Got a suprising phone call this morning from the Belfast Telegraph. They are featuring my Best and Worst reads in their Friday entertainment supplement, at least they have interviewed me for it anyway. It may come out this week or next week. This should help the sites future publicity and hopefully will mean some new visitors!
Signing Off
Ruairi
WELL DONE MATE. ON THAT NOTE, I WAS DOING MY THING IN THE HEWITT LAST NIGHT AND A FELLA FROM AN ADVERTISING AGENCY ASKED ME TO JOIN HIM AND HE PUT IT TO ME THAT THERE IS A COMPANY COMMISSIONED TO SHOWCASE FRINGE ARTS IN BELFAST. HE'S MENTIONED A FEE OF £600 TO DO A SHORT COMMERCIAL. GOING TO CHECK IT OUT ANYWAY BUT HE SEEMED KOSHER. COULD BE AN OPENING FOR SOME OF US AND THE EXPOSURE ALWAYS HELPS.
Brian Bailey
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/twentyfourseven/story.jsp?story=656515
Ruairi
Signing Off
Ruairi
WELL DONE MATE. ON THAT NOTE, I WAS DOING MY THING IN THE HEWITT LAST NIGHT AND A FELLA FROM AN ADVERTISING AGENCY ASKED ME TO JOIN HIM AND HE PUT IT TO ME THAT THERE IS A COMPANY COMMISSIONED TO SHOWCASE FRINGE ARTS IN BELFAST. HE'S MENTIONED A FEE OF £600 TO DO A SHORT COMMERCIAL. GOING TO CHECK IT OUT ANYWAY BUT HE SEEMED KOSHER. COULD BE AN OPENING FOR SOME OF US AND THE EXPOSURE ALWAYS HELPS.
Brian Bailey
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/twentyfourseven/story.jsp?story=656515
Ruairi
The best/worst books I've read: Ruairi McNally
Ruairi McNally is a performance poet from Belfast, and editor and founder of Belfastpoets.com
12 August 2005
My favourite reading comes from the pen of Richard Brautigan, whose world I fell into through an American friend i met in Galway one sensuous summer about five years ago.I had been writing a freer form of poetry and was discovering a beat-style purely by accident so, naturally, I began to study Ginsberg, Kerouac and Brautigan. Brautigan writes in an off-beat perspective that can start off in one place and flow into the unusual. To discover him properly I would advise everyone to read his Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970.
I have to say it is very hard to think of the worst book I have read. I don't normally stop reading a book, or a story, until I have at least attempted to crack it. A tough read can be more illuminating, with a tremendous sense of achievement when you tease out the final meanings. But I've had East of Eden by John Steinbeck in my collection for nearly 10 years and I still can't finish it. I've been constantly bogged down in the romantic scenery of the Wild West and can't get past it. I know there must be an end to it somewhere and it pains me that I haven't got there yet. Maybe one day I'll watch the film, starring James Dean, and cure my curiosity.
Judith Cole
GOOD STUFF MATE AND WELL DONE. HOPE YOU WILL BE AT CATALYST FOR A CHINWAG. THERE ARE SOME COLOSSALLY GOOD DEVELOPMENTS IMMINENT AND I'D LIKE TO PICK YOUR BRAINS ABOUT HOW TO GET IT OUT THERE. WITHIN THE MONTH I WILL BE LOOKING FOR OUR POETS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR ON AIR (BY PHONE) WEEKLY POETRY SPOTS IN DRIVETIME RADIO FOR LIZA FLAVELLE FROM DOWNTOWN RADIO. MORE ON THIS SOON. Brian Bailey
briliant ruairi my mum is bringing the paper home later - i will get it cut out and put into my scrapbook
charmain
Well done Ruairi, great article and exposure.p.s if you watch the film East of Eden, the script leaves out the first half of the book. Watch it anyway it's a pretty good movie.
Gerard
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