Hello friends, I’m aware of the ticking of the bloggy clock. I do apologise. This is just a little post to tell you that I will continue to be quiet for a time, just to give you a heads up. This is the final few weeks of my degree and I currently SHOULD be up to my eyes in script-writing and studying. I am letting myself down this week. But I really need to get to it. So, if I take a break from my beloved LLL I hope you understand.
I was recently nominated/awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by Write, Wrong and Everything Inbetween - THANK YOU for this. It’s my first blog award, and I am very proud. Grateful! There are a few interesting ‘rules’ that come with this, and I promise to write a post and get my nominations on at a less busy time.
I’m not really a YouTube sort of person, I usually only use it to watch film trailers or look up songs that I’d like to hear again, or watch Josh Ritter videos (of course) However I came across @melonladybaby through @Polaroid_Rage and I love her videos. First of all she has the most amazing sometimes pink, sometimes purple hair. Second, she’s so funny. Third, her and Ben have the loveliest wee relationship. Fourth, I’d quite like her life! Anyway, if you subscribe to her YouTube Channel it’d be a good thing, here’s my favourite video of hers:
That new film ‘This Must Be The Place‘ with Sean Penn
I saw it with Abbye on Monday in the QFT and it was so good. Sean Penn plays ageing ex-Rocker Cheyenne who now resides in Dublin with his wife of 35 years, he looks ridiculous in his make up, and he is ravaged by many things… probably drugs. He has this child-like weird voice that kind of reminds me of Michael Jackson’s. Anyway I don’t want to ruin it but I just welled up watching trailers. The tag line for it is:
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
But it’s so much more than this! Things I loved: Cheyenne’s quiet little spilt-second half-laugh, his relationship with his wife, the subplot with Rachel and her little boy. The conclusion is powerful, although I’m not sure I entirely ’got’ the very end of it. But there are several real laugh out loud moments. Here’s a great clip:
Speaking of films, I also enjoyed the previous week’s cinema trip, to see ‘Headhunters’ also in the QFT. A Norwegian film, it’s probably ‘action’ and pretty violent, but often comically so. I think they were meaning to be funny too. Very strange, and definitely worth seeing.
I enjoyed a solo coffee experience in Common Grounds, reading Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’ which I am officially not enjoying, 14th Century monks, anyone? But I don’t mind it really.
I’m appreciating and enjoying Belfast probably more than I ever have, which is ironic because I’m finishing in just over a month. And my life is going to be scary and different and unknown. If anyone needs me to write things, and will pay me, that would be great!
I’m spending time with my house mates when sitting in my empty room feels too isolating. And it’s been fun.
I’m hopefully going home tomorrow for the weekend. I haven’t been home in two weeks and you’d think my Mum hadn’t seen me in a year. Today she text me, ‘Hello Fi my long lost friend.’
I apologise for the rambling post, I was just excited to blog! Let me know if you’ve seen any of the films or if you have anything cool to recommend! Or anything, I like hellos!
I spent about 6 hours in the library this evening, I have been on the verge of an essay for about two weeks now and I finally got about 1000 words done, yay. So after a bowl of cereal to calm my stomach which was acidic with sweets overload, and a handful of New Girl episodes (The one where Jess sees Nick naked, accidentally, hil-ar-i-ous) I felt there were still some words that wanted to be written. Some quotes stirred me this week, would like to share with you:
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best – I’m sure it is the most religious – for I begin with writing the first sentence – and trusting to Almighty God for the second. (Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy)
(Via @AvidaBar) Loved this so much that I wrote it out and stuck it on my flat mate’s door! I also texted it to my best people, and thanks to @AlfieMcDuffs I now know I love you in German is ICH LIEBE DICH !! Or if you are her 1-year-old nephew, who is German ‘soooooooo liebe!’ (Cute!)
The punchline of the story relates to an American academic saying of Beckett, ‘He doesn’t give a fuck about people. He’s an artist.’ At this point Beckett raised his voice above the clatter of afternoon tea and shouted, ‘But I do give a fuck about people! I do give a fuck!’ (James Wood -How to Write Fiction)
For a long time now I have defined friends as people who listen deeply and honestly to what I am saying today – but don’t pin me to it tomorrow if I find I am in a genuinely different place -From a gladly and gratefully received email I got this week, (in response to a letter, with promises of a letter, too.) Exactly what I need right now.
A card I ordered for a special little boy born to old friends. Not a quote but cute Norn Iron slang. @arbeecards
