Some Gigs in Cork in May

Fri 01 May 2009 8:00PM Peter Broderick (Efterklang / Bella Union) + Ian Whitty & Daithí O Crane Lane Theatre €10
Sat 02 May 2009 8:00PM Paddy Casey ** rescheduled from January ** Cyprus Avenue €25
Tue 05 May 2009 9:00PM Foy Vance w/ Iain Archer Cyprus Avenue €11
Fri 08 May 2009 8:00PM Super Extra Bonus Party The Pavilion €10
Fri 08 May 2009 8:30PM Jerry Fish & the Mudbug Club Cyprus Avenue €20
Thur 14 May 2009 9.00pm Mick Flannery De Barra’s €20
Fri 15 May 2009 8:00PM The 4 Of Us (unplugged) Cyprus Avenue €15
Sat 16 May 2009 9:00PM Delorentos Cyprus Avenue €15
Sun 17 May 2009 8:00PM Paul Brady Everyman Palace €31
Wed 20 May 2009 8:30PM Laura Izibor Cyprus Avenue €16
Sat 23 May 2009 9: 00PM Director Cyprus Avenue €13.50
Sun 24 May 2009 8:00PM Tricky Cork Opera House €30
Sun 31 May 2009 9:00PM Stone Roses Experience Cyprus Avenue €10

Dictionary Corner #43

Prescient – adjective

Having knowledge of events before they take place.

- DERIVATIVES prescience noun presciently adverb

- ORIGIN from Latin praescire ‘know beforehand’

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

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Waveriders

Waveriders is essentially a surfing document with an Irish perspective. It was directed by Joel Conroy and narrated by Cillian Murphy. The film looks back at the roots of modern surfing and finds that an Irish/Hawaiian guy called George Freeth is at the heart of today’s sport. George Freeth was the son of an Irish man and Hawaiian women. He was responsible for the rebirth of surfing (the sport of Hawaiian Kings) in the early twentieth century. He moved to California and taught people how to surf while also spreading knowledge about lifesaving and implementing techniques still used today. The film also explains how surfing pioneers travelled from California to other countries in the sixties and seventies in search of new surfing spots. The Malloy Brothers, three American brothers feature in the film a number of times. They have travelled around the world surfing and earning a living from their experiences. They have been coming to Ireland for over a decade and have surfed in Bundoran and around the Cliffs of Moher. Kelly Slater, multiple world champion, also pops up in the film and comes across as a bit of a misanthropist. Despite the fact that he dislikes the cold and likes to surf alone he still managed to enjoy his surfing experience in Ireland. He looks his most comfortable when he is surfing, like he was made to be on a surfboard and looks as relaxed riding a wave as most people do when they are having a cup of tea. The climax of the film is when a group of surfers go out in the middle of a storm and ride some of the biggest waves that Ireland has ever seen. Some of the footage in the film is amazing and would make you want to jump in a car and explore the west coast of Ireland. I came out of the film wanting to buy a better camera and go on a road trip around Ireland. The film also has a great soundtrack with songs from Jape, Rory Gallagher, U2 and the Cinematic Orchestra. It is great to see an Irish film doing so well and enjoying both nominations and wins for many cinematic awards.

Some of the awards and nominations that the film has received:

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at the Dublin International Film Festival 2008
Winner Best Feature Documentary Award, IFTA 2009
Winner Best Feature Documentary Award, BIFF 2009
WINNER Best Documentary Award, CFM 2009
Shortlist Grierson Awards 2008
Official Selection Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009
Nominated for two IFTA Awards 2009: Best Sound & Best Feature Doc
Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival 2009

*Gate Multiplex, Cork - Waveriders - 9.30pm

Dictionary Corner #42

Paua – noun

A large New Zealand abalone (shellfish), whose shell is used to make ornaments and jewellery.

- ORIGIN Maori

BellX1 in Dolans

I went to see BellX1 play in Dolan’s in Limerick at the end of March. I hadn’t been to Dolan’s before and I really liked it as a venue. ‘Villagers’ played support for BellX1 and despite the fact that the lead singer looked about twelve years old, they were good. They currently have an EP called ‘Hollow Kind’ out and I’m quite attached to the song ‘Pieces’. I think they are playing in Cork soon so there is an opportunity to catch them in the near future. They are also playing at Electric Picnic as are BellX1. We were very close to the front of the stage for this gig which was a bit disconcerting but I still managed to enjoy it. :-) For once the people around us weren’t too mental, bar the group to our right who persisting in yelling out the words of every song. I have no problem with people singing along, as that's all part of the gig but don’t yell out the words during the quieter songs!!! BellX1 played another blinder of a gig and had the crowd begging for more.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van Der Post

Dictionary Corner #41

Stochastic – adjective (technical)

Not precisely predictable; random or affected by chance.

