Easter Time

So it’s day four of my two week sojourn away from Dundalk and obviously I have been getting stuck into the old PhD, you’d think! No I actually have been getting some work done but I have also decided to take some of my own advice and I have been chilling out a bit.
I finally got to conduct two interviews on Monday which turned out to be really great. I am now in the middle of transcribing them which I actually find quite soothing for some reason. Need to crank it up a notch so they are in the bag before I go to Wexford to see the family. If I can get the transcription done and can start doing some analysis over the weekend I just might get the chapter I have been working on completed before I go back to work. That would be a major result. Things finally seem to be shaping up in my head but it is really time now to start joining up the dots on paper.

In my downtime this week myself and Anya went to see a brilliant film called No one knows about Persian Cats (Trailer below) it’s on in the IFI at the minute if you are looking for something to do over the Easter you should check it out. I really need Leyla to get her Persian ass home so we can start planning when we are going to take a trip to Iran.

I have also now finally accumulated all of the materials I need for my costume for the Super Ball, I’ll be getting busy with my Gran’s sewing kit over the weekend!
I think I might go to see Kick Ass later for some more inspiration. That will be after I go to the Innovation Interface lecture in the Science Gallery at 6.30. I have to admit I have had mixed feelings about some of these talks as they have been hit and miss so far. But I have high hopes for this one its entitled: User-less Design: Multidisciplinary Design, Boundary Objects and the Possibilities of Practice
If any of you are around say hello!

My final leisure pursuit of the week has been listening to a whole lot of music mainly because the weather has been too rotten to leave the house and there are builders in next door so I needed to drown out the drilling. But its been good and I even managed to put together a little mix tape which is something I have not done in a very long time. Here are some tunes chosen so that you will at least think its sunny outside. It’s not for everyone in but its easy listening enough and it has two songs with animals in the title what more could you want?!

EDIT: Something very weird happened between me recording this as an Aiff and exporting it as an MP3 a phantom le tigre song found its way into the mix now I’m very baffled as to how that happened but I should have checked it all before I posted it up. I really didn’t think to as I recorded it live but there you go there are some gremlins in my mac obviously..luckily its not on the original aiff so hopefully if I export it again it will be free of gremlins!
Easter Mix Tape
Track listing
Groove Armada feat. Brian Ferry – Shameless
Thieves Like Us – Drugs in My Body
Miike Snow – Animals (Peter, Bjorn and John Remix)
Sparks – Beat the Clock
Phoenix – 1901 (Immuzikation Remix)
The Shepard Sisters – Don’t Mention My Name
Crookers Featuring Soulwax – We Love Animals
Chromeo – Needy Girl (Lifelike Remix)
Roisín Murphy – Overpowered
Talking Heads -This Must be the Place
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali (Theophilus London Remix)
Paul Simon – Graceland

Happy Easter!