It was made back in 1993 and stars Michael Douglas. It’s absolutely hilarious. It’s this guy basically having a shit day and going on a bit of a mad one, doing all the stuff you wish you could do when you’re having one of those days. My favourite bit is when the guy goes into a fast food restaurant for some breakfast. He’s two minutes late for the breakfast menu and they refuse to serve him breakfast, only offering from the lunch menu. Imagine you’re having a shit day and this happens, it’d annoy you. Just watch the film, it’d do no justice for me to write here about what happens.
I’ve also eh, “bought” some new music. The Holloways and The Noisettes (both bands supported Babyshambles when I saw them in 2006, and it’s taken me this long to finally get their stuff!). Both are very good bands, both from Britain I believe. Check ‘em out if you’re a bit of an Indie head.
Also, there’s finally been time for a little business on my part! I’m just waiting to tie up loose ends on the deal, so I’ll post about it when it’s all done. It’s nothing major, but it’s a nice boost considering so little time I’ve had.
Saw this great band last night in Tripod, Dublin, and it really was an amazing gig.
There were issues beforehand on finding someone to drag along. Most of my mates were going to a party, and I didn’t fancy bringing someone who’d only be there to help me out.
So I decided, fuck it, I’ll be a loner and go by myself! This obviously meant having a few beers beforehand so I wouldn’t give a shit how weird I looked, but in truth I wasn’t actually that bothered by going alone. When I got there I saw a guy looking for a ticket, and offered my spare ticket (cost me €19) to him at whatever price he was willing to pay. Little did I know a good few people were looking for tickets. This, combined with my alcohol induced generosity meant I was more than happy when he told me he’d give me what I paid for it. So I made a €2 profit on my ticket, but was pretty pissed off when I realised how I’d missed out on a bigger profit. I soon got asked by someone else if I had any more tickets. I told him I only had mine, and jokingly said he could have it for a thousand euro. He then offered me €50, and then €100. I was pretty tempted to accept that offer (would have been over €80 profit!) but I’d been waiting to see the band for quite a while, and they won’t be coming back to Ireland any time soon.
So I missed out on some handy cash, but my moral profits are through the roof
I hate ticket touts who go ripping people off and such, so I’m glad I didn’t lower myself to that kind of level. And hopefully I made that one fan pretty happy by giving him a ticket at face value rather than squeezing any extra cash I could. Perhaps some day I’ll have similar luck if I’m stuck in a situation like that!
The gig itself was a seriously good show. It’s completely instrumental, with just drums, two guitars and bass. The bassist switched between bass and guitar at times though too. There was a really nice crowd too, all very like-minded people, and surprisingly I quite enjoyed being on my own at it.
Afterwards I got a call with directions to that party that everyone else was at, so I wasn’t a complete loner for the entire evening! Anyway, I can’t recommend this band enough. I left a link to their myspace in the post before this, so I strongly suggest you check them out.
There’s some good news on the business side of things too, which I’ll be posting about tomorrow. It’s nothing major, but do check back tomorrow to see why this month hasn’t been a complete disaster in terms of online income
I’m off to see Explosions in the Sky tonight in Tripod, Dublin. They’re one of my favourite bands, and I’m pretty damn excited, since I’ve never been to a gig quite like this before. They’re a different sort of genre to any of the other bands I’ve been to see, and supposedly they’re an amazing live act. Check out their myspace here, and have a listen to a few of their songs, you’ll like ‘em. I’ll let y’all know how it goes anyway.
Sorry for the short post, but I just don’t have time for much else!
I posted last month about buying tickets to The Redneck Manifesto concert. It was on this Thursday in Whelan’s, Dublin city. I attended with Warren, and friend of mine, and it was a great gig. The band are Irish themselves, but have toured abroad a few times, despite having a relatively small fanbase. Since they’re an instrumental band, there’s no real frontman, but their bassist is the one who takes centre stage and certainly gets most of the attention, since he dances so weirdly on stage, making these great facial expressions too. They were amazing live, and there was a fairly decent atmosphere. The band really are all about the music, nailing their songs live, while enjoying themselves at the same time. I’d say myself and Warren were two of the youngest folk there, especially since legally I shouldn’t even have gotten in
Check out this video for one of their latest songs :
No, actually check it out and listen to the full thing, and realise that you regret not being at that gig. I think everyone could enjoy this music, it’s pretty chilled funky sorta stuff most of the time, but gets heavy in parts, so everyone should be happy. I recommend having a look at their myspace, to hear some more songs, and see a few more videos. Check it out at this link.
Afterward we went to a rock pub in town, Fibber’s, where we met a few friends and enjoyed the €3 a drink special they have on every Thursday. The good times were had.
While we’re on this sort of topic, I thought I’d mention a funny story from last night. While browsing the interweb, I noticed that John Cow, a popular blog, was down, seemingly due to some coding error, as shown.
Then today on Digital Point, I found a guy talking about how he “brought John Cow to it’s need with a typo”. See this thread. The guy basically did a plugin for the Cow, and there was a typo in there that soon fucked up site. The hilarious thing? “John” was out at the time, and had told the guy that we was going to “get very very drunk”. What a hero. Then check this quote from his lastest blog :
“We’re busy getting ready for a party tonight right here at the barn and we expect to get absolutely shitfaced in order to celebrate Christmas with a few friends.”
