How much are these things anyway?
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The one after the bank holiday
Original title eh?
If you have just woken up from a coma, come back from the dead or was dumped in a ditch after being abducted by aliens, and have no idea what month it is, just look out the window. Its June. While June is classed as one of the 3 months of Summer, in other countries at least, June in this neck of the woods is exam time. So expect searing heat for the next few weeks. And as soon as the exams are over, we revert back to normal bollocks of rain, sleet and shite!
For the first time in ages, yesterday was a day where I completely and utterly chilled out. The day previous we bought a new grill for the BBQ, which cost €34! Yeah, for a piece of feckin’ metal. A damn site cheaper than forking out €300 for a new BBQ I suppose! So yesterday morning I went off and spent another fortune (!) on burgers and all the other things one fires onto a BBQ. There was enough food for a U.N. mission I reckon. After sitting in the sun for most of the afternoon we decided to haul hole to Mahon Point to break up the day, before the BBQ was fired up!
My quest for Cherry Coke came to an end yesterday, after a kind listener tipped me off on the location of some in a particular chemist. I’m not going to name the place, for complete and utter selfish reasons. If I mention it here, then the 5 people who read this, may likely go off and buy all the stock. Point being, it doesnt take much to make me happy.
The rest of the evening was spent recovering and watching the MTV movie awards, which baring the cheap Eminem setup, was shite! Twilight me hole!
Anyways, back on air tonight! 9pm!!!!! Corks RedFM
P.S. If anyone really wants to know the location of the Cherry Coke, then send me a mail!
Monday, June 01, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The one with the mini movie review – Drag me to Hell
If your only experience with Sam Raimi is the Spiderman movies, then you’ve missed out on the evil dead series and thus missed out on a master at work. So it was with great anticipation that I went off to see Sam Raimi return to his horror roots.
Alison Lohman plays Christine Brown who works as a loan officer in a bank. She gets cursed after refusing a mortgage extension and bringing “shame” upon a gypsy. If she cant get rid of the curse within 3 days, all the time while being paid a visit by a goat like demon, she’ll be dragged to hell. From there on in, its time to strap on the seatbelts for a full on, bad ass rollercoaster ride. Eyes are stapled shut,eyes go flying out of sockets and come to think of it, alot of the gore revolves around eyes. Either way, lots for you to get completely grossed out by!
There’s plenty of great little frights that’ll make you jump in Drag me to Hell but there not as bad and frightening as you were lead to believe from the brilliant trailer. This makes the movie all the more enjoyable as your not completely gripping the seats or tearing the flesh off the arm of the person next to you.
Plenty of slime, goo and god knows what else fill up the screen and there’s very much a sense and style of the Evil dead series here (as to be expected) and that is no bad thing! The acting is a bit wooden at times, but for the best part the lead roles do their job and for this type of movie you cant really expect it to win Oscars.
You wont need to bring 4 or 5 changes of underpants, just the one should suffice, and the ending, while some might find predictable, I found it absolutely brilliant! Drag me to Hell is brilliant popcorn horror and a great return to form for Sam Raimi and If you learn anything from this movie, its don’t refuse a gypsy a loan extension. I really enjoyed this!
8/10
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The one with cheese rolling!
Heres the vid from this years Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire! Check the dude in with the horse's head! Uber violence! Brimming with awesomeness?
The one with the last few days
Right, haven't had a “proper” update here in a bit! So will avail today!
Last few days have been pretty demented (hence no full blown blogging shenanigans). I’ve always been tinkering around with the film and writing lark and ever before I discovered radio, it was always my first love. I’ve made plenty of short flicks and 3D animations and so on, but it all started to slide when I got into radio. So after much thought and the whole thinking about doing it as opposed to doing it, I got the camera back out a few weeks back and got writing again. I have books full of shite written to get out there so it was nice to get back at it full pelt!
Last Thursday, I shot the first few scenes for A/S/L (see below), then after 4 hours sleep I shot another bulk of it on Saturday and then Sunday was pencilled in to shoot the final scenes in the Pavilion. Sunday was the day that I melted down and made shit of the office (ya know the office, the converted back bedroom office) and fucked up an external HD to boot. So in between shooting, editing, organising the wedding, went to another wedding and doing the show it was a pretty full on week of carry on! I didn't see TV for a week and came in last night and sat down and watch Kerry bloody Katona! That's what sleep depravation does!
Anyway, I got the competition cut together (running time 3 mins) and then spent another day and a bit trying to sort out the feckered HD. So If anyone wants to send a medal my way, then that’s great! Make sure its one of them chocolate ones!
And I ran out of money in a shop yesterday! Embarrassed.com. Decided to be nice to the wife to be and treat her to a Romantica (They didn't have Hagen Daz or Ben & Jerrys FFS) as a surprise and got meself a lotto ticket as well. The Romantica came in at 7 fuckin euro, the lotto came in at 4 euro and the miserable packet of sweets came in at 1.20 Of course I didn't have enough for the sweets! First time it happened in about 25 years!
And another thing! All these feckin election posters. They’re beginning to make me nauseous. Vote number wan! Vote number wan! Why the hell should I vote number 1 for someone who hasn't called to the door or indeed when their little helpers call to the door they cant answer any questions and just grunt and hand over the pamphlet! Fuck off!
Anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That felt good!!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The one with A/S/L
Righto, been very busy for the last week with this. Bare in mind this is the competition edit, which had to be 3 minutes. I have some more footage that was cut for the running time, but I will get the "Extended" edition up here at some point in the next week! Anyways, let the awards and ridicule begin! Well mainly ridicule!
Monday, May 25, 2009
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