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The longest day of the year, and indeed the brightest and warmest of this week. Coincidence? I call conspiracy. Global warming, daylight savings time? Its the government trying to make us think they’re smart by making up these crazy ideas that no one really understands. I mean, does anyone really understand the whole daylight savings time stuff, GMT, British Summer Time. NO! So stop confusing me. One minute we are four hours ahead of NYC, the next its 5… or is it. I don’t know!
The fact that I think outside of the country I live in should be good enough for anyone. I know very few Americans (if you actually know me, don’t be offended, if you don’t know me, I don’t really care) who know how many hours difference it is in Ireland/UK at any given time. All I know is. I its a little bit sunny outside yet though my blinds are closed in my “dark room” cos I’ve just been working on some photos. White you say, yeah I know, I’m a photographer, I don’t see much day light. It has a ring to it.
Anyway, enough crap. This week was filled with much non-sense, a lack of electricity, a computer that is a pain in the ass (and no I will not get a Mac!), enjoying hanging out with friends, hating my day job a little more, and not reading that book that sits on my desk eying me up each time i wander from the screen.
Kitty and the Can Openers, the best new band to come from Belfast, had their first, and certainly not last gig in Lavery’s Bunker on Monday night.
Followed closely by a relaxed gig in The John Hewitt.
Alongside the Half Stoned Cowboys, whom I had not seen before, though heard about. As a fan of country music I thoroughly enjoyed their takes on some of the best country and folk songs.
It was before all of this that I decided to photograph the house in which 3/4 of Kitty and the Can Openers reside. This house, off the Lisburn Rd in South Belfast, has been the home to many a musician and artist. Now home to four of my good friends I pop round for tea, when they have no coffee, and to watch some tv, as I have not got one of my own, and to generally use their electricity when I run out.
This house is filled with much character and anyone can tell that it has been a happy home for many throughout the years. Many odd items and artifacts can be found, the origin or which is often unknown to the current residents.
I like the colours which are created by the light coming in the window
A stress ball?
Well read…
A cold wind…
A pretty ashtray…
Norwegian playing cards…
Finally… poor fishes…
Kinda just realised that a track on a mix tape (ok cd) I made for a female friend had some pretty odd lyrics. It is a song by the awesome Future Sounds of London, by the name of Mello Hippo Disco Show. Those odd lyrics:
Sells electric ego
Slo-mo on the dildo
Life’s a flow flow flowMumbo Jumbo, slow fellatio
Mumbo Jumbo, slow fellatio
Mumbo Jumbo, slow fellatio
Mello Hippo Disco Show
If you have not heard this band, I do urge you do get a hold of their album entitled, The Isness.
Thank fuck for the weekend. Photographs and photography. 50 hours in which to think about photography and nothing else. It makes me happy.
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