Ladies and gents, Dolores Aveiro - future style icon on the 21st century.
Monday, 16 March 2009
Ronaldo's mother is absolutely amazing
Everything about her in this picture is so terribly wrong that it becomes right. This is what Edina Monsoon would look like if she was Portugese and had a famous son.
Ladies and gents, Dolores Aveiro - future style icon on the 21st century.
Ladies and gents, Dolores Aveiro - future style icon on the 21st century.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
BEEF
Is it really, terribly bad that I totally have a crush on Mr Beefcake himself, Channing Tatum?
I watched Stop-Loss the other night and am now crushing over this dude in a bad way. I'll get over it in a few (years) days, I always do...
Someone else that everyone (even people I'm sure I don't even know) know that I would marry in Vegas at the drop of the hat is Even Stevens himself, Mr LaBeouf. He's been lying low for a while (damn him!) ever since he, you know, got drunk, decided to give his co-star a ride home, smashed into someone else, totalled his truck and destroyed most of the bones in his left hand (oh come on, we've all done it...) but it seems the he has once again won the favours of the public, as he has just been voted the 4th best actor of the year (right after Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr and, erm, someone else). Which is great news. Here's hoping he goes out to celebrate with Billy Bob Thornton again, like last time, when he got blitzed and ended up getting arrested after refusing to leave a Walgreens. Honestly, there is nothing I do not like about that boy.
So this time next week, I will be here:
Sunny, sorry, freezing cold Prague, here I come for a jolly jaunt away from this recession bitten depressant of a country. Beer is a quid and it houses the Mucha museum. Oh, I wont ever want to leave.
I watched Stop-Loss the other night and am now crushing over this dude in a bad way. I'll get over it in a few (years) days, I always do...
Someone else that everyone (even people I'm sure I don't even know) know that I would marry in Vegas at the drop of the hat is Even Stevens himself, Mr LaBeouf. He's been lying low for a while (damn him!) ever since he, you know, got drunk, decided to give his co-star a ride home, smashed into someone else, totalled his truck and destroyed most of the bones in his left hand (oh come on, we've all done it...) but it seems the he has once again won the favours of the public, as he has just been voted the 4th best actor of the year (right after Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr and, erm, someone else). Which is great news. Here's hoping he goes out to celebrate with Billy Bob Thornton again, like last time, when he got blitzed and ended up getting arrested after refusing to leave a Walgreens. Honestly, there is nothing I do not like about that boy.
So this time next week, I will be here:
Sunny, sorry, freezing cold Prague, here I come for a jolly jaunt away from this recession bitten depressant of a country. Beer is a quid and it houses the Mucha museum. Oh, I wont ever want to leave.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
I vant to drink your blaaaad...
So, this whole Twilightmania thing has been a source of quiet intrigue for me now for some months. The first I heard about it was at the start of the year; there was an article about it in the paper, questioning why on earth this vampire love story, written by a 30-something year old Mormon that she based on a dream she’d had, had become so enormously popular. ‘A cult book about vampires, why the hell haven’t I heard of this?’ I pondered, so at my next available chance I headed out and made the purchase. It’s a pretty good read. The story is fab, it’s like, Notebook passionate but all about vampires and werewolves (which in my world makes it infinitely better) and the fact that the leading man could, at any time, decide ‘Fuck this, there’ll be other girls, I’m totally just going to kill this bitch’ and sink his teeth into her neck makes it pretty sexy. But, and with no disrespect to the author at all, it’s no Lord of the Rings. So I really, really didn’t get the whole pandemonium that was going on in the States at all. The movie has gotten the biggest opening in 2008 after Batman, for Christ’s sake! I haven’t seen it yet so I guess I have to hold judgement, but hearing things like that only makes me a gazillion times more intrigued by this whole thing than I already am. People just keep telling me ‘Oh, its just another case of a low budget cult-movie becoming popular’ but Donnie Darko was a low budget cult that became unexpectedly massive, yet Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t have teenage girls dressed as fucking rabbits throwing themselves at him when he walked down the street. I saw the guy who plays the Vampire being interviewed and he said all these young girls get dressed up as Bella Swan, camp out for like 4 days by some Hot Topic or wherever the hell he’s doing a signing and scrawl ‘BITE ME’ across their necks. That’s just ridiculous. I know Robert Pattinson is like, a grade A fucking beaut, but why cant these kids just put a poster of him on their walls and make do like normal people? It’s bizarre. Stuff like this really weirds me out. Although who knows, I may go and see the movie next weekend, become just as brainwashed and will start going around dressing like Hollyoaks Newt’s new girlfriend.
