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Luv Myles O’Reilly‘s videos (and Ian Cudmore below) and his Arbutus Yarns.  Lisa Hannigan with (a trailer type thing) Gleebe Gardens below. Not a music video, more a rambling atmospheric thingy.

Pic © Lisa Hannigan

Thanks queenofmuck

Paolo Sorrentino’s (below) English feature debut ‘This Must Be the Place’ started filming this week in Dublin. Today it started to rain. It has been glorious the past month! The film stars Oscar-winners Sean Penn, Frances McDormand (yiphee), popster David Byrne, Simon Delaney, Olwen Fouere and newcomer Eve Hewson (one of Bono + Ali’s daughters). Cristiana Travaglioli will edit movie.

The film’s about wealthy former rock-star Cheyenne (Penn), who lives quietly in Dublin with his wife ( McDormand). When his father, a holocaust survivor, dies in New York Cheyenne embarks on a journey across America to track down his father’s nemesis. Sorrentino co-wrote screenplay with Umberto Contarello.

‘This Must be the Place’ is an Irish-Italian co-production between Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe are co-producing for Überactive Element Pictures, along with Indigo Film + Lucky Red .

It was an eventful day in Dublin, particularly as the highlight of the Dublin Bord Failte Horse Show (, show jumping competition for the Aga Khan Trophy, popularly called the Aga Khan Cup) took place today. Am lucky I got to go. If you get the chance – go! It was worth getting up at 0800 to go all the way over to the Royal Dublin Society’s grounds box office

We got there for 0900 and went straight into the complex’s craft fair. Some cool pieces of jewelry/ furniture on show + most of it was for sale.  Good place to see up + newly coming out of college students of same. Further inside the grounds there were a maze of venders with stalls, everything from quality + choice antique jewelry/ books to crap There was an early edition of Wilde’s The Happy Prince for sale @ €125 + other books of an anglo ilk/ no none English books on show. Lots of gentlemanly (sic) goods for sale + alot of stalls selling crap + it came across as very trade show like in places . Some real finds too, an East European potter, an English shoe co. to name two. It would have been so easy to spend a small fortune on all the goodies available. The mélange of eclectic stall assortment was fine until it got mad busy. Fortunately we arrived early so watched the showing of the yearlings from a grandstand and had tickets for the arena so had seats there too. Don’t think I’d have stayed all day without access to either areas.

Ireland, France, Germany, U.S.A., Spain, The Netherlands, G.B., Switzerland, Sweden  + Poland (who couldn’t make it!) were competing for the Aga Khan trophy. The last fence seem to trip up alot of the riders.  The Netherlands had a great  run of clean jumps. Ireland’s Cian O’Connor (pictured) whom the crowd went hysterical over every time he finished up had a perfect clear last round. The Netherlands won the prized trophy with Ireland coming second. Cian O’Connor would have won the competition’s attendees favorite rider if decibel levels were anything to go by. It nearly got Tom Jones like.

The show jumping  at the same time also marked the last in this years competition of the new Meydan  FEI Nations.  With competitions having already taken place in several countries it was the France team who were crowned overall Meydan FEI Nations champs 2010. They received their Meydan cheque straight after the exuberant Dutch received their prize, bouquets + the congradulations from Uachtarán na hÉireann.

Geeky Fact =  Meydan FEI Nations Competition is named after the new city of sporting + other complexes in the Emriates (pictured).

Meydan is Arabic for a meeting place.

‘Tis gonna be a great Culture Nite >>> 24^th September 2010

For one night the city’s museums, galleries, churches, historic houses, artist’s studios, cultural centres will open their doors late for a free night of entertainment, discovery and adventure. More ‘ere>>>. If the weather holds it’s great fun.

Culture nite is taking place not only in Dublin this year but in 20 other Irish towns, villages, bóithríns (boreens/back roads), and islands around Ireland. Artists studios, landmark buildings and others (flash mobs in the form of artists in character) are all gonna represent. Last year there were free buses going from one place to another if I remember correctly.

Jedward are twins from Dublin, and hmm are singers entertainers.

Known for their hair; their novel take on the world (they’re singers but hmm can’t sing as such, but hey half the pop stars out there can’t sing. They also have a very … symbiotic/ Paris Hilton belief in themselves and outlook/take on the world. Oh and Perez luvs them, ) and well there are two of them, they’re identical in ever way to the outside world.

