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never brunch in all these months sinead i ll link to her myspace as she recently informed me she intends to begin myspace blogging again soon has been to this juniors place a few times a trip of about 1 minute from our front door and has come back espousing the delights of the finely cooked food and galway esque i e cramped design but those times have been with her friends and i don t want to crash her girl time y know that said last time she went down with a friend of hers some drunken young men bought them both mimosas and then sought deep and meaningful relationship advice so maybe i should have made the trek before now if only in a supervisory capacity we sat inside as all the outside seating was filled with the beautiful people i m pretty sure i actually saw two pairs of oversized sunglasses eating breakfast at one stage the giant prada ones seemed to be shoving devilled eggs into its lenses weird i had the breakfast of champions which was absolutely sublime consisting of a giant succulent cumberland sausage streaky yet meaty bacon a rosti a two yolked fried egg a small slice of thick toast not from a can beans made with tomatoes and proper beans black white pudding something i would never normally entertain and a massive mushroom and tomato double act both remaining half eaten at the end thanks to a near full to capacity belly sinead opted for a new york steak thick and charred eggs with hollandaise sauce and some deliciously small roasted potato chunks i often judge eateries by their coffee and this coffee was delicious fresh frothy and strong as an ox even the orange juice was freshly squeezed as you can probably see if you have a gander at the menu it wasn t particularly cheap but as a treat at the weekend it s well worth it as we were paying the bill the waitress cashier admired sinead s beautiful dress and then asked me about my t shirt it s an animal collective t shirt i said what s that she said a band oh right well i think irish men don t usually make much of an effort dressing so you re doing ok actually personally i think the t shirt is a little too ivan lendl in the 80s with its purple lime green white combo but i like it and so did she apparently if you fancy a visit to ballsbridge and someone to admire your pretty ropey t shirt then you could do a lot worse than giving juniors a go posted by adam at 7 17 pm 5 comments labels food juniors tuesday june 30 i don t want a holiday in the suuu un oh no i do actually things started strangely as i settled into my seat as best a 6 1 manchild can settle into an airline seat something wasn t quite right a quick browse of the food and drink laminate showed sandwiches for 4 euro bottled water for 1 euro and beer for 1 50 my eyes seemed to lack a certain burning sensation a distinct lack of sensory overload thanks to relentless blue and yellow plastic hideousness and advertisements for baggies of vodka and rum that air steward person doesn t look like a transylvanian post op transsexual i thought to myself and i can still feel my legs below the knees i was on a tunisian airline you see but ryanair was etched into my mind s eye we were on the way to yasmine hammamet a tunisian coastal resort in its infancy the idea of a resort holiday brought up images of drunken 18 year old thomas cook reps vomiting in each other s handbags whilst having brief unprotected sex on the beach with swarthy ahmed the lifeguard fruit salesman salamander vendor luckily i had left my handbag at home the girlf and i really needed a break and a holiday of poolside boozing and beach side lolling was just the ticket the diar lemdina hotel offered the perfect deal the room was a two storey job with 3 bathrooms and two bedrooms all of which i used in rotation and never limiting myself to their specific function the pool was a long 10 second stumble from the room s door and the period between said door and falling headfirst into the pool when i was absolutely beerless was a nightmare luckily there was always a drinks delivery youth waiting in the wings to take care of me almost in that remains of the day anthony hopkins way i was emma thompson and little mohammed was my silent protector and provider without ever really admitting it to me the first few days were a bit of a culture shock with the haggling nature of the nearby market the medina i spent a half hour negotiating the price of a magic carpet with one tradesman only to discover it was a rug with little to no magic capabilities with the medina right next door to the hotel we were through it every night dodging arabic beckoning and cries of cheaper than asda or have a butchers but it was something for which you really needed to be in a mentally strong state to cope and if you have never experienced this kind of thing you are hereby warned the routine quickly became get up hit the pool have lunch have a beer hit the beach have beers go on a jet ski avoid paying 45 dinar for 3 pieces of fruit avoid