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Extra.ie
28-05-2025
- Business
- Extra.ie
Recycling paid off: Man buys his dream home with bottle return cash
The Deposit Return Scheme can be a bit of a nuisance, but what if we told you it was possible to buy a home out of your earnings? Damian Gordon, 36, from New South Wales, Australia was able his two-bedroom house after seven years of saving his money earning from a similar initiative in Australia. The new homeowner began to take recycling seriously when he noticed so much rubbish on the beach during his walks. The Deposit Return Scheme can be a bit of a nuisance, but what if I told you it was possible to buy a house out of your earnings? Pic: Sam Boal/ Sharing his story on That's Life, he admitted he found it 'impossible to ignore' and was spurred on my the Return and Earn scheme in his area. The scheme paid out 10c for every can returned, as well as glass bottles and plastic containers. Damian recalled how he made it his mission to collect rubbish during his walks and then had the idea of going to festival grounds after the events to collect empties. Damian recalled how he made it his mission to collect rubbish during his walks and then had the idea of going to festival grounds after the events to collect empties. Pic: Shutterstock One 2017 festival saw Damian and other volunteers collecting 40,000 recyclable containers, resulting is an earning of $4,000 (€2,273). Realising he was making money from the scheme, Damian sought out to use the earnings for a house deposite and managed to save $20,000 (€11,369) within the first three years. Damian revealed the sum of earnings 'spurred' him on to continue with his endeavour. Damian has since bought his very own house with the savings from recycling along with a little bit extra. Pic: Shutterstock Last January marked seven years since Damian began his savings fund, earning $45,000 (€25,000) from it. Damian has since bought his very own house with the savings from recycling along with a little bit extra. He has been able to find other treasures out and about for his home such as a fridge, microwave and a juicer. The new homeowner has confirmed he doesn't plan on stopping collecting containers any time soon, noting mortgage repayments are 'coming hard and fast.' He told the publication he is now 'paying off my dream home, one bottle at a time.'
Irish Daily Mirror
26-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Irish Daily Mirror
Australian man buys two-bedroom home with money from local bottle return scheme
An Australian man managed to purchase a two-bedroom house using the money he got from a bottle return scheme. Damian Gordon, a 36-year-old living in New South Wales, Australia, shared that when he would take long walks on the beach, he would come across tonnes of rubbish lying everywhere. He found it 'impossible to ignore all the rubbish' that was 'scattered across the shoreline' and that he was 'casually aware' of the area's Return and Earn scheme, RSVP Live reports. It offered ten cents for every can collected and returned, with glass bottles and plastic containers also accepted. He told That's Life: 'Returning to the beach as often as I could, I made it my mission to collect the rubbish during my walk.' Damian would visit the ground of music festivals as 'crowds left mountains of empties behind'. Along with other volunteers, Damian separated 40,000 recyclable containers from other rubbish following a 2017 festival. He admitted that he was 'amazed to walk away with a whopping $4,000' after one event. It gave him the idea to start collecting enough recyclable containers for a house deposit. Within three years Damian had saved $20,000. January 2024 was the seven-year anniversary of Damian's recycling collections, with him earning $45,000 from it. Along with some other savings, he managed to gather enough for a deposit for a two-bedroom home. He took his recycling efforts one step further and found 'treasures' from curbs to furnish him home. This included a microwave, fridge, a bed frame and even a juicer. Damian added: 'With mortgage repayments coming hard and fast, I don't plan to stop collecting any time soon. Now I'm paying off my dream home, one bottle at a time.'
