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no surprises please
2008-01-29 22:29:00 Surprise surprise, My computer’s gone haywire once again. Everything e’se has been called off. All money is going into the newly created ‘computer fund’ - motherboard, CPU, memory, new hard drive. Though I do want to go to Paris in the next few months. My plan of not drinking for the whole month of February will help. ============================== The ...
sardine-packt two step
2008-01-19 13:49:00 I haven’t seen the limelight as packed for a local band as it was on Thursday night. 360 325 paying punters. Although I did hear the turnout was similar at Kowalski/And So I watch You From Afar/Cutaways gig in December. The lineup this time around was A Plastic Rose, Panama Kings and Fighting With Wire. ... More About: Step
comedy for lunch?
2008-01-07 23:42:00 And so it begins, in earnest, the year two thousand and eight. Today marks the first full week of the year, a year which, if it is anywhere near as good as the last I welcome with open arms. With my Out to Lunch programme in front of me I will make out my plans for ... More About: Comedy
oh yeah photography
2008-01-06 23:12:00 The day I had been looking forward to for 2 years arrived on Friday; my photographs framed and exhibited in a public place. Friday was the launch; the first day of the exhibition, and the ‘Out to Lunch’ festival which is running until 27th January. I was down early to clean a few of the ... More About: Photography , Yeah
new years resolutions
2007-12-28 19:33:00 It all becomes clear. It makes perfect sense now. The reason we make ‘new years resolutions’ is to try to prevent ourselves from recreating the events of Christmas which are still so fresh in our minds, if even just for a few weeks. Christmas day was the usual quiet day at home with the family, a ... More About: Years , New Years , Resolutions , Resolution
the clash
2007-12-19 14:59:00 Do not get me wrong, I am all in favour of a thriving local music scene, I believe that is certainly got on our hands. There are so many great bands, and I’m not just saying that, but when a good handful of bands have gigs I would go out of my way to see ... More About: The Clash , Clash
weekend beginning 14th dec 2007
2007-12-17 12:57:00 It was to be a rather calm, relaxing weekend. The only thing planned was a dinner on Friday evening. That happened. There were two, we headed to Scalini’s on Botanic Ave. I love that restaurant. The food is excellent. There was only one other plan. To see Black Eye Friday at the Errigle bar. But the night ... More About: Weekend
st georges christmas market
2007-12-09 22:05:00 After sacrificing sleep last night for Grey’s and the Interweb, I went with some friends to St Georges ‘Christmas ’ Market . It had been years since I had been to the market, and although it was near closing by the time we got there, it looked like it would have actually been good during peak hours. ... More About: Christmas market
new portfolio website launched
2007-12-09 10:11:00 Thanks to the help of my good friend, Andy, I have a nice new website for you to marvel at, with an updated portfolio. Check it out at www.philokanephotography.com Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks. Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in ... More About: Website , Portfolio , Launched
exhibition at out to lunch
2007-12-08 17:24:00 Yesterday was the official launch of the ‘Out To Lunch ‘ festival - a mini festival as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival - which runs in January 2008. What better time then to announce that I will be exhibiting a small selection of my work with local bands and musicians throughout the festival which launches ... More About: Exhibition
time is sliping away
2007-11-29 08:53:00 Having all of last week away from the horrid office workplace environment, I had to go back. I remember back in both primary and secondary school wishing that time would go so much faster. Now that there is no more school there just aren’t enough hours in the day for all the things I want ... More About: Time
sickness and health
2007-11-20 18:18:00 Why does life have to be so hard. when we’re younger we want the days to be shorter, when we’re older we want them to be so so, so much longer so that we have time to actually do the things we want to do outside the hours spent doing the stuff we wish we ... More About: Health , Sickness , Heal
mysterious farting shoes
2007-11-19 10:28:00 Over the last few days my new shoes have started making a squelching/farting sound when I walk. Specifically, on the heel of my right shoe. My right foot is definitely bigger than the left and this is noticeable in such perfect fitting converse. But this squelching is irritating, almost to the point of embarrassing. It ... More About: Shoes , Mysterious , Myst
art exhibitions and teenage angst
2007-11-18 22:00:00 This morning I woke up with the most painful throat ever. That and a killer headache. I need throat lozenges desperately. I’ve done all that I can, which isn’t a lot. I had some soup. I turned the heating on. I dressed warmly. I just wanted to go back to bed. And so I did. ... More About: Exhibitions , Teenage Angst , Teenage , Exhibit
recommended: unrealitytv
2007-11-13 20:08:00 Last week I was asked to recommend a local band, and believe me it is never an easy question. I love my music and I love my local music. There is just so much good music about this land that I have to think very hard before coming up with an answer. But there can ... More About: Ality
obligatory iphone post
2007-11-13 00:41:00 As everyone is probably fully aware, the Apple iPhone was released on Friday 9th November. So naturally BBC News had a poll on the homepage asking “Are you going to buy an iPhone.” The question everyone has been saying lately. The question is then often rephrased, would you if you could afford it? Followed by, ... More About: Iphone , Post , Gato
daytrippin? - coleraine/portrush/portstewart
2007-11-07 23:44:00 What’s that rule again? Oh yeah, never cry in front of a girl. But there was, or at least I thought at the time, a very good reason. We had decided to take a day trip. Portstewart was suggested and agreed to. The train left Botanic Station at close to 1pm, arriving at around 2:30pm. Trains ...
