I should have had these clips in the “Irish Blog Awards 2009 – The Interviews” post, but didn’t get time to do much more (’cool’) editing … that is, until now:

This is John Williams… and no, he’s not the famous composer known for his movie scores, white beard and slightly Richard Attenborough -like looks… – although he has, like his more famous namesake, done work on television scores and various other audio productions in his capacity as a sound engineer.

He’s also one of Ireland’s most prolific twitterers. I nabbed him for a few words last Saturday night during a smoke break, and this is what he had to say for himself:

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Also out in the smoking area (isn’t it always they way… the fun times happen out in the bleedin’ freezin’ cold!) was bubbly Cork lady, Catherine – from MyMunster.com – who spoke to me briefly about the site (they connect Munster rugby fans world-wide) and about why she was there at the Irish Blog Awards 2009.

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Unfortunately, the only words I got out of event organiser and blogging supremo Damien Mulley (while the recorder was on, anyway), were the following:


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… so I wandered off and interviewed Rick then.

… and yes, this is the last of these interviews (sadly)!

I know the song is over a decade old, but since that fateful second that the first (who was far from the last) person in the crowd at the Irish Blog Awards in Cork shouted out “You’re GORGEOUS!” at someone on stage, it’s been playing over and over in my brain. It’s one of those songs that, when a DJ plays it, you think “Oh…man! …What a TUNE! I haven’t heard it in ages! (etc. etc.)” and you bop along… and it brings soppy memories flooding back…

Anyway, “You’re GORGEOUS!” became quite the catchphrase for Saturday night’s proceedings… as this picture of Grandad (taken by Donncha, doctored by Twenty) fondly recalls:

So!… A simple blog post for today, as it’s about all my brain can muster after another day of dopey tiredness (and football… hey, I scored a winning goal tonight! Hurrah!) Here’s the video for the song of the moment, the song that’s been stuck in my head since that fateful night (although I can’t for the life of me remember if DJ Brian Greene played it at the aftershow disco… I was probably too busy jumping on the bouncy castle…)

Here it is: Babybird’s lovely little ditty – “You’re Gorgeous“. Enjoy!

Went to Soundcheck’s Battle of the Bloggers last night. It kicked ass, but I was driving and so drinking Bavaria 0.0% (a “beer” which I can’t recommend … in the slightest). Might have kicked ass all the more if I was drinking and not driving… dunno.

Anyway, it’s gonna be a hectic weekend… I still have to rewrite some scripts for college, still have to pack clothes, etc. – am working at 5pm (in 15 mins time), will get home at about 2am, am flying to Cork at 11.35am (although why Jason, who I’m sharing a flight & hotel room with, decided to go that early I don’t know). Sorry, Rapture Ponies, I’ll miss your pre-flight drinks.

I’ll be staying in a business class room in the Cork International Airport Hotel – which looks the absolute business! That’s extra handy, ‘cos it’s the hotel where the Irish Blog Awards, hosted by the incomparable Rick O’Shea are taking place and it’s only a 5 minute walk from the airport. And I’ll have a few pints, of course. Win, all round

On the downside… I won’t get much sleep tonight.

Best of luck to all the finalists in the awards – I have my ideas of my favourites and those I expect to win, but I won’t mention them yet! I’m thinking I might be live-tweeting/twitpiccing the results as they happen. Oh, and I’ll be bringing my recorder, just in case. (Have to record an interview and vox-pop for a college assignment…)

Anyone who’s going, see you there! Should be a crackin’ night.

(Posted under the influence.)

(of alcohol, that is.)

My blog has been intermittently offline for the past couple of days due to a combination of a> me trying to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 and b> my web host’s abject inability to understand what’s going on. To all the 10 or 12 of you who actually read this shit… sorry about that.

Rest assured that a> the blog is now back online (and I won’t try “upgrading” again without having a nice fast “downgrade” plan in place should things go wrong)… and b> I’m looking into changing hosts.

In other news, as you’ll have noticed if you follow my twitter, I’ve decided to start being more … eh … cool (by – among other things – going to cool events like this one where I get to meet cool people),- oh and yeah – to grow a beard… just to, as I said to a friend, “try it on”… as I told her, “it’s like going into the changing room in a clothes shop, seeing if something suits me… except I’m in there for two weeks”. Yes.

A few girls in my past told me that they’d find a beard a total turn off. For some reason, in my “happy being a singleton” state, that spurs me on all the more.

Incidentally, I’m totally impresed with my one day’s growth,… it says a lot for my face that it can shove out THAT much hair in 24 little hours since the last “razing”…

Yeah, my face rocks!

Blogging is going to be fairly “thin on the ground” here for a wee while as my laptop is basically dying.

There’s a fault with the power input section of the motherboard and it’s only charging the battery when the power is OFF. When it’s ON, the battery discharges fully within about 20 minutes and the machine shuts down. It won’t run off the mains alone. I’ve tried a few things to get this fixed myself but to no avail and frankly, as it’s over 5 years old and well out of warranty by now, it looks like it’s time to put it “out to pasture”, as it were.

Will be a wee while before I can afford to shell out for a new one though, so blogging will be light for now. For your blogtertainment (suuuuure, it can be a word…), why not check out Rick, Damien, Ken, Twenty or Ruairí? G’wan…