But I highly doubt it.
But I highly doubt it.
Friday, 5 December 2008
Dali, or Mucha?
For today, it'll have to be Dali. One day I'll make my mind up.
I also really love this advert, it's only 30 seconds long but I get excited every time it comes on TV.
I also really love this advert, it's only 30 seconds long but I get excited every time it comes on TV.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Monday, 13 October 2008
FREE SHOW
What are you doing on Tuesday night?
Those lovely Registered Sounds folk have provided an answer to that question, as they are putting on an awesome show for us gloomy Mancunians next week:
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Registered Sounds:
Jim Noir + The Beep Seals + Gideon Conn + Magic Arm
At Manchester Academy (Club Acad)
And best of all – it’s free! I’m going to be there, and if you want to be there too all you need to do is go here and register for tickets. First come, first served, and they’re going fast, so get on it to avoid the heinous disappointment of knowing you could have seen Gideon Conn for free and you missed out. And please don’t turn up on the night expecting to just walk in as apparently, this wont work. The bouncers will politely ask you to fuck off, and you will end up getting the bus home at 8 o’clock, surrounded by freshers wearing neon tutu’s drinking Mickey Finns, riotously singing ‘Naïve’ by the Kooks at the top of their lungs.
Those lovely Registered Sounds folk have provided an answer to that question, as they are putting on an awesome show for us gloomy Mancunians next week:
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Registered Sounds:
Jim Noir + The Beep Seals + Gideon Conn + Magic Arm
At Manchester Academy (Club Acad)
And best of all – it’s free! I’m going to be there, and if you want to be there too all you need to do is go here and register for tickets. First come, first served, and they’re going fast, so get on it to avoid the heinous disappointment of knowing you could have seen Gideon Conn for free and you missed out. And please don’t turn up on the night expecting to just walk in as apparently, this wont work. The bouncers will politely ask you to fuck off, and you will end up getting the bus home at 8 o’clock, surrounded by freshers wearing neon tutu’s drinking Mickey Finns, riotously singing ‘Naïve’ by the Kooks at the top of their lungs.
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The clothing line is out... Ronando's must surely now be imminent
Poor, poor Ronaldo. People really hate him, don't they? He winked at Rooney a billion years ago and noone is ever going to let him forget it. I personally find it fucking hilarious that so many people waste so much of their time despising him, when lets be honest, I'm sure when Ronaldo goes home at night to his enormous mansion, parks the Bentley amongst his fleet of cars and then bathes in a tub full of fifty pound notes, you know he really couldn't care less what Jo Bloggs said about him that morning to the fella who works in Greggs.
Regardless, love him or hate him, he is damn easy to make fun of. And then the guy goes and opens a store like this and gives the tabloid journalists a freakin' field day: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1070993/What-wear--footballer-Ronaldos-boutique.html
The best thing about that article? This line:
The store includes all the essential wardrobe items for a metrosexual Mediterranean stallion.
Thats some damn fine journalism.
In The City write up coming soon...
Regardless, love him or hate him, he is damn easy to make fun of. And then the guy goes and opens a store like this and gives the tabloid journalists a freakin' field day: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1070993/What-wear--footballer-Ronaldos-boutique.html
The best thing about that article? This line:
The store includes all the essential wardrobe items for a metrosexual Mediterranean stallion.
Thats some damn fine journalism.
In The City write up coming soon...
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008
'Does anyone like Bryan Adams?'
I have this really bad problem, where if I’m alone for more than about 8 minutes with nothing to keep me occupied, my mind starts going ten to the dozen. I’ll sit and think about anything. This happened last night when I crawled into bed, only to realise I was wide awake and not ready to sleep, and for some reason the phrase ‘turn over a new leaf’ popped into my mind (I couldn’t tell you why). I thought about said phrase for ages, so long in fact that the word ‘leaf’ lost all meaning completely, and I came to the conclusion that the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What is a ‘new leaf’ anyway? And why would turning it over symbolise someone becoming a better person? Ooohhh. I think I’ve just figured it out.
