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[05 May 2009|07:17pm] |
So the BIG NEWS is that Ferdia and I are moving into a flat of our very own! In six and a half weeks!!! It's huge and amazing, I can't even tell you stress of the whole process but YES WE ARE BUYING A PROPERTY!
We also went to Paris this weekend, which was fun and sunny but super mega hexpensive, especially considering we're saving our monies so we don't have to sleep on a blow up mattress for six months, and eat on a blow up mattress for six months, and use a blow up mattress as a desk and chair and sofa for six months.
I ate sooo much pastry! Here is a macaroon enjoying the view from Monmartre.
we went to the contemporary art gallery opposite the Palais de Tokyo, which I thought I hadn't been to, but I have a strong feeling that Kathy and I went there when we went with school, do you remember batkat? We went from the freezing cold boat trip that we were the only passengers on... I really feel like we went there and thought it was shit. Which either means that we were philistines or that it's got a LOT better since 1998, although those two options are not mutually exclusive.
here was a bike polo match going on in the abandoned pool between the galleries, it was fun to watch. I think it's the only sport you can legitimately do in a trilby and skinny jeans.
We went to the Promenade Plantee which is an elevated railtrack that has been turned into... a promenade plantee. It's got shops under it but we didn't bother with that seeing as a bottle of water was £3.50. God the £ is so crap at the moment, do NOT underestimate how poor we British are! Then again, Ferdia's parents got a great exchange rate on their euros so that shaved £2.5K off our mortgage, shouldn't complain really!
This one's for Robbie
Ferdia took a shittonne of photos with his amazing camera, although he did spend AGES faffing about with it all the time. Still, it's Paris innit?
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[20 Apr 2009|09:44pm] |
More peectures from the sunniest Easter weekend EVER on flickr
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[21 Mar 2009|12:11pm] |
Everywhere I've lived in Edinburgh!
First I lived here, in a castle. NOT REALLY!!! It was in Uni halls, in a shoebox with Alilloyd. The building I was actually paying rent for was puled down a year after I left, which I suppose is a bit strange, living in a place that isn;t there anymore.
Then we moved here, really effing close to where we'd been beofre, in a flat that was HUGE but had like no furniture at all apart from a broken chair and one of those bouncy Ikea chairs that cause you to rock back and forth like a comforted moron for hours.
Oh yeah, then we moved across the road for a summer, that was ridiculous. We had a boxroom that was three metres high, two wide and about five long with a dartboard at one end and several bed headboards arranged on thw wall to prevent damage to the wall.
Then we moved around the corner and lived in a flat that was brilliant but got steadily more rubbish as the owner glued several layers of wallboard to every surface in an effort to stop the whole place going up in flame. Agter Ali and I split up I slept in a loft bedroom where I banged my head on the coomb ceiling twice a day. Some would call that karma.
After that I moved down the road and lived here; that is the stencil of the turtle that I put to cover a horrible tag. We got burgled, there was piss and vomit on the stairwell a lot, but still I lived there with magical_tape for three years [?!] until El Ferd and I moved in together.
( Ferdia used to live really close to Ed Castle, as in REALLY NEAR )
So that's it in a nutshell [my boss says 'in a nutshell' all the time, it makes me think of the Austin Powers bit]
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[25 Feb 2009|07:49pm] |
Enough of this!
Cut Copy - Saturdays
When I am looking... for you.. I call your number but I can't get throu..ou-ou//ough
WALK LIKE A PANTHER with Jarviiiiis [1999]. This video cheers me up SO MUCH which is why NO MORE misery posts, coz that's what happens, isn't it? If you're busy having fun with your friends you're out having fun with your friends, not talking about it on tinternet innit! That bit at the end where he goes 'go on, I wanna see you walk like a panther' and then does the LEAST PANTHERLIKE MOVES on the planet, as if panthers were ushers at the feyist cinemas in Soho. Is feyist a word?
In my opinion The Saturdays version of Just Can't Get Enough is as good as expected, seeing as they use Autotune to great effect. They should have covered 'Dreaming of Me' though. Just like a rainbow, you know you set me free!
You know what's a bad film? Interview.
You know what's a good word? Phalanx.
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[24 Feb 2009|10:40pm] |
RIP Laura Palmer.
Way to die on the best Xtian festival.
pancakespancakespancakes
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[08 Feb 2009|07:00pm] |
Dear Places in the World,
Please stop burning down or flooding, it's really getting me down.
TY, Sarah.
In other news, I have been watching a LOT of films lately, most of them crappy, so really no recommendations here. in fact, steer clear of Tideland, a Terry Gilliam film that is WAY DOWN THE BOTTOM of 'Terry Gilliam Films To Watch'.
However, my love affair with the US Office grows apace, the 'Stress Relief' episode is probably my favourite ever, this scene is absolutely perfect. The brilliant bit is at 2:30 and the wide pan to Kelly dancing WHO THOUGHT OF THAT? IT'S GENIUS!
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[21 Dec 2008|06:00pm] |
My happy thing for today was that I rode my bike for the first time since I had that horrible time at the downhill biking four weeks ago.
