hanging...

im dead, went to bed at 5am in belfast, got up at 6:30am got to train station 1 minute late, had to try and sleep on hard metal benches till 8am when the next train came, sat on that train for 2hrs then got inner city train straight to work.

i have already completed some great acts of incompentancy. going to be a good day.

why do this? the 3rddan were playing in belfast and i hadnt seem rory a good mate and front man of the band for ages so had to do a bit of partying after. all good, as they saying goes "a good night is always worth a bad day" i got a little be carried away with the sparkling wine and definately paying the price.

derrick may interview for the spiritual beginnings of techno

LIVERPOOL LEGENDS

simply incredible, beautiful, glorious. I am no liverpool fan but last night was one of the greatest football matches I have seen.

For anyone who isnt football crazy, Liverpool were in the final of the European Champions League against AC Milan - the best team in Italy and some would say the world. Liverpool have had a rubbish season, and it was something of a fairytale that they made it to the final, it was truly an underdog versus golaith situation. On paper liverpool's chance were laughable, and in the first minute they went a goal down. Shevchenko, one of the greatest strikers knocked it in past Dudek, a dodgy keeper if ever there was one.

As the first half went on AC skinned Liverpool, knocking the ball around with class and finesse. The liverpool got a break, but lost it and in the counter attack it was suddenly 2-0. Then just before half time in about 4 amazing passes and 10 seconds Crespo cheekily chipped the ball over Dudek, 3-0 and it was only half time. There were talks of 5-1, all the liverpool fans, famous for their support, were totally shell-shocked, dispondent and silent.

Then the second half begins after 5 minutes of all AC Milan, suddenly liverpool get forward Riise whips in a cross and who rises up? Steven Gerrard, the teams captin, a man who has liverpool fc in his veins, heads the ball into the back of the net.... COME ON he runs round the stadium demanding the traveling fans get up and start believing once again. two minutes later Smicer cracks a shot from outside the box.... BAM 3-2, and the stadium is on fire, surely they cant? the milan players look confused. Then literally two mintues later Gerrard goes through into the box, takes a dive and wins a penalty. Alonso steps up and its saved but wait he pokes the rebound into the roof of the net and every one in every pub in the whole of liverpool, england, ireland goes mad. 3-3 can you feel it?

From then on the match settles down a bit andf liverpools defence become hero's, the fans move the staduim from Istabul to Mereseyside(liverpools home ground) Milan dont know whats happening somehow their world-class players arent so immortal anymore.

Normal time ends - extra time, liverpool players cramping up all over the park, having chased the best team in the world 90minutes they are showing the signs of exhaustion, but still they get up, Jamie Carrigher super hero, stretches out to block a ball collapses with cramp comes back on and they play the exact same ball and somehow he blocks it again. His body is finnished but he is just playing from his heart. But still if this goes to penalties who's gonna hit for liverpool, when the pressure's on AC Milan's world class players will surely mop up...

Then in the 27 minute of extra time, the 117th of the match Shevchenko gets a free header, this time Dudek saves off the ground, but it bounces back to Shevchenko who blasts the ball at the empty net, but somehow in that split second Dudek gets back up the ball hits his shoulder and flys over the bar, still 3-3

And then the penalties begin, the atmosphere in the stadium is incredible it seems like it only has liverpool supporters, on their feet, everyone of them signing at the top of their voice...

And Dudek, the liverpool goal keeper, looks different not the guy fumbling the ball at the start of the second half, but a hero in waiting...

The first AC Milan player walks to the spot, the crowd is whislting the pressure intense.. over the bar, he's missed.
But the Milan keeper is Dida about 8ft tall and already saved Alonso's penalty during normal time... Hamann the defener steps up 1-0 come on!
Pirlo for Milan Dudek saves!! Cisse, the best hair in football, but not the best skills - SCORES!!
Milan score Riise misses, everyone gets a bit nervous, Kaka scores again for Milan, so does Smicer for the 'pool.

Shevchenko the wonder player comes forward to Dudek who he easily scored past in the first minute, to take milan's last penalty, Shevchenko the kinda guy i would be my house on to score a penalty. Dudek waving his arms playing mind games...
Saves his penalty!!!!!LIVERPOOL WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!

unbeliveable, if you wrote the script no-one would believe it, Arsenal who dominated english football for the previous two years, setting the record for longest unbeaten run, never cames close to winning the champions league. Chelsea this years champions dream of it. But Liverpool, who were beaten by the religated teams in the premiership, WIN.

back in belfast for an non-existent 3rddan gig(a mates band based in manchester who are playin NEXT weeknd), kinda felt a bit annoyed not helped by united losing the fa cup to the dirty gunners. but kinda fell into going to shine, for a friend's boyfriends birthday... and it was soooooo good :) jon carter was playing the atmospher was really good, and spiritually its was one of the best nights in there in ages....

come on to the darkened dancfloor,
here no one expects anything of you,
you dont have to justify or introduce yourself,
if you are here you are one of us,
just open your ears and let your soul connect
to the bassline,
bam bam bam,
its does matter where you come from or where you are going
leave it all behind and dance,
dance free
eyes closed, face grinning, feet moving, head bobbing
let the high pitched elctro resound deep in your bones,
the nonsense of life drowns away
in this place i here God's voice i see why they
called Jesus Lord of the dance,
all distractions smashed to pieces by huge waves of techno,
i float in bliss with my dad

keep it real party people

Making babies....

