Writer. Poet. Pox. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions. https://xitter.cf/t.co/8x23b8rwGx

Dublin, Ireland
Joined February 2009
Buy my novel, EXCAVATUM: a metaphysical fantasy, comic fable, and folk horror adventure about faith, grief, sex, and sea monsters. Moby Dick meets Father Ted. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HCHG7PM6
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A mystery continues to unfold and it is as usual adroitly written. The next part of Ghigau is our Sunday pick. Enjoy! abctales.com/story/wwjabercr…
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Story: Vesuvius abctales.com/story/sean-mcnu… Nibs, novelties, and psychographical experiments.
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We're all listening to the great man tonight x
🪉Farewell to the great Dónal Lunny, a giant of Irish music. From Planxty and The Bothy Band to Moving Hearts, he didn’t just preserve our musical heritage he revolutionised it.!.giving our ancient traditions a new heartbeat. His music will echo through generations. 🎵Tabhair dom do Lámh. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. 🪉🪕
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Travel on well you greatest of all time. What a wonderful musician and person.
RIP Donal Lunny. I was lucky to have met him a few times and to see him play live. I took this video in the @RTEArena studio on 29 Nov 2018. A great man.
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Gripping and breathless SoulFire77’s ‘Nobody Floats It This Time of Year - Part One: 2018’ is the Pick of the Day This is part 3 but do go back to the start! abctales.com/story/soulfire7… Please share if you can.
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Remember when Sarah Polley made Stories We Tell, supposedly about a paternity question in her family history, but it actually turned out to be a meta-documentary about truth, narrative, and subjectivity? Or when Banksy made Exit Through the Gift Shop, which at first seemed to be about street artist Thierry Guetta but in the end turned out to be a meta-documentary about truth, art, and subjectivity? Remember when Rodney Ascher made Room 237, nominally about hidden meanings in The Shining, but really about truth, narrative, and subjectivity? Would you believe me if I told you that You Can See Everything is only superficially about Elizabeth Holmes, that actually it's a meta-documentary about truth, narrative, and subjectivity? Let’s set aside the fact that Amanda Seyfried shows up to atone for her Hulu biopic and that her plotline is copied from The Act of Killing, which itself stole its main gimmick from some Cambodian guy’s movie about the Khmer Rouge. Here we have another postmodern prestige doc which either can't find something to say about its subject or thinks having a subject is gauche, so it throws up its hands and settles for a thematic focus on "unknowability" instead—not out of necessity, not because it’s about the Zodiac Killer and they can’t find him, but just because they think that kind of abstraction is high-minded. Every cliche is here: The filmmaker deliberately entangled with his subject, the film happily exposing its own artifice (because only dolts who believe in “objectivity” would try to hide that), the reflexive, flamboyantly meta structure which I guess is supposed to feel truth-coded, or remind you of truth and untruth in some way. Letterboxd users, who learned in college that truth is hopelessly mired in perspective, certainly appreciate these decisions and feel the movie is a “hall of mirrors,” but I found it boring and legible. I’ve already seen Capturing the Friedmans, Tabloid, F for Fake, Letter From Siberia, etc. I already know about “subjectivity.” I actually discovered it when I was a child and I began to experience the world. So yes, this is another The Ambiguity Is The Point movie. That’s why it's titled You Can See Everything—because you can’t. And that’s why some of the posters show Elizabeth Holmes but kind of blurry, because it’s about truth, which is also blurry. And if you think that’s mind-blowing then you will probably like the movie. Personally, I think the filmmakers are confusing an empirical problem with an epistemic one, so actually their theming doesn't line up, because a lot of their questions are in fact quite "knowable," but whatever
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Nathan Fielder made the one millionth movie about the extremely overplayed postmodernist idea that “truth like isn’t real bro” and everyone’s acting like that’s somehow good and not a decadent sickness infecting our critical faculties
Replying to @bog_obelisk
he’s just not interested in what you’re interested in which happens. he’s not particularly interested in truth, but how “truth” is constructed by an actor, a narcissist/elite scam artist, and a gotcha guy. you go into a “documentary” expecting something that was never on offer
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Sylvia Beach on Joyce. I love how she pronounces it 'boowk' the way he would have. #ulysses #jamesjoyce
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Peak wrong answer to University Challenge music question
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An extraordinary story told in poetic form. Shatterstar’s ‘One Daughter. One Policy’ is a remarkable read and is the Sunday Pick of the Day. abctales.com/story/shatterst… Please share if you can.
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FORCING THEM TO SAY THEIR NAMES SO THEY CAN’T RE SELL IT IS GENIUS
😬 Hilary Swank has an awkward autograph encounter with a fan...
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Sylvia Beach on Joyce. I love how she pronounces it 'boowk' the way he would have. #ulysses #jamesjoyce
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If it's high-octane action you're after, you can't go wrong with this one. YouTube said so.
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I have this work-in-progress about Yeats and the occult going.
Beguiling and beautifully written. sean mcnulty's 'Someone New' is a great way to start the weekend. abctales.com/story/sean-mcnu… Please share if you can
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The greatest food order in the history of the movies.
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Work-in-progress about Yeats and the occult. abctales.com/story/sean-mcnu… Little poets, country cures, and mellow times.
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This moving story from Marandina brilliantly captures a life in 400 words. It is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can abctales.com/story/marandina…
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