tshirtsunited.com Commerative T-Shirt:

tshirtsunited.com have released a t-shirt after Man City got knocked out of the FA Cup by their own Balloon's:



"Manchester city: the only club in history to be knocked out of the FA Cup by a balloon. Here we present a variant on city's shiny new club crest; the stars are falling off, the ship is sinking, the legend "YCNMIU" ("You Could Not Make It Up" - a fitting motto for our blue brothers if ever there was one) is proudly displayed below and we have two sky or laser blue balloons as the centrepiece, proudly displaying the numbers 3 and 2 in honour of the fact that it will now be at least 32 years during which Manchester city will have won precisely fuck-all."



This was definately one of the funnier things of the week.

tshirtsunited.com has a load of great stuff on it (provided your a red).
Check it out here

Here is me modeling one of their shirts at the Sugarlips Tablequiz in the Harbour Bar along with FOB, Bannie and Leigh:



We even made it to the Wicklow News 5th page! ha!

The Kooks to play Dublin Castle:

The Kooks, who have recently parted company with their bassist (Egoeccentric has the story here), have been announced to play Dublin Castle as part of the Heineken Green Energy festival on May 5th.



The Kooks were a band that i tried to hate, their first impressions alone were nearly enough for me to write them off as part of the NME 'revolution' that, after last nights gig it is safe to say, i can't stand. Six months of continued airplay transpired and only in November after they had dominated the European Festivals circuit did i crack.

Inside in/Inside Out is a great album and is along with 'The Strokes' 'Is This It?' an album that never fails to get me in a good mood!

The Kooks new album is released April 14th.

Here's an amazing clip of Ooh La from the streets of France:

Watchdog: Virgin Megastore Dundrum

"What do you mean they aren't calling it that any more??...
... Zavvi?? What kind of a crap name is that!?"

Well all that is immaterial when they are selling some of the most unnecessarily overpriced dvd's i've ever seen!




Cliffhanger €35 and Dawn of the Dead (Remake) €43

Whilst i will always defend these films, lets be honest, they aren't Citizen Kane. Not that i have or want to watch Citizen Kane but it is something i would expect would to have fork out considerably for.

Whilst it can be argued anyone could find one or two unjustifiably expensive items in any shop, What are the odd's they 2 most expensive things, i saw that day, would be the very dvd's i craved?

There has to be more undeniable rip off's in the place! I had a voucher for €26 and could find nothing of value! In HMV great dvd's are going for only €5. How can Virgin/Zavvi justify this??

I went to amazon.co.uk the next day and got for less than Zavvi's valuation of Cliffhanger:

Speed
Die Hard 2
Die Hard with a Vengeance (2 Disc Special Edition)
and of course Cliffhanger!

all for the sum of €31!

Perhaps they had to stop calling it Virgin because they couldn't keep that name while trying to fuck people in the ass!

Gig Review: The Cribs

This would be unfair to call this a review because:
1. Me and Halley arrived late missing the first two support acts.
2. We left before the Cribs Encore.
3. Due to the below mentioned study taking priority lately i was
wrecked and in no way "Gig Worthy"which i would define as: "Excited, Energetic, Open-minded and/or Drunk."

So anyways now that i've established the bad vibes to flow along with this post, it will be no suprise that i rated the Gig, (Which is not to be confused with the Cribs performance which i rate as efficient!) as a M'eh.

This is not the Cribs fault as it seemed everyone around us and up the front had a great time. Maybe the fact that it was sponsored by NME effected the way i was to perceive the show and audience? After all i am an avid Morrissey fan and perhaps i was bitter at the way NME attempted to down their former Prized Poster Boy?

Upon entry into the Ambassador the new poster boys (and girls for that matter) that adorned every conceivable space where a poster could be put were:

The Enemy (Shite)
The Gossip (Shite, Im sorry Halley!!)
The Klaxons (I cant listen to them!)
CSS (Undeniably Great!)

The support act that were on when we arrived, 'Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong', were so terrible that i was almost praying for Superskin (the terrible token Irish band that supported every Metal Act to come through Dublin between 1999-2002) to launch a comeback, on the very stage, as irony would have it, i had booed them off of when they supported Machine Head in July 2002.

Arriving late i missed 'Does it Offend You, Yeah?', which judging from their myspace page seems to have been regrettable.

Anyway, as the Cribs came on, the show certainly picked up. They went through enough songs from "Mens Needs, Womens Needs, Whatever" that as a new fan i would enjoy the set and played some great unknown (to me) tracks to ensure that i will have to check out their back catalogue at a convenient time in the future.

Whilst i have never condoned leaving a gig early and really didn't have a decent reason, except that i wanted to catch Match of the Day, i didn't feel any big loss in skipping out onto a freezing O'Connell St 15 minutes early.

Mistake of the Day:

mis·take (m-stk)
n.
1. An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
2. A misconception or misunderstanding.

Somehow in the name of god my Blog has made it on to the longlist for Personal Blog in the Irish blog of the year! Don't believe it either? Click here!

