Danny Boyle's AMA

"I'm open to most genres. I like to play around with genre though...28 Days later was a Zombie Movie with no Zombies in it in my opinion; Slumdog was a Fairy Tale in genre terms but there are moments of real darkness in it; 127 Hours was an Action Movie about a guy who couldn't move... Trance is supposed to be a heist movie or an amnesia movie, or a femme fatale movie. but it's all of those things and none of those things really. the genre hooks are macguffins that give us a route into exploring ideas about perception, reality and madness."

You really should read the whole thing. 

Some Reactions to my Losing my Phone for Seven Hours Last Weekend

...and then found it in my coat pocket.

What is heartening is the absolute lack of surprise either Gra or Aoife expressed upon hearing the news.  They know my ways. 

Word of the Day

^Shoehorn
transitive verb

Definition of SHOEHORN

1 : to force to be included or admitted

2: to force or compress into an insufficient space or period of time : squeeze

Examples of SHOEHORN1 : A parking garage has been shoehorned between the buildings.

2 : She's trying to shoehorn a year's worth of classes into a single semester.

3 : I don't know how they managed to shoehorn everyone into that little room.

Less frequent useage:

• It is amazing how Lucy manages to shoehorn 42 references into one essay that she wrote on the fly.  
• Well what do you know! Two days before a deadline and Lucy is furiously shoehorning incompatible paragraphs into some semblance of an essay.
• How many times can I shoehorn some Negroponte references into this essay to appear smart?! Lucy pondered passionately.

 

Thanks, LinkedIn!

It was my five year anniversary with Waterford Library last week. We're very happy together, thank you very much, and never let the sun go down on our anger. Thanks for all the anniversary presents, you dilatory, forgetful sluts. Whats the traditional gift for five year anniversarys? Why, wood! You know what's wooden? Boxes of wine! Get your cash out, folks.

Sociability of Reading Recommendations

There are good ways of discovering books online, through recommendations, or social networks, but the best ways remain offline—in book groups, in bookshops and in libraries.

AMEN

I would say I spend about an hour-and-a-half to get ready for something that’s important, because, of course, I’m texting, or getting water, or changing the music, or getting a cocktail… It’s a ritual, getting ready.

Realistically, there is very little difference between me and Dita Von Teese. Sure, yeah, her hair is darker than mine, but besides that: SOUL SISTERS.

Bon Iver - Beth/Rest

Did you know, I can't listen to this song without imagining I am watching the penultimate scene in an eighties movie set somewhere urban? Maybe Tom Cruise is in it? It's a montage? There's probably driving and rain involved?

I'm not saying this is a movie I've seen, just that I have a very very shallow imagination here by the way.

What happened on X Factor you guys?

 

Dunno, beats me.

Good news!

39 people came to my blog looking for cone-related dog pornography. Happy to thwart that so.

‘It would be cheaper for everyone to have a Kindle than save all libraries’

A giant of a man, he stands at roughly 6ft 5in and delivers everything in a deadpan monotone, which often makes it hard to know whether he is being serious.

*EYE-ROLL*

"He is a hugely entertaining public speaker, hurling mock insults at elderly members of the audience."

Wait, what?

Via publiclibrariesnews.com/

Instant mood changing tip

I don't know 'bout you, but personally I find a quick google image search for Joseph Gordon Levitt cheers me up no end. Feel free to sub in your own dapper chappy if Joe's winsome charms don't float your boat (BUT SERIOUSLY, WHATS WRONG WITH YOU).

This Week is Screen Grab Week, Hadn't You Heard?

A hilarious text prank I played on my sister recently. She totally bought it, LOL!

Hangovers Are Great

Memex animation - Vannevar Bush's diagrams made real

Well, duh

 It wounds me that you might imagine I could make such an obvious mistake.

Who?

"Do you remember the time we had to pretend we were having a party in your house so you could get that fella you fancied up to your house after the pub, so we grabbed Olga and said "Come on, Party!" and we brought him and you were mad at me because twenty minutes after getting home I said I was going to the loo and just went to bed and you were left pretending this was a preplanned party all on your own. Did you ever kiss that guy? He was tanned and was just back from travelling? He fell asleep on your couch and you and Olga drank vodka? Who was that guy?"

No. Literally, nothing. I remember none of this memory of Marie's from approximately six - seven years ago; not the guy, not the night, not the party. I do recall randomly hooking people under my arm to bring them to impromptu parties (I still do this!) and I definitely recall Marie sloping off to go to "the bathroom" at parties and being found curled up in a bed asleep half an hour later.  This maneuver is called "doing a Marie on it" for this very reason.

Expenditure

Just cleared out my small glittery wedding purse from last week's wedding.

 Looks like a busy five minutes for me and Niall there.

Bebo: Still breathing in and out

I just rejoined Bebo in an attempt to feverishly dig up photos for a friend's Hen Party and Hey! Guess what! Bebo's still around, first of all.  Second of all:

Bebo added those buttons for YOU so YOU could fully empathise with a friend's posting. As long as you wanted to empathise along the lines of "Cool!", "Funny!", "Sorry!", "OMG!" [which is how I want to empathise with everyone who has evidenced activity on Bebo inside the past three years] or "Agree" [What?]. No "FFS" button yet added but watch this space. Bebo has proven itself to be a constant innovator in the past so it can only be a matter of time.

And There You Go, Now You Know All Of My Secrets

Sometimes, when I'm feeling a little bit lonely but also melodic (not too lonely, just a nice measure for poignancy), I'll listen to Heart of Gold like ten times in a row, sometimes more. I don't even particularly adore Neil Young or anything, just Heart of Gold.

True story. Rivetting, I know.

Mad laughs on the beach

From my new favourite place, the retronaut.