Daily Archives: September 27, 2009

Video Games Live comes to Dublin. W00t etc.

  By twistedlilkitty | September 27, 2009 - 7:52 pm | Games, Music, The Arts, The Culch
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So anyways my boyfriend and I were going home on the bus, usual after work crowd, it was dark, it was winter. The bus was fairly packed, commuter white noise filled the conversation, then out of nowhere a group down the back break it. About two of them start whistling the theme tune to Super Mario, it sounds weak but it’s there. My boyfriend and I, join in, the melody gets stronger, they’ve no idea who we are, they aren’t even sure who is whistling and for a moment we are as one. Joined together by the harmony of computer game music. Computer games evolved relatively quickly, put it this way the first computer games I played the only person who had a mouth was Pacman. Graphics, game play, plot lines all progressed, 8 bit, 16 bit, next generation, the generation after that. The music evolved too, it moved away … There’s more →

My First Time

  By Niamh | September 27, 2009 - 6:00 pm | Comedy, The Culch, Theatre
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What do Keith Duffy, Claire Tully, Leigh Arnold and Alan Shortt all have in common? They are all cast members in a new play to hit Ireland next month called My First Time. And just as you would think, it is about their first sexual experiences. And yours In 1998 a website was set up to allow people to anonymously post a story about their first time and it was an instant and huge success. To date they have collected over 70,000 stories from around the world. Some [were] silly, some sweet, some absurd, some funny, some heterosexual, some homosexual, some shy, some sexy and some downright illegal! The show will feature the four actors telling hysterical and sometimes heartbreaking stories about the first sexual experiences of various real people . . .not just themselves. They’ll bring to life some of the true stories submitted on the site. Sounds interesting, … There’s more →