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Coming home for easter has been beautiful....Went for walks up kiliney hill and down the pier and pints and laughing a plenty and shopping in penneys and lunch in the botanical gardens (so feckin cool those greenhouses) and pushed my dads broken down car off the phibsboro road and bought bags of chips after the pub my mum cooked us all roast beef on easter monday and danced to Peter Michael Mysterious girl in the doorway of Athena as we passed it on the way home and my dear bro and I did some work on my website (he worked)and got caught out in horrible rain and cold and banter...lots of banter.
It's a good place to call home.

DREAM JOB

Would be working on films that emily designed the set/costume for cos I could spend all day wandering round em photographing things like this....

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!

Ceile Dancing and Riots and Skipping.

WEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Have been trying for a week to upload photos onto my blog so this is late.......

Paddys day was Fun.

Kila rocked in The Apolo. Crazy biscuits seeing the band I used to see play in my school hall play in Barcelona, where the crowd were going wild dancing but no one knew what the hell I was on about with my ´isteach, amach, cailini trasna, buachailli trasna!
We missed the riots.....I don´t get it....you can drink on the streets Aaaaany day in this city without a bother but I guess everyone decided to irish it up by organising a ´permitted´ boozing it up session (bottellon=big bottle) and then wrecking the gaff......
Luckily enough we left the raval before it started, dropped Killians parents back to the hotel and went to Poble Nou for a free party in a warehouse where DJ Rupture was playing. There was a huge skipping session with a big rope outside on the road..no one was really any good but it was some laugh anyway.
Then it was barking all the way home for bowls of popcorn and beers...Not before Tom and I attempted once again to do crabs on the street- where you lie on your back and push yourself up onto your hands and toes.....like a crab...falling over.

Shot

I assisted a photographer on saturday...rather gruesome 80s backdrop that I don´t know if any photoshopping could really fix and the posing..oh dear...but I got a small chance to work with the model and here´s one shot...must learn vocab for tilt your chin, face a little more towards the light, all the stuff you don´t even notice you´re saying when you´re working until you´re trying to conjugate verbs and the model is looking at you rather strangely because you´ve asked her to bend her lips instead of her elbow.....ah.....but what fun all the same.

CASA PACO

Casa Paco ROX.

It´s like dancing round your living room when loads of people have crashed your party but they´re total soundies so it´s all cool.
And if you get hungry you can run across the square that´s always full of dogs and eat in Pizza Paco. There´s nut oil with chillis to spill on your pizza.
There´s a playground in the square too with see saws and sand to fall in.
Some people dance like crazy, some people fall over, some people sing, some people play music, some pour drinks, some put the coats somewhere safe, some take photos and EVERYONE talks and laughs all night.Such fun.

Killian and Tom play there tonight, ha ha look at the flyer, DJs Tom y Redmond...Tommy Redmond boy.

It will be cool.

I have my first photo job later this afternoon, marvelous.

Gonna drink some coffee and eat some cake now.

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to La Palau!

Thanks to my dear Mam and Dad I am going to La Palau next week for this concert
ALEXEI VOLODIN, piano
CONCERT DEBUT
SCHUBERT: 4 impromtus, op. 142
CHOPIN: Polonesa-Fantasia, op. 61
RAKHMANINOV: Etudes-Tableaux,
op. 39
STRAVINSKY: 3 Moviments de
Petruixka

And look how beautiful La Palau is!






And happily I am going on Miss Moos birthday (8th March) so I will celebrate it in style lady!

My Projects

At the mo I am working on doing visuals for this gig below, the TOM WAITS one.
How cool....visuals for Tom Waits lyrics.
When I get home from work I start setting paper boats on fire and throwing dice on them whilst trying to film them on paulas camera or try to make a spotlight out of cardboard tubing and a reading light to photograph a teddy gorilla (thanks dad) climbing up the curtains...LOTS more work to do...such fun. Now I just gotta learn how to use flash to put it all together. Hey so if anyone fancies going to this gig its on the 13th march and it will be cool.