The Guardian
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘The people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting': Peter Capaldi on his punk rock past
One of my first musical memories is of being given a Beatles wig. They sold them in Woolworths but it wasn't a normal wig with individual strands of hair – it was vacuum-formed plastic and felt like wearing a crash helmet. When it was on you looked like you had Paul's hair, but when you took it off you were left with what looked like a scar on your forehead. The Beatles were big in my house but it was the lovable moptop Beatles, the London Palladium Beatles. Once they'd grown their hair and become hippie-ish, my family were always a bit down on them. I remember taking a shoebox and transforming it into a miniature replica of the set of Ready, Steady, Go, the television music show that was like a precursor to Top of the Pops. I cut off the front, drew little exit signs and cut out little Beatles. Looking back, that was when I started using music to create these little worlds. I'm not a very experienced songwriter but I read that John Lennon would sometimes think: 'I want to do something like Roy Orbison.' They would quite openly copy genres. So a song like Sweet Illusion, on my new album, is definitely me having a go at a 60s song. Another influence you may hear is Frank Sinatra, who my parents also listened to. They didn't have a big record collection. In fact they never seemed to buy records, so I've no idea where these ones came from, but they had a couple of Sinatra albums. After a few drinks everyone in the family would join in singing That's Life. I didn't realise it until later because my parents were in the ice cream business and we lived in a tenement, but my family were actually very musical. My father played piano, my uncle played guitar, another uncle played accordion and another uncle sang and did comedy bits. So when they got together at family dos they were a band, and everyone would tear into it. My uncle's guitar was more like a piece of furniture than an instrument – it had huge strings that you needed big Italian peasant hands to play, but he battered the hell out of it and it sounded great. I was very lucky not to get into drama school. They said 'you're awful don't come here' – quite rightfully at the time – so I went to art school instead. It was great. We all turned up dressed like Neil Young circa After the Gold Rush, wearing long hair and cheesecloth shirts. Then, during my first summer there, the Sex Pistols exploded and everyone came back in plastic trousers with cheaply dyed hair. Suddenly there was this ethos that you could be in a band, so I got involved with that. Mine were called the Dream Boys. Our influences were Bowie, Talking Heads and the Cramps, who were like a voodoo-swamp version of the Munsters. For some reason, that seemed like the direction to go in. Perhaps not very wisely. This was around 1977, and back then you could take a tape to a venue and get a gig. The art school had a very staid student body that looked after entertainment. They tended to bring in hippie bands, jazz acts and George Melly. We wanted more aggressive music, so we ended up providing it ourselves. But our shows weren't full of people spitting. There was quite a schism between London and the rest of the country – I think the people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting and that kind of nonsense. We always struggled with drummers. It was like Spinal Tap – some drummer or other would come and sit in for us. Then, one night at a place called the Rock Garden, I asked if anyone knew a drummer who wanted to join our band. A 17 year old in the audience asked if he could have a go and, rather grandly, we said we would audition him – as if we had any idea what we were doing. He turned out to be a brilliant drummer and he was very funny too – you'll know him now as the comedian and US talkshow host Craig Ferguson. It all goes back to that shoebox. At the time I thought I just loved showing off but really what I loved was being able to create a whole world on stage and presenting our ideas to people. We kept at it. We tried and tried but we weren't getting anywhere. Eventually you run out of steam because you have no money and you're eating Pot Noodles on Christmas Day. It seemed like everybody else in Glasgow was getting signed or doing a Peel Session and we weren't. I would get the coach down to London and go round all the record labels but nothing ever happened. Still, all the local bands were very sweet to us and offered us support slots. We supported Altered Images a few times and their singer Clare Grogan had just done the film Gregory's Girl. One night the director Bill Forsyth was in the audience, and after the gig he invited me to be in his film Local Hero. If someone standing backstage at a sweaty gig tells you they're making a film in Scotland, you assume it's going to be a 16mm, half-hour thing without a script. But it turned out to be a proper film. It felt like fate was pushing me towards acting and away from music, so I embraced that. To be honest, I'd never been that interested in writing