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In Russia they call me "Патрик"

۞ I play bass guitar & synthesiser (hurrah for monophony!). Sometimes I think I can play drums too. Also, I once picked out 'Take My Breath Away' on the piano. I'll always be proud of that.

۞ I like Chinese & Indian food... yum!

۞ I like hanging out with my friends, going to gigs, partying, and [occasionally] being alone.

۞ When I'm out you'll find me drinking either Jack Daniel's & Coke, Corona, or Heineken. If you see me drinking Vodka & Red Bull then you'll know I've passed the point of no return! When I'm at home I like to enjoy the occasional glass of absinthe.

۞ I enjoy intelligent conversations. Silly conversations are fine too...

۞ I can't dance.

۞ Someday I'm going to own a black '78 Pontiac Trans Am Firebird with a golden phoenix on the hood.

۞ I write lyrics that I've never shown anyone. I also have a couple of ideas for short stories in my head at the moment.

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Patrick Conboy says:
"UPDATED 16/4/08: www.garfieldsghost.com" (11 week ago) me too!

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Tool, The Cure, The Smiths, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails, Will Haven, Deftones, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Roy Orbison, Pearl Jam, Damian Marley, The Go! Team, The Pixies, Skalpel, Le Tigre, Smashing Pumpkins, The Presets, Luscious Jackson, Atari Teenage Riot, Muse, 2ManyDJs, Far, God is an Astronaut, Cansei de ser Sexy, Soundgarden, theSTART, Ladytron, Interpol, The Clash, James Brown, The Rapture, Kasabian, The Doors, At the Drive In, Human Waste Project, The Prodigy, Pitchshifter, Earthtone 9, Depeche Mode, Jeff Buckley, Nina Hynes, Portishead, The Kinks, Queen Adreena, The Beach Boys, My Bloody Valentine, Therapy?, Alice Donut, The Chalets, Rammstein, The Beatles, Kerbdog, Tori Amos, Metallica, A Perfect Circle, Marilyn Manson, The Chemical Brothers, Trans Am, The Sex Pistols, Jimi Hendrix, Whipping Boy, Queens of the Stone Age, Editors, Hole, Pulp, Joy Division, Primal Scream, The Psychedelic Furs, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp, Muse, etc. etc!
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Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Dazed and Confused, This is Spinal Tap, Scarface, Trainspotting, Schindler's List, Requiem for a Dream, Sin City, Airplane, Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, Donnie Darko, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and any film where I get to watch Drew Barrymore...
Sports
Soccer... Manchester United! Oh, and the team I play for: Longford Celtic!
Drinks
Jack Daniel's and Coke, Corona, Southern Comfort, Vodka, Absinthe, Skittlebrau (mmm, Skittlebrau!).
Happiest When
Playing/listening to music
Books
On the Road (Jack Kerouac), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson), The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger), Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger), Naked Lunch (William S Burroughs), Ham and Rye (Charles Bukowski), Chickenhawk (Robert Mason), No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman), All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Marie Remarque)
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0 Comment 137 day ago
A Trip to Dublin... Dr Shock... PJ Harvey... Drink, Drink, and More Drink!
The shops and pavements of Dublin are choked with hordes of Christmas shoppers intent on racking up their credit card bills to the limit. It's something I can't stand, as I like being able to walk to where I want to go at a brisk pace. So it's a good thing I'm not shopping. And it's a good thing my destination is away from the main shopping districts, in the more laid back environs of Wexford Street. The destination is Solas, a bar I've frequented ever since I first went to college in Dublin, and I'm heading there for a lunchtime rendezvous with Dr Shock.

As I enter the bar there's no sign of the good doctor, but the cheeky charlatan jumps out from behind me and announces that he followed me all the way down the street (he says he called to me, but I heard nothing...). We grab a couple of drinks, take a seat, and mull over the menu for a good ten minutes before discarding it in favour of the day's special. Today it's Hawaiian burgers. That'll do. A rather attractive Polish waitress takes the order ("you can have my salad if you want," the doctor says to her) and minutes later we're chomping and chewing on the tastiest burgers I've had for quite some time.

