Friday, February 10, 2006

Take me now!



I discovered this last night on HBO.com. Finally some closure on the date it starts, although who knows when it will be on here. RTE are you listening!!!! The Sopranos as some of you might know is my favourite TV show of all time. Yes even more the Glenroe and Where in the World!




Ive made 1 really bad decision this week, and Im paying for it now. I went back on air not fully recovered and proceeded to thrash the shit out of my voice and throat in the process. Every few minutes Ive been turning off my mic, coughing, choking and draining the ballygowan cooler. So the throat is betterish, but now this bloody cough is aggravating it again. Ive been told about a really good cough bottle, so a trip to the Chemist is happening in a few minutes. To top the whole thing off, I think Im also getting a cold on top of it all! Which of course is the icing on the mucus cake!

I have very little plans for the weekend, bar taking in a movie or 2 and working on our Singles night! I may also go to the rubbish tip. Who said this rock n roll lifestyle was easy!

Have a good weekend and tune in Sunday night from 10pm!

Thursday, February 09, 2006

I didnt realise how messup my throat was, until I put on a pair of headphones last night. By the end of the show I was barely able to talk and I was up early this morning enjoying some more pain! In hindsight, I shouldnt have went back on air last night. Im back again tonight, and hopefully by the time the weekend is over, all shall be well. Im noticing gradual improvments every hour and Im able to eat again, having not eaten since last Sunday. The occasional bit of toast squeezed down me throat, but it was like swallowing lumps of a broken pint glass! A delicacy, if there ever was one!

The finale of our Brown Thomas giveaway happens tonight, and we've been swamped with entries over the week. Tonight some lucky person will hang up the phone after winning tonnes of goodies from BT's including a €500 BT voucher, as well as a manicure, makeup and so much more!

Thursday are a busy day for me, as I get together the audio clips for the Movie Fan Attack which happens each Friday. Its getting harder to do, as I scowl through DVD after DVD for audio clips. Each clip nearly takes 40 minutes to get as I spend more time watching the film than anything else. As I said, Thursdays a busy one!

Speaking of movies, my copy of The Grizzly Man smashed through the letter box this morning. Ive been looking forward to seeing this for ages, so hopefully it'll be half daycent..like. The joys of Region 1 DVD!!!

Britney Spears fans are alive and well in Cork. Lots of callers last night, jumping to Britneys defence for driving around with her 16 week old on her lap! As some callers said, maybe she was protecting her childs privacy. Now she could be facing legal action, as shes in breach of some law. It would have been easier to give the Papparazzi there photos, as now the whole thing is turned inside out! Fair enough, its not fair that their making a small fortune out of an innocent baby, but who gives a monkeys as to what her kid looks like! Have they not seen the Daddy? I know thousands, millions of people around the globe want to see what Sean Preston Spears Federline (whatever hes called) looks like, but dont all babies look the same at that age!

I know someone somewhere is reading this, and thinking "Youll have kids one day"! Well I wont be trying to drive down Pana like a lunatic with me kid on me lap, being chased by photographers from the Echo or The Examiner :)

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

After 2 painfull days Im back to normality, almost. By the time I got home on Sunday night, my sini (!) were filling up like I dont know what. This has happened in the past and its normally gone by morning. Woke up Monday morning at 5.30 and was in agony, throat closing up, couldnt swallow and such. So I was out sick for the last 2 days, and today I feel ok, well enough to do a show I suppose. Still have trouble swallowing, but to be honest Ill go off me game if I dont go back to work. Ok getting things together for the show was a bit of an ordeal today, mainly due to that still lingering sick feeling, but its together!

Superbowl came and went, and as predicted by our Psychic, the Steelers won. 20 squids down the drain. I really thought Seattle got off to a flying start, but shit happens! Over the last 2 nights Ive realised how bad week night TV is. Granted there is 1 or 2 shows that are good, but theres an awful lot of drivel being broadcast from 7 onwards.

We're getting a gigantic response to our BT giveaway and tonight is the last night you can enter so make sure you tune in. No news on our singles night as of yet, I had planned on getting most of it together from Monday but obviously I couldnt. Anyway Im gone, as I feel Im only wandering around here talking more shit than usual!