songs. And I was never the guy at the party who brought out the guitar. But I became friendly with Dr Robert of the Blow Monkeys and he is that guy at the party with the guitar. He's a living jukebox, a fantastic singer and player. He would invite me to play along with him, and then he challenged me to write my own material. I wrote the songs for my debut album St Christopher while I was filming The Suicide Squad in 2019. I had so much downtime on set that I thought I'd spend it writing and see what happened. A lot of it was rubbish but some of it was OK. I love the Kinks and live in Muswell Hill so we booked their studio Konk to record it all. But then the pandemic hit and we couldn't go. Instead we took the GarageBand demos and sent them off to people. Then they would come back with a great sax player on or whatever. There are not many people who release their debut album at the age of 62, but that's the great thing about technology: anybody can do it. When I was originally trying to be in the music business you had to be signed to Sony or RCA to release something, but now you just need a computer. I wasn't nervous of putting this music out. It doesn't matter. It's not my profession. My friends who are musicians have had extreme ups and downs and maintained their commitment to music through all of that. My cousin's son is Lewis Capaldi and he's a case in point of someone who has dedicated his life to music. His dad was driving him around Leith and Aberdeen – anywhere with a pub he could stand in with a guitar and sing – because he had to do it. I actually appeared in his video for Someone You Loved – which was the song of his that exploded, so I was delighted to be in it. He's fantastic, but he's in an entirely different league from me. My songs were originally more something I was doing for myself. I thought, OK, if I am going to have a go at making music it has to be music I want to make. I'm not going to do a Peter Capaldi Christmas album. It couldn't be Malcolm Tucker sings Sinatra: 'Have yourself a merry fucking Christmas.' My new album Sweet Illusions is really my way of picking up where I left off 40 years ago as an art school student. It reminds me of Glasgow in 1984, when there were a lot of synths and fuzzy guitars, lots of echo and reverb, and lots of dreamers whose dreams were being crushed. The city has a noir-ish quality to it, a bit like Liverpool and Manchester do. It's the Victorian city centres and the rain and the night and all that. Very cinematic. You can conjure up images and stories. A lot of the songs deal with aging. Wondering where all the time has gone. Big Guy is about those people who were once full of braggadocio and swagger but are now dribbling on their jumpers. We remember them as something else now. The single Bin Night is a lullaby. I'm a grandparent now so suddenly I have babies and lullabies in my life again. It's wonderful, but being Scottish there's always a melancholic streak in me that will seek out the bleak thing about it. In this case it's the ticking clock. These fabulous children bring all this vigour and chaos into your life, but how long do you have left to spend with them? That made me think of the entropy of the universe and how awful the world is. And how just about the only moment I have any control over is putting the bins out. I don't know if it's the only song ever written about bin night but it's a great subject. Peter Capaldi's Sweet Illusions is available now on Last Night from Glasgow records
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Poker Face' Sets Season 2 Release Date, Teases Star-Studded Guest Cast
Welcome back, Charlie Cale. Natasha Lyonne is back as TV's favorite gumshoe detective in the first teaser for Poker Face season two, and the footage teases the roster of high-wattage guest stars who have been brought in to play in Charlie's murder mystery sandbox when the series returns. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Long Bright River' Review: Amanda Seyfried Stars in a Philly-Set Peacock Mystery That Treads Water for Too Long Renée Zellweger on Those 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' Easter Eggs: "That's Life, Isn't It?" 'Legacy on Ice' Livestream: How to Watch the Figure Skating Tribute to DC Plane Crash Victims With its twist on the Columbo murder-of-the-week format, the Peacock series from creator Rian Johnson lured an eye-popping weekly roster of guest stars for season one that included the likes of Adrien Brody, Nick Nolte, Ellen Barkin, Tim Meadows, Ron Perlman and Stephanie Hsu, to name a few. Johnson, Lyonne and the Poker Face casting team went back to the drawing board for season two to bring on the impressive list of guest stars (listed below) — and the teaser introduces who some of them will be playing. The 12-episode seasons launches with three episodes on May 8, followed by a weekly releases Thursdays on Peacock. Here is the extensive list of guest stars, in alphabetical order: Adrienne C. Moore, Alia Shawkat, Awkwafina, Ben Marshall, B.J. Novak, Carol Kane, Cliff 'Method Man' Smith, Corey Hawkins, Cynthia Erivo, David Alan Grier, David Krumholtz, Davionte 'GaTa' Ganter, Ego