Broken Blog Cake.
Brokeblog Mountain.
Whatever, it’s broken.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 broke the blog. Some quick thinking fixed it a bit but it still doesn’t work with the theme I designed for it, so I’m using the pretty deadly-looking 5ThirtyOne v2 for the moment. It isn’t a perfect fit, but I’ve been working on a site redesign for a couple of weeks already and it should be ready soon, so I’ll be sticking with this until then.
For all the people arriving here while searching for Gran Casino (after they won the UCD Battle of the Bands last night and were interviewed on Phantom FM this morning), here’s them playing the UCD B&L (Business & Legal) Ball last month.
As usual, there’s more after the jump and on flickr.
If you’re new here you’ll have missed the previous Gran Casino-related posts here, here and here.
Delorentos at the Student Bar in UCD on Thursday.
Was at the Sunday Roast in Thomas Reads on Dame St on Sunday night (Gran Casino were performing). Never heard of it before but it’s brilliant:- free music, board games (was Connect 4 this week) AND roast potatoes. Would go more often if it wasn’t so fucking hard to get home to Greystones on a Sunday night. Photos coming soon.
Shitty news from Nay and Una about The Chalets
Green Ink tagged me to do the most worthwhile meme I’ve seen. The idea is to promote the charities and help their search engine PageRank. You list all the charities so far, add some more and pass it on.
The existing ones:
I’m adding:
Special Olympics Ireland - Providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sport for children and adults with a learning disability
Canteen Ireland - nation-wide support group for young people who have or have had cancer, and for their families and friends.
Camara - sending recycled computers to African schools and providing technology training and computer learning materials to teachers there.
RNLI Lifeboats - provides a 24-hour lifesaving service at sea and on the coast around the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Scouting Ireland - The official line: The aim of Scouting Ireland is to encourage the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual development of young people so that they may achieve their full potential and, as responsible citizens, to improve society.
In my words: The organisation that provides amazing experiences, education and personal development in extremely broad fields to almost 35,000 people in Ireland.
The best way to support Scouting financially (aside from getting actively involved) is supporting your local groups’ fundraising, rather than the national Association
And to pass it on, I think I’ll target:
caitriona
Treasa (again)
gingerpixel
Caitriona says I have to do this meme thing.
the rules:
Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
So, to pass the torch to 8 bloggers selected from my sidebar:
Blogopho.be, FeckOff.net, snapper, red mum, Green Ink, Treasa, DjMagra and Robin
Courtesy of On The Record, the best of The Irish Times‘ look we’re cool we have blogs, comes the genius that is FestivalShirts.net.
The only t-shirts you can wear to a festival this year and still expect to come away from it with everyone thinking you’re really cool, they come in bright but not attention-seeking colours with such genius captions as “If this is your t-shirt I slept in your tent”, “Don’t take drugs. That’s stealing” and “What Music?”
So other blogs have their caption competitions or their fluffy links, but this is as close as you’re going to get to a regular feature around here. I did it once before, and I may well do it again, but there is as yet no planned schedule.
Like the last installment, this one will follow a mainly musical theme.
I started by looking up a performance I saw on Later… with Jools Holland again:
I think I quite like Shy Child. Their mySpace page has some other nice songs. I particularly like The Volume and Summer.
After hearing The Avalanches’ Frontier Psychiatrist (above) on the radio a while back I looked them up. It’s quite a display of their sampling skills, and I think their Since I Left You has the potential to be quite the Summer song. Their myspace page is here.
When I originally heard Frontier Psychiatrist, I at first thought it might have been Messiah J & the Expert, and for that (if no better) reason, here’s Something Outta Nothing:
There’s more on their website and myspace (particular attention is drawn to Superfamous Supertune and All the Other Girls)
If this isn’t all over the internet yet, it soon will be.
Forget tags and keywords, folders and files. This is how photos should be organised:
According to flickr, I’m now a pro photographer.
Of course, what it doesn’t tell you is that this simply means I’ve paid them €20. Why?
This payment got rid of the maximum number of photos (previously 200), gave unlimited uploads (previously 2GB a month, which I never managed to meet) and unlimited sets (previously limited to 3). Making some more sets and organising my photos there a little better is fast moving up my list of things to do (after the exams).
In related make-me-very-happy news, Nine Lives, a band I took photos of at the skatepark opening are playing a support slot at the Ambassador in Dublin on Saturday night, and asked me to shoot it for them. Having only taken photos at a few gigs in small clubs, this’ll be the biggest venue I’ve ever shot at, and the first one with a pit in front of the crowd to protect photographers from moshing teens.
Roll on Saturday!
P.S. may have some more photos here soon.
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