Last night, me and Magee were crawling amongst a few bars in town and decided to go catch a band. We had a look to see who was on, and almost, almost, ended up seeing a band called Strawberry Blondes (they are a punk band and the singer goes by the name of Mickie Stabbs – why we even considered it for more than a second is beyond me). On a whim, I had a last quick look to see if anything else was going on and saw that Travis were at the Ritz. As much as they wouldn’t exactly top a list of my favourite bands I do really love a lot of their old stuff, so we threw caution to the wind and went along. This was a good move, as not only were Travis unexpectedly brilliant (you kinda forget how many great songs that band have), but they had a support act called The Republic Tigers, who are now my favourite new band out of the States. They are VERY good and I urge you to check them out at your earliest opportunity. Me and Mag’s got talking to the singer and he told me a whimsical tale about a time when he was playing video games with RYAN ADAMS (!!) and that Ryan got mad at everyone and made them leave because he wanted to play the video games alone. He was described as ‘kinda weird’. In a way, it only makes me like him more. Anyway, their website is here: www.myspace.com/therepublictigers - Check them out.
Heres their video for Buildings and Mountains - this song is just so... lovely. Listen away.
Last night, me and Magee were crawling amongst a few bars in town and decided to go catch a band. We had a look to see who was on, and almost, almost, ended up seeing a band called Strawberry Blondes (they are a punk band and the singer goes by the name of Mickie Stabbs – why we even considered it for more than a second is beyond me). On a whim, I had a last quick look to see if anything else was going on and saw that Travis were at the Ritz. As much as they wouldn’t exactly top a list of my favourite bands I do really love a lot of their old stuff, so we threw caution to the wind and went along. This was a good move, as not only were Travis unexpectedly brilliant (you kinda forget how many great songs that band have), but they had a support act called The Republic Tigers, who are now my favourite new band out of the States. They are VERY good and I urge you to check them out at your earliest opportunity. Me and Mag’s got talking to the singer and he told me a whimsical tale about a time when he was playing video games with RYAN ADAMS (!!) and that Ryan got mad at everyone and made them leave because he wanted to play the video games alone. He was described as ‘kinda weird’. In a way, it only makes me like him more. Anyway, their website is here: www.myspace.com/therepublictigers - Check them out.
Heres their video for Buildings and Mountains - this song is just so... lovely. Listen away.
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Cheese + Ronaldo = bad dreams
The other day I was in the posh neck of the woods where I work, and Ronaldo drove past me. It wasn’t particularly exciting, but still, I did go on to tell everyone I know about it so I was clearly a little impressed. Anyways, I was super tired that day and went to bed insanely early and I remembered thinking to myself ‘I am so going to dream about him tonight…’
Cue: one of my oddest dreams yet. It started with me and my sister going to this pool party in the middle of the woods and yep, you’ve guessed it, it was being hosted by Ronaldo. Within minutes of arriving, I lost Vikki, and went into big sister panic mode. I couldn’t find her anywhere so became super brave and went to look for her in the surrounding woods, and that’s where I saw those 3 scary fuckers from The Strangers dumping 2 bodies by some trees. I thought one of them had seen me so I ran away and went to Bob Geldof’s house to hide out. However, suddenly 2 men broke into Bob’s house and starting nicking all his stuff so we went into the garden, where McFly were having a party. I had to babysit these 2 little kids who were creepier looking than Chucky and so after a while I made my excuses and left. For some reason, my parents lived next door so I went there. Then Ronaldo’s mum knocked on the door and said ‘Your sister is in those public toilets’ and pointed at these decrepit loo’s which were in the woods across the road (it was a very strange street). So I go in and there is Vikki. I was super mad at her for disappearing so I hit her with a stick all the way home. We went back to my parent’s house but they were building a conservatory and it had gone terribly wrong so we went to Nandos for some peace and quiet, but I left my purse in there and for some reason went and asked Pixie Geldof to help me find it. And then I woke up.
Cue: one of my oddest dreams yet. It started with me and my sister going to this pool party in the middle of the woods and yep, you’ve guessed it, it was being hosted by Ronaldo. Within minutes of arriving, I lost Vikki, and went into big sister panic mode. I couldn’t find her anywhere so became super brave and went to look for her in the surrounding woods, and that’s where I saw those 3 scary fuckers from The Strangers dumping 2 bodies by some trees. I thought one of them had seen me so I ran away and went to Bob Geldof’s house to hide out. However, suddenly 2 men broke into Bob’s house and starting nicking all his stuff so we went into the garden, where McFly were having a party. I had to babysit these 2 little kids who were creepier looking than Chucky and so after a while I made my excuses and left. For some reason, my parents lived next door so I went there. Then Ronaldo’s mum knocked on the door and said ‘Your sister is in those public toilets’ and pointed at these decrepit loo’s which were in the woods across the road (it was a very strange street). So I go in and there is Vikki. I was super mad at her for disappearing so I hit her with a stick all the way home. We went back to my parent’s house but they were building a conservatory and it had gone terribly wrong so we went to Nandos for some peace and quiet, but I left my purse in there and for some reason went and asked Pixie Geldof to help me find it. And then I woke up.
