After watching England today, I'm left with the distinct impression there's a Grand Slam hanging on a low branch for whoever wins at Croke Park tomorrow. I hope the men in green have the shoulders to throw off the yoke of cultural significance at Croker tomorrow. In any case, kudos to the GAA for providing the awesome setting.

I spent some of today trying to take the edge off the nervous energy resulting from anticipation of the big game by int0rweb diversions. Here are the fruits of that labor:


Live Kraftwerk performance from the German television show Club Beat in 1971 including the guys who later formed Neu! It's quite long (intro ends around 3 mins, crescendos soon after 6 and 9 minutes) but very worthwhile:





The most surreally beautiful video clip I've ever seen on the UtubeTron. Pristine innocence recaptured and a chance to look at the world anew via the goggles of LSD [Taken from the must see 1964 BBC Documentary The Beyond Within which can be seen in full here:

EDIT: PaddyC's excellent Movie Review blog has taken the ball here and ran with it by providing a very informative review of the entire documentary.





...and finally, even The Muppet's can sing Irish songs, so I can't wait to hear 80,000 Irish try The Fields tomorrow:

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