WIBLTTW No. 1 (What I've Been Listening To This Week)

1. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

A classic and beautiful song. Also, the album 'Pet Sounds' has the best album artwork I have seen in my entire life. One word: goats.


2. AIM - Demonique

I have loved the song 'Cold Water Music' from the album 'Cold Water Music' for many years now, but hadn't really given the rest of the album a chance (I'm one of those people that will bore themselves to death with a song, and forget that there could actually be other good things on the album). A good motivational song, in my opinion. Also, listen to Cold Water Music (the song).

3. Alex Turner - Glass In The Park

It was the acoustic version of 'Piledriver Waltz' which brought me to discover this album. I am rather fond of movie soundtracks, and this one is pretty damn marvelous. I am yet to watch the movie... anyone who knows me will not be surprised about this considering my track record of watching movies. I plan on watching it in the not too distant future as it is directed by Richard Ayoade who is one of my favourite people.


That's three songs from this week. I'm going to keep these posts fairly short, I could blabber on about what the song means or how they 'speak to me' but that's different for everyone so I'll leave that to the listener.

Chau!

Oh my do'd!

I would like to make my first post all about one of my new favourite comedians and human beings, David O'Doherty. So I am. Whilst bingeing on episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown the other day, which I must add is another new favourite show of mine (I didn't really give it the time of day before, dunno why), I 'discovered' the DO'D. I don't know whether it was the charm of his dublin accent or his face that makes me want to grab both cheeks or the fact he is VERY FUNNY, but it was a kind of love at first sight. In a non-lovey way.

I began to search high and low on youtube for more of keyboard kreations, with personal highlights of my search including 'I've Got Short Legs' and 'The Grand Designs song'.

                  'I've Got Quite Short Legs' by David O'Doherty.

A particular gem which I chanced upon was his RTE (Irish national telly and radio) one series tv series. 'The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty' is a simple concept but shows you how your everyday life can be fun, if you try to make it fun . It is marvellous, and will make you smile if you are feeling like a miserable git and need a warm hug from your screen. It follows David in 2007, as he tries new things and schemes all whilst working his way up the ladder as a now world renowned comedian. The episodes I liked especially were episodes 1 and 5, where David cycles across the country and makes a short film on how Sir Ernest Shackleton keeps coming a cropper due to penguins, respectively.

                  'Why Shackleton Went to The Antarctic' from episode 5.

Although he will probably never read this, I would like to thank David for his existence and showing that if you actually act on your ideas and dreams it can lead to big things. I hope you enjoyed this post and insight into the DO'D, go check out his stuff if you want a big smile across your face.

Chau for now.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my new writing place. I already have a wildlife blog, but since my brain is filled with many other wonderous and turdy things in equal quantities I decided to create another outlet for my creative moments, joys, and of course the things that make me want to bang my head against a wall. So expect a delightful cornucopia of crap from here on out.

Enjoy!