This is one of the reasons that i am now trying to put some more new stuff up on the site after stupidly allowing my studies to claim the majority of my short short attention span.

Apologies for the lack of posting in the last week and rest assured good sense and responsibility will be kept in check from now on.

Teenage Nostalgia Alert!

No not what my brother Robert was saying as regards the reformation of New Kids on the Block (see link) but Biohazard!



Yes the Brooklyn four piece are going to reform in the guise of their original line up, last together in 1994, for their 20th Anniversary. I saw these guys in 2001 at the Tattoo the Planet Festival in The Point and they definitely stole the show. This is no mean feat seeing as the line up included Slayer and i can say without hesitation this was one of the better gigs of my teenage years. Tour dates are yet to be announced but please for the love of god bring it to Europe!

For the full story click here

Here is Biohazard performing Chamber Spins Three live in Spain
complete with how i remember it from the point "The Circle of Strength!":

The Sun's "Headline of the Day"

"Watch Out Beadles Not about!"



The Sun, if it was possible to lower their reputation as the 'Kings of Bad taste' (or is that higher their reputation..?).
Went with the most insincere sounding and tactless headline of the day (although i'm sure everyone one of us had thought of such irony but decided not to actually say it in decent company!).

Would you expect anything more from the most villified (by Liverpool supporters atleast) and infamous redtop in the UK?

For the link to the full article click here

Video of the Day: Jesus held to ransom

It wont be long until tv3 news start covering stories like this.

A Flick through my College notes:

If only all the Cases I have to study could be like this:

Ask anyone who had studied Contract Law and they will no doubt have heard of this advertisement!



What is the first thing that comes in to your mind as an impressionable youth when you see this advert on tv? Safe to say its not "I need to raise 7,000,000 Pepsi Points so i can get my hands on a Harrier Jet!"

Unfortunately the good people (sic) at Pepsi didn't count on the stupidity of the American public.

In Leonard V. Pepsi Co. The Plaintiff impressed by the advertisement set out to drink enough Pepsi to purchase a Harrier. Although he failed to do so, he discovered that the promotion rules enabled additional points to be bought for 10 cents each. The plaintiff the managed to raise $700,000 dollars, and submitted an order form claiming his harrier jet.

Unsurprisingly the defendant replied stating the ad was merely humorous, and did not constitute an offer capable of acceptance. This was ultimately accepted by the court on a motion for summary judgment, the court holding that no reasonable person could have believed that the advertisement actually offered Pepsi drinkers a fighter plane.

Football Hooliganism reaches the Emirates:

Granny's. Always looking for a 'villan' to chastise! I'm guessing she was one of the old dears who used to sit in the front row of itv's wrestling and square up, handbag in tow, to Giant Haystacks or Big Daddy without even flinching!

The Power of the Internet

I always find it amazing how the internet can propel regular people into 'internet superstars' in such a short period of time. Its happened before in the case of John Smeaton, the comedically heroic Glaswegian who recalled dropkicking a flaming terrorist with such nonchalance across the worlds media.




Two days later www.johnsmeaton.com was set up and an internet superstar was born.

Well it appears to have happened again.

This 16 Year Old Threw a house party, which turned into absolute mayhem and has been estimated at causing damages of $20,000 Australian, whilst his parents were away two (yes TWO!!) days ago. He already is the subject of one of the most hit videos on youtube and break.com, he has been on radio phone in's in Melbourne and has even been interviewed by Austrailian televison. This all whilst wearing yellow glasses that'd make Timmy Mallot green with envy! Oh and sure enough he has his own website too (www.coreydelaney.com)



Fair Play to the lad, he certainly isn't taking any crap from that newsreader!

Weekend Preview:

This weekend will see me off to Galway for the 25th birthday celebrations of one Joseph Duignan. See below for an incredibly gay photo of the man in question...


Unfortunately i cannot stay for the entirety of the weekend due to study issues so i'm hoping Friday night turns out to be the better of the two nights!

Disturbing News Story of the Day: Separated at birth twins 'married'

Taken from the BBC website:

A pair of twins who were separated at birth got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a crossbench peer has told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the UK couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.

The peer - who was told of the case by a High Court judge involved - said the twins felt an "inevitable attraction".

He said that they were adopted by separate families, and neither was told that they had a twin sibling.

Details of their identities have been kept secret, but Lord Alton said the pair did not realise they were related until after their marriage.

The former Liberal Democrat MP raised the couple's case during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in December.

"They were never told that they were twins," he told the Lords.

"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."

He told the BBC News website that their story raises the wider issue of the importance of strengthening the rights of children to know the identities of their biological parents .

"If you start trying to conceal someone's identity, sooner or later the truth will out," he said.

"And if you don't know you are biologically related to someone, you may become attracted to them and tragedies like this may occur."

Lets Just Pray to god the marriage wasn't consummated!

Video of the day: Close Call!

Stupidly lucky man!