We end up staying in Solas for over four hours, having a few Coronas (or Kopparberg in the doctor's case), and talking incessantly. You see, it's been a while since I last met up with Dr Shock - which is unforgivable, really, as he's one of my closest compadres - but we take the opportunity to recount all that's happened since we last talked. Time flies.

At around five o'clock we leave Solas and head across town to my sister Laura's apartment. She's not there but we bump into her housemate Jason as he's going to work. So I get the chance to drop off my bag before going with the doctor to meet Laura.

We find my sister in a city centre bar drinking with some mildly inebriated record label executives. Surreal, eh? All we can do is order some drinks...

A few more rounds are ordered (I've since swapped Coronas for Jack and Cokes) and time passes. The good doctor takes his leave from us, while Laura and I make our way to the Olympia Theatre for the event that has drawn me to Dublin today: PJ Harvey in concert. Oh Polly Jean, how I love thee...

The show is an all-seated affair. Before we arrive at the theatre I'm not sure if PJ is going to have her backing band with her, or if she is going to perform solo. On seeing the stage, my question is answered: there's a piano, guitar and amplifier, a keyboard, and a drum machine grouped closely together while the rest of the stage is left bare. There'll be no backing band tonight.

Soon after, Polly Jean's slight figure emerges from the shadows wearing a decidedly Victorian dress. Whilst readying her guitar, she meekly welcomes the audience before launching into a hypnotic version of 'To Give You My Love'.

When artists perform 'stripped-down' shows and alternative versions of their work there's always the risk that the whole thing will go down like a lead balloon. Not so with PJ Harvey. Her powerful voice and the fullness of sound emanating from her instruments envelop you so much that you completely forget she has no band with her. It's that good.

The nature of the show is such that PJ can interact and talk with the audience, sharing jokes and playing requests ("Oh, is that a journalist? Can we lynch him?"). 'Big Exit', 'Down by the Water', 'Snake', 'Angelene', 'Electric Light', and new song 'When Under Ether' are all aired throughout the course of the evening, as the audience falls further and further under Polly Jean's spell.

When PJ bows and leaves the stage the audience gives her a rousing standing ovation. The clapping and cheering doesn't stop until she reappears for her encore almost five minutes later. Once again she works her magic, which includes a rawkus rendition of 'Sheela-Na-Gig'.

When she departs the stage this time she doesn't reappear, so we head for the exit.

Laura and I walk the short d
2 Comment 196 day ago
Absinthe: History in a Bottle
For the past while I've been reading a book entitled 'Absinthe: History in a Bottle', by Baranby Conrad III. While it may fall somewhat into the 'coffee table' variety of books, it provides a fascinating insight into the history, culture, and general infamy surrounding "lá Fee Vert". Conrad traces absinthe from it's early incarnation as an elixer and 'cure all' in Switzerland, through to its explosion in popularity in the café culture of 19th century France. He also delves into the complicated, and somewhat devious, circumstances resulting in it becoming contraband.

Most people know absinthe for being the drink of choice of many great artists and poets of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and this book reveals just how much the beverage went hand in hand with their creativity. It becomes apparent, however, that far from being the hallucenogen it was claimed to be, the attraction for people such as Baudelaire, Wilde, Hemmingway, and Picasso lay more with the methodical preparation required before the drink was consumed (the author compares the process to the ritual involved with a heroin addict and their paraphernalia), and perhaps to lend some kind of dignity to their alcoholism (with Baudelaire and his associates, at least).

Wormwood, the main ingredient in absinthe, is closely examined and one of it's components, thujone, is identified as having similar effects as marijuana - but only if consumed in vast quantities (interestingly, it is classified as a convulsive poison and an overdose results in fits and spasms, and even death). The level of thujone in absinthe was no greater than that found in most other liquers (although this level is now restricted by law). Of course, 19th century science and medicine was nowhere as advanced as it is today and many leading figures in these fields at the time formed their opinions of the Green Fairy on hear'say and experiments of a dubious nature (It has since been proven that the quantity of thujone in absinthe is so miniscule that alcohol poisoning would occur long before a person could ingest enough absinthe for the chemical to have any effect).

