Ask and I'll tell you. But I've pretty much figured that by filling in this bit, you put yourself out there for every band under the sun to request your 'friendship' so that they can advertise their crap on your site. These people should be beaten with a stick.
Movies
Blues Brothers.
Television
It has to be Jack Bauer.
Books
Too many to mention. Though Brendan Kennelly's 'The Man Made of Rain' is now high up in my charts. If you ever come across an Australian poet by the name of Nick Powell, get a copy of 'Of Fallen Myth'. ..Sunblind..by Geoff Lemon is an absolute cracker too.
Heroes
MacGuyver. Dylan Thomas. The volunteers at the Prague Fringe Fest.Sean Burke. Hana Tesar. Treehugger Dan. He-Man. Hugh Heffner. Angela McKenna, Mr. Murray, Mr. Songs. Mr Rynhart. Mad-dog. The fine poets and general good people of Prague. Dan fuckin Donnelly. Eskimoes. My nephews. And now my niece. Who else? Ryan Giggs is almost there.
About me: I'm a poet, a man (what makes a man, am I a man, yes, technically I am), a teacher, a people person (except on Sundays) an uncle, a brother, a friend, and I like pea soup on rainy days, but given the choice I would never eat pea soup; I like laughing but I really hate track-suited fuckwits in pimped up cars - true, those two examples have nothing to do with the price of oil, but I am trying to fill up space and keep this updated. I hosted the Voice & Verse in Ireland from 2005 to 2007, and then it went east, featuring at the Prague Fringe Festival in 2007 and 2008. We'll see what happens to that in the future. I love the future (except on Sundays). I have three books of poetry, two which were co-produced with Stephen Murray, the other all by myself. I've recently opened my eyes to art with a little help from a friend and in the future I might be able to point at a painting or sculpture and say, through a mouthful of olives, something insightful. And people will go 'oooh'. As for now, the door to my head is open - come and have a look.
Who I'd like to meet: Lord Lucan's travel agent. Or a salsa dancing eskimo.
A friend just texted me, saying "I just saw that Neil fellow, the poet friend of yours." I texted back, saying "Impossible! He moved to Vienna!" And then looked at myspace for the first time in an age and discovered that, this week, it's not in fact impossible. Anyway, I miss you and hope to run in to you again some day!
Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet.
To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you.
We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages.
Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us!
Are you still in Vienna? Hope that it is equally charming as the day you arrived there... if not, I'd love to hear about the travels! And anything/everything else you have going on... you need to come to NYC and recite while Craig and I accompany you...
finde ich auch. weil ich erstens schon relativ lange kein bier mehr getrunken habe (lüge), weil wir uns zweitens schon relativ lange nicht mehr gesehen haben (tatsache) und weil du dir drittens darüber im klaren bist, dass wir mehr miteinander abhängen sollten (wahrheit?). yo. lass uns das machen. und ich hätte bitte gerne, dass du mir das hier übersetzt bis wir uns sehen, was doch hoffentlich morgen passieren wird. + ich glaube, heilige scheißen nicht. und weil benedikt VXI weit davon entfernt ist, ein heiliger zu sein, wird seine scheiße vom ebenso unheiligen aber wenigstens annähernd humorvollen vatikan-putzpersonal gegessen, konserviert oder auf www.vipshit.com versteigert.
phowtows! I didn't think of adjusting the exposure time and all that shit to the light conditions blahblahblahpseudotalkblahblah but there's..let's say..you can see 'movement'. and the myspaceuploaderihateit worsens the quality immensely!
There are a couple of good ones from Verein but I'm afraid you'll have to wait until tuesday, sorrrrry. I know I know I know, you've been waiting for a long long time but I'm really very awfully stressed as I didn't study anything yet but need to know a lot on...tuesday!! which is in...four days oh-my-god-ohmygodOHMYDOG!!!!!! no sleep, no food, no shower, NO MYSPACE until then! But I'm almost confident - ha - ha - ha! No, I really am! Incident in the kitchen? You mean the trouserlessness or something else..? I remember Niall peeing against a corner, laughing about his inability to stand and to walk - had to help him not to get lost 3 metres behind you. oh oh oh I remember a lot... :)
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Hey! was a little tipsy the last we met, hope you had a good Christmas after that. How's life in Vienna? Are you still there? Hope the writings going well. I've ceased up (all by myself) Aren't I great?! Need more inspiration than child boys! Give us a shout if you land in Gallimhe any time soon
Hi Neil,Great to hear from you.See you have my demo up,Cool cool cool!!Your a man with a plan.I am a man in need of one. Let me know if it involves music!Chat soon
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