Cherry Kickflip - Who Is Sammy Wilson?

Here's another Cherry Kickflip instant classic. Get dancing before it's passe.

Cherry Kickflip - Nelson McCausland (How to be cool)

In my last blog I talked about my cool new band Cherry Kickflip. A few weeks back I was also on NVTV's Blogtalk discussing Culture Minister Nelson McCausland's blog.

I was thinking about that while I was writing some cool tunes for Cherry Kickflip when I thought, "Why not be political? It's what an artist has to do."

So I did it. I feel better. I understand that sometimes you want me to tell you what to do or how to be cool but it's just something people have to work out for themselves. I'll show you how I did it, no lies! But remember, what worked for me might not work for you.

As a matter of fact the stuff that makes me cool can only be pulled off by a really cool sort of guy.

Labels are out: Do your own thing.

Cherry Kickflip

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Some of you may know me as the street-style skater poet or as a member (the only member now) of cult electronica group Communist Defectors Will Be Shot. Either way I don't do performance poetry any more, and Communist Defectors Will Be Shot are taking a break, all because of my new side project Cherry Kickflip.

Some people want to know where the name came from but it's no secret. First off, as a skater-poet I know that anyone can do an ollie, but a kickflip is a move that sets you apart, just like the music of Cherry Kickflip sets me apart from all the verse-chorus-verse cliche's out there.

Why cherry? The word cherry is a euphemism for virginity, and listening to Cherry Kickflip is like losing your virginity, it's just something that you've never experienced before. Plus cherry is associated with youth and I think that my music is something that all the young people of The Gerard McKeown Generation can understand.

Sometimes Things Are So Wrong That Someone Has To Speak Up

I love listening to the radio. I must admit, not necessarily chart or current radio but radio two where you hear some current stuff mixed in with stuff you probably haven't heard since it went out of the charts, sometimes this is a bad thing but also sometimes it isn't. Sometimes some things are best left in the past, where they made sense, like this number



WHAT THE FUCK?

Some people have no luck (and now no dog)

When you feel down on your luck and think things aren't going the way you had planned, spare a thought for this unfortunate chap who unwillingly stared in an animal snuff movie. Not that he's at the bottom of the barrel yet, it could have been his own.

Asshole Can't Find Rifle AND Clocktower, Gets Married Instead

Check out mister cool here. He's just married the girl of his dreams. He's really glad he never listened to the bullies at school who told him he was just a geek and he'd never get a girlfriend. He's shown them all that they are the losers! Not him. He's mister cool and if you don't believe me just ask his wife. Er..



I'm sure I'm guilty of some kind of prejudice here and that in years to come video game characters will achieve their proper place in society, just like women, homosexuals and non-whites before them. For now I'll just sit and point and laugh until they think up a word to prohibit my nastiness.

Snuggies and Slankets will inspire Suicide Cults

Today I was watching TV and this ad came on:



To me this looks very sinister. Sure people want to keep warm (especially at this time of year) but let's be honest this looks like a suicide comet cult. They all sit around listening to Vashti Bunyan, then as the comet passes overhead they all do themselves in and turn into energy and the comet takes them to the oort cloud where they live for a thousand years and come back to earth as beings of light.

This may sound like a load of balls but it happens all the time and with people walking round Northern Ireland dressed like this (lets face it Andytown mothers will leave the kids to school in one) suicide cults will be the next big thing.

This is worrying and I'd like to see our MLAs doing something to tackle with problem before it gets out of control and the people of this country end up dead over a lot of pointless shit and dumb beliefs that are handed down and are never properly thought through by anyone, least of all the politicians.