Watch the dosage

I suppose I should take this as a warning: a teenage girl was hospitalised after drinking seven double espressos straight. Mind you I don't work on an espresso counter so I'm not in as much danger. What I especially like about this is that we now know what the effects of caffeine poisoning are:

"She apparently started laughing and crying for no reason while serving."

So I'll be sure to warn those around me if I start doing this (more than is usual).

Normal life has resumed after the holidays. We're back to looking for apartments without any luck so far. But I was lucky enough to score tickets for Arcade Fire in the Phoenix Park in October - this time they took 5 minutes to sell out instead of 5 seconds, which I can only take to mean that this time next year they'll be all washed up and performing on celebrity You're a Star. (Or the non-union Canadian equivalent of same). As I write I'm sure unscrupulous people are auctioning their tickets for ridiculous amounts on eBay. Cue Homer voice: "Damn you eBay!"

Another chance to hear

I mentioned that Bradley's Almanac was the first place I heard of Arcade Fire - well the original live set of mp3s that sparked my interest is now available again. So if you missed these the first time now's your chance to hear them - I'm sure they are for a limited time only.

The new album is out now - I haven't got it yet and to be honest I'm still too sore about not being able to get tickets for the Olympia gigs to want to hear it just yet. It would just remind me of the pain. There's still Oxegen though.

Staples

Hey, it looks as if Bradley's Almanac is still up and running. I hadn't checked it out in quite a while - I think he must have changed his RSS feed or something nerdy like that so I wasn't getting any updates. Anyway it seems Buffalo Tom have a new album coming out. I should probably be more excited but for me Buffalo Tom will always evoke college days and hearing new stuff from them now will probably never have the same impact it did back the the 90s. Or something. This is the album I always remember listening to at the time:


Anyway the site is worth keeping an eye on for the live mp3s he often puts up. It was on the very same blog that I first discovered this band.