Check this out!

Takeover 6 EP! featuring Redmonk aka Killiano & Ed Devane and Tim of course and other people I don't know but I'm sure are lovely gents.It is doing brilliantly..I reccommend you all to go buy it NOW!
Yay.


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REVIEWS:

We're loving this sick 4 track sampler from Belfast's Takeover label featuring a mish-mash of artists doing some ill underground breaks/electro and dub-style shit. This 5 tracker cuts a deep path thru electro, dubstep, breaks and dancehall with our fave being the Ed Devane/Redmonk/Thatboytim-produced "Guilty Feet Got No Rhythm", a firing slice of spannered breakbeat pressure.

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AND........


The Belfast Takeover crew come up with another showcase for these new and not-so-new artists, fitting five tracks of varying style and consistently high quality onto a single slab of vinyl. Plenty of unexpected sonic treats here, with a common theme: bass. These five tracks cut across several genres - electro, dubstep, dub techno, breaks, dancehall, straight dub... there are some truly sparkling gems here from Black Sea Project, Deverb, Ed Devane, Redmonk, and Thatboytim.... so much talent in one place... great, innit?!

on this site!

GRADUATION!!!!!

I'll be honest I stole all these from lili's blog but only cos I can't do my own photees til I go back to Dublin...



I am so Smart. I am so Smart. S.M.R.T...

Ali McBeal and Alligators in the Floor

This morning was baaaad......I woke up with an ali mc beal song in my head after dreaming about a 4year old boy who had the best aim in the west shooting stickmen soldiers.......actually that dream was kinda cool but the dream I had before that......I was talking to Roisin about 'where my life is going' and I realised at the end of the dream that my life had gone 'so digital, sob'.........No clue what I meant by that but it explained everything for me in the dream..... it sounds ridiculously lame anyway.......
yeah so I woke up with an ali mc beal tune in my head and it was one of those mornings you CANNOT move........I tried to think of all the nice things happening this week- moving house, getting paid, killians gig, soup for lunch, mojitos on pay day, nice clothes to wear.......nothing worked...I would happily have given up all that for the morning in bed......but of course I did get up but didn't have time for breakfast and hurried about emptying the muesli jar and ladling soup into it because we'd left all the lunch boxes in work.....all the time fuming about that dumbass ali mc beal song and trying to figure out what 'my life has gone so digital' means.
Work started out SOOOOOOOO boring I felt like crying.....but then den den DEHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A giant alligator started breaking up through the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well thats what I thought....we didn't know what was causing it but the floor was coming up in the shape of a giant alligator....the tiles were cracking and snapping and raising up......Killian (the legend) started telling everyone bout that film the Tremors where the giant alligators break up through peoples floors......
Everyone was so freaked and screaming and jumping about.....Earthquake! Giant Alligators! Building collapsing!!!!
It was very exciting....
It's stopped now and everyone's back to work.... with a few worrying hills in the floor and burst open tiles.....I'm daydreaming the way I used to in school....maybe the office will have to be shut down for a week for repairs........like in Scoil Lorcain when the roof was leaky and we all got three days off........but stinker supervisor said that we'd work from the store-room if that happens......
In other news I have €6.30 til payday...which, thank god, is Wednesday...and James Blunt is playing AGAIN on the goddamn spanish radio....

PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!

While checking loquo for jobs or flats I always look at the pets section....NOT cos I'm getting a dog but just to dream......and cos Killianos laptop is sick and Eds moved out I cant do any of my own photees of dublin for my blog so I will put these up. CUTE!!!!!!

BARK BARK

I dreamt about the hound Jess this morning...we were on Killiney beach and I was throwing stones for her to chase and she was pegging it up and down the beach and we were both having the best laugh. Then I found a green tennis ball and threw it for her and it bounced so high and the two of us laughed and chased in and out of the spray and I think it might have been the best dream I've ever had.
She is a cool dog.

I WAS IN DUBLIN!!!!!