Friday, February 03, 2006

Finally, I made it

An update every day from Monday to today! Show finished up for the week and the plan for the weekend is a few movies, a few drinks and some sleep (if thats even possible).

Took a quick trip into the Brog last night, got something to eat and came home and vegged out in front of the telly. I have €20 on the Seahawks to win, going against everything our Psychic said last night on the show. The singing psychic Fran Baskerville is predicting the Steelers will win by 3, in Sundays Superbowl. Looking at the stats for either team, the Seahawks seem to be the more agressive team and have great momentum!!While I was at it I split a tenner up on a few Oscar bets. Capote is what Im saying, and if It comes in Ill have a nice few bob return. Then the gambling phase took a turn for the worse when I decided to throw a tenner into some online poker. Turned that into 56 euro and said quit while your ahead. So hit the hay, up over all.Not a bad nights work, and the show wasnt too bad either. All I need now is to pick up the euro millions and trust me Id spend it...well after getting a good deal on an interest rate and looking after a few people and places! I think a hummer and a mobile petrol station tied on behind would be the first on the list!

Thats that, make sure you tune in Sunday night @ 10pm only on Corks Red FM 104-106!

Thursday, February 02, 2006

One more to go after this update, and I can go back to my regular "style" of posting, or maybe not.

Very good turn out for the Walk The Line screening last night in the Gate and some very cool movie merchandise to boot! I even had one guy singing Ring Of Fire, so things went down very well. The only problem with last night was the bloody parking. Took me ages to find a space, and even then Im not sure it was a space. More like an area to abandon your car!

Very busy show last night again, but the sexual fantasies thing, well it didnt go down as well as I thought. Recently some listeners cant get enough, but we pulled it last night after 15 minutes and moved on! Some you win, some you lose...and so on!

Thats it for today, short and sweet...heres a few bits from last nights show, just to fill space :)



Late N Live Top 5 signs your not getting on with your collegues (7/2/05)

5 – You come to work every morning and remove the knife from the back of your chair

4 – You prefer to drink out of everyone elses mug except your own

3 – Things have never been the same since that incident involving Sheila from accounts, you and a pair of rubber gloves

2 – Not even the gay guy would give you some love at the last work party

1 – If somebody dies in the job your not invited to the funeral

LAST week, Joe Higgins compared Bertie Ahern with an ossified Iron Age corpse dug up from a bog in Meath. Cloneycavan Man. Look for 80 grand a year on makeup he looks far from an ossified Iron age corpse

An eager eBay punter has bid A$61,101 (€37,988) in an online auction of 'A weekend with four blokes in Sydney. Words cant describe this one. For that kind of money you could probably get Jake Gyllenhal and Heath ledger to come around the house and ride bareback…on horses

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

They said it couldnt be done. I think Im after getting back into the buzz of regular updates, like years gone past. Im still up at 7.30am playing doctor every morning, and it took its toll last night. I got home for about 1ish and more or less went straight to bed. Bad idea, 3 hours later Im replaying conversations in my head about god knows what and for the first time in ages, Im finding it difficult to get to sleep. Its not long before 7.30 rolls around and Im up again.

Its a busy one today, between meetings and of course the Walk The Line screening tonight at the Gate. I really wish I could stay and watch the movie. bit theres a show to be done.

Lots of talk about this proposed singles night that so many people are calling for. Nearly 50% of texts last night were about this alone! So watch this space. Thats it, I have to run out the door...meetings apparently!!

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Check down below for a wonderful piece of satire. Should religion be removed from our classrooms, was a topic that came up on the show last night. Our text poll said NO it shouldnt, which was suprising. I have to admit that I didnt think teenagers were as holy as some came across last night. Relfection, Meditation and discussion were some of the items that came up again and again with callers. Its a far flung yell from religion when I was in school, which isnt that long ago. All it took was for some fella to ask the priest teaching it "Father, Who made God?". That was it, class over. I dont think its fair to have it as an exam subject, but thats my opinion! If anything, the perception that adults have of teenagers as been mad, drunk and wild all the time was definitely changed with what alot of teen callers said last night! Which is great!