buying a turtle salamander frog have dinner and have beers in the fading sun bliss then we booked a two day sahara trip my irish skin said no but my fingers reached for the cash anyway and on the thursday morning at 6am having spent 4 days living the lives of particularly complainy lizards with excellent communication skills and dunnes flip flops we packed off to the desert it took in many aspects including a gripping 4x4 trip to the atlas mountains a horse and cart journey to a fruit plantation in the middle of nowhere an oasis camel riding in the sahara nearly catching the sunrise in the desert salt mines and the troglodyte caves where all the star wars tatooine scenes were shot it was truly wonderful one of the more weird parts of the trip being the visit to a southern tunisian couple in their respective 70s and 80s who actually lived in one of the cave houses having reared eight children there as i stood there in awe of their achievement in such an unforgiving environment an english girl bulldozed into their bedroom bellowing they ain t goh now telllllleeee least of their problems love unusually given my hyper cynical disposition and considering i was a tourist on a touristy tour i was genuinely moved by the fact that in the corner of this cave house an ancient woman was hand grinding corn with a stone mill collecting a few dinar from the browsing tourists the old husband just sat quietly across from her slowly baking in the 38 degree heat in his hole in the ground house and yet they seemed content nodding and smiling at the curious horde in front of them i ll never complain about my phone reception again it helped that our guide a wizened prune of a man called eddie with a hilariously crap line in jokes and a genuine affection for this part of tunisia where he was originally from was a real pro always showing us what to do where to move how to deal with the culturally unfamiliar aspects of the tour toward the end of the 1300 kilometre round trip he did seem to be verging on mentally delicate but i m sure he s ok now ok or still asleep or dead he even brought bread for the hole in the ground family s donkey we made it back to the resort hotel after two days drained and fulfilled set for one more slap up meal a little hookah pipe some boukha and bed the next day was time to fly just as the week had done i should have bought a salamander posted by adam at 9 49 pm 9 comments labels holidays travel tunisia sunday june 7 march of the people watching werner herzog s south pole documentary encounters at the end of the world is an exceptionally humbling experience herzog sets out his stall early in the film telling us that he was not interested in making a movie about fluffy penguins and instead he takes his tiny crew to mcmurdo station the american headquarters and a town of sorts in the antarctic in and around this area he encounters a group of people working in a variety of disciplines plumber driver biologist volcanologist and tries to discover how and why they have ended up here at the bottom of the world herzog willfully seizes on the eccentricities of many of these people and manages to create a film that is beautiful both in its visual representation of an unusual part of the planet and in its portrayal of the fragility of humanity and how ultimately we are all just a blip on this planet with extinction an inevitability just like the dinosaurs before us nature will take care of us sooner or later we are no more special than the single cell organisms that are scraped from the ocean floor by one 50s science fiction film enthusiast and scientist who celebrates the discovery of three new species in a single dive by jamming with a co worker on top of their shed in the middle of the snow their noisy blues echoing across the white plains personally i find this prognosis refreshing and herzog certainly doesn t want it to be taken as bad news as always he sees the beauty in human existence in their stories and thoughts and ideas and lives and he sees the eventual demise of our species as just another step in the world s history and future why do we deserve anything special because we are a little more intellectually advanced than most animals isn t it wonderful to imagine that everything we have ever created both hideous and sublime will someday be gone probably through our own doing and the world could be once more left to the most basic creatures scurrying and foraging on the ocean bed only interested in the next meal the earth would have a clean slate again and it is just a shame that herzog will not be there to make a documentary about that i can imagine his monotonous voice just audible over helicopter shot footage of a desolate silent planet theees eees de plenet nowww chust ez eet begenn wiss nossing ett all exsseptt ameebazzz and plennnt liiiiife posted by adam at 7 10 pm 5 comments labels film werner herzog thursday june 4 primavera barcelona pics edit check out my review over at drop d posted by adam at 1 09 am 6 comments