UNAS FAVOURITE THINGS

Decided to put up unas favourite things cos some of them should be on mine too cept that i forgot.
I AM NOT A HIPPIE. I dont like hippies, they smell and are arrogant. ridiculous combination.

UNAS FAVOURITE THINGS


in the spirit of Burco being a hippie (jaysus, I'm turning into LiliTheHippieHater) I would like to add:

men walking small dogs

chefs on cigarette breaks

amyl nitrate

toy instruments

ice

collars for cats

blagging

feeding animals (especially goats)

neon signs

watching the extreme sports channel for 9 hours straight

checking in luggage that is JUST underweight

really fucking tall buildings

elevators

dancing so much you sweat like crazy (gross but cool)

puddles

bike rides down giant hills

REMEMBER LADY THAT BIKE RIDE IN FRANCE¿ MAN THAT WAS SO COOL.

drinking local beer (where ever, and even if it's less superior than other beer you could drink)

playing frisbee when you really should be doing something else

the moment a band comes on stage

people falling down

tents

fishing

my favourite things

My favourite things!

In no particular order

Tea.

Limes.

Small red pencils.

Having lots of juice in the fridge.

Hugs.

Giving lost people directions. (whether they want it or not)

Laughing so much you think you might die.

when you're thinking about someone and they text you or ring you that exact second.

Finding a tenner in old jeans when its 12 days til payday and you're totally broke.

Letters in the post.

Parcels.

Free stuff given out in the traffic.

Taking photos.

When you realise you need another beer and look up to see your best friend/boyfriend is putting one down in front of you.

Chocolate.

Lying in the sun and looking up at the perfect blue sky.

Setting up crazy lighting to light an apple peel you managed to peel all in one long strip.

Those nights that aren´t planned and nothing Huge happens but everyones laughing and having fun and making up songs and buying each other pints.

Surprises.

Lyon-Antwerpen.

Dancing doing the washing up.

Making it home when its freezing outside and wet and windy and you wore the wrong shoes and finding dinner on the table.

Lots more but cant think of em now.

Make lists! a perfect monday activity.

when your camera goes smash........

So does your blog......
bah.....
yes i know boring blogger these days although shock horror im not too keen on the whole blogging method of keeping in touch with everyone anymore......i know I´ve mortally offending some of my blogging pro amigos but there i said it...
but still...here i am....snoring away with another post......
hmmm lets see......I did see a big fat woman pee on the street after waving my parentals goodbye yesterday at sants bus station.
ooooh and i survived my first ever attempted mugging in barcelona, yes my grumpy phone is still mine loser mugger!
oh but twas so lovely having my parents visit, really it was and i miss em now.
We ate calcots yummy catalan onion leek things that are YAWM and fun to eat cos they serve them all charred in a roof tile.

booooo I had a photo of the calcots but it wouldn't upload and times up in this internet cafe.

Well I tried anyway.

So I´m totally pyschic

Like I didn´t know that already............

BABES

Myself and Paula dressed up and took accessories shots, only had time to do up one photo of the beautiful paula.




Kathleen-model for my shoot next weekend!

Make up ideas

if anyone (lili really) knows where i can find those photos of a girl with....hmmm they're like plastic tears on her face......well if anyone knows where i can find them please let me know!

Location/light tests for fashion shoot.

Very excited bout fashion shoot I'm planning with Kathleen and Sirrku, its gonna be shot in the raval so I did some tests last night and i quite like em!
Corina im still looking for a stylist so if you're free jan 21st?!

NEW YEARS EVE!