But the BEST thing was that some decrepit old hag CUT ME UP on a roundabout! I was absolutely RAGING. Little did she know I was closing in on her as she pulled up to the lights. While I was yelling to Ferdia that the blue Peugeot had nearly run me down the passenger rolled down her window and was giving me a feed of abuse! Thinking of Flight of the Conchords I flipped her the bird and yelled FUCK YOOOOOOOOO in a most festive manner. Next time they'll think twice!!!! WOOHOOO!!!! GOD that was exhilarating.
It's been a bit of a good news bad news week really, the good news is I'm saving holidays for next year, the bad news being that I have to go into work TOMORROW. The good news is that no one will be sittign behind me seeing my computer screen, so it'll essentially be a holiday for me too.
HOLIDAYS SOOOOOOOON SOOOON SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!
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[05 Dec 2008|06:07pm] |
This week I did this for my boss' friend
It's a terrible TERRIBLE design for a nursing home lounge. WTF are those roof lights about? I mean really, it's dreadful. I have also modelled it in the middle of the desert for some reason. However, no one outside the profession knows that thank goodness, and as a reward I got this
HUGE BOTTLE OF WINE which is bigger than my fridge. I shall be drinking it tonight, and toasting the magnificence of Andy 'The Viking' Fordham, who has lost 17 STONE and is now hoping to get back to the top of the darts game, which would be amazing, as he did it all without gastric surgery or any of that bullshit, just stopped drinking and did some exercise. He's a legend!
Apart from that I shall mostly be watching The Loving Kind, laughing at Cheryl's face at 2:27 and trying to get £30 front row tickets to GA in Glasgow. And trying to think what to get peeps for Xmas.
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[27 Nov 2008|06:34pm] |
OMG I've been going mad all day trying to get this song out of my head, the annoying thing is that I kept thinking it was called something Gangster instead of NATURAL GAMBLER so I couldn't even google it. Thank goodness for my stupid brain working it out :-D
Braund Reynold - Natural Gambler
New hair ABOUT BLOODY TIME! I always forget to take a 'before' picture, or maybe I'm just too embarrassed to. Believe you me, it was a mop upon me noggin.
Late night Hollyoaks ALL THIS WEEEEEKK with EEEVIL NIALL back with a vengeance. AMAZING!
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[26 Oct 2008|07:02pm] |
My weekend... where did you go? One minute I was leaving work and now... I have to go back!
Not really, it was classic. Alex and Zoe came round on Friday for an accidental 'Girl's Night In' which began with MarioKart and ended with Zoe and I 'singing' along to Independant Love Song at four thirty.
So I didn't move all Saturday [probably b/c El Ferd is away in Cork this weekend helping his ma redecorate. He spent fifteen minutes describing a lampshade. Sometimes I wonder...] and instead watched seven episodes of season 2 Gossip Girl. Woohoo!
Inspired by Helen's food diary blog where she documents all her adventures in Waitrose, I've got some haloumi [the KING of foods!] and teeny asparagus, wot will make me feel like a giant and will get El Ferd in the mood for lurve [they are an aphrodisiac, right?] and the nice food will help me get over the sadness that I feel after missing Harry Hill's TV Burp on Saturday.
Oh yeah, also went out flying Dave's kite today, it is a magic kite that chases away clouds. El Ferd may be getting one for his Christmas.
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[28 Sep 2008|07:45pm] |
Films I have seen this week, in order of amazingness
Casablanca
West Side Story
Lord of the Flies
Hairspray
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Koyaanisqatsi (live soundtrack, not Philip Glass)
Casablanca; how have I not seen that film before? It's absolutely fantastic. I like the way that it's shot on a tiny soundstage designed by someone who's never left America, and one of the aeroplane shots was actally midget extras running around a small scale model plane with dry ice everywhere. I also seem to know all the dialogue.
I love Lord of the Flies, poor Piggy. I think I empathise because I also am helpless without my glasses, and tell boring stories about the origins of placenames.
pee ess, there is nothing better than forgetting to read the Doo's and Don'ts for eight months, then gorging yourself like a fattie after her Weight Watchers meeting.
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[13 Sep 2008|09:44pm] |
What is up with Hollyoaks this week? Evil Evil Niall was in it for 30 seconds, how rubbish!
In contrast, how good were the Mercury Music Prize performances? Really quality, especially that wee lassy Laura Marling who is 18 but looks 14. What a star!
Until I pass my driving theory test [on Monday] and can then apply for my practical, I will be mostly learning to drive at a bankrupting rate. In the meantime please enjoy this photo of Robbie and I playing charades; he is doing a U2 single;
Can you tell what it is yet?
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[16 Aug 2008|01:03pm] |
Did I fall asleep and wake up in 2003? What kind of a world is this that I can't find a video of the Olympics Opening Ceremony ANYWHERE?!?!?! I knew China was effed up but HOW did they purge ALL the videos from the entire internet?1?! Oh yeah, they have that huge sinister building full of all the information in the world, and fifty thousand slaves working none stop removing copywritten info and replacing it with the words 'computer says no-san'.