Saturday, 20 September 2008
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Determination
As if it's been 4 whole months since I waved goodbye to this blog, considering myself too busy with my grown up job to bother anymore, looked at it as a step into my 'adult' life... only to find myself on the cusp of sitting my NCTJ. I sit the entrance exam next week, so my creative juices should be in full flow, and hence I should probably be writing places other than my friends Facebook walls and eyeliner scrawl across my mirror reminding me where I left my car keys.
Anyway, this is just a test to make sure I could still remember the password to this thing (it took 3 attempts). I don't really feel all that inspired tonight, though. Watch this space?
Anyway, this is just a test to make sure I could still remember the password to this thing (it took 3 attempts). I don't really feel all that inspired tonight, though. Watch this space?
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Take a look at his girlfriend...
2 things are making me happy today. 1, the new Katy Perry video. Her songs are bloody awesome. Have a whirl.
The 2nd?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021129/Triumph-tears-Manchester-United-seize-European-crown-Moscow.html
I officially love football again. Last night was TOO exciting.
The 2nd?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021129/Triumph-tears-Manchester-United-seize-European-crown-Moscow.html
I officially love football again. Last night was TOO exciting.
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Cheers, Seamus
Last weekend, we went over to Dublin. Dublin is officially the best city I have ever visited. I want to pack up everything I own and move over there immediately. Its got all these amazing old buildings, the atmosphere is so laid back it's unreal, and the crossings are AMAZING. I want to go back. Now.
We came home to this unseasonably warm Manchester weather, which is fabulous, and making me thankful that I rent a home so close to beer gardens and Platt Fields Park. Which is where I shall be going in afew moments once I've finished downloading the latest slew of 'must listen to' artists. Impressing me at the moment are Team Waterpolo, Crystal Castles and Katy Perry. Lovely new songs just in time for summer.
PS: Go and see Iron Man. It's genius.
PPS: Gossip Girl is the greatest thing to happen to Thursday nights in a very, very long time.
We came home to this unseasonably warm Manchester weather, which is fabulous, and making me thankful that I rent a home so close to beer gardens and Platt Fields Park. Which is where I shall be going in afew moments once I've finished downloading the latest slew of 'must listen to' artists. Impressing me at the moment are Team Waterpolo, Crystal Castles and Katy Perry. Lovely new songs just in time for summer.
PS: Go and see Iron Man. It's genius.
PPS: Gossip Girl is the greatest thing to happen to Thursday nights in a very, very long time.
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
'Why don't you ask him to dance?'
The hour and a half I spent watching The Orphanage in the cinema is officially the most scared I have ever been whilst at the flicks in my whole entire life. My sister was physically shaking. Sophie and Faye couldn’t even look at the screen. It’s terrifying. Yet amazing.
Another amazing movie is Lars and the Real Girl. The beautiful Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex doll. It sounds really odd and creepy but it’s actually lovely and made Bam cry. It’s currently showing at the Cornerhouse, you should make the trip.
Here’s something I learnt this weekend – never bite off more than you can chew. You’ll end up in the middle of a dancefloor surrounded by people you don’t even know, competing in an impromptu danceoff, while the DJ spins Run DMC’s ‘It’s Like That’. Everyone will find it funny apart from you. And there will be incriminating photographic evidence. As a side note, if you do happen to find yourself in said situation, avoid challenging the super cool guy who is clearly a very good dancer, thinking you’re better than he is. You’re not, and he will only let you ‘win’ out of pity.
Another amazing movie is Lars and the Real Girl. The beautiful Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex doll. It sounds really odd and creepy but it’s actually lovely and made Bam cry. It’s currently showing at the Cornerhouse, you should make the trip.
Here’s something I learnt this weekend – never bite off more than you can chew. You’ll end up in the middle of a dancefloor surrounded by people you don’t even know, competing in an impromptu danceoff, while the DJ spins Run DMC’s ‘It’s Like That’. Everyone will find it funny apart from you. And there will be incriminating photographic evidence. As a side note, if you do happen to find yourself in said situation, avoid challenging the super cool guy who is clearly a very good dancer, thinking you’re better than he is. You’re not, and he will only let you ‘win’ out of pity.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
'What's a sociopath?'
On recent trips to the flicks, I saw trailers for 2 upcoming films, 21 and Funny Games. They both look awesome. Don’t believe me – see for yourselves:
21
Funny Games
21
Funny Games
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