Linkative Weekend Spam #6

Here's a comment I received on the Funeral post by The Bad Ambassador(who done a great post yesterday on his own blog).

"I attended the funeral of a man who's passion in life was amateur dramatics.

Apparently it is tradition for the deceased actor to receive his/her final standing ovation as they are being carried from the church at the end of the funeral. However, the priest said that the family had requested that this be deferred until the part of the service at the crematorium.

So, at the crematorium, as the curtains begin to close around the coffin, everybody stands and affords the deceased his final standing ovation. The curtains close fully with everybody still applauding.

Then, the curtains begin to open again. For about 2 seconds everybody is a bit confused. Then people realise he was doing the customary curtain call.

The place was in uproar. They did about 3 or 4 more curtain calls before they closed for the last time.

Talk about lifting people's spirits. It was wonderful."

Unfortunately it makes my post look like shit.


New Irish Times blog

Feelies quiet "secret" reunion show!(article by daughter of Stan Demeski, which is a brilliant insight)

Super low-quality video(but lovely) of Slipping(into Something)Part Two
Some more
Sonic Youth double header gig tonight, I would've went if I wasn't several thousand miles away.

First five minutes of the Dark Knight Here. (stolen from RP)

More Weezer Hootenannyness(+100 strangers), Say It Ain't So.
Can't wait for their european tour, whenever it'll be.

Rateyourmusic.com now has custom charts, which are brilliant... if a little messy.

Best homepage ever?(well... if remove the text, that is)

Jim Carroll's best of '08(so far).

Gardai to use fake police cars(Thanks to Jazz Biscuit)

Mulley does a wonderful slaughtering of the government's broadband promises.

Rafael Nadal was doing a blog for the last fortnight oddly enough. (stolen from RP again)