Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Side Note: Padraig.blog Supporter & Super Supporter now starting at just €1! [Update: It’s actually FREE!]

    Side Note: Padraig.blog Supporter & Super Supporter now starting at just €1! [Update: It’s actually FREE!]

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    UPDATE 29th June 2023

    I am not going to lie, there have been 1 sign-up to this blog in the last year for the free tier, and I am honestly content with that.

    While writing the new JukeBox, I decided that I would make everything available for free once more. And have the free sign-ups and paid subscriptions completely optional.

    Gating posts behind sign-ups or paid subscriptions for a personal blog with low to no readership seemed like an odd choice to make.

    I want to get better at writing. I want to write more and perhaps break out of the wrestling predictions and JukeBox posts into doing something more. Posts generally take me about 10 – 20 minutes depending on how much information I gather for them and then I make them live.

    Now I want to sit down, write out a post and spend some time working on making good material that will attract readers to the blog.


    Hey folks.

    Just a quick Side Note here to let you all know that I am making my ‘Supporter’ and ‘Super Supporter’ membership tiers the lowest it has even been.

    I recently moved back in with my parent after being away for several years and since I have been at home, I have been able to save a bit more money and because of that, I have decided to reduce the membership fees.

    Supporter was €5 per month or €50 per year, now it’s €1 per month or €10 per year.

    Super Supporter was €10 per month or €100 per year, now it’s just €2 per month or €20 per year.


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    To get started, click on the logo on the bottom-right of the page.

    Membership will of course remain free and there are no plans to change that.
    Additionally, I have set up a Fediverse account for the blog, so you can get all new blog posts first within Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.

    Search for @padraig@w.pf.ie in your client.

  • [The JukeBox] #84 – Dee Dee – Forever

    [The JukeBox] #84 – Dee Dee – Forever

    Let’s travel back to 2001 with a dance classic from Dee Dee with Forever.

    There is nothing notable to say about this other than it reached Number 12 in the UK singles chart in the summer of 2001.


    Lyrics:

    I´m all alone in bed
    and I can´t sleep
    I´m feeling blue
    I try to close my eyes
    but all I´m thinking of is You!
    Baby, only you!

    I cry my eyes out, baby
    Wondering what I have to do
    I’m looking inside my heart
    And know for sure
    this love is true

    Refr:
    Day by day
    heart to heart
    I hope that we will
    ever be together.
    Will it be, me and you?
    I dream that our love will last, forever.
    Hold me tight, in your arms.
    I know we have the strength to stay together.
    When we meet
    In the end
    I promise to be there,
    forever
    forever

    I´m all alone in bed,
    and I can´t sleep,
    I´m feeling blue.
    I try to close my eyes,
    but all I´m thinking of is You!
    Baby, only you!

    Refr:
    Day by day, heart to heart,
    I hope that we will ever be,
    together
    Will it be, me and you
    I dream that our love will last forever
    Hold me tight in your arms.
    I know we have the strength to stay together
    when we meet
    in the end
    I promise to be there, forever
    forever

    Forever 4x

  • [The JukeBox] #83 – MONDO GROSSO – Labyrinth

    [The JukeBox] #83 – MONDO GROSSO – Labyrinth

    Normally with The JukeBox posts, I discover a song or an album, add it to my Spotify playlist, go back through the playlist at a later stage (Normally 6 months to a couple of years) and then decide whether to create a post for it.

    This song, I heard one day and I must have instantly liked it but never added it to any playlist and therefore I forgot about it.

    It recently came back up during one of my many City pop listening sessions using the new ‘Enhance’ feature on Spotify.

    This song is fantastic. It’s a Japanese song by MONDO GROSSO (Real name: Shinichi Osawa) who is a DJ from Tokyo. I will not lie and say that I haven’t heard any other of MONDO GROSSO’s work!

    Here is Labyrinth with Hikari Mitsushima as the dancer.

    YouTube

    Spotify

    Lyrics:

    Mitsumenaide kanashii hou wo
    Me wo tsubutte kuchizuke shiyou
    Amaku tokeru merodii

    Hikikomarete
    Meikyuu no paradaisu
    Deguchi mo naku owari mo naku
    Tsutsumarete itai no
    Jama shinaide
    Mayonaka no paradaisu
    Iki mo sezu ni
    Mogutte iku
    Futari dake no dansu

    Sagasanaide
    Utsukushii rabirinsu
    Kuchizuke shite mou modorenai
    Futari dake no dansu

    Mayoikonde
    Byakuya no you ni
    Shibireta mama dochira kara mo
    Kaerou to wa sezu ni

    Tomaranaide
    Yurete itai no
    Nanimo iwazu
    Kuchizuke shite
    Wasuresasete subete

    Tomaranaide
    Yurete itai no
    Nanimo iwazu
    Kuchizuke shite
    Sora kara ochiru

    Mitsumenaide kanashii hou wo
    Me wo tsubutte kuchizuke shiyou
    Amaku tokeru merodii

    Hikikomarete
    Meikyuu no paradaisu
    Deguchi mo naku owari mo naku
    Tsutsumarete itai no

    Mitsumenaide kanashii hou wo
    Me wo tsubutte kuchizuke shiyou
    Amaku tokeru merodii

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