>> listeningto Hans the Reluctant Wolf, the strong, textured, second full album from 3epkano. The Irish seven-piece bring strings, brass and guitars together with a captivating crash.
>> zombiefying
over the second series of the undead thriller The Walking Dead, which may be walking into a dead end. However, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, set in brain-hungry New York, has become the zombie thriller of choice in the literary set.
>> reading
the new issue of Granta, on horror. It features Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Stephen King. All for the weekend that's in it.
>> sifting
through the submissions for our Flash Fictioncall-out (flashfiction@irishtimes.com) on Wednesday. We'll print the best, but the avalanche of stories of no more than 500 words follows the ongoing success of our Tiny Plays competition with Fishamble the New Play Company. That deadline is November 11th, but the response has been extraordinary from the off.
>> going to
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, although the borders of jazz have long since been over-run. ReDiViDeR are particularly worth catching, at the Triskel tomorrow.
>> envious
of anyone getting to see Tim Minchin at Galway Comedy Festival tonight. It’s sold out, as is Dylan Moran tomorrow.
>> enjoying
Film Crit Hulk. If you can bear the CAPS LOCK and warm to the Hulk grammar (“HI! THIS HULK. HULK LIKE MOVIES AND WRITE ABOUT THEM”) it’s an excellent film blog in which Hulk explores such topics as “Can you watch movies when you’re drunk?”, “Hulk review Drive - why ‘not what you thought’ is okay” and “Hulk explain action scenes!”; filmcrithulk.wordpress.com.
>> booking
tickets for Poe Show, at the Unitarian Church on St Stephen's Green, in Dublin, next weekend. This theatrical celebration of the work of Edgar Allan Poe, staged by Bewley's Café Theatre, features The Tell-Tale Heartand The Cask of Amontillado, two of Poe's best-known Gothic stories.
