Yellow Submarine tea thing!

I was just shown this! It's a Yellow Submarine that you put tea leaves in and it acts like a tea bag of sorts. I've no idea where to get it but if anyone finds one please get me it!

The "random musings than don't warrant their own post" post. #1

Apologies for the lack of action on here lately. College has been a bit of a mindfuck and I've had to get myself organised so as not to eff up my life. I've not done a whole pile as of late so this is just a collection of little things.

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Reterospective; The Top Five Cultural Phenomena of the Last Decade.

Note from David: This is a guest article contributed by a close friend of mine and comedy savant , Jon Hozier-Byrne, pictured here working his magic.

It’s 2010, we are now officially in the ‘Teenies’, and what a decade the last ten years has been. This is the decade that brought us the internet, the instantaneous access of all people to all the world’s collective knowledge, and My Chemical Romance. It was the decade of Live 8, which was like Live Aid, only Freddy Mercury was dead and instead we had Coldplay. We changed the world that day, through Coldplay’s dulcid tones, and now there’s no more famine or racism or whatever that was about. Something about people clicking their fingers, I don’t really remember. Anyway, Africa was saved and now we have Barack Obama. So, here’s the top five Cultural Phenomena of the Last Decade, the top five things that will define us in the minds of our children, and in the minds of future robot historians.

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Riverside, muthafucka!

On New Years Day I posted "Riverside" by Sydney Sampson. Here's where the vocal sample came from. It's from the 1992 film "Juice" starring Omar Epps (Eric Foreman in "House") and Tupac "2Pac" Shakur (not Eric Foreman in "House").



Altogether now, "Riverside, muthafucka!"

Resolutions for 2010.

Firstly here's what I said at the beginning of 2009 and how I did:

Resolutions.

1. Become more committed and determined to projects. - Seems grammatically incorrect but anyway, I guess so. Start doing comedy and it's the only thing I've been passionate about.

2. Start to do some actual work at college. - I started busting my ass towards the end of semester two and got my GPA up but then semester one of 3rd year has been a disaster.
3. Get a job. - No, I did try but to no avail, but I guess if this comedy thing works out this might actually be achieved.

Plans
1. To buy, build and maintain my own domain name and site. - Yups!

2. Save enough money to buy an Eee PC. - Got a Samsung netbook for Christmas.
3. Clear out my room, get a new desk and wardrobe. - Eh, about that...
4. Set up an office style set-up, which instead will be used for gaming, Internet and designing. - Not as permanent a set up as I would have liked.

Now for my resolutions for 2010;

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Modeling for the University Observer.

Just remembered I had a virtual copy of the issue of the UCD University Observer that I modeled t-shirts in months so I thought I'd post them, just out of thanks to my friend Sean McGovern who is the fashion editor at the paper. It was loads of fun to do and I'd love to do it again. (Hint, hint Sean.)

Happy New Year!

Had a good giggle out last night in Cavan with my besties. It was the first time I've ever seen a DJ only play music from the last decade; get with the times...

Also, is it just me or when people say "Happy New Year! Have a good one!" does it give the impression they're wishing you well for the year as if they won't see you until next year?

Bad jokes aside, my friend Eamon and I absolutely lost our shit when we got our request played.





I'll do a resolutions blog later but for now I've some sleep to catch up on.

Happy New Years chums!

The Last Decade.

The last decade was very important for me, probably more so than any other decade in my life, for the following reasons;

• Finished primary school.
• Started secondary school.
• Puberty happened. (Some would argue it's ongoing)
• Made some amazing friends I know I'll have for life.
• Discovered the world of music, something that has shaped who I am.
• Finding the wonders of the internet.
• Became somewhat social.
• Did the Leaving Cert. and finished secondary school.
• Love of comics reignited.
• Fell in love with movies.
• First job, working with the HSE.
• Moved to Dublin to study in UCD.
• Developed some confidence.
• Started doing stand up comedy, the first activity I've ever felt passionate for.
• I turned 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19; each being a stand out age for their own reason.
• Visited France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and England.