Daily Archives: October 18, 2009

Colonel Popcorn’s Minute Movie Mystery

  By Colonel Popcorn | October 18, 2009 - 10:18 pm | Movies & TV, Random Whimsy
2 Comments

I’m back. But the cheating rule still stands. You may not use Google, Twitter, Facebook, the IMDB, Wikipedia, texting, emailing, phone calling, writing, and/or Jedi mind tricks or any other form of cheating. I’m watching and I know where you live. If you cheat you’ll have to attend a comedy workshop by Ben Stiller. Irony defined. OOO000OOO Guess the movie - Filmed entirely in 18 days Pig guts were used as human guts Rumour has it that Danny Glover didn’t know what he was signing on for

Keep It Like A Secret: The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love

  By johnmfinn | October 18, 2009 - 9:29 pm | Music, The Culch
1 Comment

Scandinavia gets all the coolest bands. I don’t mean the good bands, I mean the cool bands. The type of bands that look great and make great music and have great back stories and hair and clothes and friends. The type of bands that I imagine live their lives in black and white and wear sunglasses indoors or in the rain without looking like twats. Some day I will marry somebody from one of these bands and dilute their super cool gene pool but that is a story for a different day. The (International) Noise Conspiracy are four Swedish communists/socialists/leftists who mix garage rock, soul and punk. The band was formed in 1998 by Lars Stromberg and Dennis Lyxzen. Lyxzen was previously a member of seminal hardcore group Refused. Following Refused’s breakup he set out to form a band which would use its music to convey a more political message … There’s more →

Music News 18/10/09

  By Dermot | October 18, 2009 - 6:19 pm | The Culch
1 Comment

Just a few tidbits I’ve picked up lately Biffy Clyro have announced that their 5th studio album titled Only Revolutions will be released through 14th Floor Records and on November 9th. Biffy have been alluded as one of those “must-see” live bands in the last two or three years. They’re coming to Dublin’s Olympia on October 29th and there are still tickets on sale. I personally haven’t felt the excitement of seeing them on stage but I do love their music. I think what’s great about them is they don’t conform to the whole “4 chords” process of song writing if you know what I mean. They write in a kind of chaotic and unconventional way and that’s definitely what makes them stand out. Tom Waits fans listen up! Glitter and Doom Live, a compilation of performed live songs from last year’s completely sold out US and European tour, will … There’s more →