That's April over, an eventful month! There was a fun birthday party that was unfortunately followed a few days later by a funeral for one of my Uncles. Always a sad day when someone you've known for your entire life is gone, seeing the amount of people there and hearing about how involved he was in the community and how appreciated he was was nice. They played Leader of the Band which was a very nice farewell.

I had the stress of keeping Dennis housebound at the start of the month because he was getting into too many fights! That's all behind us now and things have calmed down, all the cats are in summer mode adn spending their time basking in the sun. I spent a good bit of it working on this website and getting it all online. I bought a film camera and shot my first roll of film, there will be a blog post about that soon. I have a Autocorrebt show this evening. May is already looking busy, but you'll have to wait until next month to hear about that.

Films

A quiet month for films, I didn't watch that many. I just haven't really been in the mood for films as of late.

Rose of Nevada 👍

A beautifully shot film that I really enjoyed but felt like I only half got what it was going for. Felt a bit scattershot in that regard.

Pizza Movie 👍

A really silly comedy with fun characters that’s full of jokes that had me laughing throughout. Would have loved to see this in a packed cinema.

The Drama 👍

Really funny but felt like it never quite landed on its tone.

Thrash 👎

Some really good visual effects for the storm! At least there was that. This just never hooked me in, there was never any real tension and I was bored most of the time.

TV

Lots of TV this month. A great mix of new, new to me & returning shows.

The Comeback 👍

I hadn't watched any of this before, it stars Lisa Kudrow as a former sitcom star making a comeback. The first season was in 2005 and the next in 2014 and there's another from this year that I haven't gotten to yet. I really enjoyed this, Lisa Kudrow is excellent in it and has some great dramatic moments while also embodying this character hilariously.

DTF St. Louis 👍

A very odd tone to this one but a tone I really liked. It tackles loneliness and feelings of inadequacy really well. It was subtly quite funny at times but also really sad. I loved all the people in this, it's a show of people doing their best and trying to be good to one another.

Paradise 👍

I've just started this, being told there is more to it than the initial premise piqued my interest. IT's good so far, really easy to watch and the plot had me coming back.

SNL UK 👍/👎

As mixed as SNL US, some episodes have been really poor and other have been good. THere's been a few really fun sketches though and Weekend Update is hitting for me every episode.

Taskmaster 👍

So far so good, the line up is working well together and there's been some great tasks.

The Apprentice 👍/👎

It's more of the same, sometimes good sometimes dull. Felt predictable who would make it to the final 2 given how useless a lot of the people were.

Games

Max Payne 1 & 2 👍

I wrote about these 2 games here.

Dragon Quest VIII 👎

I wrote about this here.

Esoteric Ebb 👍

I wrote about this here.

No One Lives Forever 👍/👎

I've just started this, I'm a few levels in and there will be a blog post once I'm done with it. It's fine, some levels are really fun whole other are really frustrating. I think this is a game that's looked back on fondly but reality doesn't always line up with our memories.

Music

Only a couple of new albums I was listening to much this month but lots of new singles that have me excited for the albums. I'm an album guy though, so I'll cover them when the album is out.

Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. 👍

Not landing with me as well as Harry’s House did, it's maybe not as upbeat and fun. Still an album I'm enjoying it's a nice chill listen.

Metric - Romanticize The Dive 👍

I've only listened a couple of times, it's more Metric and it's good. It's already growing on me.

The Big Star Quintet - Gig 👍

I didn't really know about Big Star, this was one of the founding members of the group and other musicians playing a bunch of their songs. My friend Sean had an extra ticket for the gig so I joined, it's always fun to go listen to a band a friend thinks you'll like without having heard them. They've been about since the 70s and it was one of those gigs where there's just so much experience on the stage to appreciate, they sounded great and had loads of songs I like. I'll be listening to them more. When we got there it turned out the tickets we had were for the show the night before 😬 but luckily the guy on the door was nice and let us in anyway. This meant that since I technically didn't use Sean's extra ticket I didn't have to pay him for it which is an extra €50 in my pocket. What a way to end the month.

Theatre

Did Daddy Laugh? 👍

This is a sketch comedy night run by Stephen Bradley and Ronan Carey. This is always really fun, they invite some of Dublin's best comedy people to create sketches for the night. Sign up to Stephen's newsletter so you don't miss the next one.

Adelphi '63 👍

Set in 1963 this follows two teenagers with plans to see The Beatles in the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin. The writing was really funny and the production was great, the way the cutaways were done was excellent and the soundscape was brilliant. It's on for another few days in Smock Alley.