In Spain they don't sing auld langs syne. thats a strange thing to do here. What they do do is stuff a grape into their mouth for each of the last 12 seconds of the year....which is quite hard to do so i am very happy i managed to do it and get a photee of everyone else at the same time. PRO. And then at midnight every kisses and hugs with a mouthful of grapes. It's rather splendid.
Also splendid was our sixties themed partay. Una was over and gave it socks. Kike and Vicki and Diego came from Zaragoza. Our house was invaded for 20 minutes by a million drunk french people i didn't know but then they left.
Such fun.














FEAST!!!!!!!!!!

Check this out!

Takeover 6 EP! featuring Redmonk aka Killiano & Ed Devane and Tim of course and other people I don't know but I'm sure are lovely gents.It is doing brilliantly..I reccommend you all to go buy it NOW!
Yay.


takeover website


REVIEWS:

We're loving this sick 4 track sampler from Belfast's Takeover label featuring a mish-mash of artists doing some ill underground breaks/electro and dub-style shit. This 5 tracker cuts a deep path thru electro, dubstep, breaks and dancehall with our fave being the Ed Devane/Redmonk/Thatboytim-produced "Guilty Feet Got No Rhythm", a firing slice of spannered breakbeat pressure.

on this site

AND........


The Belfast Takeover crew come up with another showcase for these new and not-so-new artists, fitting five tracks of varying style and consistently high quality onto a single slab of vinyl. Plenty of unexpected sonic treats here, with a common theme: bass. These five tracks cut across several genres - electro, dubstep, dub techno, breaks, dancehall, straight dub... there are some truly sparkling gems here from Black Sea Project, Deverb, Ed Devane, Redmonk, and Thatboytim.... so much talent in one place... great, innit?!

on this site!

GRADUATION!!!!!

I'll be honest I stole all these from lili's blog but only cos I can't do my own photees til I go back to Dublin...



I am so Smart. I am so Smart. S.M.R.T...

Ali McBeal and Alligators in the Floor

This morning was baaaad......I woke up with an ali mc beal song in my head after dreaming about a 4year old boy who had the best aim in the west shooting stickmen soldiers.......actually that dream was kinda cool but the dream I had before that......I was talking to Roisin about 'where my life is going' and I realised at the end of the dream that my life had gone 'so digital, sob'.........No clue what I meant by that but it explained everything for me in the dream..... it sounds ridiculously lame anyway.......
yeah so I woke up with an ali mc beal tune in my head and it was one of those mornings you CANNOT move........I tried to think of all the nice things happening this week- moving house, getting paid, killians gig, soup for lunch, mojitos on pay day, nice clothes to wear.......nothing worked...I would happily have given up all that for the morning in bed......but of course I did get up but didn't have time for breakfast and hurried about emptying the muesli jar and ladling soup into it because we'd left all the lunch boxes in work.....all the time fuming about that dumbass ali mc beal song and trying to figure out what 'my life has gone so digital' means.
Work started out SOOOOOOOO boring I felt like crying.....but then den den DEHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A giant alligator started breaking up through the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well thats what I thought....we didn't know what was causing it but the floor was coming up in the shape of a giant alligator....the tiles were cracking and snapping and raising up......Killian (the legend) started telling everyone bout that film the Tremors where the giant alligators break up through peoples floors......
Everyone was so freaked and screaming and jumping about.....Earthquake! Giant Alligators! Building collapsing!!!!
It was very exciting....
It's stopped now and everyone's back to work.... with a few worrying hills in the floor and burst open tiles.....I'm daydreaming the way I used to in school....maybe the office will have to be shut down for a week for repairs........like in Scoil Lorcain when the roof was leaky and we all got three days off........but stinker supervisor said that we'd work from the store-room if that happens......
In other news I have €6.30 til payday...which, thank god, is Wednesday...and James Blunt is playing AGAIN on the goddamn spanish radio....

PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!

While checking loquo for jobs or flats I always look at the pets section....NOT cos I'm getting a dog but just to dream......and cos Killianos laptop is sick and Eds moved out I cant do any of my own photees of dublin for my blog so I will put these up. CUTE!!!!!!