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Nancy Hartigan

If the apocalypse comes, text me.

About Me

A very dear old friend thought it would be fun to write something for my page, so I let him. While I am still struggling to recognise the person he describes, I shall let it rest, as maybe others see something in you that you cant see in yourself- if this is the case, I hope his vision of me is true, and not the stuff I see when I look in the mirror, and see a grumpy old git !""I cannot ever watch the bit of Lord of the Rings, where Eowyn goes mono a mono with the Nazgul without thinking of my friend Rena. The L’Oreal moment of shaking out her very feminine hair from under the warriors cap and, half laughing, half snarling to the big black cloaked guy, ‘I am no man!’ That kind of stands for me as the moment I see my dear friend.as she is, eternally to me.Since we’ve known each other, I’ve known a contradiction. The high maintenance Park Avenue princess who can run the average Marine into the ground with her forest walking and clinbing talents. Part ethereal wood nymph, part Celtic warriorette assassin. Good mother to two crazy cool daughters ; sexy as hell goddess on the flip side. Friend to every underdog and lost cause out there; morose dove pining for her mate, independent modern woman who runs businesses and never misses a beat with decisions.Disney are busy making human icons of stars to be like cartoon characters – my friend Rena is Aurora, rewritten the North Belfast way. The ultimate, modern, sleeping beauty, waiting for the man who can brave her dragon of a mother and get through the thorns around her heart, both put there to keep the hurts out. La Guitarra, who like, in Jack in the Beanstalk, must play songs of passion unfulfilled, of laughter yet to come, to herself until someone has the balls to storm the castle and bring her into the light. To me, she’s a kick ass 21st century Lucille Ball who never has to be the stooge to anyone – I thought of her as La Sirena; the siren who you cant resist; she’ll laugh you closer and closer to the bedroom before you even realise you’ve been seduced. I’ve never had that privilege, nor am I likely to, but I can dream from 5000 miles away. Its going to be a hell of a man, a strong, capable man, utterly confident in his masculinity who meets his match with this woman- I suggested she get a tee shirt made, with No Wimps Need Apply, on it. Reckless at times, passionate always; as someone of a proudly Latino background I know many women who are as proud and as heady as this. Few are Irish warrior women who pack a punch, as long as they don’t damage their new manicure. Yes, it’ll be a hell of a man who finally wins the prize of a great heart and a gentle soul, with my friend Rena. I’ll hope he’s out there, and showing up soon – I’ll be the first to shake his hand and ask “ hey, Charming; what the hell kept ya?” " PLEASE, PLEASE DONT ADD ME IF YOU HAVE A 'HAREM' OF PROSPECTIVE GIRLFRIENDS ON YOUR LIST. I'M NOT ONE OF THEM, I'M NOT GOING TO BE ONE OF THEM,I'M NOT IN THE MARKET FOR THAT KIND OF THING - AND I'M NOT GOING TO POSE FOR 'PHOTOGRAPHERS' OR ' VIDEO' SORTS, SO PLEASE DONT WASTE MY TIME AND TEMPER. OKAY?This is one of the things I dream of! A perfect bred Tasil arab horse.. I've had the delight of hanging out at a stable of them in Tunisia, and all I can say is, some things exceed what your dreams of them can ever be!Dont you love the 40's The clothes, the hairstyles? adore it all!Candy Man