Photees on the way but here is one of me lili and una after the funnest night out ever. highlight was the dance off me and una had with these two losers in the george and totally kicked them off the stage ha ha...and docdocdocdoc doctor love ian and whats a walnut lili and kebabs and oh the guinness....yawm........
Dublin well and truly rocks.

aoife the other aoife

Emailed me this photo of the road to rio.
Where she is.
Deadly eh?
I miss that fantastic woman.
In case you're checking my blog, I have a bday pressie planned for ya lady and didn't forget I'm just an unpunctual eejit.

Job search in Barcelona

SO.......

I miss photography...I'm planning a fashion shoot soon with model and make-up artist and quite a kick ass idea too if I say so myself so thats cool....
And every week or so I look at loquo, a site to find flats, jobs, roommates, adopt dogs, buy bikes......everything I need in barcelona...
And I always look at the artist jobs even though its nothing but jazz pianists and guitar lessons but still I look.....all the photography jobs are porn. NO KIDDING. Now I wouldn't mind so much if the 'photography' jobs were taking the porn pictures....c'mon americans spend more on porn than they give to charity (bill hicks said so and I believe it) so it's a valid industy..not my first choice but at least its a real photography job if thats your buzz...but its not even taking the porn photos- its modelling in them...of course they're advertised as 'photography job'... For a while Ed and Killian would email me or show me ads but everyones copped on now...BUT........

I saw this ad and I thought...oh......a real photography job..how odd...wow imagine, I could get a photography job....wow it could all start here....

busco fotografo para sesion
But of course.......when I clicked it......

Modelo de 21 años con algo de experiencia busca fotografo para hacer sesion fotografica tipo Playboy.
Agradeceria seriedad y buen gusto.
Al responder remitire diversas formas de contacto asi como muestra fotografica

Even if you don't understand spanish 'tipo playboy' kinda gives it away...

sigh.......

How funny

Aoife

You are fairminded, wise and peaceloving and are always willing to help others. Your mental capabilities and creativity are well marked with wonderful and original ideas which you need to bring to tangible fruition. Perceptive and understanding of others your positive approach to life and influential nature means that you have leadership qualities. There is great potential for success both financially and spiritually.


Killian
Little warlike one : Irish

You have great self-confidence and a charming personality which attracts many friends and admirers. Your innate sense of personal power and ability to lead are ideally suited to positions of authority. Being so versatile and seeing the big picture your ambitions are high and much is usually expected of you. With patience and tenacity you will certainly fulfill the great potential you have for success.



LITTLE WAR LIKE ONE!

A bit strange cos Killian always has dreams of battles....

birdies

I've been wondering lately bout the birds. THE BIRDS! ha ha....
no but I have been wondering- about now all the birds in Ireland fly south, seeing them on the wires always reminds me of going back to school when I was seven and school was fun and Maire my teacher describing how the birds all sit on the telephone wires to have a chat about the best route south for their holidays and if you're lucky you'll see them all take off at the same time...and I always liked to imagine them flying south to spain and africa......and if there was anyway I could go with them and how did they fly over the oceans especially in the dark.......
NOW the thing I'm wondering is- do spanish birds fly south too? Like do they go further south? And also- might we have Irish birds in Barcelona this winter? or is this not far south enough....I daydream A LOT at work and when it gets really boring (which is all the time) I think about these little birds with Dublin accents going wha's the stooory bud to all the little spanish birds.....

Blocked Drains and Custard

So tonight was the first night in a gazillion years that i had the flat to myself..I actually got excited at the thought of having some hours on my own...don't get me wrong my flatmates are without doubt the finest to be found but I like time on my own too.
So I started making custard for dinner..I can see the horror on killians face already..but its what i wanted..
Then I noticed the drain was still blocked in the sink in the kitchen and full of mank mank MANK water....now as Daniel will confirm, I HATE sinks full of manky water and plates and forks swimming in water filled with soggy lettuce and bloated pasta.....if anyone's making a list of how to annoy me thats gotta be near the top...although I think only myself and Daniel make those lists for each other...
So I donned the big rubber gloves ed bought and spent 6 hours trying to unscrew the costic soda bottle to chuck a load of it down the sink...my spanish doesn't stretch to costic soda instructions so I decided chucking 4 shakes down would do it....then I realised that I dont really know what costic soda does or whether I should be chucking it anywhere and these gloves don't really look that tough.......I started imagining my arm melting like in who framed roger rabbit when they have the green goo to kill all the toons......that film rocks...yeah so my arm didn't melt off but my sink is still blocked...
The other thing I did tonight was talk to my mammy which always leaves me feeling so happy.
And then my pops emailed me this photo of him and my mum at my dads do in Doheny and Nesbitts.
I think they look fantastic.