ORIGIN – Greek stokhastikos

Aaron Dillon Gigs

I’ve seen Aaron Dillon play twice in the last couple of weeks. The first gig was in An Cruibin, which used to be the Lobby and it all still looks kind of similar upstairs. I really enjoyed this gig. The atmosphere was great and the crowd in general were appreciative. The other things that made the gig really enjoyable were that I had a good seat and two yummy hot toddies! Aaron Dillon and his band played a good range of songs from his Brown Envelope album as well as some new songs. I particularly liked one song which I think is called ‘Seasons’. It’s always great when a band plays a new song and they really give it some welly. :-) The second gig was a free gig upstairs in the Roundy and this wasn’t as enjoyable. The band played well but the noise from the audience was quite loud. It meant that the band had to play harder and some of the quieter songs were a bit forced because they were competing with chatter from the back. The best part of this gig was the rousing rendition of the Transvestite song (Everybody’s Messing with their Sexuality) at the end.

Happy Easter!

History of Hollywood - Modern Hollywood

On January 22, 1947, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began operating in Hollywood. In December of that year, The Public Prosecutor became the first network television series to be filmed in Hollywood. And in the 1950s, music recording studios and offices began moving into Hollywood. Other businesses, however, continued to migrate to different parts of the Los Angeles area, primarily to Burbank. Much of the movie industry remained in Hollywood, although the district's outward appearance changed.

In 1952, CBS built CBS Television City on the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, on the former site of Gilmore Stadium. CBS's expansion into the Fairfax District pushed the unofficial boundary of Hollywood further south than it had been. CBS's slogan for the shows taped there was "From Television City in Hollywood..."

During the early 1950s the famous Hollywood Freeway was constructed from Four Level Interchange interchange in downtown Los Angeles, past the Hollywood Bowl, up through Cahuenga Pass and into the San Fernando Valley. In the early days, streetcars ran up through the pass, on rails running along the central reservation

The famous Capitol Records building on Vine St. just north of Hollywood Boulevard was built in 1956. The building houses offices and recording studios which are not open to the public, but its circular design looks like a stack of 7-inch (180 mm) vinyl records.

The now derelict lot at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Serrano Avenue was once the site of the illustrious Hollywood Professional School, whose alumni reads like a Hollywood Who's Who of household "names". Many of these former child stars attended a "farewell" party at the commemorative sealing of a time capsule buried on the lot.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 and the first star was placed in 1960 as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry. Honorees receive a star based on career and lifetime achievements in motion pictures, live theatre, radio, television, and or music, as well as their charitable and civic contributions.

In 1985, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places protecting important buildings and ensuring that the significance of Hollywood's past would always be a part of its future.

In June 1999, the long-awaited Hollywood extension of the Los Angeles County Metro Rail Red Line subway opened, running from Downtown Los Angeles to the Valley, with stops along Hollywood Boulevard at Western Avenue, Vine Street and Highland Avenue.
The Kodak Theatre.

The Kodak Theatre, which opened in 2001 on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue, where the historic Hollywood Hotel once stood, has become the new home of the Oscars.

While motion picture production still occurs within the Hollywood district, most major studios are actually located elsewhere in the Los Angeles region. Paramount Pictures is the only major studio still physically located within Hollywood. Other studios in the district include the aforementioned Jim Henson (formerly Chaplin) Studios, Sunset Gower Studios, and Raleigh Studios.

