Down with my Life by Vic Barry

The one with the big C – One of the more important blog posts you can read, especially if your a bloke

2009-12-01T17:23:00.003Z

The last few days have been an incredibly tough and long haul. On Saturday evening I discovered something a bit unusual on the baby factory. Same on Sunday morning and on Monday I made for my G.P.
So after some prodding and poking he couldn’t (quite obviously) give a 100% either way, so I was referred for an ultrasound today at 3.30pm
The last 24 hours in particular have been very long and I have been dragging a very dark and heavy cloud around with me. I got the Ultrasound and it turns out that, thankfully, I don’t have Testicular Cancer. Which is a huge weight off my mind, but to be honest its going to take another day or so to lift this heavy could off my shoulders. As of right now, its hard to know what I feel, hence banging out a few thoughts here.
The last few days I’ve had a lot of time to think and to be honest I’m not one for going to doctors. But someone, somewhere at one time or another had mentioned getting things checked out if at all in doubt. I think it was on the radio or TV. And it always stuck with me. Hence today I was able to buy piece of mind and that’s something that is priceless. So my point (and I’ll reiterate this on the show later) is while the ladies are out of the traps quite quickly with lumps and bumps, us blokes are far too complacent. So please, if there is something out of the ordinary, get it checked. Don’t go through life without getting it checked, so lads, don’t make a balls of your balls!!!!!

The one with Election time!

2009-11-30T12:47:00.002Z

Just another plug for the Movie Bit "Movie of 2009". The "Other" category was removed due to the fact that people were putting in movies that were not released in 2009. And as much as it made me laugh, the suggestion of 2 girls 1 cup was about 2 years too late!

The one with Justin Lee Collins

2009-11-29T21:43:00.000Z

Tonight!!! From 10pm GMT www.redfm.ie

The one with Paranormal Activity

2009-11-27T22:53:00.000Z

Read my review of Paranormal Activity. Click here

The one with the Movie Bit Movie of the Year 2009

2009-11-27T09:53:00.000Z

Morning all. The first ever Movie Bit Movie of the year takes place this year and its YOU who decideds Corks top movie of 2009. So please click here and vote now :)
Winner announced on the final Movie Bit of 2009 (which is gonna be a huge 2 hour special) on Dec 20th 2009 on Corks RedFM.

The one with Law Abiding Citizen

2009-11-26T16:15:00.001Z

The bad guy always gets killed or those he? Law Abiding Citizen stars Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton who has to endure his wife and child being raped and killed in front of him by 2 burglars. Jamie Foxx plays Nick Rice who’s the legal department justice person.Click the poster for the rest of the review over on The Movie Bit blog.

The one with the muppets taking on Queen

2009-11-25T20:05:00.002Z

Low on the old time today, but this should put a smile on yer chops.......mmmmmmmmm pork!

The one with Invites

2009-11-24T12:09:00.001Z

As many of you know I’m doing the annual Q&A again. We’re back in the wonderful Pavilion on November 11th. Basically a night of fun and frolics with yours truly answering ANY question thrown up by the audience. Plenty of hilarity (allegedly) and honesty. And not only that there’s plenty of stuff up for grabs on the night, including an Xbox 360 Elite, with thanks to Microsoft. So I’m starting the invite process on the blog today.

To get an invite all you have to do is send me an email by clicking here. Just put Invite into the subject box!

Failing that, just leave a comment here with your email address and we’ll hit you back with an email invite over the next few days!

The one with meself on RTE 1

2009-11-23T11:28:00.003Z

Earlier this year I was asked to partake in Battle of the Sexes for RTE 1. Basically a camera crew came down and filmed yours truly and Anne Sexton for our dedicate Adults only slot, Sexually speaking. So last night, it was broadcast.