On planet Jedward they are singers (lol). New single from their new album, Planet Jedward out at the mo. RTE ( the Irish Broadcasting Network) do a podcast of a radio sketch featuring them occasionally ( podcast here >>>). It’s really hard to tell which is the send up and which are the real kids. They’re very funny, and the girls + boys who like boys (well some of them) luv them.

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Lock Out, Written and Directed by Stephen St Leger and James Mather, the guys behind the film Prey Alone (below) is going big.

Windmills Studio, Ireland is setting up a new special effects studio (calling all fx’ers) to do the post production on their new movie Lock Out.  Lock Out starts shooting in Belgrade, Serbia towards the end of 2010.
Lock Out is being backed by the mighty Luc Besson!

Lock Out takes place in a prison orbiting 50 miles above the earth. The prison houses 500 of the world’s most dangerous prisoners, who are kept asleep by sophisticated techniques until they suddenly awoken.

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One of my favourite things to do in Dublin is go to the annual gay film festival, GAZE. In the ole days like circa 2001 it was held at the IFC (now called the IFI).

For the last year or so it has been held in the pretty wonderful Lighthouse Cinema complex in Smithfield in Dublin. This is their 18th year so congrads. The great film critic Michael Dwyer passed away during the year. He was more involved in the bigger Dublin JIFF film festival held each year. He was a happily partnered gay man so I reckon GAZE will remember him. The fest kicks off 29th July for the August bank holiday weekend in Ireland. Am definitely going this year. What would make it a great fest is if they were showing one of Matthew Montgomery‘s flicks. His latest has been heaped with praise.

GAZE Festival Films By Date

• Thursday 29th July
• Friday 30th July
• Saturday 31st July
• Sunday 1st August
• Monday 2nd August

Hi folks,

aindreas.com has been out/ down for a week. It’s not up fully yet but it will be… Another project went down at the same though it went back up within a short-ish period.  Different hosting companies/ different sides of the world, in every sense as it turns out.. The links + pages within the aindreas.com are not running, Front Page only tonite. Currently working to get aindreas.com back. Have made lots of decisions includying about projects going forward. Hope to let you know of the other projects once completed + rolled out over the next month. It’s quiet busy on a personal level too. Current reading = An Open Heart by the Dalai Lama Quiet appropiate

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Update an hour later: SITE BACK WORKING! Now where’s that book lol. Peace out hommies.

Some latest stuff from Dublin + Ireland below >>>

Bloomsday is on soon, 12–16 June 2010.

Am lucky I can get up to Joyce’s hang out (in Dublin)  for a chat at lunch time. If you’re not familiar with Bloomsday, folk, men + women dress in period custom. Meet up for a Denny rashers brekkie get on perambulators (bikes) and ride to Dollymount strand thereby recreating the day as spent by Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, Malachi (Buck) Mulligan in the great book, Ulsyees.

Afterwards folks meander over to (a) particular watering hole(‘s) (or any really) + get pee eyed. The particular bar where I met the two ladies aboove is under pressure at the mo to quit the lease. The landlord wants them out. They have had the lease for ages, I think it must be 43 yrs or so. But now the landlord wants a hefty rental increase I have been very reliably told.
Most of the guys dress like Joyce in white linen suit, straw hat, glasses, + walking cane. The ladies dress like Molly Bloom (in the book) would have like above. The weather was super last Bloomsday. All the Leopolds + Mollys like peacocks in the summer sun par taking in the black stuff + oysters.
If you are in Dublin go up to them + get your pic taken, ’tis a joy + they love it.
That’s it for today folks ( I do believe). Now I must go on ebay + find a straw hat + gollishes. The James Joyce Centre has a list of happenings.

It’s sweltering in Ireland today. Beautiful day to be out an’ about. So I got myself a pair of dark brown cork soled Birkenstocks.

Big surprise at how much they cost. I was kinda expecting to have to say no, can’t afford them today. lol, I’m trying to curtail myself these days. But they were only 70 euro! So at 70 euro I bought them. A cool elderly couple appear to have the franchise on Wicklow Street in Dublin. Lovely and friendly , couldn’t do enough. Got extra holes punched. The nice man explained that Birkenstock have reduced the cost of the stock supplied and that they the franchise are passing on the reduction! A BIG lesson here for all foreign/ franchises/ stores. It’s great to be served by older folk, they just have it, particularity stands out when you get good customer service. As opposed to indifferent service. Will be back there. Headed over to Henry Street to get some shorts. Went to Penny’s. So bargain of the week is in Penny’s where I got three pairs of classic chino shorts for 5 euro each!

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