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[unwelcome-ozian]

hey, do you know of any cults that would have been active in wicklow, ireland in 2006? particularly ones involved in human trafficking

There were a couple of cases from that time period reported, but no belief or cult affiliation was indicated.

Oz

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Best of July 2021

Best Discovery: The Discarnates

           Runners Up: Butley, Caged, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, Freaks, O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Sandakan 8, The Scarlet Empress

Best Rewatch: The New Age

           Runners Up: The Night of the Hunter, Ruby in Paradise, Zardoz

Most Enjoyable Fluff: Yes, I Do

           Runners Up: The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Breakfast Club, Day of the Cobra, Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder, Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried, Hot Shots!, Love at First Dance, My Sister Eileen, The Pirate, Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Oddity of the Month: Nobody

Best Male Performance: Alan Bates in Butley

           Close Second: Jason Patric in Walker Payne

           Runners Up: Morio Kazama in The Discarnates, Peter Lorre in M, Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter, Shin Saburi in The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, Peter Weller in The New Age

Best Female Performance: Judy Davis in The New Age

           Runners Up: Bette Davis in The Star, Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow, Ashley Judd in Ruby in Paradise, Michiyo Kogure in The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, Eleanor Parker in Caged, Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen, Barbara Stanwyck in and Clash by Night, Kinuyo Tanaka in Sandakan 8

Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Wallace Ford in Freaks

           Runners Up: Kumiko Akiyoshi and Tsurutarō Kataoka in The Discarnates, Hope Emerson in Caged, Sam Jaffe in The Scarlet Empress, Jo Van Fleet in I'll Cry Tomorrow

Most Enjoyable Ham (tied): Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in The Pirate

           Runners Up: Joan Crawford in Possessed, Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress and Shanghai Express, John Getz in Men at Work, Niall Matter in Love at First Dance, Dylan Neal in Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried, Franco Nero in Day of the Cobra, Autumn Reeser and Shawn Roberts in I Do, I Do, I Do

Best Mise-en-scène:The Night of the Hunter

           Runners Up: Cat People, The Killers, M, The New Age, O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization, The Phantom of the Opera, Ruby in Paradise, The Scarlet Empress, Zardoz

Best Locations: Zardoz (various locations in County Wicklow)

           Runners Up: The Discarnates (cold, anonymous apartment building, nostalgic Asakusa locations), Ruby in Paradise (sleepy off-season North Florida resort town), Sandakan 8 (Cozy Amakusa island locations), Walker Payne (de-industrialized rural landscapes)

Best Score: The New Age (Mark Mothersbaugh)

           Runners Up: The Discarnates (Masatsugu Shinozaki), The Night of the Hunter (Walter Schumann), Ruby in Paradise (Charles Engstrom)

Best Cartoon: Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee

           Runners Up: The Betty Boop Limited, Betty Boop, M.D., Congo Jazz, The Gallopin' Gaucho, The Grasshopper and the Ants, Sinkin' in the Bathtub, Steamboat Willie

Best Leading Hunk: Dana Andrews in Laura

           Runners Up: Sean Connery in Zardoz, Gene Kelly in The Pirate, Niall Matter in Love at First Dance, Franco Nero in Day of the Cobra, Shawn Roberts in I Do, I Do, I Do, Michael Jai White in Black Dynamite

Best Supporting Hunk: Tommy Hinkley in Men at Work

           Runners Up: Gordon Jones in My Sister Eileen, Jack Warden in From Here to Eternity

Assorted Pleasures:

- Grotesque expressionistic décor in The Scarlet Empress

- Handsomely technicolored Thai classical dance version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in The King and I

- Luminescent dream-forest sequences, melty effects animation in Princess Mononoke

- Gaudy, red-stained queerness of The Pirate's dream ballet sequence

[irishwhiskeylad]

It's a big week for golf next week, and also a big one for us personally. My golf-mad son works for the Barracuda Championship and in his hono(u)r I created the "Long Drive of the First Tee" cocktail, a play on the Long Island Iced Tea that's often served before social golf outings! My version also pays homage to my own golfing past having played many of the courses in the Dublin/Wicklow area near the family home over the years. So in my Long Drive of the First Tee I've included Teeling Whiskey Single Grain Irish Whiskey (46% abv) alongside Glendalough Mountain Strength Poitin (55% abv) for that kick that the LIIT is famed for! Sláinte, Fore, and drink and golf responsibly! More details with a printable recipe at THIS LINK INGREDIENTS - Get It Ready 2 fl. oz./60ml. Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey 2 fl. oz./60ml. Glendalough Mountain Strength Poitin 1 fl. oz./30ml. Grand Marnier or Triple Sec 1 fl. oz./30ml. Simple Syrup/Homemade Meyer Lemon-cello 2 fl. oz./60ml. Fresh Lemon Juice 5 Drops Lemon Bitters 1 Can Zevia Cola Wedge/Slice Lemon to garnish As Required Ice INSTRUCTIONS - Get It Made -Add Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey to your cocktail shaker -Add Glendalough Mountain Strength Poitín -Add Grand Marnier or Triple Sec -Add Simple Syrup/Homemade Meyer Lemon-cello -Add Fresh Lemon Juice -Dab or drop in the Lemon Bitters (5 Drops) -Fill your cocktail shaker with the desired amount of ice cubes -Pop on the lid and shake well to combine -Strain into your serving glass over desired ice cube(s) -Top with Zevia Cola -Stir gently to mix everything together -Garnish with a wedge, slice, or half-slice of Lemon -Sip and Enjoy…Sláinte and Fore!