One of the big wigs in Red rang last week to give me the heads up and luckily I put it into the Sky + box to record it. Otherwise I plain forgot about it. Huge reaction to it on the show last night and it was only then I remembered. Anyway, check out the clip, here - 26 minutes in a Brad Pitt lookalike comes on screen :)

I await for the phone calls for movie roles and so on. Anyone got a good agent? :P

The one with more flood footage

2009-11-20T14:27:00.001Z

Some great footage from around Cork!

The one with some Flood footage

2009-11-20T02:11:00.002Z

Filmed this last night on the way to the house of the hen box! Roland Emmerich would be proud...maybe....

The Twilight Saga - New Moon review

2009-11-19T14:30:00.001Z

For many people (primarily young teenage girls) their world has stopped turning as the second movie in the Twilight series arrives.
Lets be honest here, If Jesus turned up and told the fans this movie was rubbish, it wouldn’t matter. This is a fan movie. Click the poster to read the rest of the review :)

The one with Thierry Henry :)

2009-11-19T13:54:00.001Z

The one with Too Close and Personal 3

2009-11-18T01:46:00.001Z

Invite only as usual. Free entry into Doubletime after the Q&A Essentially this is a mad night where anything goes on stage and its the 3rd year of the Q&A. Load of suprises on the night T.B.A. Keep eyes peeled here over the next week or so to blag yourself an invite.

The one with one!!!

2009-11-17T07:26:00.000Z

Dope.com

The one with the PS3

2009-11-16T14:07:00.001Z

I’m not after having the best techno weekends if truth be told! The Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 has decided it doesn’t want to live anymore. Its still hanging on for dear life, but starts choking after 5 minutes. I wonder what it’s made of? Mud?

I wonder, I really do wonder what kind of shit they put into these “super” power consoles. After all, you spend a fortune and then this is what you end up with. And this is the second time its happened. I’m a total Sony whore but this is taking the mick a bit and I’m currently contemplating taking a hammer to it and just selling on all the games.

Imagine buying a private jet. Imagine after a months of flying that the wings fell off. Imagine that the private jet company decided to sort the problem out for you. Then imagine that a few months after some more flying, the wings fell off again. Exactly!!!! You’d take the bus!

Back in the day you could have driven a Tractor towing a trailer full of cattle over a Speccy 48k, and it would still work. Granted it might be covered in mud and cow shit but it would still work! Nothing a soft cloth couldn’t fix. But these days, in 2009 the most advanced consoles (MS included here, although my 360 hasn’t blown up in some time thankfully) are dropping like dead flies. I’m sick to the back teeth of so called “super” consoles falling over and there’s not even a sniff of kryptonite in the air!

The one with Modern Warfare 3

2009-11-13T15:37:00.003Z

Enjoy the weekend. Gonna be in Club D'ville TONIGHT (Friday) - Doors 11pm!

2012 Review

2009-11-12T16:12:00.002Z

The director who brought you a giant lizard trampling around New York and a giant Tsunami complimented with an ice storm is back and this time it really is the end of the world. Click the poster to read the rest of the review!

The one with the blogs 5th birthday!

2009-11-12T01:40:00.001Z

As most of these things go, tis hard to believe the blog is 5 years old! It started off as something where I was quite sporadic in the updates but slowly but surely its evolved into something that is updated quite frequently and has more than 2 subscribers :) It has also attached itself to my everyday routine like a facehugger, but as of yet it has still to burst out of my chest!

So hopefully its entertained, engaged, disgusted and upset. And it will continue to do so as long as there is fingers attached to my hand!

So as we say in the real capital, “Nice wan for reading”. As we also say in Cork “Keep fuckin’ reading!!”

The one with something cool!!!!

2009-11-11T07:25:00.000Z

The one where I like it when the planets go Boom!

2009-11-11T00:32:00.000Z

ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

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The one with Pat Kenny & my take on suing an old woman for a field!

