i wish the airport was this much fun.


i love feist. her voice is amazing. and her videos are always great.

there's so much music coming from canada right now. it reminds me of ireland in a way, there's a small(ish) population with some good artists.

CANADIAN FAVES

stars - "the night starts here" (includes solo artist amy millan)
metric - new album out this july
arcade fire - words cannot describe how much i love them, this helps. (watch the whole thing)
broken social scene - i think every musical canadian is involved in this supergroup
the russian futurists - i love "paul simon"



there's more than celine dion and avril lavigne!

love it!

Dreams

I had the oddest dream last night. I can only remember little bits. I was on a train and I met Win Butler from the Arcade Fire. We were talking about everything and as we were just about to go for food, I saw him kissing this model who wasn't his wife! Then we had a fight and I got off the train! I went into a hotel and saw Gary Lightbody sitting down drinking a pint guinness!


I really should buy a dream dictionary.

My new camera!



A very early birthday present from my mum. I love the redness!
I can't wait to get snap happy again. I haven't named it yet... any suggestions?

i love hilary duff!

with lohan getting in trouble again, looking at hilary duff you realise that not all the famous kids are bad. her and lohan have achieved roughly the same amount of success yet you never see a bad word about her in the press. she never let's herself go and i don't think she's had any brushes with the law.

also, i LOVE the colour of her hair. i can't believe i just wrote a little paragraph about her but yay hilary!

I declare this weekend...

HARRY POTTER WEEKEND

I'm reading books 1-7 this weekend. You should too! It's raining outside (like it has done for the past 50 days) so I can't think of anything more perfect than sitting down with some hot chocolate and pretending to be a student at Hogwarts.....

an end has a start

I have the Editors first album. It does the trick, I wouldn't call it groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it.
I just bought this album today... So far I'm liking "The Racing Rats". I'll know what I think in a few days.

You can listen to the entire album right here.

They're playing a number of dates in the near future. Unfortunately I missed them at Oxegen because they clashed with Snow Patrol/Air.


Marie I remember telling me you went to the Osheaga Festival last year, are you going this year? I think they're playing!

I came here to write a lovely new blog but I find myself with nothing to write about.

Listen to this

Go see this

Please read this if you haven't.

continuing my love for mashups....

what do you think of this?

think it would have been interesting vice versa... chris' vocals over bloc partys cords...

I could watch this film over and over...
this scene in particular.




Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy. Before Sunrise

go away

Apparently since the beginning of June, it has rained every day in Ireland. It's not a refreshing summer rain after a hot spell because the temperature is struggling to rich the mid teens. It's like winter evenings. I've been sleeping with an extra blanket and a hot water bottle and it's almost the middle of July!!

Where is the sun??

OXEGEN 2007

SATURDAY

highlights:

Muse lightshow and Matt Bellamys red suit.
Justice and Digitalism, danced our socks off.
Snow Patrol.... Gary Lighbody! Air... wow.

honorable mentions:

The Gossip, although could have done without seeing Beth Dittos bra.
Maximo Park... they care about their music!


SUNDAY

highlights:

Calvin Harris for a boogie to wake us up.
Bloc Party, excellent crowd control.
Rufus Wainwright... fabulously over the top.
ARCADE FIRE - My favourite of the whole weekend.
Daft Punk, good end to a fun weekend.

honorable mentions:

Cold War Kids. CSS fun brazilian electro.
James Morrison... Chris Martin/Gary Lightbody lookalike.
Air Traffic, really like them.
New Young Pony Club, I love when girls are the lead singers

WEEKEND LOWLIGHTS

getting sunburned
losing my phone, twice
excessive mud
non-stop rain

Photos will follow....

I found out that my camera will cost 1 and a half times its' original cost to be fixed. I think it's a problem with the lense. So I'm looking for a new one. Would be good if I had it before oxegen this weekend.

Would like to see...

Die Hard 4.0
La Vie En Rose
Ocean's Thirteen
Paris Je T'aime*

*I've seen this film several times, but not with english subtitles. I'd like to see what the film is really about!

I can't believe that it's July already.

I went to see Justin Timberlake tonight - amazing.
I'd liken his performance to that of Robbie Williams, purely entertaining.
I think had you gone to the concert tonight, not knowing any of his music, you still would have enjoyed it.
The man is a talented singer and fabulous dancer, not to mention extremely hot!

Greece was great fun. An eventful three weeks including: 46˚C weather in Athens, a trip to a greek hospital (a blog in itself), cute animals, excessive amounts of ice cream consumed, excessive amount of drink consumed... and so on and so forth.
My camera got sick of the sand and died on me so I have to try and get it fixed.