[hallsp]

Dalkey and Environs

If you follow the swerve of shore south of Dublin city, you eventually wind up in Dalkey village, a small heritage town known largely for its three small castles and pretty main street, but also for its artisan shops, independent cafés, and popular pubs.

A sleepy suburb, the area is occasionally referred to as “the Beverley Hills of Dublin,” because of the number of celebrities living in the area — Bono! — Van Morrison! — or as “Ireland’s Bay of Naples,” because of the spectacular views, particularly from the top of nearby Killiney Hill. The village itself isn’t far from the border with Wicklow, a county known as “the Garden of Ireland.”

The town is heavily associated with writers. George Bernard Shaw was born in Torca Cottage; James Joyce taught in Clifton School, on Dalkey Avenue, and stayed in the nearby Martello Tower in Sandycove; Brendan Behan learned to mix explosives (chlorate of potash with paraffin wax and gelignite) in an IRA safe-house up the hill, now Fitzpatrick Castle. (In the 1950s, ownership of the Castle went to Seán Russell, then-IRA Chief-of-Staff. This is the same Seán Russell who died aboard a Nazi U-Boat in 1940.)

Hugh Leonard, known locally as Jack, was born in Dalkey; as was Maeve Binchy. The local pubs were once a playground for Samuel Beckett, and Flann O’Brien, who published The Dalkey Archive in 1964 — the story of a quirky scientist by the name of de Selby. Howard Marks, the famous drug-dealer (and author) hid out here in the 1970s, with crazy Jim McCann – another IRA connection. Salman Rushdie spent part of his decade in hiding, from the long reach of the Ayatollah Khomeini, living with Bono. Robert Fisk, the most eminent journalist of the Middle East, has had a home in the area for a number of years.

In fact, the history of writing in the village goes way back. In the late 18th century, a bunch of young wits and poets came together to take the absolute piss out of everything they could set their sights upon. They crowned a man named Stephen Armitage, who styled himself King of Dalkey, Emperor of the Muglins, Prince of the Holy Island of Magee, Baron of Bulloch, Seigneur of Sandycove, Defender of the Faith and Respector of All Others, Elector of Lambay and Ireland’s Eye, and Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of the Lobster and Periwinkle.

Thomas Moore, “the Bard of Ireland,” and author of the Minstrel Boy, among much else, was a willing subject of this petty kingdom. Moore’s friend, the poet Henrietta Battier, wrote a number of odes, including the line: “Hail, happy Dalkey! queen of isles, Where justice reigns in freedom’s smiles.” Then came the ’98 Rebellion. The Government moved to quell any expression of dissent. Thankfully, the tradition has been restored in our time: the sacristan of the local church, Fionn Gilmartin, currently occupies this exalted throne.

So august a reputation has Dalkey for all things literary, the inaugural Dalkey Book Festival was organised by the economist David McWilliams in 2010, and has since attracted hundreds of writers, including Seamus Heaney, John Banville, and Amos Oz. I saw Salman Rushdie speaking in St. Patrick’s Church in 2014.

The pubs and restaurants are also second-to-none. Finnegan’s is the best-known: great for a pint of Guinness. Try King’s Inn for the banter, the Magpie for craft beer, DeVille’s for steak, Queen’s for the beer garden, Benitos for the service, McDonagh’s for live music and pool, and the Vico for shots before hitting town against your better judgement. Further up the hill you have the aforementioned Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, and the Druid’s Chair, a gem of a little spot.

Close to Dalkey, along the coast back towards Dublin, you’ll find Dun Laoghaire. It’s got three sailing clubs, two piers, and one impressive library. You can walk along the promenade, the piers, or go for a swim on Sandycove beach, or in the 40 Foot bathing-place. Make sure you get yourself a 99 from Teddy’s, the ice-cream is famous all over Ireland. There’s also one or two decent pubs, particularly the Whiskey Fair and Gilbert & Wright’s. Like it or loath it, Wetherspoons have taken over the 40 Foot pub, which means cheap booze.