Add to My Profile | More VideosI write. I make skin care. I also have a limited talent for singing and art. Its probably the writing that'll make me my money, though.I am a happy, upbeat kinda girlie, and I do like mischief, but please, nothing too crude! I attempt to play guitar though I am utter shit, but its a great way of chilling, and on the rare occasions when you do get it right? God and his angels join in, I swear! WEll, it feels like that anyway!I was anubelle to begin with, herer on myspace, but a rose by any other name shall smell as sweet( omg! Shakespeare and Im not even drinking yet!) when we were in Egypt for the first time, down in Luxor, the first thing I had to go to was the mummification museum, which was no disapointment. And I bought a huge carved Anubis , sitting like a scribe there, and popped it in my handbag. The bag was a Vuitton, and similar to the ones you see a certain Tinkerbelle chihuahua sitting peeking out of? well, eldest brat burst out laughing, almost wetting herself all along the banks of the Nile, as this wee Anubis head is sticking out of the bag like one of these handbag sized dogs of the rich and famous( try putting any of my dogs into a handbag and you'll rupture something), so we called the statue Anubelle, like Tinkerbelle.. ach well, it was funny at the time, and its as good a name as any! Now? I'm Nancy hartigan. Now, I admit to being an absolute fanatic of Frank Miller's work. Sin City was an amzing film noir of the old school sort. I felt very cheated out of a happy ending between Nancy the stripper and Officer Hartigan. They should have galloped off into the snow and lived happily ever after. So, its got to prove lucky for somebody- gentle reader, I became Nancy hartigan here in the dark realms of Myspace. Soppy silly cow!A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Buffy
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Anubelle, queen of the very boring sector of the underworld!
Birthday: 13th Feb
Birthplace: Hell itself.. umm, Belfast , really!
Current Location: Same as above, after many wanderings!why, God? why?
Eye Color: Green.
Hair Color: Dark red.
Height: 5 ft 6 i think.
Right Handed or Left Handed: right handed
Your Heritage: Irsih/Jewish/German
The Shoes You Wore Today: New Rocks, because its cold, dammit.
Your Weakness: buns with jam in them and musicians. even better at the same time.
Your Fears: being alone. cockroaches. feeling scared.
Your Perfect Pizza: tuna. olives, anchovies. garlic.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Normality and peace.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: WTF?????
Thoughts First Waking Up: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your Best Physical Feature: I'll leave that one to popular (male) opinion...
Your Bedtime: early, but I dont sleep - I read.
Your Most Missed Memory: Most of my early 20's.
Pepsi or Coke: neither - lucozade for me!
MacDonalds or Burger King: eww! neither! Prefer sushi!
Single or Group Dates: whats a date? its a fruit, innit?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: yuck! neither!
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla.
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee - strong and nearly black.
Do you Smoke: no.
Do you Swear: Like a sailor.
Do you Sing: yes.
Do you Shower Daily: yes. I love showers.. would love room for one of those power shower thingys.
Have you Been in Love:
Do you want to go to College: Done it, thanks, was fun.
Do you want to get Married: Never again. I dont need a bit of paper to tell me I want to be with someone.
Do you belive in yourself: No, but I believe in unicorns....
Do you get Motion Sickness: nope.
Do you think you are Attractive: thats for you to tell me, then, innit?
Are you a Health Freak: yeah, a wee bit.
Do you get along with your Parents: Sort of. Mum is difficult.
Do you like Thunderstorms: adore them! make me feel alive!
Do you play an Instrument: sort of. badly.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: oh yes.
In the past month have you Smoked: no. I inhale other peoples fumes.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: do sleepiojg tablets and asthma treatment count?
In the past month have you gone on a Date: fuck no!
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: I live there. for research purposes, you understand.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: havent had oreos in years... yummy!
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: damn yeah!
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no. cos i dont date hahah! see? i have this thing worked out!
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: November? no way!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: only time.....
Ever been Drunk: yep.
Ever been called a Tease: yes, unfairly. I flirt with dogs and cats, its my way of speaking.
Ever been Beaten up: yes, but you should see what happened to the other bugger.
Ever Shoplifted: no, never.
How do you want to Die: dont much care. There is no death, only change.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Happy and loved. Hasnt happened yet.
What country would you most like to Visit: Tibet. have'nt got there yet.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown, or amber.
Favourite Hair Color: doesnt matter, but not so keen on ginger guys.
Short or Long Hair: dont care if they're bloody well bald - its the person , not the hair.
Height: Its nice if they're taller than me, but * shrugs diffidently*
Weight: Not fat, just average is fine.
Best Clothing Style: I like jeans and tees, the bit of rock n roll rough look. Like suits too!
Number of Drugs I have taken: really only cannabis and acid once when I was 18.
Number of CDs I own: 516! eldest hell minion daughter counted them!
Number of Piercings: Ears. Used to have a naughty one I let heal when I reached Wisteria Lane here.
Number of Tattoos: 2 but planning more.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: not a lot, mostly time lost with my dad.
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My Interests


