The Hundredth Post

...and nothing to report. Preparing hard for the Terrible Twos. It's D's 2nd (or sixth - depending on who you ask) birthday this week and preparations are in full swing. We were hoping to go low key with this one but you know how things tend to ......spiral. We've already confirmed the funk band. Throughout the afternoon the cousins will be performing hornpipes in fancy dress on the back of a truck (we're awaiting a callback from the Tulla Céilí band). There'll be coleslaw contests, we've hired 3 bouncy castles, a bouncy semi-D, a marquee, a helium baloon artist, an anti-freeze splashpool, a florist, a face painter and decorator, a dark chap who does things with handkerchiefs, a tightrope walker (specialises in clothes lines), a 22 piece marching band to wander around the estate drawing attention to our invite only little event (neighbours can look but will not be fed or have access to any of the bouncy objects), oh and a full strength Macnas will be mingling with the guests throughout the day taking requests. I hope we get the weather. The chocolate fountain tends to become troublesome in a gale. Speaking of weather related activities, disappointingly "Kilts on Stilts" cancelled once they heard Macnas were coming. We're struggling to think of who to get as a replacement to light the 20ft wicker man at dusk. S is getting into the spirit of things by having her head waxed on Friday as she's a small bit sensitive about the wisps. D and chums will arrive in a pink princess themed limousine. We wanted her to arrive in a hot air balloon but the event management company told us to get fucked - the back garden didn't have the required physical area to make a good landing target.... especially with the marquee, bouncy castles and highly unpredictable sugar buzzed entropic chums. Simply not safe.

I really hope we haven't tried to squeeze too much in. Last thing we want is little Dee Dee getting overwhelmed and becoming aggressive.



Books and Music did rain down from a height for a very long time following my spend-it-all-in-the-one-shop Christmas Voucher splurge. I'm systematically working through loads of new music and a years worth of quality reading awaits.

Read this in 2 train trips. Worth a read, won't change your life.

Very interesting, very accessible but a small bit too cut and dried for my cynical mind.

Really enjoying this. Quality writing and a beautiful edition. I'll let you know how it ends up.

And to mark this momentous 100th post milestone, below is a mindless bit of trivia : verbatim, the top search terms which landed many disoriented randomers on these very pages.

1. hollowsolid
2. thurston jazzmaster
3. hollowsolid + blog
4. hollowsolid.blogspot
5. "i made you a present, you never expected"
6. "rick white album" site:blogspot.com
7. "wait.think.fast
8. "yellow avensis"
9. bariloche "bencina blanca"
10. buenos aires new year obelisca
11. cho cho hey beep beep
12. ernesto djedje 320
13. how to. make pipe bombs from from canada
14. if your gonna be a broke little bunny
15. s doc
16. wipers "i'll be around" blogspot
17. "dee dee" bowerbirds lyrics
EDIT : updated
18. lyric's of song about henery sheflin
19. stephen shore
20. peat muppets
21. site:http://hollowsolid.blogspot.com frozen
22. call,beep bloom possible! slova
23. alo donegan
24. dan boekner up all night
25. geese the national beverly road sampled
26. nearlymeat
EDIT: Further Updated
28. spiderland slint
29. snow leopard beep casuale
30. frog noise riddip
31. ballyfair
32. blogspot first dance song bon iver
33. daniel johnston wallpaper
34. hayden "home by saturday"
35. wet/oily floor pictures
36. isaac brock living in a condemned home
37. midlake sg vox
38. birkenstock buckle clicking noise
39. the barr brothers
40. schmitten outside disco
EDIT : Addendum Sept 2011
41. anne doyle
42. mellon collie and the infinite sadness wallpaper
"43. loosen the dung"
44. andes mt deadly road
45. ben gibbard home
47. josh homme ginger elvis
48. malcolm x camping
49. thing 1 thing 2
50. you are my happy ending


We had a terrible job finding bencina blanca in Bariloche aswell. Yellow Avensis indeed.

Merry New Year

New Year's Eve turned out not quite as we'd planned it. We were due to stay in the cabin up the mountains in the woods by the river. We loaded up the car with a couple of days worth of food, made our way up the mountains assisting several snow bound motorists out of our way and got there (we actually made it) to find the electricty was gone. Electricity should be optional in a cabin up the mountains in the woods by the river in a snowstorm but not when you have a 4 month old and a 22 month old and temperatures were predicted to fall to as low as minus 6. So we had to turn around and travel the same treacherously dicey roads home. Not before our raclette ended up sliding down a hill in the snow (we had to unload the contents of the boot to access the tow hook), I earned a sports injury assisting a fellow motorist out of a snowdrift and we ended up having to be pulled out of a ditch by adrenaline junkies with winches. But we made it safely home in time to celebrate new years with a dinner cooked on the raclette, which was in surprisingly good form considering the abuse it took earlier in the day. Quote of the day "Conor Faughnan has just been on de rayydio sayin' that the Sally Gap is impassable.... fuckin' right it is!" from the guy who pulled us out of the ditch :)

Happy New Year to all. May you all receive liberal sprinkles of 10-10-20 on your 2010, the thing that brings the bringer of things.

In other news, a rare sighting of a Sasquatch was captured on film this New Year's Day...


On that eerie and chilling note, we'll sign off on 2009. Oíche mhaith agus chodladh samh.