Do you remember those sketches

Do you remember those sketches from ‘A bit of Fry and Laurie’, about the two businessmen Peter and John and the never visible ‘Marjorie’ talking bullshit bingo avant la lettre? Well I sat next to them on the plane from Dublin to Amsterdam. The Irish version of them. The younger one talked incessantly. ‘You know, Tony, I think we can do some DAMN good business with this guy in Amsterdam. I feel it. And I don’t mean just business. No. DAMN GOOD business.’ One and a half hours of this talk. And I was trying to sleep. I could have rammed the lifesuit down his throat. He was an ugly little runt too, not at all suave and sexy like Stephen Fry. (OK, maybe you won’t say so from his pictures, but trust me, Stephen Fry is suave and sexy.)

Elise thinks REM are soulless

Elise thinks REM are soulless and unoriginal. My jaw dropped. 90% of the music out there is soulless and unoriginal. To me REM are one of the few bands with ANY soul, talent and balls. Highly original. Moving. Consistent. Amazing. Stipe’s a poet. And I’m not even a huge fan. No really. I wonder what music Elise listens to?

I bought this wonderful book

I bought this wonderful book of Irish quotations in Dublin and here’s a great one: ‘God made the grass, the air and the rain; and the grass, the air and the rain made the Irish; and the Irish turned the grass, the air and the rain back into God.’ Sean O’Faolain, 1958.

Talk about Irish and water… there’s another saying that goes: if you’d move all the Dutch to Ireland and all the Irish to Holland, the Dutch would make Ireland rich and powerful, and Holland would sink.

Because… (third and last saying) God created the world in 6 days. And on the 7th day, the Dutch created Holland.

But in my world, the Irish need the Dutch to take their pictures and build their websites. And the Dutch need the Irish to learn how to live.

This is my mate Dave-id.

This is my mate Dave-id. I seem to be the only one left to call him that, cause around Dublin he’s know as ‘Scott’. But when I was introduced to him he was Dave-id Busarus Scott Hamster Logical Spastic Society…

He was one of the original members of the Virgin Prunes and he’s since gone solo. This picture is from his latest press kit. Read his bio on his site, and listen to some of his music in real and mp3.