In the end, however, it wasn't absinthe's fabled hallucenogenic qualities that resulted in its downfall; it became the scapegoat for many other - unconnected - problems. Politicians in France blamed it for a variety of the country's many social ills of the time, backed by leading figures in the wine industry who saw absinthe as a major threat to their business. The flawed opinions of leading medical professionals at the time also contributed greatly, naming absinthe as the main 'cause' of alcoholism (whilst prescribing wine as a remedy for the condition).

By the end of World War I, absinthe had become illegal in every European country except Spain. Production fell into the hands of bootleggers, many of whom distilled the drink to supplement meagre incomes so that they could provide for their families. And so it remained for almost 80 years until the ban was repealed. Now, thanks to modern science setting the record straight and improved production methods, it is once again possible, in Europe at least, to sample the delights of this romanticised, and often misunderstood, drink.

If you haven't checked out this book already, I thoroughly recommend that you do (if you hadn't guessed that already). In the meantime, take the time to look at www.wormwoodsociety.org for more information on this opalescent tincture.
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Stassquatch
I'll keep that in mind for next year dude!
2 day ago
Stassquatch
It was okay i suppose. Personally,i would have enjoyed it more if me and my mate didnt get our heads kicked in by a bunch of belgian cunts on the last day.
2 day ago via Mobile
Ais Bo
hey kid! how are ya? still in longford?
3 day ago
Jeanette Brannigan
hiya, my head is in bits 2day but slowly gettin back to normality, if ya can call it that!! I'm glad i was off work 2day, just mopin round the hse lookin for sympathy:L
gettin too old for these mad parties...how sad:L
4 day ago
Sharleen Tuite
i had a fantastic hangover today :)
it was a good party if i say so myself , glad you had fun!!
5 day ago
Alan Lee
Sure is a sexy beast...
2 week ago
Alan Lee
Yeah, made it this far dude. What's the story with ya? Playing any music lately?
2 week ago
Andrea Mc Goey
macaris just doesnt have the same ring to it as deli....:( saturday night... meet ya outside macaris for a soda!! :)
2 week ago
Christine Red-Photography
hey man, how are you? so what dates are the gigs on again? i've decided to go for les plasticines! we'll go on a mad one yeah? i'm looking forward to seeing you! have you wrote that article yet or been in touch with anyone bout it? i haven't done a thing yet!
2 week ago
Vini Casey
Was gonna gasp and guff about Hook EQ in the platz to be! Don Giovanni has scared me too much though!
2 week ago
Christine Red-Photography
hey man what's up?

sorry i've no credit to respond! hmm i think it'll still be just the one for me, and i'm thinking maybe les plasticines cos i've never heard them before. ooh i dunno though! i must ponder some more :D

anyhoo i'll flash ya back when i can afford some credit

toodles :)
3 week ago
Lil Miss Strange
i thought you might at least check with me first to see if its ok.... i feel as though i've been cheated on..... :( :( :(
3 week ago
Lil Miss Strange
don't give him the tooth.... don't do it! it's our thing.... it was out thing!!! :(
3 week ago
Nathan Butt
nuke_tel_aviv@yahoo.com,
its the last time man I swear.....
3 week ago
Nathan Butt
Um.....so like I hear your the man to talk to about gettin a tooth fix?
.....I just need to hear it one last time,i won't do it again man just one last time!
3 week ago
Christine Red-Photography
greetings :D
5 week ago
Lil Miss Strange
yo yo yo! i cannot stand your perfect something don't wanna listen to you no more! :L hee hee.... thank p-boy! just checked my gmail! :D
12 week ago
Nathan Butt
Heeeeey man wats the craic? U around dublin this weekend? Got free tkts for mark lanegan gig saturday night, havta go to work at midnight but will be goin,text me if ya want a ticket!
13 week ago
Lil Miss Strange
Yo yo yo! :) i never checked my email. I'll be home in an hour so i'll check then. Thanks a mill! Have a luv! :)
13 week ago via Mobile