Month: August 2008
Belfast Creatives: Part 2
Jared Longlands (for more: smartturkey@hotmail.com)
Julia Atkinson
Paddy McKeown (for more: http://www.myspace.com/patrickmckeown)
Michael MacBroom
Hair Hair Hair Hair Hair
Late Night PhD
Ep. 31: Reiki in North Belfast
Caroline Dunne talks from her home in North Belfast about the practice of Reiki. She has been practicing it for many years, having been trained in the US and then moved to Belfast to live & work here for the past 6 and a half years. Caroline had been a hair stylist before, but then switched into holistic therapies, with reiki being one of her favorite to practice. Reiki is unlike a traditional body massage — with less touching, more silence, and a focus on chakras and crystals. In today’s episode, she explains what reiki is exactly & who is attracted to it. Caroline also discusses what the reaction has been in North Belfast and the city at large to reiki, as well as what it can offer to people (including skeptics of it), and why she enjoys it so much.
Black Taxi Driver
a film by Michael Leonard
Belfast Creatives: Part 1
Sinead Breathnach-Cashell … (for more: http://www.myspace.com/draw_in)
Neil Brogan … (for more: http://caff-flick.com)
Margaret Hagan … (for more: http://penelopebox.etsy.com)
David Timlin … (for more: http://www.creativematch.co.uk/portfolio/david_timlin/ or d_timlin@mac.com)
Stuart Sloan … (for more: http://www.youtube.com/user/sloanowski)
Foreigners Belfast: Part 2
Waterfront Free Running + Break Dancing
a film by Sam Ruscica
Ep. 30: Freshwater Pearl Mussels
- Conor in the River
Freshwater pearl mussels may be the most boring things some have ever seen — as Bill Oddie alleged — but they are the stuff of Conor Wilson’s study + life. In Northern Ireland freshwater pearl mussels are under threat, from agricultural run-off, overfishing and pearl hunters. The mussels are big and boring, with gills, a stomach, and a foot, but no brain or personality. No matter their dullness, they matter a great deal to river life.
Conor explains his work with mussels — which he does for Quercus at Queen’s University Belfast. He’ll be spending a good time alone in the rivers of Northern Ireland, tracking down mussels, reintroducing new mussels into the environment, zapping fish, and avoiding the temptation to search for a fortune in pearls.
Ep. 29: Caff-Flick Neil
Neil Brogan tells of his professional hobby, running the small record label Caff/Flick out of Belfast. The label (http://caff-flick.com/) is a niche one, releasing vinyl 12″ and 7” records & picture discs of bands from all over Europe + North America, including Mount Eerie, The High Places, No Kids, and Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light (from whom some songs feature on this episode).
Neil tells of how he got into the niche in London and expanded it from Belfast — constructing a snowballing virtual world of music, art & business — run via multiple online personas he’s cultivated. He also comments on the lifestyle that comes with running a small label: whether Belfast is (or could be) a decent place for his ambitions, bank account, and sensibilities; if he’ll ever cash himself in for a suit and an office job; and how hipsters can induce sensations of inadequacy and nausea.
Neil also performs (in a weird, self-effacing way, as he puts it). This Sunday the 17th he helps put on ‘Up The Buff’ at the Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffaloes club, in the Cathedral Quarter, on Writer’s Square, at. It is free in + goes from 7pm.
Above, a High Places Picture Disc in Action, courtesy of David Horvitz
Foreigners Belfast: Part 1
I Think Bikes
for more from Sam: http://anotherworldradio.com/2008/08/01/ep-25-bicycle-belfast/
Projectionist World
for more from Jared: http://anotherworldradio.com/2007/12/04/episode-4/
and to see some of Jared’s writings, drawings, comics, and other creations, contact him via email, at smartturkey@hotmail.com.
Ep. 28: Chair Life & Foster Parenthood
A young Belfast woman talks frankly about life with ME (or chronic fatigue syndrome) in the first half of the show. She discusses how the illness arrived, how it induced swearing and rattiness from her, and what the trade-offs have been. Also: whether she wants people to push her in the wheelchair, her plans for family or nunhood, and how she’s found men look at women in a chair.
In the second half, foster mother Susan Hagan talks about all the babies that have come in and out of her home. She, along with her husband and family, has been fostering newborns for the past seven years through a Pittsburgh agency. The babies stay for a weeks or months, and Susan describes what life with them (and without them) is like — including the health concerns, naming choices, attachment issues, and relationships with birth and adoptive parents.
Another World 