 20 years. It really depends on whether you want to live in a flat with bricks or a prefab I suppose if its a greener living experience and suits the climate that is a plus for most people but 20 years!

Kiss your clone

2008-01-02T16:30:59Z

Happy new year folks! Fingers crossed.

Best films of 2007

The Lives of Others
The Bourne Ultimatum
Control

Best Albums of 2007

Lcd Soundsystem
The Editors
Interpol

Best Book of 2007

Harry Potter

After seeing the new D&G advert I quite fancy giving myself a high fashion kiss.

This guy is amazing -spider monkey man! Le-Parkour.

"Come Back to Camden"

2007-11-23T14:11:33Z

I think I've found a way to get through the exams! Seeing this ammazing man on the 21st of January. The "Dublin Castle" pub won't know what hit it.

This is my favourite from Morrisseys' new batch of songs.

Happy Belated Halloween

2007-11-13T13:10:58Z

http://www.matazone.co.uk/menus/miscmenu.html Mata's Halloween animations. My favourite is grey matter. Gave me nightmares.

I was watching Alfred Hichcock's "Rope" at the weekend. It's based on a true story, two homosexual males who believed themselves to be intellectually superior decided therefore they could take the life of an "inferior" and hence commit the perfect murder. They were subsequently caught and tried but were remorseless. Creepy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

Will make proper post when feel up to it.

Well you know where you're coming from you know where you're going and you know where you belong

2007-05-08T19:14:34Z

I love this debate look at her eyes while he is talking then she just launches at him.

Strong women eh? I'm sorry Segolene lost. Sarkozy seems to me to be a tyrant although he'll probbaly drag france out of it's socio- economic malaise. Irish politics is typically boring in comparison.

Still very attractive or have I been in this small room for too long.

Still have one assignment to finish and then have to start studying for exam next wednesday, its all just dragged on for so long, and has gotten completely out of my hands. Too much stress everyone is bored of it and mal-contented, I've had enough. Can't do much else but think of the nice plans I'll make after this is over. My brother is over and I can't spend time with him that's really erking me but it'll all be worth it in the end.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious -Oscar Wilde

2007-04-21T13:51:25Z

Johnny Marr and Neil Tennent! what a combo.

Barely keeping eyes open, supposed to have finished project yesterday but the queen of drama descended on us. Her introduction was below par, for someone who goes on so much about their Phd and what an excellent writer /editor she is, it was abysmal. Our lecturer actually told us not to let her edit the thing because of her poor writing skills, but he's a git as well, its hard to know who to listen to... ah well probably miss them all...what's that condition called ah yes 'stockholm syndrome', when you've spent so long with your captors you start to build an affinity with them. "ooh maybe you're not so bad, and the wallpaper in this room you're holding me in is rather nice etc......"

I have a confession spent *cough* £630 *cough* on betting.

So far i've only lost £30 on football the rest of the bets are pending, Let's hope Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidency then I'll get some cash back.
Okay so he's a racist bastard but the french electorate are motivated by fear and they want someone to shake things up. One particularly dodgy statement - eg.... Answering a woman asking him if he would help them “to get rid of this scum”: You've had enough, haven't you? Enough of this scum? Well, we're going to get rid of them for you. (Comments preceding the three weeks of urban violence, 25 October 2005) oooooo....er but the villains always win and I want an MP3 player!

So burnt out Hannahs collecting me tommorrow, we're meeting Kirst. They're dragging me half way up some god foresaken mountain in Wicklow. heeeellllllllppppp!

My morning sun is a drug that takes me near to the child I lost replaced by fear

2007-04-02T17:18:47Z

Last night the Caipirinha saved my life. I could quite happily have had a few of these but people had to head and get darts and buses.

