Our Leader Drunk on the Radio

Seems he was drunk on the radio the other morning, or very hungover....if you ask me he always sounded groggy, and he always looked half drunk.

Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You

I just got my wife this Lily Allen CD in Xtravision, it's only 7.99, well worth it I reckon, me any my wife and the kids have liked Lily for a few years now, that Ska, Reggae, Chav thing she has going on is pretty cool, I like her music and her Lyrics, I'd say she's my favorite mainstream artist without a doubt, and for less than 8 euro she gives us a CD and a DVD, both are well worth listening to and watching...not only that....if you put your CD into your computer you can download individual tracks (Bass, Drums, Vocals etc.) for all the songs of the album, so when you're bored you can remix her stuff if you don't like it enough the way it is.

OMG

Oh My God, I haven't been blogging in ages, actually never really got into the whole blogging thing by the looks of things, it's not that I have nothing to say....it's just...actually no I've nothing to write here, nothing worth reading anyway, I prefer reading blogs than writing them, I've given up on Apples video store for the moment, I'm still cycling but I'd forgotten how miserable the weather can get over here, I've sold my decks and given up on DJing, almost....I've gone back to using DJ1800 on my computer with all my itunes tracks, this is a great bit of software, just upgraded to the latest version which works even better than before, well the itunes library shows up above the mixer, and there's pitch lock on players, I only encountered pitch lock on a Technics CD player a while ago and thought it was the business as vocals sped up or slowed down don't always sound the best.....I tried this software before with a USB mixer but it didn't work properly as there was a sound delay somewhere, a proper controller might work but the keyboard controls work good enough.

World Cup 2010

This is nearly over, I've been neglecting my blog because I've been busy watching the football, no really I've only watched one match, the noise of the horns was wrecking my wifes head so she wont let me watch any more, I must watch a few more matches before it's over, I knew we'd do brutal in the Eurovision song contest, but after seeing Germany win I figured they could probably do well at the football too, I meant to put a few quid on them but never got around to it, I guess the odds would be shit if I backed them now, will they win, if they do I'll be kicking myself.

2012

OK, after renting some videos on itunes over the last month or so, I have to say I haven't rented anything good at all, is the choice of films worse than what they have in xtravision, yes it probably is, but out of all of them, this film has to be the worst, I rented a few movies with good reviews and high ratings but I didn't like them, I hadn't read anything good about 2012 but I thought maybe these people are being too critical, maybe it's not so bad, well the truth is yes, this is a terrible film, but the earhtquake chasing the car scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, I'll give that bit five stars.

Blogging

Well I always thought you had to be from somewhere down the country to be a blogger, but that's no longer the case, you can even live in Dublin and be a blogger these days, 'what's it all about?', you'll have ask another blogger but from what I can gather it's like an online diary or something, like facebook or myspace but without the hassle of having to talk back to people, you can rant about whatever you want, will somebody else end up reading it, yeah they might do, then again they might not...'what's the point?', again, you'll have to ask another blogger, I'm just here to waste time at the end of the day, yes, mine and yours.

NB: A 'blog' is not a 'bleeding dog', they are different things.

iTunes

I started buying music via itunes a few years ago, it's just so handy, the hassle of going into a shop like HMV and having to look for a CD, maybe even having to ask some staff have they got a particular album...'well it's not in stock but we can order it for you if you fill out this form, we should have it in 8 to 10 weeks, blah blah blah....'no I love itunes, it has nearly everything I want, and now that you can rent or buy films on it, well that's just deadly, xtravision will probably never get that fiver I owe them now, I bought 'Annie' the other day for my daughter to watch with the fiver xtravision gave me just to try it out...grand quality, 1.5 gigs, DL complete in about 10 mins, much quicker than going to the video shop....and handier, a lot handier.

Eurovision 2010

So were back in the running for this, for the first time in four years.....I heard we won the semi-finals last night, so if we don't win at the weekend it doesn't matter, cause we've won already, I'll be surprised if we're not last, I heard the Irish song on the way to work, it went in one ear and out the other, I couldn't even hum it, I have a feeling we'll have to go through the qualifiers again next year, but who knows, a load of crazy Europeans might give us 10 points...I must watch it anyway if I'm around, and watch Marty going mad about the way the votes are going if nothing else.

Mountain Biking

Alright then, I still have a guitar, or a few of them, that I never or rarely play, some decks and a load of records I never play either, I needed to find something new to do on a regular basis to keep me sane, but I wanted it to be a healthy one, I'm way too slow and lazy to go running and the Wicklow mountains are on my doorstep so I've taken up mountain biking, it's great fun, it's free once you have a bike, it's safe if you don't crash too much, it's healthy, it's good for you, how long will I last at it, only time will tell, but for the moment it's something I plan to do for a few years at least.

Stagnation

Back to bands, I was still into jungle and DJ'ing and still going nowhere in particular with it, my mate George knew a band that wanted a guitarist so I told him to tell them I'd be well into it, off I went to the 'Chinaman' with my guitar that hadn't been plugged in in a good few years, could I still play, well I hadn't gotten any better from not playing it....The 'Chinaman', what a great pub, the store room was amazing for gigs, it was also our practice room every week for about a year, if they didn't knock the place down we'd probably be still together, well maybe lasted another while...and I'd still be drunk on cheap pints of Furstenburg towards the end of band practice...anyway we split up a year or so later, some x members went on to form a band called 'Coldwar' who are still going today, and going well at that.



http://diyirishhardcorepunkarchive.blogspot.com/2009/02/stagnation-answer-to-time-ep-from.html

DJ Sensi

After the snails slithered off to do their own things, when we stopped even listening to metal I needed to do something with my musical talents...or non-musical talents, I had started listening to rave but only liked the hardcore stuff, jungle was taking off and I guess I got into that from a tape I got off a mate, Moving Shadow, Subbase and the likes, this became my new music for a good few years, started mixing after a while, played on some pirate radio stations and did a few gigs but never really got anywhere with it....it kept me off the streets.





This mix is new enough, ruff enough, heavy enough and noisy enough to listen to, but don't blame me if it gives you a headache.

http://files.me.com/jaykenna/dht3gn.mp3

Septic Snails

Well I play the guitar a bit, or used to, now I just type, one of my first bands that I ever did any gigs or recorded anything with was a band we formed called 'Septic Snails', me and my mate Bren went to see a band from Donegal called 'Tricifix' in Donegal Town back in the early 90's and I remember saying, 'we should make a band Bren', 'what me and you', he said....I said yeah, 'you could sing couldn't ye, I think Hoey has a guitar doesn't he, we'll get him to join too'...bear in mind I was only 17 or so and I'd drank a half bottle of huzzar, I was in bits....anyway, the band was born, we got a mate's brother named Del to play the drums, he was more of a Cure head but he was a good drummer and was happy to help us out with our own stuff and the 'Napalm Death' covers, Timo also sang on the 'Dead Kennedy's' and 'Subhumans' covers we did back then, he also did all our art stuff, it was sort of like a punk band for half the set, a death metal band for the other half, ended up as a mixture of the two without covers, we didn't bother with a bass player for about a year as we figured the guitars were so heavy that nobody would be able to hear a bass anyway....later on we got Dermot to drum, and eventually got a bassist in the form of Mooney, did some more gigs, recorded some more stuff and split up in 1993 or so....it was a good buzz, and sure we had feck all else to do back then.