The Sigla Blog

Via The Guardian, another myspace story (very different from this one) about the murder of 17-year-old Canadian Anna Svidersky at her place of work by a schizophrenic. Since then, her friends have kept her memory alive by circulating bulletins about what happened and encouraging her myspace friends - many of whom never met her - […]

Colm reckons I’m bad at self-promotion but I’m sure the world doesn’t need to have me tugging at their sleeve like a clingy child telling them about every time I’m on the radio or TV. However, I need help people. Recording starts this afternoon and I’ve got a very bad throat. It was achy […]

I meant to mention this before but was reminded by bumping into Orla recently, who runs Sunday Ghetto. It’s a monthly cineclub to showcase the work of Irish and international short filmmakers. Held on the second Sunday of every month in the Sugar Club, Leeson Street, it will run for the rest of 2006.
On […]

Today, I’m very sad to hear that Grant McLennan, lead singer with Australian band, The Go-Betweens died yesterday. A review of one of their albums on Allmusic.com begins: “Arguably Australia’s greatest pop group ever” and The Go-Betweens have a special place in musical memory for me. In 1989 aged 14 and clad in my […]

Via this post we discovered that the Infactah boys have different views of it. Colm says it’s “the most boring movie” he’s ever seen while Cahony liked the “sparsity of the experience”. Martin calls it “absolutely stunning”. I fell asleep during it (twice) and the folk on the Guardian’s Culture Vulture blog aren’t fans […]

I thought Patry might get a laugh out of this piece by Garrison Keillor on Salon in which he tells writers to stop moaning about the anguish and torture of being a scribbler. As someone who moans about not getting enough time to write, this made me chuckle:

“OK, let me say this once and […]

For anyone who missed The Proposition in the cinema recently, I’d seriously recommend it. It’s released in various US cities over the coming weeks (if anyone reading this is based there) and there’s an excellent interview with Nick Cave, who wrote it, on Salon this week. The DVD is set for release on this side […]

Ever been puzzled by why some much-heralded films are actually utter crap or pretentious waffle? An article in today’s Guardian points to the Bad Film Club set up by two comedians in Wales to show awful, over-hyped, criticially-acclaimed-but-in-reality-woeful films.
Stuart Lee, who wrote the piece, was inspired by witnessing first hand the post-premiere response to […]

Despite being a very peripheral and part-time myspace-er, I’m intrigued by an article in The Register found via Thumped about new small print introduced since Rupert Murdoch acquired the company. The article quotes from another piece on Freechildsafeweb.com that states:

New terms introduced after News Corp’s acquisition of MySpace, extend the website’s rights over […]