Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
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Faith Alive
1. “Jesus will never leave your flat…” Christian ska exists!? This changes everything.
2. Emoticons be gone! The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Fatwas… Read the rest of this entry »
Tripping Along the Ledge: Still Vertical After All These Year
Tripping Along the Ledge is one today. Now personally, I don’t celebrate birthdays. I consider them kinda effeminate. But this my website’s birthday we’re talking about. And a one-year-old website is kinda like a child. And well, fuck it, I can’t think of anything else to write about today. (Shit, the anniversary isn’t even really until Sunday!)
So what the hell… Read the rest of this entry »
Breaking News: Singer-songwriter targeted by Hamas militants
From the Associated Press this morning… Read the rest of this entry »
I Know It’s Over (1986)
Album filler turned live tour de force. Very specially for Colin!
He was first to use the phrase “Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye” in the modern, ironic sense…
It met with heavy criticism at the time, of course. But that usage has since become standard. Read the rest of this article here.
Is a Woman (2002)
Twenty Benson & Hedges, chewing gum and a packet of tmm-pmms…
The shop assistant squints. “What?” Aidan whispers it again. “A packet of tampons!” Read the rest of this article here.
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night!
Find myself mooching around the supermarket again tonight. I swear to God, I never know what I want to eat. I’m pretty sure I hate microwave lasagne. But if I do another lap of the aisles, maybe I’ll like microwave lasagne. It’s weird how it works.
The Adrian Kennedy Phone Show is being piped in. He’s talking to the publisher of a new Irish pornographic magazine. As usual, the city’s emptiest vessels will be invited to air their imbecilic thoughts once the phone lines open. But first the host gets the ball rolling. Read the rest of this entry »
Unfinished Christy Moore song
“Now the politicians in the Dail are smokin’ crystal meth
And Charlie Haughey’s on the lawn, playin’ chess with death
The CIA are on line three, lookin’ for Bertie Ahern
Sayin’ there’s men in orange jumpsuits escaped into the Burren,
Singin’ ooohhhh…” Read the rest of this article here.
In Dreams (1987)
One of the oddest and most beautiful songs ever written. Look out for Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and T-Bone Burnett backing Orbison on this 1987 live recording.