To clarify the reason that I hate reggae, I would have you visit Edinburgh in August. It rains EVERY DAY. Advising me to listen to reggae is like playing Shonen Knife at my mother's funeral; inappropriate and offensive. I feel like that homeless kid in Santa Claus; The Movie peering through the window of McDonalds.
I went to a party where everyone had kids the same age as me. All the dudes were totally perving on me because I was wearing a bikini. BECAUSE THERE WAS A HOT TUB in the back garden of their house! AMAZING!!!!! We were in a hot tub in the rain. It was absolutely amazing.
Last night Ferd's parents flew in from Ireland to take us dinner and show! We went to see the London Philharmonic Orchestra play Prokofiev. I was a bit nervous, I've never heard any Prokofiev before, and it was very long and we were sitting in the Gods, but it was absolutely fantastic, the orchestra were fantastic and the music was quite dense, although it was meant to be one of 'his most accessible pieces'. It had enough variety to be engaging, and the violin solo was so beautiful I actually cried a bit at the end.
Unfortunately Ferd's brother dropped a metal bar stool in the Traverse bar after and broke his toe.
PEE ESS If you're in the Traverse you should see the Dazzle jewelry exhibition there, they have some very beautiful things. I want this
although it is £200 and I do have to save for my holiday to Portugal next week.
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[07 Jun 2008|06:53pm] |
Today has been amazing but my bum hurts. Can you imagine why those two things are true? NO YOU FILTHY BASTARDS! It is because I have an amazing new bike which folds up really small so I can keep it in the flat and it will not get nicked or slashed. Yay! Of course I have not ridden a bike since I was ten, apart from a brief period when I was seventeen and after five days managed to run into the back of a parked car and shin myself.
This is the park two minutes from our flat. It's basically going to be an amazing summer.
ps, people in Edinburgh, remember the Film Festival is on this month, so get tickets!
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[09 Apr 2008|09:31pm] |
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I was born with nothing
and I have nearly all of it left.
BY THE WAY I am more excited about the new B-52's [now B-52s] album than I have been about anything else this year.
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[29 Mar 2008|09:47am] |
A bit of a photodump on your ass, but, well, that's what we're all about, right? The peectures? And less with the talky talk.
El Ferd and I went away to stay with his familee in Cork last weekend. His parents have a mahoosive house in the country and we borrowed their car and went a bit around the Ring of Kerry, which does sound like the arsehole of Kerry but is actually an amazing drive. I know it's obvious but Ireland is so bloody green. [not in these photos, but you get the idea]
more at flickr
I keep thinking about really old, rubbish bands lately. Royal Trux, remember them? They had that floppy heroin Kills thing going on. Shola Ama?
Anyhoo, I've got some songs for you all
Get Ready For Love - Nick Cave I've been listening to this a lot. Praise him til you forgot what you're praising him for.
It Aint What You Do - Bananama and Fun Boy Three
This song is just weird and brilliant.
Does anyone please please pleas have the Cure album Mixed Up, and could they please please upload the version of A Forest [and anything else they have time for?!?!?!] i realised I don't have this version! Boo!
You can have the excellent Earl Slick version from Join the Dots in return.
ps I am so addicted to America's Next Top Model... 'I only have three photos in my hands, and these photos [pause] represent the three girls who are still in the running toward becoming antm...'
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[27 Jan 2008|01:17pm] |
I'm finally updating my ipod, I'm so effing sick of listening to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac and Panic by The Smiths on my way to work. I do have a good playlist for a Friday afternoon though, although I don't know how to do playlists so I just play all the songs I want in the right order.
Tom Hark - The Piranhas
You're Speaking My Language - Juliette and the Licks
Working in a Coalmine - DEVO
The Man Don't Give A Fuck - Super Furry Animals
Ja, I seem to have found a tonne of hidden gems in my itunes around June 2006, I must have just discovered limewire or something.
Watched Shoot Em Up last night, I loved loved loved it, especially the bit with the robot baby and the parachuting bit, it was ace. Also watched Death Proof, it was totally lame and talky. The car chase was great, only because I was so sick of the huge talky scenes about Viewpoint. WE GET IT! YOU LIKE FILM THEORY, but we don't, we like car chases.
pee ess, spot the deliberate lie. I could listen to Dreams until my ears fell off.
( photos of new shoes )
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[22 Dec 2007|03:11pm] |
Elvis Costello said 'writing about music is like advertising perfume; it's a really stupid thing to do'. So here are my most hated TV ads this year, they're all for perfume.
'I'M A DARNCAAAA, I LOVE to dense!'
She's hot, she's goth, she's listening to Muse, she's dancing on the tables at her own party, she's wearing perfume that my Dad bought my Mum. They divorced in 1990. It's not a coincidence.
Do you too want to act like a DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE ... I mean.. sex in the ... oh nevermind it smells like a Granny's knicker drawer anyway.
Mmm the sweet smell of... oh dear I don't seem to be able to smell anything through my ravaged nose.
Unfortunately I can't find the JLo one that says 'Don't shine this Christmas, shimmer*'
But of course the two ads that really capture Christmas this year are GDH straighteners
and of course Irn Bru. I don't know if anywhere outside Scotland gets this one
( I also went on a Christmas night oot with my office. We danced. )
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