http://www.gaffbhala.com the uncensored ramblings of 4 lads. and a hamster Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:52:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While walking on the east pier with Aileen the other day we came across some 3-dimensional art that was left over from the recent festival of world cultures. Here are a couple of pics of us messing around with it. http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/09/22/3-d-art/ Two years ago yesterday I attended the third Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois. It was my first ever music festival and my only one to date. After I passed through the festival security checks I arrived at the gates to the campsite. It was here that I was fitted ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/09/02/farewell-electric-picnic-armband/ "I read the news today, oh boy..." So here's the deal: Ali went away to Portugal last week on a family holiday. Usually we take opportunities like this when he's not around for an extended period of time to play a trick on him, say wrapping random items in his room ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/08/20/room-newspaper-prank/ I got a new iPhone today. It's great except for a couple of problems I need to sort out. This post is coming straight from the phone!!! Oh and in case you're wondering why I have a photo of danny's girlfriend here it's cos it was the first photo I ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/08/10/ipost/ [youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=GAp4OL6_A2M&fmt=18 425 355] I finally got around to edting a video together for our 4th of july party we had a couple of weeks ago!! Check it out on youtube! http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/07/19/4th-of-july-party-video-montage/ Howdy all! Thanks so much to the people who came to the party, especially all those who gave us some kitchen towel :) Hats off to Ian who supplied us with some great tunes and entertainment too! Great news was that it wasnt actually too hard to clean up the ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/07/09/another-post-party-post/ My good friend Aiden showed me a very cool tool for face augmentation and transformation! Check it out at this site. So earlier this morning I whipped out my camera phone in the office and snapped a pic of me, uploaded it and started playing around! Here's what I ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/07/04/a-collection-of-dan-faces/ [youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI 425 355] America... America... America, FUCK YEAH! Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah, America, FUCK YEAH! Freedom is the only way yeah, Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too, America, FUCK YEAH! So lick my butt, and suck on my balls, America, FUCK YEAH! What you going to do when we come ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/07/04/america-america/ - artwork by Dan http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/07/01/gaffbhala-needs-you/ The lads will tell you that I have been playing Donkey Kong Country non stop for the last 2 weeks trying to get 101%. In order to get 101% you have to complete all levels, all bosses and uncover all bonus levels. Finally, this morning, I achieved my goal. Check ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/29/donkey-kong-country-101/ Last week Dunnes were selling half price pork steaks so I bought one, cut it in half and froze it. Last night I decided to cook one of the halves for my dinner. It worked out a beaut! If anyone else is interested, here's what I did. First you'll need 1x300g ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/29/pork-steak-with-stuffing-and-apple-sauce/ [youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=NjcWMJ1PUxI 425 355] Jack of Speed on BalconyTV! http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/26/jack-of-speed-on-balconytv/ [youtube:http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=AtMmuqs7Hwc 425 355] Here's a fantastic short of some breakdancing ninjas directed by the one and only Aiden Gibson. Breakdancers are P Kean and Horse Henderson! The song is Europa by the James Taylor Quartet. http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/22/breakdancing-ninjas/ Check it out! We were all in Merrion Square last weekend at the street entertainment festival and we saw this really really tall woman! Well... technically it was only a young girl on the shoulders of a man as the second photo shows. But from where we were standing, it ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/17/the-really-tall-woman/ Well well. Yes, I know I never make any posts here and yes, I know everyone keeps telling me to do so. So - here we go. In case you were not aware, Alastair "not so cross" Cross turned the brand spanking new age of 24 (who'd 'ave thought ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/10/ali-gets-olderagain/ Saturday was one of those days that any radiohead fan would have had trouble sleeping the night before. I can't include myself in that list, primarily due to a healthy concoction of pints baby guiness' (guini?) and silver bullets (Thanks Paddy!) the night before, and so it was with a ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/09/radiohead-in-rainbows/ Every morning, I am woken up by my alarm at 7am. I turn over, hit the snooze button and grab an extra 15 minutes of sleep. Once my 7.15 alarm goes off, I’m out of bed and into my dressing gown. I walk downstairs and prepare my morning juice. With ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/06/the-scourge-of-the-morning/ oh no :( forgot my waterproof trousers for my moped journey home... # oh and some learner almost drove straight into me on the way to work :| # currently researching how to make video podcasts for city channel's weekly news review # @krodnoc well done! # i've got about 8 more songs to ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/05/dans-twitter-updates-for-2008-06-05/ @robertross yeah its a bit of a pain... its been down for ages... they are workin on it tho so at least they are trying to fix it! # looking forward to redesigning my bands website for the new EP launch over the summer :) # yay! my newest nerd book just ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/04/dans-twitter-updates-for-2008-06-04/ looking forward to recording and EP with Jack of Speed :) http://www.myspace.com/jackofspeed # looking forward to the band photoshoot tomorrow :) # http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/03/dans-twitter-updates-for-2008-06-03/ If you know us, you know that we love Guitar Hero and just over a week ago a new game called Rockband was released and was delivered straight in the loving arms of Gaffbhala. The game is exactly the same as the GH series only that RB comes with a ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/06/03/rockband-is-not-playing-at-gaffbhala/ Last weekend I attended the Heineken Cup Final 2008 between Munster and Toulouse. In short, the experience was incredible. Following is an account of the weekend, one of most memorable of my life. I left work at the usual time of 5pm on Friday 23rd May 2008. Except this time I ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/27/munster-european-rugby-champions-2008/ I've made a couple more songs the past few months in my boredom. So if you liked my post a couple of months back you might as well have a listen :) Check them out below or download if you fancy! Belts [audio:http://www.gaffbhala.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/belts.mp3] Download Twelfth [audio:http://www.gaffbhala.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/twelfth.mp3] Download http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/26/another-bunch-of-dan-tunes/ Since I was a kid I have always been into computer games. It all started with my Atari 2800, then onto the NES, Sega MegaDrive, SNES, N64, Xbox, and now Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, plus the odd bit of PC gaming along the way. Only during college I got ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/23/xna-creators-club/ Woohoo, Im off to Joe Satriani tonight! For those of you who don't know him, he is an electric guitar user, abuser and maestro. There are few people in the world who can actually extract juices from an instrument, but he is one of them and he's playing in Vicar Street ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/23/joe-satriani/ I can't believe it! I actually found my charger for my Sony Handycam :) I have not been able to use the thing for the past three months! The most annoying thing is that it was in a bag FULL of cables which I had previously checked at least 5 ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/23/i-found-my-camcorder-charger/ Ok ok ok... this is just bizarre. Any of you who know us will have heard us utter the phrase 'Chechens' now and again. Before I go any further, let me give you a brief history of how this phrase came about and what it means. A long long time ago ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/17/chechens/ On Friday morning a bunch of us (Ali, Lap, Lex, Mick, Róisín and Myself) are heading over to Minehead over in the UK for the music festival, All Tomorrows Parties! The festival is curated by the fantastic band, Explosions in the Sky! All Tomorrows Parties happens many times a year ... http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/14/all-tommorows-parties-are-belong-to-us/ Oh yeah! We bought a BBQ up in Dunnes Stores last sunday! Tested it out the next day and it works a treat :) BBQ + Sun + Tuborg - Work = Happy Times! Click below for some photos! http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/08/bbq-season-has-begun/ A goof friend of Gaffbhala was in Japan and came across this in the street. Grioch is big news over there! http://www.gaffbhala.com/2008/05/06/big-grioch-in-little-tokyo/