While Hollywood and the adjacent neighborhood of Los Feliz served as the initial homes for all of the early television stations in the Los Angeles market, most have now relocated to other locations within the metropolitan area. KNBC began this exodus in 1962, when it moved from the former NBC Radio City Studios located at the northeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street to NBC Studios in Burbank. KTTV pulled up stakes in 1996 from its former home at Metromedia Square in the 5700 block of Sunset Boulevard to relocate to Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles. KABC-TV moved from its original location at ABC Television Center (now branded The Prospect Studios) just east of Hollywood to Glendale in 2000, though the Los Angeles bureau of ABC News still resides at Prospect. After being purchased by 20th Century Fox in 2001, KCOP left its former home in the 900 block of North La Brea Avenue to join KTTV on the Fox lot. The CBS Corporation-owned duopoly of KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV moved from its longtime home at CBS Columbia Square in the 6100 block of Sunset Boulevard to a new facility at CBS Studio Center in Studio City. KTLA, located in the 5800 block of Sunset Boulevard, and KCET, in the 4400 block of Sunset Boulevard, are the last broadcasters (television or radio) with Hollywood addresses.

Additionally, Hollywood once served as the home of nearly every radio station in Los Angeles, all of which have now moved into other communities. KNX was the last station to broadcast from Hollywood, when it left CBS Columbia Square for a studio in the Miracle Mile in 2005.

In 2002, a number of Hollywood citizens began a campaign for the district to secede from Los Angeles and become, as it had been a century earlier, its own incorporated municipality. Secession supporters argued that the needs of their community were being ignored by the leaders of Los Angeles. In June of that year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors placed secession referendums for both, Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, on the ballots for a "citywide election." To pass, they required the approval of a majority of voters in the proposed new municipality as well as a majority of voters in all of Los Angeles. In the November election, both referendums failed by wide margins in the citywide vote.

Hollywood is served by several neighborhood councils, including the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council (HUNC) and the Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council. These two groups are part of the network of neighborhood councils certified by the City of Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, or DONE. Neighborhood Councils cast advisory votes on such issues as zoning, planning, and other community issues. The council members are voted in by stakeholders, generally defined as anyone living, working, owning property, or belonging to an organization within the boundaries of the council

History of Hollywood Motion picture industry

Filmmaking in the greater Los Angeles area preceded the establishment of filmmaking in Hollywood. The Biograph Company filmed the short film A Daring Hold-Up in Southern California in Los Angeles in 1906. The first studio in the Los Angeles area was established by the Selig Polyscope Company in Edendale, with construction beginning in August 1909.

In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and others. They started filming on a vacant lot in downtown Los Angeles. The company decided to explore new territories and traveled five miles (8 km) north to the little village of Hollywood, which was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first film ever shot in Hollywood called In Old California, a one-reel melodrama set in Mexican colonial-era California in the 1800s. The movie company stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York.

The first studio in Hollywood was established by the New Jersey-based Centaur Co., which wanted to make westerns in California. They rented an unused roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard at the corner of Gower, and converted it into a movie studio in October 1911, calling it Nestor Studio after the name of the western branch of their company. The first feature film made specifically in a Hollywood studio, in 1914, was The Squaw Man, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel,[11] and was filmed at the Lasky-DeMille Barn amongst other area locations.

By 1915, the majority of American films were being produced in the Los Angeles area.

Four major film companies — Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO and Columbia — had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios

History of Hollywood Earlier.

In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. A locally popular etymology is that the name "Hollywood" traces to the ample stands of native Toyon or "California Holly", that cover the hillsides with clusters of bright red berries each winter. But this and accounts of the name coming from imported holly then growing in the area, are not confirmed. The name Hollywood was coined by H. J. Whitley,[7] the Father of Hollywood. He and his wife, Gigi, came up with the name while on their honeymoon in 1886, according to Margaret Virginia Whitley's memoir.[7] By 1900, the community then called Cahuenga had a post office, newspaper, hotel and two markets, along with a population of 500. Los Angeles, with a population of 100,000 people at the time, lay 10 miles (16 km) east through the citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent and the trip took two hours. The old citrus fruit packing house would be converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood.


The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel, the first major hotel in Hollywood, was opened in 1902, by H. J. Whitley, the President of the Los Pacific Bolevard and Development Company of which he was a major shareholder. He was eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue. Still a dusty, unpaved road, it was regularly graded and graveled.

Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. Among the town ordinances was one prohibiting the sale of liquor except by pharmacists and one outlawing the driving of cattle through the streets in herds of more than two hundred. In 1904, a new trolley car track running from Los Angeles to Hollywood up Prospect Avenue was opened. The system was called "the Hollywood Boulevard." It cut travel time to and from Los Angeles drastically.

