Michael Kelly

Culture Vulture

What's your name?
Michael Kelly

Where are you from?
Dublin

How long have you been living in Kerry?
Since the weekend of the Bloom Festival, late August 2006

What are you doing in Kerry?
I'm doing the FAS TV and Video course in Monavalley

Who is your favourite artist?
Sean Healy - a Dublin man who trained in Limerick and is now resident in Tralee

What is your favourite film?
Bottle Rocket - it is by Wes Anderson who directed The Royal Tennenbaums. Starring Luke, Owen, and Andrew Wilson, and co-written by Owen. A sweet simple film, that everybody seems to say watch it with friends, and watch it twice.

What is your favourite book?
Dubliners, by James Joyce

What is your favourite piece of music?
"I was a man" by Jape

What's your favourite club night in Tralee?
Club Head Bang Bang, Thursdays in the Greyhound - a lovely mix of chatting, dancing, and drinking. I spent 2 years looking for it in Dublin, and it seems it was happening here all along in Tralee.

What is your favourite Arts venue in Tralee? (Can be anything from a cinema to a performance space?)
If soup and Guinness is an art, then Quinlan's.

"My theory is that when it comes to important subjects, there's only two ways a person can answer. For example, there are two kinds of people in this world, Elvis people and Beatles people. Now Beatles people can like Elvis. And Elvis people can like the Beatles. But nobody, nobody, nobody likes them both equally. Somewhere you have to make a choice. And that choice tells me who you are. "Uma Thurman as Mia to John Travolta's Vincent in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

Elvis or The Beatles?
The Beatles, although Also Sprach Zarathustra (from 2001 A Space Odyssey) mixing in to That's Alright Momma by the King in Las Vegas is hard to beat.

Brady Bunch or The Partridge Family?
Brady Bunch.

Bewitched or I Dream Of Jeannie?
I dream of Jeannie - Samantha in Bewitched seemed to be surrounded by annoying people like her mum and councils of witches. Jeannie was more no strings attached.

Spielberg or Scorsese?
Scorsese. For the opening scene of Raging Bull alone.

Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter?
Lord of the Rings.