Daily Archives: December 21, 2009

Feeling Nostalgic for The Noughties?

  By Lottie | December 21, 2009 - 11:57 pm | Movies & TV, Music, Random Whimsy, The Culch, The Internet, TV
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Remember when we didn’t know who Susan Boyle was? Or when ‘Ground Zero” was just “the surface directly above or below the point at which a nuclear explosion takes place”? When we didn’t know what a carbon footprint was and bailouts were strictly reserved for those behind bars? When only farmers drove Four-wheel drives and a memory stick sounded like a dirty word? When reality TV was watching Gaybo give one to everyone in the audience on a Friday night and when Social networking meant a trip to the local on a Sunday evening? Well Newsweek has one of the best sites around for tipsy midnight trips down memory lane. From Y2K to Google and You-Tube to the size zero craze and the Obama inauguration, these guys have it all.

Masamba recycle music gig

  By Peter | December 21, 2009 - 9:11 pm | Gigs
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Tomorrow 22nd December 2009, 4-5pm South King Street Dublin - theres a free gig on with Masamba - a samba band who play with fully recycled musical instruments. Wanna know more on the green stuff - go to the garden blog - other than that the lads seemed in great form today in a cold St Stephens Green. As you can see Lynn Kelly was also freezing…. All in the name of recycling Pop along, say hello to the Masamba folks and get yourself in the Christmas spirit. By all accounts it looks like it will be great fun

Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.5

  By Niall | December 21, 2009 - 12:00 pm | Movies & TV
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And so we reach the Top 5, and in all honesty any of these would be worthy of the top spot as there is next to nothing to choose between them. I relegated today’s choice to the bottom of the Top 5 simply because I feel more strongly about the others. That is not to say that I believe that this is worse than the others, it isn’t, it’s just that the high I got from this one went away quicker than for the other 4. The 5th best film of 2009 is…

But is it Art final

  By Sharon | December 21, 2009 - 8:17 am | The Arts, The Culch, TV
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School of Saatchi - Final (was on BBC2) They think it’s all over. It is now. But who won it? Well, let’s have a run-through of what we had. Six artists (Samuel Zealey, Eugenie Scrase, Matt Clark, Saad Qureshi, Ben Lowe and Suki Chan). Six art pieces in the Saatchi gallery. All keyed to win the prized slot of a piece in Saatchis exhibit in the Hermitage Gallery St. Petersburg. To win they need to do something bold, something daring, something unique. So what did they do? A painting, a ladder to nowhere and a log on a fence. WTF? Is this what passes for contemporary art? No wonder the general public think it’s the biggest con since NAMA. It’s so hard to separate the talented from the chancers and, sometimes, the best man doesn’t win.

Competition: RectoVerso #3 Christmas Buys

  By Sinead Keogh | December 21, 2009 - 12:32 am | Books, Competitions, Fashion, Food
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Yes alright, we can start calling it IrregularRectoVerso (apologies for my shambolicness, but there’ll be freebies at the end of the post to make up for it…keep readin’) It’s sometimes difficult to review non-fiction, but I like to read a lot of it, and Christmas is the perfect time of year for gift books to come into play. RectoVerso has hap’ly received a number of interesting things through the post box in the past few weeks and without further ado here’s a top three best of Irish covering comedy, food and beauty that should cater for one or two people on your Christmas list (is it a co-incidence that they’re all written by bloggers or tweeters? Well, no…).