Last month, when I was in New York, I managed to get tickets for the Off-Broadway return of rock-opera RENT. My love of this show is well documented, so I won’t repeat myself in this post. Indeed, I think the show itself is pretty unknown in Ireland (feel free to prove me wrong in the [...]
After many starts and stops, I finally began and finished Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, comprised of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I’ll start by discussing the trilogy as a whole, and say that I really enjoyed it. I started off [...]
My Mum has been running a successful book-club for the last couple of months. An avid reader myself, I’d watch with interest as books were chosen and reviews were posted. I’d watch as Mum hurried to do her jobs so she could sit down and dive into her latest read. I found, though, that what [...]
I just finished reading The Year of Endless Sorrows by American author Adam Rapp. I’ve also read Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by the same author. Adam Rapp is a fantastic author, one of my favourites. Specifically, he writes phenomenal prose. Describing intermittent showers as the work of ‘narcoleptic weather gods’ sums up his [...]
After writing a post about my headphones, I thought that it’d be worth talking about what I listen to. I won’t call these my favourite 3 albums ever, but these are certainly 3 albums that I really, really like right now. In no particular order: Siamese Dreams — The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing Pumpkins are [...]
When I was in America and on the flat of my back for a couple of hours a day, I decided to treat myself and get a set of Bose QuietComfort 15s. I’d heard many good things about them and their active noise canceling. I especially liked that they were headphones rather than earphones, as [...]
I’ve been a longtime fan of Stephen King and have now read four of his books: Pet Semetary, ‘Salem’s Lot, Misery and most recently, The Shining. Of the four I’ve read, the last one is probably the most famous, with countless parodies and a Simpsons special. I started the book in America and finished it [...]
Yesterday was unusual in that I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the cinema but I also caught the second half of The Golden Compass on TV last night. It’s unusual a) for me to see two films in one day and b) that the two films in question are based on arguably [...]
Alternatively titled: “1,100 words on why the Amazon Kindle is freaking amazing” I’ve had my Amazon Kindle a couple of days now and I can honestly say that the move from book to eBook is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. The Screen The first that I noticed about the Kindle as I [...]
One of the good things about being holed away from the world that you know out here in Minneapolis is that you have a lot of spare time. This is something that’s usually in short supply in the Collison household so it’s lovely to have so much of it between recovery time. I’m using the [...]