I'm now having a bit of craic doing a bit of co-presenting on No celtic Boundaries show, which goes out on both Highlander FM and CelticRadio.net go listen to them for some of the best stuff around!BAD PEOPLE DRINKING IN A WILD BAR! WHEN GOOD MYSPACERS GO BAD! IN TECHNICOLOR!! THIS IS DAVEY'S ' DIRECTORS CUT OF 'SAVE THE ROTERDAM' JULY 6TH 2007.....* BIG HUGE GRIN WHILE HOLDING HEAD AND POPPING PARACETAMOLS* THANK YOU AND CYBER HUGS TO ALL THE EEJITS IN THE BAR AND BEYOND IT!' WE FEW, WE HAPPY FEW, WE BAND OF BROTHERS...'( OH GAWD - SHE'S QUOTING SHAKESPEARE! SHE'S DRUNK lol)music, art, horses, dogs, all animals really, tring to be environmentally friendly and do right by this planet of ours, gaming, the chemistry behind skincare never ceases to fire me with passions untold - I learn all the time, even now! messing around with my kids, anything to do with Egypt, Celtic culture, Greek culture, anything very ancient and very beautiful, really.I'm very much into learning as much about the history of wicca as I can, when I've time. The swan is a big important thing for me, as its part of my totem beasties. You know the way they look serene? Dont believe a word of it! Their wee feet are thrashing away underneath keeping it all together!I also love getting out on boats and want to live near the sea one day, in a house that has a big, big garden. I would hope it was a bit of a ruin, really - something like the house I imagine in The Ghost and Mrs Muir( the rex harrison one, of course!)...it'll be a bit of a shambles( like me) and have creaky floorboards and make any DIY fan throw their hands up in horror and say 'I'm not even going to try and fix that!'.. it'll have strange and eccentric plumbing( like my own beloved house here) and make the most haunted house noises at night, especially when the wind blows strong off the sea...but the plants will all taste of the sea, the wild marram grass will crawl up into my not very well laid-out garden, to live beside the rosemary and lavender... I'll find that house, one of these days, because I know its out there, just wait and see!warned you I'm a big sloppy romantic!Also, banjo as well as guitar.. something about it's call to arms, that clarion of fire when you belt out the bluegrass.. yeehaw! I reckons Gabriel Toad here( wonder did he play for the Old Toad Medicine Show? I know.. bad pun), from Bagpuss, is where it all began- my arch corrupter!

I'd like to meet:

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As many of the right sorts of people - nice, sensible, not pervy, straight talking, honest,kind and funny. Creeps and double talkers who want to play games, please dont come here. I only want to have ' good medicine' folks around, there's way too many really bad sorts in the world. I just dont want them round me.

AND HERE'S THE PIN UP OF NORTH BELFAST! OUR GOOD MATE LUDWIG.. CHECK HIS SONGS ON MY PAGE! HE HAS STARVING BLACK KITTIES , CLEO AND SASHA, TO SUPPORT, SO SUPPORT HIM!!!!

Music:

WHAT HAVE WE ALL BEEN RAVING ABOUT FROM SUNDAY NIGT, EH? ROBIN JAMES HURT AND HIS GUITAR PLAYING( NOT TO MENTION ' THAT' MARTIN' GUITAR!) - HERE'S ONE OF THE SONGS FROM THE SET PLAYED, COME AWAY HOME', A REWORK OF AN OLD SCOTTISH SONG. AND ITS GORGEOUS. ENJOY! I PREFER PROMOTING LOCAL STUFF FROM FOLKS I KNOW. THEY'RE SUCH A DAMN TALENTED LOT ROUND THESES PARTS.I MEAN, JUST CHECK OUT THE LUDWIG PAGE( NEW EP AVAILABLE!!! * UNASHAMED PLUG!*) PHILIP MCAREE IS BACK ON MYSPACE AS MACFINN AND IS AS TALENTED AS EVER. THEY'RE A CLEVER OLD LOT, UP IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.Okay, this is rocking my world at the moment! Love Michelle Branch's voiceanyway, but put it with Carlos Santana and I'm sorry- this is Nancy's version of catnip! Summer on a stick! with a dollop of sorbet- doesnt get cooler than this! Carlos Santana feat. Michelle Branch - The Game Of Love(Zone)