The Martello Tower, now the James Joyce Museum, was once rented by the writer (and doctor) Oliver St. John Gogarty. Joyce, having stayed with his friend for six nights in 1904, eventually used the experience in the opening pages of his masterpiece, Ulysses.

Dun Laoghaire was once known as Kingstown, so-named in 1821 after the visit of boozy King George IV, the first reigning monarch to visit Ireland since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. In Howth, just north of Dublin, the king disembarked from his yacht on his birthday, already “in high spirits,” meaning inebriated, and you can still see his tiny footprints, preserved for all eternity. He departed from Dun Laoghaire eighteen days later. In fact, a nearby memorial marks this auspicious stop-over. William Mackepeace Thackeray, the famous English novelist, described it as a “hideous obelisk, stuck upon four fat balls.” That’s a fairly good description.

The best way to get to Dalkey and Dun Laoghaire is to use the DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit), though there’s nothing “rapid” about it. Actually, the train journey from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire is the oldest in Ireland, built in 1834. It was used by Thackeray in 1842, Carlysle in 1849, and Dickens in 1867. In 1882, having arrived by boat into Dun Laoghaire, Lord Cavendish, the newly-appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, took this train into the city on his first day on the job, only to be murdered that evening in the Phoenix Park. The park is somewhat safer these days.

The train was slowly extended around the rest of the coast over the coming years. There are stunning views of the sea between Dalkey and Greystones, where the track tunnels through solid rock and clings to precarious sea cliffs. It was designed by famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

[newtechstudent]

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[allthatchernobyl]

Bill Laswell- Imaginary Cuba (1999)

Y ya que venimos de una entrega Dub seguimos con uno de los nombres mas importantes de la escena, Bill Laswell, y su noveno disco como solista producido por el mismo y lanzado por el sello Wicklow. Como en muchos de sus proyectos aquí Laswell hace todo, programa las baterías, toca el bajo, hace los arreglos, graba y produce todo con la sola ayuda del ingeniero Oz Fritz. Lo mas interesante de este disco es, obviamente, la vinculación del Dub con la música cubana en el cual vamos a encontrar algunos clásicos reinterpretados a la manera de Laswell como "Para clave y guaguanco" y "Dejala en la puntica" de Amado de Jesús o "Madre no me pida" del gran Raul Planas. El collage sonoro que plantea Laswell es sumamente original y ambicioso sin caer en la absurda pretensión sobre todo a la hora de concebir el imaginario colectivo que un mundo entero tiene de un país cada vez menos misterioso pero siempre místico, rodeado de sus revoluciones y su identidad tan inquebrantable.

Genero: Dub, Collage

Año: 1999

Pais: EEUU

Duracion: 57:21

Compresion: 320kbps

Tamaño: 143,1mb

Tracklist:

1- Habana Transmission #1/Avisale a la vecina Dub 2- Para clave y guaguancó 3- Loungin with F.E 4- Chacón and Daniel 5- Dejala en la puntica 6- Habana Transmission #2/Cuban Evolution 7- Los Ibellis 8- Habana Transmission #3/Shango Sound Scan 9- Hombre lobo, no! Hombre nuevo, si! 10- Guerrillero Heroico (El Che vive!) 11- Shangó 12- Pompa at the house 13- Madre no me pida in Dub 14- Chaos in the heat (Last Transmission) 15- Drafting Shadows/Leaving La Habana (Peaceful)

DESCARGAR

[littledots]

@flwrmuses asked me to make him, so here's a little starter!

"you are quite confident, aren't you?" oz chuckled, he liked to see someone who thought they knew what they were talking about. someone who was driven and focused and honest about it. "aright, i'll bite, tell me more." he hummed, folding his hands behind his back as he watched the other.

[hallsp]

Dalkey

If you follow the swerve of shore south of Dublin city, you eventually wind up in Dalkey village, a small heritage town known largely for its three small castles and pretty main street, but also for its artisan shops, independent cafés, and popular pubs.

A sleepy suburb, the area is occasionally referred to as “the Beverley Hills of Dublin,” because of the number of celebrities living in the area — Bono! — Van Morrison! — or as “Ireland’s Bay of Naples,” because of the spectacular views, particularly from the top of nearby Killiney Hill. The village itself isn’t far from the border with Wicklow, a county known as “the Garden of Ireland.”

