Nov
11
2008
Okay, so lately what have I been up to[1] Well let me see. Last night I went to see The Sick and Indigent Song Club, they play every Monday in the Ha’Penny Bridge Inn. And tis free in[2] One of the lads at work goes a fair amount I think so he invited a few of us from work. For discussions about our upcoming xmas party[3] Doesn’t look like we’ll be having an official one this year. What with the cutbacks and credit crunch[4] We decided on precisely nothing. Apart from the fact that yes we would organise something ourselves. So yay.
Oh yeah, the music! Twas good. Blue-grassy style I suppose you’d call it, but sure me and labels don’t always get along too well. I did like The Shrew Shanty song, you can hear that on their MySpace site.
At the weekend I went home to Sligo, and had huge amount of fun on the train being entertained by a crazy[5] But we disagreed over boiled eggs and he told me that there would be no honeymoon for us. Alas.
Then I went to watch B#5 play rugby on Sat in Galway. And the weather! Peoples, the weather! On the journey from Sligo to Galway it was totally horrendous. What with the rain and the wind, and the rain. Did I mention the rain? But once we got to the ground it wasn’t so bad. Freezing. And a little rainy, but we escaped the worst of it. Plus they won. So yay.
Sun I did nothing. Well traveled back up to Dublin. No crazy entertainment this time.
Anything else…
Oh yes, Neil Gaiman was in Easons a while back, promoting The Graveyard Book so I now have myself a signed copy of it. Well, Harlequin has a signed copy of it for me as she was good enough to hang around in the queue after the talk. I bailed. I know, I know, not a true dedicated fan. But while I think having a signed book is cool, I think tis cooler to listen to him talk.
Think that is about all I’ve been up to recently. You are all filled in. Or bored. Whichever.
Linknotes:
- I can hear you wondering. Really, I have great hearing. Honest. ↩
- of course a tip jar goes around, they aren’t working for nothing. ↩
- yes, it is that time of year again. ↩
- two shots for all of you playing the drinking game ↩
- yes I am mean and horrible ↩
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Nov
05
2008
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"Ireland clinched a surprise place in the World Cup semi-final qualifier after a thrilling victory over Samoa."
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"This conflation allows him to sidestep a hard truth: rape exists as a risk for women because there are men who are rapists. That is the cause of rape—it has absolutely nothing to do with a woman's actions in any case whatsoever. A woman cannot ask to be raped, cannot invite it, cannot, in fact, do anything whatsoever to effect a risk of being raped." - well not really. I mean you could stay inside for ever and ever and never go out, or let anyone in, and have an electro-force-field type thing around you. Seriously though, you can lessen your risk factors, just as you can reduce the risk of you being murdered, but you aren't ever responsible for it happening. Even if you walk down the dodgiest of dodgy lanes nakid, still aint your fault, although by being in that dodgy area you have increased your risk. So are you responsibly for that?
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Nov
06
2007
Dir: Matthew Vaughn
Writ: Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn based on book by Neil Gaiman
- Charlie Cox … Tristan
- Ian McKellen … Narrator (voice)
- David Kelly … Guard
- Kate Magowan … Slave Girl / Una
- Sienna Miller … Victoria
- Peter O’Toole … King
- Mark Strong … Septimus
- Jason Flemyng … Primus
- Rupert Everett … Secundus
- David Walliams … Sextus
- Michelle Pfeiffer … Lamia
- Claire Danes … Yvaine
- Robert De Niro … Captain Shakespeare
I read this book a while ago and really enjoyed it, so I wasn’t too sure if I’d enjoy the film. You know the way they always change stuff. But I try to pretend that it is a brand new story and not based on any book, course that doesn’t always work, but I do try.
Anyway, I’m happy to report that Stardust is just a lovely film. It is the story of a young man who goes on a quest into the faerie world to bring back a star in order to prove his love. Only across “the wall” he finds that the star is actually a woman, and that there are others looking to find her, and for slightly more nefarious reasons.
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Jun
02
2007
Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasty
Editor: Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois
ISBN: 9780747590569 DDC: 813.0876608377
See also: LibraryThing
There was a witch buried at the edge of the graveyard; it was common knowledge.
This is a collection of 18 short stories, and as the title of the collection seems to have been Wizards in the USA there is a common theme running through them all. That being wizards 
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Apr
10
2007
Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9780061142024 DDC: 823.914
See also: LibraryThing ;Film’s site ; BlogCritics ; Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual although even he never knew the whole of it.
When Tristran Thorn heads off into Faerie to find a star he has no idea of what is about to happen. All he cares is that the beautiful Victoria has promised that she will grant whatever he wishes if he brings the star that she saw fall.
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