Random Thoughts

[Carnage]

Does anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?

Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.

Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.

This may stem from my years working in pubs...

God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.

[astfgyl]

Paul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.

I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.

I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.

Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".

  I was in a band with a lad who presented the Inspector Gadget theme as a riff one day, convinced he came up with it (and that it was good), Bosco would be an improvement on that anyway.

Re. dream music - I often hear of lads coming up with music like that, one that stuck with me was Devin Townsend.  Where not necessarily from a dream, he would have ideas going to bed or very late that he would act on, and set up his home studio to accommodate this particular whim of creativity.  It stuck with me because countless times I have thought of something lethal musically either way too late to deal with or when already in bed and, of course, forgot it completely when a guitar finally came to hand.  Voice notes only do so much.

I had a dream that I was finally after getting to see nin live but I was disgusted because during a real heavy new tune, Trent reznor was bouncing up and down but he was on an obvious horn so I didn't want to look at him and it was ruining the good vibes.

Also, as befits the tenacious d song, every night before bed while I'm taking off my shoes, I write the best fucking riff ever. Sometimes I run down and grab the bass and all but by the time I start trying to tap it out it's long gone. The misery. I've tried humming into the phone and all and been caught by the missus doing it and she thinks I'm retarded but I've never gotten a single one back. I think McCartney is talking shit but it adds to the mystique or something so maybe he even believes it now.

And @ochoill, I remember that inspector gadget story about as well as the time I wrote a full akercocke riff thinking I'd come up with it myself.

You were always fond of a solo that sounded like the national anthem as well

[astfgyl]

Does anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?

Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.

Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.

This may stem from my years working in pubs...

God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.

This. Have worked in pubs myself and what a load of shit. I'm actually glad they've made it into an extension of pride week this year and fuckin Slava Ukraine last year because it's no worse than waving the tricolour at Tom's local butcher or the fucking lions club or whatever else.

Unfortunately I'm condemned to the bastard parade forever because the kids are all in clubs of one type or another.

I'll be clapping the young lad peacocking his way up the town before I clap the back of his head later over the state of his room and how bad his teachers say he's doing

[astfgyl]

Also I have had several dreams about finding a type o album that doesn't exist while looking through the rock and Pop down in heartbeat city

[ochoill]

And @ochoill, I remember that inspector gadget story about as well as the time I wrote a full akercocke riff thinking I'd come up with it myself.

You were always fond of a solo that sounded like the national anthem as well

I think about the Akercocke riff regularly but jesus I fair forgot about the solo like the national anthem.  Ages I spent writing it only for it to be ruined so badly with those five words that I think the whole song got scrapped and all.  fuckin brutal.  It really was like the national anthem too 

[Hellyeah]

Does anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?

Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.

Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.

This may stem from my years working in pubs...

God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.

As above, great having the day off but the whole happy paddy's day makes me cringe. Was up in Dublin today doing delivery's and the place is ramned with tourists. I really feel sorry for them as I believe we have nothing to offer. Our capital is an over hyped, rip off kip imo.
I would not go near the place only I have to for work.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'd say from a tourist's perspective, it's no more a rip-off than London, Paris, Venice, etc., let alone the Nordic countries.

[Eoin McLove]

OC/Dc

[astfgyl]

Could've hit the TV or film thread with this but watching the War of the Worlds series here and there's a couple of Irish actors and it feels to me like their acting isn't great compared to the French or English but then it occurred to me that they're probably of equal calibre and it's because I don't speak their language or dialect that I miss a lot of the subtle nuances of performance that give away their acting where the Irish lads I know their lingo too well and I can see their lying (or acting if you prefer)? Like the way the acting nearly always looks unreal in subtitled stuff but who knows if it was my own lingo might it actually be shit acting and now I'm on thinking about well wondering about the possibility that there's no such thing as a good or bad performance because it's goodness or indeed badness is entirely subjective and likely strongly influenced by the native language of the individual witnessing said performance?

[astfgyl]

I actually stopped noticing by episode 2 because I was too horrified by the Boston dynamics dogs

[astfgyl]

Just noticed that the bottle of cork dry gin is akin to the pyramids at giza in that it has 8 sides in and around the equinox.

Unreal so I took a good hard whoosh straight out of the neck

[astfgyl]

What was that German thing about getting the cure through drink?

I'm on it

[Caomhaoin]

Katerbier. So says my pal from Franconia. Lad from Berlin who I play soccer with says Konterbier. So you have two goes at it

[astfgyl]

Katerbier. So says my pal from Franconia. Lad from Berlin who I play soccer with says Konterbier. So you have two goes at it

    

I'm going to have to try each a few times

[astfgyl]

https://twitter.com/DanielKarath/status/1639300321422745600?t=rE0urI8BMiM60JDWtN_NFQ&s=19

Hey shepherd, what's the craic like where you are, has the place gone nuts? You'd never know these days.

That video really reminds me of the this is fine meme