Luckiest Rally Car Fan Ever - Watch more free videos

more crazy videos like this can be seen at www.break.com

Headline of the Day: The D4 Saps

'Sap causes D4 residents to Sue'

This was in Mondays Irish Times.

Residents in some of Dublin's leafy suburbs are taking legal action against Dublin City Council over damage caused to their cars and properties by sap exuded by council-owned trees.

Apparently the trees are stripping paint on some of the cars and houses in the area.

This has got to be a wind up. Put things into perspective people!

This is one Mascot not to fuck with!

As much as it pains me to say it i always knew 'Fred the Red' was soft.

Owned Streaker
Uploaded by Zegoat

Spotted at whoateallthepies.tv

Movies in 5 Seconds:

A load of these Clips were recommended to me by Rob W. when we were hiking the other day. The concept is pretty good, sum up a movie as briefly as you can in a youtube clip. His favourite is Rocky in 5 seconds. The two that made me laugh the hardest were The Big Lebowski in 5 seconds (See it on my Bro's blog) and the 40 Year Old Virgin in 5 Seconds:

Jealousy Alert:

Heres an example of how to gain admiration despite doing a stupid dance:


For more dancing all over the world visit www.wherethehellismatt.com

The Unlikely Champion of Sandwiches:

First poach 2 eggs (one will not cover the bread area adequately),
Next Toast 2 Slices of White Bread (we're being healthy enough poaching the eggs!)
Add a liberal amount of butter to the toasted bread.
Place eggs on bread and 'butter' them into the toast so that the yellow is released.
Add lots of Ketchup and...

Voila!

Not only is it damn tasty but the colours are pretty cool!

If you havent noticed; It is Very Very cold out!

Life brings little certainty's. However...One is that despite heavy betting and romantic cliched aspirations every year by people for a 'White Christmas'. It will never happen! But here is where it gets strange. You can Guarantee that January will be the coldest windiest frostiest month known to man and more ofter than not there will be snow.

Christmas was less than 2 weeks ago, Why the insane change in weather so suddenly???

Here's a Photo of my mate Rob who along with myself was stupid enough to get up at 9am on a Saturday in order to brave the elements up the Wicklow mountains. I didnt think it was possible to be so cold but i didn't estimate sleet and gale force wind forming an unrelenting tag team to whoop our asses! Still Great Craic though!

Gay men 'navigate like women'

Taken from Fridays Irish Times:

"Gay men are as bad as women at navigating, research has shown. Both share the same poor sense of direction and rely on local landmarks to get around, a study suggests. They are also slower to take in spatial information than heterosexual men"

This was found as a result of some research by Psychologists at Queen Mary University London. The real question here is how on earth such a study got commissioned!

Beckham Trains with Arsenal

David Beckham has been training with Arsenal whilst living in London during the close season of the MLS. I have no bitterness over his departure from United, i thought he was amazing for us, but the time was right for him to leave. He's United Born an Bred, due to being raised by Fanatic United supporting Parents. He is still respected and retained dignity that some players have failed to keep after leaving Old Trafford (I'm looking at you Paul Ince and Peter Schmeichel!). He even still supports United. But it just isn't right to see to see him in Arsenal gear!

Song of The Day: The Cribs

'Our Bovine Public'

This catchy little number should be deemed to have been overplayed to a repetitive level but for the fact that its so danged good, it has yet to break my threshold!
Plus the band are playing the Ambassador on Wednesday Jan 30th so i'm allowed overplay them as i did with Interpol in the months leading up to their December concert.

My only problem is that i also have tickets to see United V Portsmouth that night! Dilemma!

This song is taken from the excellent 'Mens Needs Womens Needs, Whatever' Lp which was produced by Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand. They are signed to the Wichita label in the States and seem to be getting sufficient promotion on its website, Bloc Party did well out of joining this label so lets hope that the same happens to this brotherly three piece from Wales!

Enjoy.

The Mobile Phone Picture of the day:

I saw this when in town this morning.
Who ever came up with such a terrible play on words deserves to be shot!




TANGENT ALERT!!!

Whilst in town though i did manage to find Die Hard on Dvd for only €5! Happy days!

Whilst Bruce Willis is the obvious reason the Die Hard Series is so well respected let us not forget the Movie Icon that is Hans Gruber played by Alan Rickman. He is responsible for one of the most repeated quotes between myself and Hunter, the timeless "Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho..."

I cannot wait to show Halley one of the greatest movies of all time. (I may or may not have dragged her to tesco at 00.30 on the hunch that they might have it after seeing him in Love Actually!)

Yippe Ki Yay Mother Fuckers!!!


Hero:

Video of The Day:

Tokyo Police Club; Your English is Good
This song has been bouncing about in my head for the last month or so now, I cannot wait until these guys release more new material! I was lucky enough to be adequately less drunk in order to remember to catch their set at Oxegen last summer and it was certainly one of my highlights of the weekend!
Enjoy.
(edit: Also is that what looks like a chubby Cesc Fabregas 14 seconds in???)