This weekend ROCKED.

We went to the beach on Sunday with a bottle of cava and ham and cheese and croissants and it was fantastic.
Paula started a dancing on one leg cometition and I won ha ha.
So......the 6th of November in Barcelona, No esta muy mal eh?
Not too bad eh?

Fancy soap.

This weekend we also stayed at the silken diagonal snazzmatazz hotel cos Killian won it at the fancy dress party.
we drank margaritas and gin fizzes at the coolio bar and there was the same funfair that was outside sants train station on my birthday. We were so broke we spent our last few euros to go on one of the rides and laughed so much. we lived on pasta and tomatoes til payday but it was worth it. So it was nice to see the funfair again.
Aaaand it was right beside the most ridiculous building i've ever seen but its lit up pretty at night.

And the sky was very very blue.

my new bike!!

Se llamo Monty.
I bought him at a hippie anarchist commune at the end of the green line.
His name is monty cos there was another bike I wanted to get and it said monty on the cross bar. I was gonna buy it but the saddle was broken so i got this one instead and kept the name. My dad posted me a dog called monty cos i missed jess.
I love my bike.

EMILY!!!!!!!!!!!

KIKE!!!!!!!!!!!VICKI!!!!!!!!!BRONEK!!!!!!!!!!!

All came to visit us.

It was so great to see Emmmmmm again, we had so much fun, she's such a lady.

I came up with musica para smoochica for Kike and Vicki. My new favourite phrase.
So cool to see them here in Barcelona after all the fun times they've shown us in Zaragoza.
The photo with Bronek and Paula was taken on the metro seconds before we nearly missed our stop and fell off the train laughing.

In other news: today I bought my bike!

We went out to this hippy anarchist commune at the end of the green line and bought ourselves some rather fabulous bikes. Mine is cooler cos it has a bell.
They were so nice they gave us lots of apples and two jams of pear and peach jam and yummy beer too. Next week we are invited to go back and bake bread or work in the garden.
It is too much fun cycling round barcelona. beep beep.
What wasn't fun was bringing the bikes up the four flights of narrow stairs to our gaff cos we don't have locks yet.
But yay yay yay bike fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and the photos in the bar are of Manny, how cool does he look there? ha ha. And I know the last one aint so great, I'll take a better one but this is our local cocktail bar, it rocks supreme as do the mojitos.

I like this photo of paula.

What a day after the party photo..so wobbly...waiting for a bus home...I like it...

KILLIANO COMIC MASTER

There's this cool little window from paulas room into the sitting room...and when paula has her lamp on in her room when she's sketching fashiony things a rectangle of light shines into our sitting room.
Ok now it was me who got the idea to cut out stencils and make shadow images...sitting on the couch one night....but check out how much killians one rocks!
I have this idea to make animations out of em....a live shadow comic book of sorts i guess....oh and i did cut the splinters that are exploding out of the door....but the rest is killians..



And the last one is one of the drawings that are up on our walls...between paula ed and killiano we've got quite a cool collection at this stage..

I take photees. I like photees.

But these rock.

my pops

eamosworld

Check out my dads blog!!

AWH IM GETTING TIRED

TOO TIRED TO GO BACK AND FIX ALL THE DOUBLES OF PHOTEES AND PUT EM IN PROPER ORDER AND BLAH.....MANANA CHICOS......

ZARAGOZA ZARAGOZA

MET SOME REAL SOUNDIES AT THIS PARTY.

ZARAGOZA 2!!!!!!

ZARAGOZA 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE WENT TO ZARAGOZA AGAIN FOR JOHNS GOING AWAY PARTY AND WE HAD TOO MUCH FUN.