All in all it was a happy weekend minus the neurotocism that was last weekend. I always get so upset about things that are completely out of my control. why!? I have 7,500 words to write before the end of this month then 2 exams and 2 weeks to cram for them. It would be fine, the only thing is digital libraries is wrecking my buzz completely. That evil little troll man is going to ruin my GPA. So far my results have formed an inexplicable bell curve which does not reflect my academic ability in the slightest. I was initially concerned because I've been out of study for 2 and a half years, but now I understand that the way they're grading our work makes absolutely no sense whatever. 2 modules are under review, that speaks volumes. Saw Casino Royale and it was excellent. Completely subverted the whole genre, there was tongue in cheek cheesy lines, bond was the object of attraction instead of the women i.e emerging from the sea ursula anders style, there was an intelligent and witty bond girl! The plot throws you 2/3rds of the way in, did she lock the lift doors, cause she was ashamed, was she trying to get out?

Summers round the corner and Stalins 5 year plan isn't a patch on what I have in mind :)

you have me

2007-03-02T15:21:02Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doTBT46wMvA

Always liked to dance to this song but I thoght it meant you, you hate, you hate me,

The correct translation is -

You
you have
you have me
you have asked me
you have asked me and I have said nothing

Do you want, until death seperates you,
to be faithful to her for all days

No

Do you want, until death, which would seperate,
to love her, even in bad days

No

d-list desperado

2007-02-22T09:45:18Z

http://www.dlistdesperado.blogspot.com/

this is absolutely my favourite blog. I was reading it yesterday and nearly sprayed tea all over the computer screen was stifling the giggles. Although let it be known I think h.i.v is a taboo subject which is virtually mirthless with the exception of the south park episode where they were poking fun at community paranoia. In any case the machinations of celebrity desperation is hilarious!

ugh lecture, went to bed at 3.30 a.m ,watch me stumble around the arts block like the sleep sobrietess (<-look I invented a word!) that I am.

Sleep flower

2007-02-14T18:22:10Z

An interesting sleep theory- I'd probably be killed off during the first week though.
Uberman's sleep schedule
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720

oh and sexy eyes-

Christian Dior & Valentines Day

2007-02-12T13:33:43Z

It's all snakes and ladders at the moment mainly ladders. Why can't I get my results in one go, instead of a drip feed of results where I have to sit in stuffy offices with lectures who have small cold eyes?

Christian Dior Lyrics

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"Christian Dior,
you wasted your life
on aroma and clothes
fabric and dyes

Christian Dior,
you wasted your life
on grandeur and style
and making the poor rich smile

You could have run wild
on the backstreets of Lyon or Marseille
reckless and legless and stoned
impregnating women
or kissing mad street-boys from Napoli
who couldn't even write their own name

Christian Dior
you wasted your life
sensually stroking the weaves of a sleeve

You could have run wild
on the backstreets of Lyon or Marseille
reckless and legless and stoned
impregnating women
or kissing mad street-boys from Napoli
who couldn't even spell their own name

Oh, Christian Dior
Oh, Christian Dior

When you look at me
failure is all that you see
I discipline my days just like Christian Dior

I could have run loudly and proudly
or forcible entry and
morally bankrupt
and never-known violent
and drawn to what scares me
and scared of what bores me
years alone will never be returned
Christian Dior

Lionised maverick - ah
design if you can - ah
the way to just be a man - ah
to just be a man - ah
Christian Dior
Christian Dior... "

From Wikipedia- "When all the fittings for the collection were finished, Dior took off for a rest cure at his favourite spa town of Montecatini in northern Italy hoping to lose weight in order to impress a young lover.
Ten days later Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fishbone at dinner. The French newspaper Le Monde hailed him as a man who was “identified with good taste, the art of living and refined culture that epitomises Paris to the outside world”."

so what have we learned....don't try and change yourself for a lover but live life to the fullest.

5 things I hate about women

1. I have alot of patience but when a girl talks about herself constantly and never asks you anything about you its very wearing not to mention indicative of the type of person they are.

2. Vain beyond belief ,takes pictures of herself all the time, demands you take pictures of her.

3. Talks about her conquests and tells you how she's goin around pulling everyone then expects affection from you.

4.Complains about how badly women treat her proceeds to treat women badly.

5. Judges you unnessecarily expects you to be pleased about her comments and to agree.

It's baffeling really. You have to wonder as well if they have the wit to realise they're doing it.