2009-11-10T12:25:00.001Z

Well it happened again! Some “individual” had a pop off Pat on live TV, about his 600,000 POUND salary and how he works 11 hours a week. This just goes to show, to me anyway, an uneducated stereotypical view of people who work in the media. From someone on this side of the media fence, and from my own personal experience the public are lead to believe I work 3 hours a night, that's 15 hours a week. Add about another 8 hours minimum into that mix a night / day and you get some idea of my working day / night. And don't even start me on the times I’ve left the building at 3 and 4am! What the public are not aware of (or seem to forget) is that I, like many others in this profession, spend hours and hours prepping and organising a show with producers etc.etc. So take your perception of “hours worked” and shove it!

There’s a huge amount of begrudgery in this country. You get a new car, the neighbours or some shite on the street have to pass comment. You buy a new pair of shoes and its “Oh look at him and his fancy shoes”. As opposed to embracing people who are successful, many spend their time trying to concoct ways of knocking them and their success. Surely time might be better spent bettering themselves as opposed to being a haven for spite and hatred! Its like many thrive on the darkside as it were!

Look, I’d love an Audi R8. But I’m not roaring at Audi to say “Your feckin’ car is too dear for me to buy because I don’t earn enough to afford it”. Nope! I’m not throwing my toys out of the pram because “I want, I want, I want” I know my place, and I’ll probably never afford one, but I’m not going to moan and bitch about the people who put a smile on the Audi accountants faces. If somebody can afford it, more power to you. You work hard enough for it and why shouldn’t you! After all its your money isn’t it, or do the be grudgers think they have some legal right to YOUR money. I’m sure there’s plenty of people think they are living in Sherwood forest. Just because someone has more than you, doesn’t give you the right to knock the shit out of them for their success. Stop your “Poor me” shit and get off your ass

All that said, Pat handled it in the usual Pat way, hope someone wrestles said heckler to the ground and just keep saying thanks. The poor Minister looked like she needed a change of knickers though. There’s a million things he could have done to engage the guy and actually debate the point, but he just sat there waiting for the hired goons to sort it out.

In the mix of things, Pat and his 600,000 POUNDS were compared to the US President, unbelievable. Then came the comment about suing an old woman about a field. And the poor old Bridy next to him looked like she was thinking “Why did I bother my arse coming out tonight!” In another way, I admire his professionalism because if It were me, I would have scaled the desk and started swinging a chair! Anyway, I wouldn’t take anybody too seriously, that doesn’t even know what currency we use in the country!

The one with an awesome farting bull statue!

2009-11-09T20:09:00.002Z

The one with Windows 7 and other geek goodness!

2009-11-09T12:57:00.001Z

Last week, the nice people at Microsoft sent on a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Being a long time XP user, I was a little dubious about doing a complete fresh install, as these things never go to plan.

I set about backing up years worth of photos and a small fortune of iTune purchases. All told, the backup process took the bare bones of nearly 2.5 hours. Windows 7 took less than 45 minutes to get onto me trusty Dell laptop and so far its been a wonderful experience. Its fast and incredibly intuitive. I love the idea where it goes off by its lickle self and looks for a particular driver and so on. Those of you coming from Vista won’t see much visual differences, but coming from XP its a huge difference! And it all went to plan, bar me losing all my iTunes playlists, but that I can manage!! Either way, best move I’ve made in along time!!!

I’m in the process of reinstalling software and put Picasa (3.5) back on over the weekend. And this now has a facial recognition feature which is mindblowing. Its about 95% accurate so far and I now know how Tom Cruise’s character felt in Minority Report. Ok, maybe no entirely, but hats off to the Google boys again!!!

Anyway, for today that is it. The blog is 5 years old later in the week, so I’m off to plan the party. Ahem!

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS REVIEW

2009-11-08T12:23:00.001Z

Based on the book by Jon Ronson (Which I haven’t read), the men who stare at goats is all about men who stare at goats and attempt to stop their heart in the process. Click the poster to read the rest of the review.