halloween 2007
2007-10-31 23:50:00 Is today just another mindless excuse to drink? Another day where drinking from mid-afternoon is acceptable (just like that other day). In pre-Christian Ireland there was the Druidic “fire festival” called “Samhain“. In the year 835 Pope Gregory IV changed the date of All Saints’ Day from May 13 to November 1 so as it would ... More About: Halloween , Allo
tv addict?
2007-10-28 14:20:00 It first started about this time last year. Though it didn’t last too long thankfully, shortly into the new year the problem subsided, temporarily it would seem. But it has begun again. It has even led to one of my house-mates commenting that I “watch a lot of T.V”. I wasn’t sure how to respond. ... More About: Addict
belfast eye
2007-10-24 21:42:00 There are mixed reactions to the new arrival to Belfast City Hall. Firstly, many people don’t even realise it’s there. I was told about it on Saturday afternoon, before the actual wheel was put in place. At first I was in shock, then I was scared that the look of the city hall would be ruined ...
giving up smoking will kill me
2007-10-17 19:49:00 That is, according to a study by three doctors in KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. The study asks: “Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?” So basically they took 312 lung cancer patients they treated during a four-year period of which 182 recently quit. They had all been smoking for more than 25 years. ... More About: Smoking , Giving , Kill
blog action day - the environment
2007-10-16 00:41:00 Lots of people seem to think these ideas work. Whether they do or not I suppose it isn’t a bad idea to have that huge sense of community; thousands of people thinking about and writing about the same thing. Today, October 15th, is Blog Action Day. Today we will all write thousands of blogs have been ... More About: Environment , The Environment , Envi
the last 3 weeks
2007-10-08 14:20:00 Sorry if you’re just here for the wild sex, as promised yesterday. Just one more day to wait. I am in no way sick of my photos of the US and trying to relive in my mind the experiences and get them down on paper (virtual paper). Though it has meant that I have slightly neglected ... More About: The Last , Weeks
usa 2007 part 3 - nyc and boston
2007-10-06 14:17:00 Before heading to Boston we spent the day doing a little more of the usual. Ronan went to church, while I had a pint of Harp (bad idea). After the very nasty pint I sat on the church steps and watched people for a while. I could do this for hours, especially in this jungle ... More About: Part , Part 3
usa 2007 part 2 - nyc
2007-09-30 15:57:00 As previously mentioned, this time in New York City was about being a little more of a tourist than a crazy party animal drinking like the world was crumbling around me, celebrating my 20th birthday and enjoying too much the fact that I was actually getting away with drinking in the first place. This time it ... More About: Part
usa 2007 part 1 - nyc
2007-09-29 00:52:00 I think I’ve just about gotten over the jet lag. It’s bee a tiring few days since i got home at about 6pm last Sunday after 18 or so ours of traveling; trains, planes and buses. I can definitely see how the novelty of traveling can wear of quickly. I am back, but never the same. ... More About: Part
usa today
2007-09-12 00:19:00 Where to begin… Well right now im in sunny, extremely humid, Florida. I’ve seen the sand, the sea, the sun, got sunburnt (on my feet!), seen an awesome thunderstorm, been to the Wal-Mart Superstore, watched the sweat drip down my face like rainwater and tomorrow I’m going to see some alligators! It’s hard to know where to ... More About: Today
photo buddy
2007-08-20 02:04:00 What a relaxing weekend. Much of my time was spent at the parents house, chillin’ When there is a purpose for taking photographs it always makes it so much easier. Especially when my purpose is to show to people who have [probably] never been to Ireland. I try to think like this most of the time ... More About: Photo , Buddy
panel discussion
2007-08-18 17:10:00 Admittedly it does feel a little odd to be sober after waking up on a Saturday. Though it ain’t morning. its 13:30. Afternoon. I didn’t have one drop of alcohol yesterday and when I got home I watched 5 episodes of the amazing and truely addictive Heros. Last night I was at the Island Arts Centre ... More About: Panel , Discussion , Disc
is summer over?
More articles from this author:2007-08-16 20:44:00 So rumour has it the people of the UK and Ireland like to talk about the weather a lot. I would agree with this. When its sunny, its beautiful. Most of the time its not. I don’t want to whine on about it too much, ‘cos I’m going to the sun soon anyway. The Guardian yesterday ... More About: Summer 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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