Cupid Stunt

Maybe, maybe not, and I know some diehard Moz fans aren’t liking it, but I’m loving it at the moment. Short and very, very sweet, the sweetest 2 and a half minutes you will hear this year.

Jesus

Ever been to boards.ie?

I pay a visit there every now and again. I have posted there a few times. It can be a useful place to get info.

I went to the Radio board today to see if there was any opinion there on the aforementioned dumbing down of 2fm. There wasn’t.

But what I did find was lots of threads on how everybody hates everything and how horrible every radio show is.

A thread on how awful Newstalk is… 525 posts!

How terrible Tom Dunne’s show is… 323 posts!

Two threads on how people can’t stand Ray Foley. (Apparently from reading the threads there were lots more, and he’s a regular victim of the boards bile, and when poor Ray himself actually went on to defend himself they banned him!)

I scroll down. Another thread is full of Des Cahill hate…

I went to page two. Surely somebody might have something nice to say about something… there’s a post full of Ray D’Arcy hate… 701 posts! 47 pages long!

Tell me something.

Do these people radios not have an off button?

Well they may as well have. They’ve turned some of Ireland’s most talented radio presenters into wedding djs.

I’ve been a radio head and a 2fm listener since I was knee high to a grasshopper. I remember hiding under the blankets with the radio listening to Lorcan Murray and my favourite show for ages was Gerry Wilson’s night time phone in where his listeners educated me on all sorts of insane stuff like ouija boards and other naughty things.

I’m well used to my favourite shows just disappearing though, so the latest news that the 2fm head ‘honchos’ (lead by that guy with the personality of a cardboard turnip that does the sunday jukebox thing) have decided to clip the wings of some of the most talented presenters on radio, while disappointing, is not a huge shock to me. Remember, these are the same people that stabbed Marty Whelan in the back and cancelled his show while he was off on his family holidays.

Anyway, other people have put it more passionately and eloquantly than I ever could, so go read these

Sunday Tribune - Idle chatter set to return as 2fm bans all daytime talk

Darragh Doyle - Of all the surprisingly stupid management decisions…

K8 The GR8 – January Dogs Bollox

UnaRocks – Another Bad Move from 2fm

UnaRocks – I listen to 2fm’s Rick O’Shea show for Rick O’Shea

On The Record – Gong! Gong! Gong! First media awards for 2009 already in!

And go sign up for the Facebook group

And go send 2fm a virtual  steaming turd via email

Don’t know much about this but it seems to have been filmed in New Zealand. Jerry Flannery proclaiming to the world that his hair is more important than his timekeeping…

Further viewing: check out Jerry’s cameo in spoof documentary Luimneach Uncovered

Congrats to Colin Farrell and Gabriel Byrne, two Irish winners of  Golden Globe awards last night. Of course the Arts Minister Martin Cullen got straight on the computer to copy-and-paste the winners names into his pre-prepared press release. At least he didn’t get it drastically wrong, remember John O’Donoghue’s epic press release fail after Ireland didn’t come anywhere near winning the Eurovision a few years back?!

Anyway, according to The Chancer, Farreller was full of his fun, and Gabriel Byrne didn’t even bother turning up to pick up his gong! Still annoyed they didn’t give him one for Bracken then…

In Bruges was definitely one of my favourite movies of last year, well deserved.

Here’s some classic Colin Farrell, the opening scene from Intermission

Still a little bit of your face, in my mouth

Every little bit of you tastes good with Vermouth

Still a little hard bit of ear

To chew on

Still a little bit of your nose, and eyelids

Still a little bit of your face, I’ll have with chips

I eat a little finger each day

Pity you can’t see what’s going on…

Books taught me to fry

Toes, fingers and eyes

Time for you to die

And turn into meatballs

When I cook like a Canni-ball

Graham Linehan is the man behind The IT Crowd, by far the funniest show on tv at the moment, in my honest opinion, which we all know is the right one. He also co-wrote Father Ted and the first series of Black Books, amongst many other things.

He is also a blogger.

He’s just opened a thread on his blog where people can ask questions mainly pertaining to the IT Crowd, anybody can go ask a question and Graham is answering as many as he can. So if you have a question get in quickly.

And while you’re waiting for an answer, have a look at one of the funniest IT Crowd moments ever…

We went for a bit of a drive around Wellington on Christmas Day after dinner, and I filmed some of it and have put it to some music. The video is sped up a bit obviously, we don’t really drive that fast (unless being pursued)

Seriously, you know those crazy psychotic women in their 40’s you see roaming the streets late at night? Chances are that Santa brought them one of these when they were kids…