So…Tom Waits last night? Amazing. I do feel sorry for the folk who were in the area where the tent sprung a leak, but from the seats we were in, the sound was just incredible: crystal clear. Highlights for me came in the shape of Raindogs, Cemetary Polka, Tom Traubert’s Blues, Get Behind the Mule, [...]
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Tom Waits
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Kiosk this week
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Serious preparations underway today for tomorrow’s very exciting edition of The Kiosk. More details here:
http://www.hotpress.com/news/4669089.html
Updates coming soon…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
But have I mentioned The Dark Knight is great? Heath Ledger is very, very good, too — you start to understand the Oscar hype…
Netscapism — not such a great thing for book readers
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/09/DDCM11L7KI.DTL
Rufus Wainwright: flying the flag for Turkey
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
In an odd twist of fate, I find myself in the airport this morning waiting to go to Turkey. I’m going to be spending three days in Istanbul and another harder-to-spell location learning about Turkey’s culture and the like. Apparently, according to the itinerary, this includes a concert at which Rufus Wainwright will be performing. [...]
Tobias Wolff interview SBP 29/06/08
Posted in Sunday Business Post, Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
In Tobias Wolff’s fiction, stories of quiet despair abound. Here are tales of slow horror: strong women stuck with terminally deadbeat husbands; lawyers horrified by their own animalistic desires; men attempting to atone for their misdeeds; soldiers trying to reconfigure their lives post-service. But through the haze of accidental shootings, living deaths and lives [...]
McDonagh/McPherson/Walsh — shining on (1/06/08)
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
[Here's a recent SBP news piece I did.]
Enda Walsh, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson re-establish themselves as they blaze a trail through the worlds of international theatre and film, writes Nadine O’Regan.
Amazing. Enthralling. Envy-inducing. When Enda Walsh’s play Disco Pigs premiered at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork in 1996, those were the kind of [...]
Tarantino films in Dingle…except not
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
No, I don’t know what we’re doing in that pose either (as may be obvious from my slightly baffled-looking stance on extreme left). But our weekend in Dingle was brilliant fun — pic taken by supersnapper Cli…
SBP Column 22/06/08
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You’ll find them all over the web: sad little notes flashing up on your computer screen like crosses marking a new kind of grave. The notes will generally employ similar phrases, lines like: ‘‘for reasons of time’’; ‘‘want to do other things’’; ‘‘need to get my life back’’.
With words such as these, another web log [...]
Seven days of a life…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thursday 12th — go to my first IMPAC award dinner at the City Hall — mostly out of curiosity to know who goes to these things and also — in truth — because this is the first year they’ve invited me. Moment of mortification ensues when lady at reception looks completely blank after I say [...]
