It's Crimbotime

mmm...I've been peer pressured into updating my blog so here goes. So I'm avoiding the shops coz I still have to wait for my next wages before I can do any present shopping. It seems like the whole hullabaloo around Christmas really started early this year.Sometimes I get disillusioned with the hype and I wonder will I get that nice Christmas feeling and I think I usually do at some point around those few days. My liver sure knows when it's Christmas as it is assaulted for work do's and parties. It has already BEGUN. Looking forward to seeing 'The Golden Compass', it looks really cool from the ads and was a favorite trilogy. Fingers crossed that it rocks. A polar bear in armor, how can it fail?

Arcade Fire Gig Wed Dublin Oct 07

Yay! Well up there among my most favorite gigs with Afghan Whigs in Dublin (Red Box I think) in prob 1998, Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Electric Picnic 2006 and Surfjan Stevens 2006. But Arcade Fire were a whole different kettle of fish. Now there's a band who understand themselves. The visuals were PERFECT and reminiscent of early black and white t.v. (like early music footage of Elvis, sorta curved) and also early silent film. It was an exciting event and I've been in love with Win Butler and Regine since the gig. The Neon Bible makes me think of turn of the century circus and magic shows. I love that their music makes me think of a story to go along with it. I had moments where I was just smiling up into the air because here I was able to sing along live to the music that I love to sing along to. Black Mirror, Television Antichrist, Neighborhood among the best but so much more, that mores the pity I have already forgotten. Puny brain

The Cohabitor

So I recently moved in with my boyfriend. I am the Cohabitor! A bit like the Terminator but not as scary or metallic (except for that metal plate in my ass that I got in 'Nam). It's nice, a bit of a learning curve. It's still new to come home to see someone and think 'I live with this person'. I've got the gaff to myself for an evening and that's good too. I've already gone to the loo with the door open and burped around the place. It's lovely living with someone but it is still cool to have a bit of time on your own. I don't think I've mad any ground shattering breakthroughs here. People move in together all the time. It's just happened to me and I'm the centre of the universe so bow down before me, puny earthlings! Thank You

Me as a Simpson

Happy Holidays

So I'm back in the good old grey and yet totally muggy, weird ass weather having Ireland. Had a great couple of weeks travelling in Germany- Berlin and Munich and Prague, in the Czech Republic. We saw some great sights, ate sausages,drank superior and cheaper beer and were forced to watch CNN non stop(only English speaking channel). I now know that if I hear the music played during the non-speaky news items one more time, I will indeed, go crazy. I sang many stupid songs that annoyed my boyfriend so it was all worth it. I'm pretending I don't have to go back to work Tuesday and so far that bit of self denial is going very well thank you. I went to see the Simpsons movie and that cheered me up too. This is a very boring blog. I better jazz it up with something interesting.(Hence the above)

Peewee's Playhouse Intro

Blog It?!! It's Already Blogged!!!

As a Simpsons bon fide lover I got drunk last night on like 4 drinks and today I have the equivalent hangover of what I would have had five years ago on fifteen drinks.I volunteered for the Cork Midsummer Festival and last night stewarded at Wired and Free, an outdoor air theatre spectacle using cranes. This was my second night helping at the same show and a Saturday night so I was antsy to return to the pub as fast as my wellies would let me.
It was interesting walking through Cork city on my own in Glastonbury/Hillwalker gear on a Saturday night. I got to be the observer. I knew men wouldn't bother a girl in wellies. So I watched them, so loud..everybody loses volume control when they drink and the girls in hot pants and all the other kind citizens. When I got to the pub I had some nice pints and merry was made. After said drinks I went to the loo in the kebab shop and thought better of eating a kebab when I used the loo but my lovely man had already got me one. I was not sure about it but when I got a whiff, how could a drink fuelled girl say no? I gave half of it to a friend who gobbled it down like a rhino on a barren plain.

That's what bullies get for saying I don't like the Simpsons. It's blogged!

This time it's personal!