Brimur’s Place

Just installed the Google Gears FF extension a while ago and after a restart had a nice chuckle over the description of the extension. See here for more info if you don’t get it!

after nearly 10 years!

Maybe its time to move onto a more productive project like searching for a cure to cancer…

I have been keeping and eye on the weather reports for this years Electric Picnic festival weekend and its looking better and better as the weekend gets closer. As of today it seems we might have a bit of rain on the Sunday evening and thats it! This is great news to me as I just bought a Gelert Quickpitch SS XL for the festival and it only has a single skin so although it says its waterproof I wouldn’t like to put it to an all weekend test of pouring rain!

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This is a new song from my bro Kevin which I think is brilliant. Kick ass bro! This one def needs a proper music video to go with it but until then I have just added something relating to the title!

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Akasia - Let it Burn MP3 [320Kbps]

http://www.last.fm/music/Pogo/_/Alice

My good buddy Fergal passed this onto me this morning and I think its excellent so wanted to share!

I watched 28 weeks later on Tv again the other night, top notch movie, just like the first one. But just like the first one the theme got stuck in my head! What a great theme song…

Well its been nearly a month since I last posted something here. I must have been busy cus I dont know the reason why! Well actually I have been a bit busy. Working on a project in the office that is due to go live this week and wanted to make sure it went ok. On top of that the social scene has also been busy. With tag rugby four times a week and soccer twice my legs have had a lot to put up with. This is mostly due to the fact that I play with two teams, the Bloodsubs and the Tryhards.

The summer league was great fun, as always. So between that and work my whole month of July seems to have flown past. Looking forward to heading to the Cork V Clare match in Thurles this weekend and then, because I am such a good boy I am being treated to a Muse concert in August. I think it was because I kept harping on about missing them at Oxegen last year. So roll on August!

If I had to do this walk….

Just wanted to make a post about a recent festival I went to in Nuremberg, Germany. Between Nuremberg and Munich we were in Germany from the 4th - 10th June. The festival was called Rock Im Park and was a 3 day festival which ran from the 6th - 8th June. There were 3 stages. The main stage  featured all the big acts such as Metallica, The Offspring, Nightwish and Rage Against The Machine to name a few. The 2nd stage was the Alternate stage which, as the name suggests, had alternate music from bands such as The Verve, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and the Fratelli’s. The 3rd stage was the club stage which I personally did not go to so have no idea what it was like!

The first day we arrived in Munich and stayed in a hostel close to the train station. We had a good ol’ session and met some “interesting” teenage characters! I found out that you can drink from the age of 16 in Germany but only up to midnight, at which point you will no longer be served! Here are a couple of pics from the night. The first is me being really interested in what the german had to say and the second is a group shot. And of course when girls get drunk the ol’ lesbian tendencies start to show! One of the lads also became a rock terrorist

The next day, Thursday, we headed to Nuremberg. Public transport was something to be admired there, with trains, trams, metros and ubahns all relying on trusting the public that they have bought a ticket! That system wouldn’t work here in Ireland in my humble opinion. Our bus drivers and ticket people on the trains prefer the pounce approach which in fairness is prob necessary as most people would rape the german system if it was over here. Anywho Nuremberg was nice and sunny which was great as it meant I didnt have to change my shorts from the day before! We did a bit of sightseeing and of course we had to represent…

The Friday night was the first big night and to be honest myself and Lou were meeting and chatting to so many people I think we only saw one band play. We met loads of Irish people and danced and chatted to t he wee hours until we all headed back to the camping area to drink a few more “cold” elephant beers! That elephant beer was some good shit  @ 7.5% vol! Not quite as strong as the lurvly Duvel but still had a nice kick all the same.  The weather was great for the first few days until Saturday. I was feeling a bit under the weather after either food poisoning or sun stroke, or maybe even both the day before. I woke that morning with what I thought was a hangover. This in itself was a bit strange as traditionally I get my hangovers in the afternoon! As the day went on I got worse until eventually, while touring around Nuremberg with Lou I was forced to book into a hotel so I could lay down. I was a tad delirious at that point! So I went to bed and about an hour later I woke to Lou’s phone beeping. It was a call from one of the lads telling me the campsite was flooded after a thunderstorm! What a day eh! So I headed back to the campsite, still a bit la la where we packed up our soaking clothes into plastic bags, ditched the tent and sleeping bags and headed back to the hotel. Here’s Owen relishing the new swimming pool outside his tent! “Look ma, it floats!”

Thankfully, due to my being delirious I missed out on the great flash flooding or June 08! So myself and Lou headed back to the Hotel, I hit the hay and woke up 15 hours later almost completely healthy! So I more of less missed out on Saturday which meant I missed lots of partying and Rage Against The Machine. Sunday night was another good day/night though and I caught about 5 or 6 bands that I wanted to see. Some of the others went trampolining but I feared I was not quite ready for that after being sick the day before. After the great Metallica we headed back to our hotel and met up with the guys the next day, Monday, at, of course, an Irish pub! We then headed back to Munich for a day, toured around a bit more and being in Munich again we had to visit the Hofsbrau house. We got a great table outside in the sun and downed a few litres of the local brew!

The following day, Tuesday, after breaking bread together and seeing the most expensive bottle of whiskey EVAR, we headed home and parted company. The End!