I havent bought a few DVDs online in a while, mainly to keep the credit card down but I gave in this morning and picked up The Grizzly Man, Broken Flowers and Jarhead. The joys of Region 1 and Region 3. Speaking of movies, I beleive theres a civic reception tonight for Golden Globe local hero Jonathan Rhys Myers, which is nice. Why dont they give me a civic reception. To be honest I dont know if I could stand all the prancing around with a glass of champagne, at least thats my idea of what goes on. Oh well, bang guys my nomination after that comment. Well twas a jest, oh person from the city council thats probably not reading!

Over the next few days, we should hopefully have alot more audio to download on redfm.ie so keep checking. Also if theres anything YOU think we should be doing on the show, drop me a comment here and email me corktalksback@redfm.ie

The Superbowl is coming up on Sunday, and we have yet to get our Psychic bet as to who will win. Personally Ill throw a tenner on the seahawks!
So people are betting I cant update this thing every day till Friday. Well there, its updated for today

Monday, January 30, 2006

7.20am Im up playing Doctor and giving the better half some eye drops. I wake up and feel like Ive been in a car crash. Im aching from head to toe, and for some reason my ass is numb. I go back to sleep till around 11 and it finally hits me. I put together a big chest of drawers from scratch yesterday in a flurry and its taking its toll. Sad isnt it. Here I am on a health kick...supposedly.

The weekend just gone was the first one in a while that we had a bit of time to ourselves, bar that chest of drawers. Managed to take in Redeye and Breakfast on Plutos over the weekend. Both very good shows.

Thats about it for now! I promise to do a daily update this week, or Ill eat my pants. When I say daily, Mon-Fri!

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Before I start rambling, I want to address some of the comments that appeared on the blog!

AHHHH VIC seattle havent won the a superbowl ever. the steelers have soooofeck off from seattle, thats my team....if they lose i'm coming after you....
Well If Im backing them at this late stage, then start putting the rusty nails in the plank of wood!!!!!


Vic, who was the tool on last night, about hash. I was working the late shift last night nad we couldnt stop breaking our ass laffing when he started insulting you when his argument was going nowhere. None of us could understand why he went nuts, probably the drugs, but you asked him a simple question to make his point that he didnt make in the first place because yer one was talking. What a fucking ghoul. Well done bud, great show!
Thanks!

Hash fries brains, that was evident last night!Question for ya Vic, how do you keep your head in a situation like that? He was completley out of line. He sounded like a fool when he just hung up!
Thanks! Ill talk about the last 2 comments down below

Last nights show was good, but where the insults and bedlam came from I really have no idea! Luke is always a good guest and gets quite argumentitive and he has a strong passion about his beliefs. But last night, as alot of people said, he let the side down. From time to time when someone on the other of the phone hangs up its usually for one reason and one reason only. Im sure you can put 2 and 2 together! For the record last night was not an interview, but a debate. So if people want to get involved in the debate and call in, then there more than welcome to. Thats why the show is called Cork Talks Back. How do I keep my head? Id like to say Im a true professional! But Im not really, as I can get a bit too excited from time to time. Shouting down to someone on the phone never works, and as the insults starting coming it was quite obvious to me he was going to hang up! So thanks for all the support with the texts, calls and emails last night :)

Moving onto other things, the joys of the Sky+ series link. I forgot to tape Des Bishops Joy in the Hood last night, but the wonderful series link kicked in. Another good show, but for some reason it didnt get me laughing as much as the other 2, and in particular the ballymun episode! Either way, Des is doing great and fair play to him, like! The Orange County Choppers boys arrived in Cork on last nights episode of American Chopper. Very funny to see the lads sucking up the Blarney Stone!

The health kick is lasting. Its into its third week now, although last night I crashed and burned again when I came home. Seems to be about once a week I feck it up! Overall its going well enough.

Theres been a great response to our Walk the Line screening giveaway, which Ill also be announcing on Feb 1st. More tickets tonight I do believe. We doubled up last night, on the tickets due to been let down by our Monday night Psychic. Its rare it happens, but its the same people have left us down in the past, and last night was the last straw. Psychics are in big demand, apparently and its nigh on impossible to have a back up plan. Tonight though, we should have one, as loads of people were a bit pissed off last night. I apologise, but it was out of our control!

Also, to just give all the Xbox 360 owners out there a heads up, I think we will be giving away one of the most awaited fighting games on the 360 really soon. So stay tuned, and yes your right, its the one with the bouncing tits!