That’s what I want to see more of on the popular blogs! Though this guy’s also living in Dublin at the moment, so is there any surprise there? There’s even a sort of “morning after” post up today, which I love. I’d love to see John Chow and Tyler Cruz and the likes talk about how completely wasted they were the night before. Am I only one who’d like this or do the rest of you want to read about famous blogger’s debauchery?
Lately I’ve found myself slacking in both my online work and my schoolwork. I’m simply not getting things done lately. I find myself wasting time far too much, be it on MSN, browsing forums, browsing bebo or myspace or staring into space. I believe this is partly down to a lack of sleep and perhaps not eating enough healthy crap. Before resorting to actually eating healthily or anything womanly like that, I’m gonna try use timetables / schedules to plan my days. Generally if I make a realistic goal and post it on here, I don’t want to admit failure to my readers, so I actually stick to the plans and accomplish whatever it is that I needed to do. Tomorrow I’ll hopefully get to post up some actual timetables for the coming days, most likely designed in MS Paint using my elite skills. The general outline of what I want to do during the week is as follows :
Complete homework by a reasonable time each night (no ‘late night, going around like a zombie the next morning’ sort of crap)
Get working on YourDebs.com again (as you can see from the site at the moment, I’ve neglected it a bit!)
Also, check out the post by Tyler Cruz today about this blog. A reward for my willingness to do the right thing. A reward that was greatly appreciated on my part, so many thanks to Tyler.
In other news, I’m currently getting all old school with my music, as I’m currently enjoying the soundtrack of my childhood, an old Limp Bizkit album!
Fred Durst (the guy always wearing the red cap) was a hero. His lyrics were truly revolutionary, I mean check out this line :
“Hey kid, take my advice - You don’t wanna step into a big pile of shit”
Where would I be without that line? Would my childhood have just been years upon years of stepping into piles of excrement? Who knows? All I can be sure of is that Fred Durst has potentially saved my life and you all have him to thank for making me into the young man I am today.
Aside from this mockery, their music is actually decent enough. Cheesy though it is, it brings back the memories
I’ve finally finished the Digg ebook I’ve been working on over the past few days. You can check out the quick site I made for it by clicking here. The ebook is good value for money at just $10, so I highly recommend you buy it of course
I’ve also started a thread on Digital Point about it, which you can view, here.In other news, the Kings Of Leon concert last night was a seriously good gig. I managed to get into the pit too, and bought myself a band t shirt (at the extortionate price of €30). What struck me last night was the sheer amount of ticket touts around the place. It was unreal, everywhere you turned there was some guy shouting asking if anyone was buying or selling tickets. I started talking to one of them, who actually claimed he made a living off it and paid taxes on the job. I obviously pointed out that that was a ridiculous thing to say, given that it’s an illegal thing to do anyway. Some people eh?
Tomorrow evening I’ll be watching one of my favourite bands live. Kings Of Leon are playing in the RDS in Dublin, and I managed to get tickets a few months ago as soon as they went on sale. Two nights sold out in 13 minutes, so I made a wise decision in getting up early that morning to order them. I’m seriously very excited. I’ve liked the band for a couple years now, and though I saw them at Oxegen this year, a festival gig is never the same as a proper gig. I’d like to get up the front, particularly on the side where their bassist will be, to check out how he plays some of the songs. But with the number of fans of them lately, I’d say the queue will be fairly big from very early on. It should be a good gig, they do a decent live show. Don’t expect a blog on here tomorrow then!
Check out this video of them playing at Lollapalooza this year.
I just got tickets to see both of these bands, and I’m very very excited. The Redneck Manifesto posted a bulletin about their gig, and when I went to buy tickets I saw Explosions were doing a gig too.
So I had to buy two for both, given that these are two of my favourite bands, and I certainly didn’t expect Explosions to be playing here for a while, so had to snap them up. Obviously I don’t want to be going on my own, so had to buy two tickets, but the thing is I may not recoup my costs on the second tickets, since these bands aren’t too popular amongst my friends, I could end up dragging someone along with me, and I couldn’t really demand they pay me for a gig they don’t really want to go to. Though I recently gave Warren some TRM cd’s so hopefully that’ll work out.
Check out The Redneck Manifesto, a great alternative Irish band, here. And Explosions in the Sky, an incredible band, making some truly beautiful music that I believe anyone could enjoy, here.
So that’s : Kings Of Leon - 27th November 07 (RDS)
The Redneck Manifesto - 20th December 07 (Whelan’s)
Babyshambles have finished the recording of their new album, though it won’t be out for another two months at the earliest. The first single off it will be “Delivery”, and there’s a radio rip of this song to be found at this link : http://www.mediafire.com/?5d9qni5n9nt
The song is quite good, but nothing too special really. I think this album will be a lot more general public friendly, and will probably get them a lot more critical acclaim. Though the lads deserve this, I wouldn’t enjoy it too much really. Babyshambles are my band, so people who normally make fun of Pete Doherty suddenly liking isn’t something I’d like.
I’m looking forward to the new album, but am also a little afraid of it. The new guitarist is a lot more stable than Pat Walden, who sounded so chaotic at times, but I think this was part of Babyshambles’ sound, and it made for some great anthems. The best songs on the first album were the ones Pat and Pete wrote together. I imagine this album to be steadily good, but maybe lacking in some major anthems. Time will tell.
There’s even a sort of “morning after” 