labels barcelona primavera tuesday may 26 powerful stuff posted by adam at 3 41 pm 4 comments labels moving monday may 25 hoping it ain t lost in the transition as drop d moves to new pastures i usually hate reading my stuff but i actually enjoy reading this review of mudhoney s last album sorry for this somewhat self serving post but anyway with the grunge era now a nostalgic bong water stain on the ripped jeans of yesterday all we veterans can do is snaffle up nirvana albums on vinyl if we stumble across them watch pearl jam get fat and old and reminisce over youtube footage of alice in chains mesmerising mtv unplugged performance from back in the day mark arm and his elder statesmen of that fruitful musical period mudhoney have crawled out of the sticky dirt to crank out a new album 20 years after giving the world a grunge classic with touch me i m sick and thankfully they have summoned the spirits of their scuzzy raw anthemic youth to make an album that is as relevant now as it would have been in the early 90s it begins with the cocksure sexual swagger of i m now a song many of the pubeless indie cretins of today s alternative indie rock bands would lop off their fringes and pointy shoe clad feet to have penned inside out over you crackles with feedback and psychedelic twiddlings over a jefferson airplane style bassline while the title track grooves along to a chorus of the lucky ones are lucky they re not around a wry take on grunge s casualties other highlights are the blues kissed what s this thing the garage rock musings of and the shimmering light and the screaming teenage delight of tales of terror this gem was recorded in just three and a half days and the confident brevity of the uncomplicated songs would definitely corroborate this with most of the tracks around the 3 minute mark there is a lusty noisy filthy punk vibe fused into every song with a side order of garage blues and the stooges and a sense of urgency that makes it difficult to believe these gents are on their 8th album and 20th year together it filled this writer with joy to be aurally transported back to a time when sonic youth bleach lumberjack shirts and seattle were at the forefront of my mind and here s hoping that mudhoney bottle the energy they harnessed for this recording and churn out many more albums as enjoyable in the coming years this is how it is done indie pretenders take note posted by adam at 10 18 pm 4 comments saturday may 23 good morning er afternoon i ill advisedly clicked on a youtube link to watch a marianne nowottny clip earlier got the fear immediately and so had to watch this to regain some semblance of mental balance this is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite artists as jools holland might say by way of introduction hapablap habahappahap habbaplapppppp joanna newsom blap posted by adam at 3 19 pm 5 comments labels hangover joanna newsom music the fear thursday may 21 what s the plan now then and so another printed publication hops on the escalator to the great shredder in the sky plan b is no more while we lament the demise of print journalism and as a print journalist aswell as an online one i will join the ranks of those wailing the loudest the fact of the matter is that the magazines you have loved and still love are supported in a major way by advertising revenue from independent record labels labels that can barely afford to function anymore let alone take out a 10x3 advertisement space in a glossy shiny lovely smelling magazine add to that the fact that no one has yet entirely figured out how to make impressive advertising revenue from any online publishing ventures and it s clear we are in a state of media limbo personally i enjoy a combination of reading about movies music pop culture and bestiality online as much as in print true the online reading has addled my concentration levels at times i believe severely but it s nothing permanent and i still sit around with books and a ton of newspapers to dig in to every couple of days things are grim as fuck these days in the print world and will only get grimmer those of us left with jobs should count ourselves lucky and with regard to the always interesting often brilliant plan b let s hope they find a way to continue their writing either in other decent publications i e the observer music monthly about 2 years ago via a time machine or wire magazine or they manage to work out an online presence without the quality of the writing being affected i tip my cap to you plan b posted by adam at 8 40 pm 5 comments labels media plan b monday may 18 end of the occupational road for some this week my father top right retires from the civil service after 40 years of service a lot of which has been spent as a principal officer in the department of defense based in galway much to the chagrin of my friends who still refer to him as major dad due both to his perceived occupation and his resemblance to gerald mcrainey bottom right who once played major dad in the si...