By 1910, because of an ongoing struggle to secure an adequate water supply, the townsmen voted for Hollywood to be annexed into the City of Los Angeles, as the water system of the growing city had opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct and was piping water down from the Owens River in the Owens Valley. Another reason for the vote was that Hollywood could have access to drainage through Los Angeles´ sewer system. With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue was changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers in the new district changed. For example, 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, became 6400 Hollywood Boulevard; and 100 Cahuenga Boulevard, at Hollywood Boulevard, changed to 1700 Cahuenga Boulevard.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of cinema of the United States. The nickname Tinseltown refers to the glittering, superficial nature of Hollywood and the movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding cities such as Burbank and the Los Angeles Westside, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production and lighting companies, remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.

Many historic Hollywood theaters are used as venues and concert stages to premiere major theatrical releases and host the Academy Awards. It is a popular destination for nightlife and tourism and home to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Although it is not the typical practice of the city of Los Angeles to establish specific boundaries for districts or neighborhoods, Hollywood is a recent exception. On February 16, 2005, Assembly Members Goldberg and Koretz introduced a bill to require California to keep specific records on Hollywood as though it were independent. For this to be done, the boundaries were defined. This bill was unanimously supported by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. Assembly Bill 588 was approved by the Governor on August 28, 2006, and now the district of Hollywood has official borders. The border can be loosely described as the area east of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, south of Mulholland Drive, Laurel Canyon, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Barham Boulevard, and the cities of Burbank and Glendale, north of Melrose Avenue and west of the Golden State Freeway and Hyperion Avenue. This includes all of Griffith Park and Los Feliz—two areas that were hitherto generally considered separate from Hollywood by most Angelenos. The population of the district, including Los Feliz, as of the 2000 census was 167,664 and the median household income was $33,409 in 1999.

As a portion of the city of Los Angeles, Hollywood does not have its own municipal government, but does have an official, appointed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who serves as an honorary "Mayor of Hollywood" for ceremonial purposes only. Johnny Grant held this position for decades, until his death on January 9, 2008

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50 Best Irish Music Acts Right Now

Four music journalists from the Irish Times ‘Ticket’ have picked out their top 50 Irish music acts now.

Three rules were:

1. Solo acts had to have been born on the island of Ireland or to hold an Irish passport.
2. In the case of bands, half or more of the members had to have been born on the island of Ireland or to hold an Irish passport.
3. Bands had to have recorded or released music since January 2008, or to have played a gig since January 2008.

50: MICHAEL KNIGHT
49: DAVID TURPIN
48: SAVILLE
47: ANN SCOTT
46: MICK FLANNERY
45: EVIL HARRISONS
44: THE BLIZZARDS
43: IAIN ARCHER
42: HEATHERS
41: THE SCRIPT
40: DARK ROOM NOTES
39: ASH
38: THE JIMMY CAKE
37: REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
36: IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD
35: DUKE SPECIAL
34: DAMIEN RICE
33: SI SCHROEDER
32: MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL
31: THE SPOOK OF THE THIRTEENTH LOCK
30: GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
29: JULIE FEENEY
28: COLM MAC CON IOMAIRE
27: CATHAL COUGHLAN
26: KATIE KIM
25: DAVID KITT
24: MY BLOODY VALENTINE
23: MESSIAH J THE EXPERT
22: SNOW PATROL
21: IMELDA MAY
20: OPPENHEIMER
19: CHEQUERBOARD
18: U2
17: CAP PAS CAP
16: DELORENTOS
15: JINX LENNON
14: FIONN REGAN
13: RSAG
12: THE DIVINE COMEDY
11: THE FRAMES/SWELL SEASON/GLEN HANSARD
10: HALFSET
9: BELL X1
8: ADRIAN CROWLEY
7: RÓISÍN MURPHY
6: VILLAGERS
5: LISA HANNIGAN
4: FIGHT LIKE APES
3: CATHY DAVEY
2: JAPE
1: DAVID HOLMES

Nialler 9 has his own list of ‘50 Best Irish Music Acts Right Now’ which you can check out here.

Dictionary Corner #40

Penumbra – noun (pl. penumbrae or penumbras)

The partially shaded outer region of the shadow casted by an object.

- DERIVATIVES penumbral adjective

- ORIGIN from Latin paene ‘almost’ + umbra ‘shadow’

Quote of the Week

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Harriet Martineau
English economist & novelist (1802 - 1876)