Nwodim, Gaby Hoffmann, Geraldine Viswanathan, Giancarlo Esposito, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, John Mulaney, Justin Theroux, Kathrine Narducci, Katie Holmes, Kevin Corrigan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Margo Martindale, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Leggero, Patti Harrison, Rhea Perlman, Richard Kind, Sam Richardson, Sherry Cola, Simon Helberg, Simon Rex, Taylor Schilling. Poker Face is a mystery-of-the-week series following Lyonne's Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can't help but solve. Perlman will be reprising her role from season one, and Moore and Schilling mark an exciting Orange Is the New Black onscreen reunion with Lyonne. Season one ended with Charlie taking down casino fixer Cliff (Benjamin Bratt), only to be blackmailed by Perlman's Beatrix Hasp to either work for her or be hunted again. Charlie chose life on the road, putting her back on the run for season two. When speaking with The Hollywood Reporter after season one, Johnson confirmed that Perlman, after a voice-only role in season one, will be the 'big baddie of season two.' Casting director Bret Howe added of Perlman's role, 'I have a feeling Rhea's character is going to be really terrifying. I'm excited to see who we can surround her with.' Here's the synopsis for season two from Johnson and Lyonne: 'Charlie Cale is back on the run, and in season two we've taken her journey to the next level one murder mystery at a time. From minor league baseball to big box retail, from funeral homes to alligator farms and even a grade school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit, human empathy, and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability.' For season two, the pair say they pulled visual inspiration from American '70s cinema, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson and Peter Bogdanovich, but say the backbone of this show the kind of TV they grew up watching, like episodic case-of-the-weeks Columbo, The Rockford Files and Quantum Leap. 'Each episode is a mini movie, existing in its own world with a unique tone and vibe, featuring an eccentric lot of characters played by a truly gonzo parade of guest stars. We still can't believe we got to work with rockstars like Cynthia Erivo, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, and Awkwafina (and many many more, the list is kinda dizzying) who all dove into the game with joy and came ready to play,' they add about season two. Tony Tost (The Terror, Longmire) is showrunner for season two, taking over from Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (who are now working on Hulu's Buffy the Vampire Slayer update). He executive produces with Johnson and Lyonne — both of whom are writers and directors on the new season — and Ram Bergman, Nena Rodrigue, Adam Arkin and Nora and Lilla Zuckerman. Johnson's T-Street, MRC and Lyonne's Animal Pictures produce. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The Cast of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' Then and Now 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Fox Sports
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox Sports
Start spreading the news: Yankees will only play Sinatra's 'New York, New York' after home wins
The Yankees will play Frank Sinatra's version of the "Theme From New York, New York" only after home wins instead of all games in the Bronx, going back to the original custom set by owner George Steinbrenner in 1980. The Yankees said players and staff were tired of hearing a celebratory song following defeats. After Sunday's 4-0 spring training loss to Detroit at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees played Sinatra's 1966 recording of "That's Life," a 1963 song by Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon. The change occurred two days after the team ended the ban on beards imposed by Steinbrenner in 1976. The team said various songs will be used after losses. "New York, New York" first was played at the end of Yankees wins after Steinbrenner learned of Sinatra's version from a disc jockey at Le Club, a Manhattan restaurant and disco, former team media relations director Marty Appel told The New York Times in 2015. The song, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, was first sung by Liza Minnelli for the 1977 Martin Scorsese film "New York, New York" and Sinatra performed it in a Don Costa arrangement for his 1980 recording "Trilogy: Past Present Future." For several years, the Yankees alternated the Sinatra version after wins and the Minnelli version following defeats. In recent years, the Sinatra rendition has been played after all final outs. The Yankees said Friday they were ending their ban on beards, fearing the prohibition might hamper player recruitment. Hal Steinbrenner took over in 2008 as controlling owner from his father, who died in 2010. Reporting by The Associated Press. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily ! FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience New York Yankees Major League Baseball recommended Get more from Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
