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Music and Suicide

Posted in Music, Religion, art on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Meg Gardiner brings up the question of country music and a statistical connection to suicide. I’d heard of this phenomenon a lot of years ago, but it got me thinking. When I was a teenager, there was the whole fiasco about backwards messages in some heavy rock music. I remember, in particular, a court case [...]

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Way back when…

Posted in Ireland, Music, folk, war on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Another one for the folk music collection. The singer is Luke Kelly, one of the real giants of Irish folk music. The voice is unmistakable. Luke is also notable for being one of the only people ever to have a ginger afro. Hit the play button, do something else and leave [...]

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Thank God I’m a country boy

Posted in Music, folk on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I’m not really. I’m a townie through and through. Every so often though, I get a kind of overwhelming urge to get the hell out of towns, buildings and crowds and just lose myself somewhere among rocks, bogs, trees and space. As I say, I’m a townie born and bred, but there must be [...]

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Writing the Big Bang

Posted in Music, folk, writing, tagged , , , , on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My new first draft is now under way – in a slightly scattered manner. Characters – check. Plot – check (roughly). Themes – check. That is fine for who, what, why, but what about where and when? I got this far without knowing for sure whether the novel is even set on Earth or an [...]

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Daft Quizes

Posted in Music, books on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Face it. We all love these pointless things!
http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bquiz.htm (Which book are you)
http://bluepyramid.org/ia/squiz.htm (Which US State are you?)
This was surprisingly accurate. I was Tennessee: “A vibrantly musical individual, you probably know how to play multiple instruments. [Well, I have a guitar and tin whistle, but both are used purely for my own entertainment and the torture [...]

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Bit of music for the weekend

Posted in Music on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This video is about 10 minutes long, so don’t bother if you don’t like the blues! Gary Moore’s from near where I’m from. Excellent guitarist. As for BB – no need to say anything!
I love the little playful ‘duel’ they have in this jam. Gary echoing BB, like ‘I can do anything you can!” [...]

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