Some geezers in a lab in south korea have produced Stem cells from patients! if that means nothing check out the bbc artical here but it basically means they can take a bit of your skin and grow a new you! Right now they are reasearching it with a view to grow new heathly bits for sick people which is sound, but whenever einstein created nuclear fusion, it didnt take long for someone to rip off the idea of making nuclear energy to make nuclear bombs.

its all a bit jurassic park, just because we can, doesnt mean we should, i mean how long is it before the yanks start making an army of clones? it sounds ridculous but the technology is now there for it to happen.

and the worst bit is the church will stay silent until all the laws have been passed the society has moved on and there is very little can be done, a al abortion and many other contenious issues. WAKE UP

just had a great couple of days with friends from uni, hannah, est, kt all took rae over for her birthday, just really good to be hanging out, forced everyone to drink a pint of guinness, which did almost kill a few of them, and was kt's first ever pint.

did skive the day off work and was feeling quite happy about that but have now realised that it wasnt really the best plan, so am going to have an embarrassing coversation with my manager about trying to make a days holiday out of it.. doh

some cool (geek) stuff going on at
http://www.podish.com/
you can have a rant on your phone send it as an MMS to podish@gmail.com and it gets posted on the site,

and
http://worldmap66.notlong.com is really cool, it takes bbc news feeds and sticks them on a world map that you can zoom in to city level, and each place then has a link back to the artical. think global :)

a few muckers from dublin,

shakin stevens.

more life wave ridin since last post,

tuesday night,
needed break, so went for a swim got back was beginning to russle some dinner and lau rang, she was telling me about hedi & roland baker leading a conferance she was at and how amazing it was, she was "laughing for like a hour in the holy spirit" and how hedi was talking about going to heaven and that we should be able to step into the celestrail relems as easy as walking from the shore to the sea, head poping stuff for real. but anyway she was praying with me down the phone for loads of stuff including seeing heaven, so after i was like "right lets go for it".
got down to a bit of praying then felt like i was seeing some spiritual stuff and saw a demon on my back big black fella kinda attached to the back of my neck, it was a demon of alcholism. i have been struggling with drinking forever but particularly for the last while, (NB i am not sayin alchol is bad or in anyway wrong(jesus water > wine), but being addicted is) so im kinda freaked, this is the first time i have really seen something like this. and part of me is saying your full of craziness but the other part of me is praying like crazy and then bits of me start shakin, like me head or legs or upper body. Really intense experience, i didnt really know what was going on but just kept praying to Jesus, and after a while it kinda calmed down and i feel asleep...

still not totally sure what to make of the whole experience but feeling a greater dependancy of God :) i often sit around and wonder about why all that stuff about healing and demons and angels etc isnt seen in our society today, and then when a little bit of it shows up i freak.....

apart from that really excited about friends from southampton coming over on sunday for a couple of days, YO!
have a good weekend party people, and a special thanks to Marko van j for supplying me with another GENIUS set of mix CDs

nothing busy week,
wierd reading the below post, almost seems like a different world... just had a busy nothing week, where nothing really matterd but it still tired me out. saw sarah and brendan over the weekend which was cool, but insisted on going into the dark room for about 4 hours yesterday, which did yield some sweet prints of a battle of the bands last week, but knackered me. got some looking after by a few friends last night, so thats all good,
this week is looking well hecitc and various attempted world changign ideas feeling particularly pie in the sky....
my mentor has gone off on a four day retreat, which to be honest sounds like a plan...
need to be doing some
"furious rest"
to quote the legendary ms hume

gave the auld blog a bit of a face lift all that dark green was getting depressing!

check out this guys video blog kinda makes you wonder about the future, and possible rise of a true anti-hero? or maybe its just a pain in the arse

super swede anna (on the right) send me some photies from miami, including my baptism check out my photo blog for more...

fo shango,

this weekend i was up in belfast, went to layo & bushwacka at shine sweet, good to see ben and mike.

then yesterday managed to get up after 4 hours sleep to do church where it i grew up and it seems God is on the move..

but in the evening went down to ballynahinch and was just smacked in the face by the love and grace of God. it just felt like the whole room was being washed around in a big warm sea of love. and the singing and music, i just sat really still at the end and listened and felt... like oil running over my head and fire shooting through my viens and just wanted to be there forever... and a great friend and inspiration prayed with me and spoke incredible words of grace and forgivness and excitement for the future... hairs on the back of my neck are standing up just writing this, felt like a really long time since i had felt like that BLAM!