The town is heavily associated with writers. George Bernard Shaw was born in Torca Cottage; James Joyce taught in Clifton School, on Dalkey Avenue, and stayed in the nearby Martello Tower in Sandycove; Brendan Behan learned to mix explosives (chlorate of potash with paraffin wax and gelignite) in an IRA safe-house up the hill, now Fitzpatrick Castle. (In the 1950s, ownership of the Castle went to Seán Russell, then-IRA Chief-of-Staff. This is the same Seán Russell who died aboard a Nazi U-Boat in 1940.)

Hugh Leonard, known locally as Jack, was born in Dalkey; as was Maeve Binchy. The local pubs were once a playground for Samuel Beckett, and Flann O’Brien, who published The Dalkey Archive in 1964 — the story of a quirky scientist by the name of de Selby. Howard Marks, the famous drug-dealer (and author) hid out here in the 1970s, with crazy Jim McCann – another IRA connection. Salman Rushdie spent part of his decade in hiding, from the long reach of the Ayatollah Khomeini, living with Bono. Robert Fisk, the most eminent journalist of the Middle East, has had a home in the area for a number of years.

In fact, the history of writing in the village goes way back. In the late 18th century, a bunch of young wits and poets came together to take the absolute piss out of everything they could set their sights upon. They crowned a man named Stephen Armitage, who styled himself King of Dalkey, Emperor of the Muglins, Prince of the Holy Island of Magee, Baron of Bulloch, Seigneur of Sandycove, Defender of the Faith and Respector of All Others, Elector of Lambay and Ireland’s Eye, and Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of the Lobster and Periwinkle.

Thomas Moore, “the Bard of Ireland,” and author of the Minstrel Boy, among much else, was a willing subject of this petty kingdom. Moore’s friend, the poet Henrietta Battier, wrote a number of odes, including the line: “Hail, happy Dalkey! queen of isles, Where justice reigns in freedom’s smiles.” Then came the ’98 Rebellion. The Government moved to quell any expression of dissent. Thankfully, the tradition has been restored in our time: the sacristan of the local church, Fionn Gilmartin, currently occupies this exalted throne.

So august a reputation has Dalkey for all things literary, the inaugural Dalkey Book Festival was organised by the economist David McWilliams in 2010, and has since attracted hundreds of writers, including Seamus Heaney, John Banville, and Amos Oz. I saw Salman Rushdie speaking in St. Patrick’s Church in 2014.

The pubs and restaurants are also second-to-none. Finnegan’s is the best-known: great for a pint of Guinness. Try King’s Inn for the banter, the Magpie for craft beer, DeVille’s for steak, Queen’s for the beer garden, Benitos for the service, McDonagh’s for live music and pool, and the Vico for shots before hitting town against your better judgement. Further up the hill you have the aforementioned Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, and the Druid’s Chair, a gem of a little spot.

Close to Dalkey, along the coast back towards Dublin, you’ll find Dun Laoghaire. It’s got three sailing clubs, two piers, and one impressive library. You can walk along the promenade, the piers, or go for a swim on Sandycove beach, or in the 40 Foot bathing-place. Make sure you get yourself a 99 from Teddy’s, the ice-cream is famous all over Ireland. There’s also one or two decent pubs. Like it or loath it, Wetherspoons have taken over the 40 Foot pub, which means cheap booze. There’s also the Whiskey Fair, and Gilbert & Wright’s.

The Martello Tower, now the James Joyce Museum, was once rented by the writer (and doctor) Oliver St. John Gogarty. Joyce, having stayed with his friend for six nights in 1904, eventually used the experience in the opening pages of his masterpiece, Ulysses.

Dun Laoghaire was once known as Kingstown, so-named in 1821 after the visit of boozy King George IV, the first reigning monarch to visit Ireland since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. In Howth, just north of Dublin, the king disembarked from his yacht on his birthday, already “in high spirits,” meaning inebriated, and you can still see his tiny footprints, preserved for all eternity. He departed from Dun Laoghaire eighteen days later. In fact, a nearby memorial marks this auspicious stop-over. William Mackepeace Thackeray, the famous English novelist, described it as a “hideous obelisk, stuck upon four fat balls.” That’s a fairly good description.

The best way to get to Dalkey and Dun Laoghaire is to use the DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit), though there’s nothing “rapid” about it. Actually, the train journey from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire is the oldest in Ireland, built in 1834. It was used by Thackeray in 1842, Carlysle in 1849, and Dickens in 1867. In 1882, having arrived by boat into Dun Laoghaire, Lord Cavendish, the newly-appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, took this train into the city on his first day on the job, only to be murdered that evening in the Phoenix Park. The park is somewhat safer these days.

The train was slowly extended around the rest of the coast over the coming years. There are stunning views of the sea between Dalkey and Greystones, where the track tunnels through solid rock and clings to precarious sea cliffs. It was designed by famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.