This year’s Cameron Winter Holiday Spectacular has raised zero dollars.

That kind of thing doesn't go on in Ireland thankfully

Looks like Steven Drozd and The Flaming Lips have parted company. That's the end of that, though they really haven't released anything decent since 2013. Not a good look when a founding member in Michael Ivins and your musical genius both leave the band.

I was writing songs anyway (Neil Young thanks for the inspiration) but the lad I sat next to in Leaving Cert. Irish had a band and I knew I could do better than him.

Bunker Vinyl bringing back the secondhand CD section is the best thing that's happened this year.

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to the Worst Christmas Card of All Time, sent by Michael Lowry TD to us poor Tipperary constituents.

Rocked up to screening at Cork Film Festival with a bag of cans and doled them out to everyone in the theatre. No idea what we watched but we had a great time.

I've posted this before but always worth a mention that midway through a showing of Jeanne Dielmann, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the guy sitting in front of me looked up 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on Google Maps.

Art by • Calder Moore

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

Listening to 'Caribbean Sunset' by John Cale for the first time and holy fuck is it unfairly maligned. Some absolute bangers on here, Cale on top form. I can only imagine the cover art didn't help its cause but what a record.

Already participated in it in the Roundy in 2019(?) vs. CMAT, Elaine Malone and many more.

Alan Daniels, Blade Runner, 1982

Jules Guerin, illustrations from Egypt and it’s Monuments, 1908

Absolutely wild that I'm going to this. Feels slightly unreal.

'Window Shop For Love' - Wipers 'Chasing A Bee' - Mercury Rev 'Untitled' - Boris 'Tired Of Being Alone' - Al Green* 'Twilight At Carbon Lake' - Deerhunter *guitar by the great Teenie Hodges.

Sending a psychic message to Kev and the gang asking them to play 'Honey Power'.

Kow Yokoyama

Kevin Shields hates Dublin pass it on.

Neil Young and Elvis Costello in Cork? At the height of summer? This is the perfect gig announcement.

The world might finally be safe from Chieftain. Our long nightmare is over.

A great time to remind everyone that the largest landlord in the Gaeltacht is now a British company letting Airbnbs.

they're calling him the mid west's second danny brown

Happy Birthday to Uncle Neil. Looking as cool as he ever did on the 'Trans' tour in 1982.

There's a new Predator movie out so it's as good a time as any to say that, if I was given the opportunity to add an addition to any franchise, I'd have the Predator land in Glasgow in the 80s during an Old Firm fixture.

wizardry: scenario #3 - the legacy of llylgamyn, print ad (1987) archive.org/details/logi...

Crying about not being able to talk about migration while being one of the most powerful politicians in a country that has had almost 7 years of non stop talk about migration is top tier useless crybaby behavior

ok i think that's all of them

Listening to Radiohead in advance of the London gigs and it is astonishing how few good songs they released pre-'OK Computer'. Boils down to one or two off the first album, half a dozen off 'The Bends' and one great b-side. A diabolical track record to that point.

Be sure to check your children’s haul of sweets tonight. I found Jason McAteer’s tackle on Artim Sakiri in the 3-2 loss to Macedonia in 1997 in ours. Bígí cúramach!

Spooky STAR WARS art by Ralph McQuarrie.

What a brilliant account. Listened to these sessions last night and loved them. 'Miles Smiles' undefeated as my favourite of his albums.

parents, please keep an eye on your children's sweets this halloween. I was just reading on whatsapp that a child from the area arrived home with an innocent-seeming pack of haribo that turned out to be full of photofits of the infamous yorkshire ripper.

boundary gate: daughter of kingdom, screenshot, pc-fx (1997) www.mobygames.com/game/43180/b...

Dropped our daughter at school earlier and she told me to "Have a great day and listen to great songs!" A sentence everyone should live by.

Cover art for the upcoming Tonight's the Night 50th is ... atrocious?

Melvyn Bragg: Hello. There is little doubt that Wittgenstein was a towering figure of the 20th century; on his return to Cambridge in 1929 Maynard Keynes wrote, “Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train” Conway The Machine: "It's not how it is but That it is!" Westside Gunn: (choo choooo!)

Second date on sale now www.ticketmaster.ie/the-big-star...

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?" Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

Ranking Presidents on some bullshit President scale? Sad behaviour. Ranking Taoisigh, on the other hand… bsky.app/profile/jase...

Oscar Chichoni, art for Starship Titanic, 1998

Looking forward to paying nine English pounds for a pint while watching Clipse in a field in London.

Ticket instantly bought.

Hi help I made this and now I have to get it off my phone.

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Gilla Band remain undefeated. Everyone in Leap probably has permanent hearing damage after that.

DJ Haram's plane couldn't land but billy woods is still on at 20:30. No merch, which is a dose.