Give me 5 just five minutes to feel sorry for myself..
On the sticks twelve weeks today – the whole summer. What exactly have I done, sat on the couch watched the French Open, watched Wimbledon, watched the Tour de France. Did I mention I sat on the couch? With the leg up!
I had a lot of stuff I wanted to do this summer, make videos and stuff, ah well what can you do?
I thought that this week I might be able to throw one of the crutches away and just be down to using one but that’s not going to happen, partly David Guetta’s fault, partly me having to dance to David Guetta.
Took a walk to college this morning, it’s the nearest bank and being honest, felt like it was the longest walk I had ever taken. Bloody hard work!
My aim is to be off the sticks, hopefully, by the time college starts up again. Breaking my leg seems like it would have been easier.
It’s annoying that I don’t know what definitely cause the DVT. But thinking back to when I was in Paris at Easter I remember saying that I had a pain in my leg, This was in April, my leg didn’t get really sore until May 8th.
Tune of the week is a little early this week but hey why not?
On a day when some viral ‘Raygun’ want to take over the internet its nice to see some decent quality stuff out there.
This weeks Tune Of the Week is ‘To My Bones’ from Wallis Bird’s second album ‘New Boots’.
Bloody great track, bloody great video and my mate Aidan is in her band and hogs the camera in the video 😛 (Aidan let me know when you’re going to be in the country – I need coffee now!)
I’m absolutely wrecked! Every inch of me aches! But it was worth it!
We arrived in Marlay Park at about 3pm yesterday, everyone seemed in good form and there was a good vibe!
Still being on crutches I positioned myself in front of the sound and lighting desks, propped up by the barriers.
Burns was DJing and wasn’t too bad. He was followed by Calvin Harris who was excellent. Having seen his DJ set in The Academy on May 8th (the day my leg went) I wasn’t expecting too much. You can’t compare his live set with his DJ set at all. Really like him. Loads of energy! He bounces around the stage a lot.
Calvin Harris was followed by Fake Blood, not a bad DJ but I was waiting for David Guetta.
Dizzee Rascal followed Fake Blood and the vibe of the day changed slightly. I’m not entirely sure it was fair to put Dizzee on a dance line up. Dizzee is the top HipHop act in the UK at the moment and while he has a couple of upbeat dancey tracks, I don’t think the audience gave back to him what he was giving. Saying that once he changed styles during the set from HipHop to more dance, the track he did with Calvin Harris, his new one ‘Holiday’ and Dirty Cash (originally done by Stevie V circa 1991) went down a treat. And of course ‘Bonkers’ sent the nearly 30000 audience, well, Bonkers!
Superstar DJ Guetta
David Guetta was brilliant! His Funky French house beats are amazing and he seems to have a magic fairy dust over his mixes that make him head and shoulders above other DJs.
He mixed his big hits ‘Love has gone’ and this Summer’s smash with Kelly Rowland, ‘When love takes over’ along with some other staple tunes from his ‘F**k me I’m Famous’ set.
Loved it. He truly is a superstar DJ! He looks it and can really get the crowd going. I defy anyone not to dance when Guetta is on the decks! David Guetta! Its your fault! You are the reason that my crutch reliant self is aching all over!
I gladly would have listened and ‘crutch danced’ to David Guetta all night!
By the time Fatboy Slim came on it was either that I just wasn’t that into him or that David Guetta wrecked me so much I was ready to go home!
Norman Cook was good, I’m not going to take that away from him, I just wasn’t that into it. Saying that I was wrecked at that stage and would probably need to see him again to make a proper judgement.
Fatboy Slim
The light show was cool and made the now falling rain look quite pretty. I loved the 21st century makeover that ‘Right here Right now’ got but I felt that the set didn’t hit the spot for me til near the end when House of Pain’s Jump Around was introduced. He left the crowd happy, I think I was probably too tired at the end to care!
MCD did a good job (How about getting Bob Sinclar here? He would have been excellent) but the trip through the park to get a bus back to the city centre brought us on what was like a school trip through an enchanted forest! Work on that bit lads..
Good day I’m still wrecked, lying on the couch with no energy! TV’s on, I’ve just enough energy to change the channel so I don’t have to watch Hollyoaks!
Afternoon pop pickers! On the way to Marley Park to Fatboy Slim & Co. In the meanwhile thought I’d let you know about Duncan Jones’ new movie ‘Moon’ which I went to see last night in the IFI in Dublin.
Duncan introduced the movie and stuck around for a Question and Answer session after the screening.
Moon tells the story of Sam Bell, remarkably played by Sam Rockwell, a worker on a three year solo contract on the Sarang facility on the moon for Lunar Industries.
Made on a budget of a measly five million dollars, Moon tips its hat at some classic sci fi movies such as 2001 and even Alien and it also reminded this viewer of childhood tv memories of Space 1999.
Moon deals with themes of isolation, loneliness, long distance relationships and the age old question of if we were put in the situation would we actually like or even get on with ourselves.
During the Question and Answer session Duncan explained that as a first time director, learning to prioritize became one of the major issues he had to learn about.
I found it quite amusing, as questions were being asked, that some viewers were trying to take more from the movie than was neccessary. One audience member questioned what had happened Sam, the answer to the question is it really doesn’t matter what happened, we must look at the information we were given on screen. As Duncan said ‘I know what happened Sam, that’s all that matters’.
I enjoyed the movie but felt as we were leaving that a number of people went without looking at what genre of movie it was and only attended because of who Duncan’s Dad is.
If I had to ask a question yesterday I think it would have been about his Dad’s part in ‘The man who fell to Earth’ The 1976 (I think) film starred Duncan’s dad, David Bowie. The title song was given a second life by Nirvana in the nineties.
While Bowie’s Space Oddity paid homage to the original Moon landings and space voyages, its good timing that the Duncan Jones film gets its UK and Ireland release around the 40th anniversary on the Neil Armstrong Moon landing and as the Space Ship Endeavour returns to Earth following its stay at the International Space Station.
