Las Vegas is crazy. Seriously. I was looking for some decent hotel rooms and was recommended the Hooters Casino Hotel. Yes folks, there is a hotel themed around the Hooters “restaurant” chain. Can you imagine what the room service will be like?
Crushed to the front of the “stage” at Geoffs with the alt. scene going mad behind me and The Chalets going even bigger in front of me was about the best experience I have had in Waterford since I moved here. When Peepee of The Chalets suggested the crowd lick the person in front of them some mad boy next to me yelled he wanted to lick the drummer.
Murphys Live at Geoffs last night was a blast. The place was packed, the Murphys was flowing and the three bands went large. The Chalets, The Trains and Ashley Sheehan and the Mute really put on a great show. It was good to see such a range of music in Waterford.
I know The Chalets are available on iTunes Ireland, Checkin is a lovely album, but I am not sure about the other two. However you can get a podcast of the demo tapes for the Murphys Live tour off of iTunes, just search for The Chalets or for Murphys Live.
I just realised the last time I stayed in a hotel was 11 years ago when I was 15. The family, nothing mobbish I assure you, had moved down to Cape Town and we stayed at the Holiday Inn, all four of us in one room, for a week or so. Since then whenever I have travelled it has been camping, B&Bs or the backseat of a car (that happened in Scotland on the Isle of Skye. I woke up to inquisitive cows standing around the car which I had parked in a field. Bloody tourists eh.) One trip up to Joburg a few years back I stayed at a motel but that is hardly a hotel, even if they did serve us G&Ts by the pool.
I can thoroughly recommend Dooley’s Hotel on the Waterford quay. I spent the night there after locking myself out of my house last night. I checked in at 3am with the helpful night manager and had no problems getting a room. I don’t know what other hotels in the area cost but at €65 per person per night I was happy. The room was modern, clean and well stocked. In the morning I came downstairs and while they arranged a cab to work for me I had a fine breakfast (included in the room price.) I could easily start each day pouring tea from a silver pewter teapot.
It was strange explaining to the night manager why the address I entered into the register was in Waterford. He kept pointing out that I was South African, so I must be on holiday. He couldn’t get his head around the fact that I couldn’t get into my house and just wanted a place to crash for a few hours. Though I admit this probably doesn’t happen often.
Tonight is going to be felt well into tomorrow I fear.
Free drink + head cold + dancing + bands + late night == farked.
So if you are in Waterford then head on over to Geoffs for some free Murphys and music tonight (the 23rd.) It is part of the Murphys Live tour. At Geoffs you’ll get to hear Ashley Sheehan and the Mute, The Trains and The Chalets.
Text me (+353 86 896 8944) if you get there, I’ll be the dork with the big camera.
People who think evolution is a load of crock often use Lego to highlight how building bricks randomly bumped together don’t form anything. They transfer this to the elements, molecules and other chemistry matters on which Lego has little bearing. Their arguement is that if Lego can’t form complex shapes from component pieces then life, love, the universe and everything else that evolution may have touched also cannot.
Well. After having just spent 10 minutes unravelling the knot the earphones for my iPod nano arranged themselves into I have to disagree. Given enough time I am sure the cord could form, say, an eyeball or Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
I am reading up on IPR law, oh the joy, and came across this line:
whether it was something that was the employees duty to invent
Good lord. “duty to invent”, what an awful way to put it.
It just hailed for 1 minute here. Little hailstones bouncing off the walls. Riding home this evening is going to be so much fun.
Canon have announced the Canon EOS 30D digital SLR, a minor update of the Canon EOS 20D. I think a good number of people were excepting a lot more from the 30D, it has been talked about for years now.
Having recently bought a 20D I can safely say I won’t feel any pain about not having waited for the 30D. The only new features of the 30D which I would want are; the 2.5″ LCD, 100,000 cycle shutter and the spot-meter. The last is a welcome improvement. Also the 30D is apparently going to be priced lower than the 20D.
Sadly Canon are persisting in the DirectPrint nonsense and have put a whole, physical, non-customisable button on the back of the 30D for it. First the 5D and now the 30D, soon every DSLR. Why they think any DSLR above a 350D needs this is beyond me.