Add to My Profile | More VideosAs long as it has passion - my favourite song is Van morrison's Into the Mystic. I love Van Morrison, Prince, Aerosmith,Thin Lizzy, seriously good blues like Muddy Waters,Leonard Cohen, Early Supremes and a lot of Motown, the whole Phil Specter Wall of Sound era of the trashy made good girl bands, early Santana, although liked the collaboration with the wee guy who I cant recall recently!, Joy Division and early New Order, Tenpole Tudor, Bob Marley, The Flying Column, Hank Williams, Matvin Rainwater, Roy orbinson, Jimmy B Newman , way too much zydeco and cajun- bad habits caught in the Big Easy, ma chere, De Danaan when they had Enya singing in Elvish with them, Sarah McLachlan, Sophie B Hawkins, Jewel, early Donna Summers, Earl Okin, I adore taylor Hicks - best thing in ages! aww.. the list is as disparate as it is long... if its good and full of fire and longing and weeping hearts, I'll love it! If its trashy I love it too... I probably do need to add my odd predilection( for wetsern tatstes anyway|)of Arabic music - give me a grinding bit of raq shar' qui, or a kif, or any good Middle Eastern pop tune and I'm happy! Check out names such as Mohammed Mounir, the unfairly beautiful and talented Yara and impish little Nancy Ajram. One of the best tings to do is sprawl on a bed in the sonesta st george in Luxor( unashamed plug for a great hotel) and lie with the windows open and Melody Hits blasting out.( Melody Hits being an Arabic version of MTV). Hit me with good flammenco, or anything latin as well.. the tango is my groove, baby- well, you'd expect it, wouldnt you? all that restrained passion and intensity going on? I love barry White, and all that growling goin' on... forgot until the other day just how delicious al Jarreau's voice was, and am becoming increasingly addicted to Steve Earle. Oh yeah.... Tenacious d as well.. ;)I think we were among the first in Belfast, peddling the first cd around friends, neighbors, guitar teachers...anyone who'd give us a shock factor of being embarrassed by touching melodies such as F*** her Gently.

Movies:

Film noirs, comedy( naughty comedy is best, like Borat or Ali G, which cracks me up), disaster movies, and I hate to admit it, chick flicks like Love Actually and Notting Hill, because I am a soppy great romantic. Needless to say, things like Casablanca and Mr Skeffington rock my world as well.... I've been madly in love with Claude Raines from aons. My reckoning- I wouldnt ever stand a chance with a top totty like Humnphrey Bogart in Casablance, but Claudes wicked, dapper, clever little gendarme? ah, now there was someone who'd appreciate the plain but clever gal!can i add, Oh Brother where art thou( the frog bit cracks me up), Serenity, 300, Spiderman 3.. it was great!Ilike things that have that wonderful golden glow, like Gone With The Wind.. all those great old films they only show on TCM. Heaven is a rainy day, a bottle of shiraz and some great stuff on Classic movies channels!24 Hours In Sin City
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Add to My Profile | More Videos yeah, yeah, this is the *real* Nancy.. as in Sin City! But I can do the dance routine, even if I dont have the chaps. Just fire me a lasso and I'll show you at a moments provocation LOL!

Television:

Buffy - best parable for adult life I have ever seen - cleverest scripts by series 6 and 7. Spike wasn't bad looking and all...I wouldn't throw him out of bed for eating crisps there, to be honest. Well, maybe I would, as obviously you dont know the *real* person, who could be a total goon, but the character is very appealing, and all that punky peroxide, and the cheekbones.. * sighs and swoons!* okay, admittedly, the Fonz of the 21st century, but then again, I fell utterly in love with Satan in Miltons' Paradise Lost when doing that for A level! Such a literary slut ,I am! Twin peaks, the new Dr Who series- David Tennant is an originalSix feet Under, quite liked series 5 Angel; loved the Walking with dinosaurs programme and the other one, Prehistoric Park. Life on Mars becuase it way outstripped in cleverness anything else.. roll on 'Ashes to ashes'... American idol is a guilty pleasure - so much more interesting than the dire X factor, dont you think? I'm not a great simon Cowell fan, and would probably lynch him for disservices to music if I could. Now, this is embarrassing! This was my first adored TV programme- the over 40's will remember it well, no doubt, so , enjoy the dulcet tones of the opening sequence of - ta dah! Marine Boy!! Now, that takes you nack, doesnt it! I learnt to swim pronto because my fly mother said if I did? I'd meet up with marine Boy and his dolphin.. oh how innocent our childhoods are! Still, it started a love affair with the oceam which I've never regretted!

Books:

Tolkien ( especially The Silmarillion) Charlaine Harris for fun Anne Rice Alice Walker Neil Gailman - he rocks! de Lorca, McNiece, Elliorr- loads of poets. I've just discovered Clive Barker - am gobbling up his stuff at the moment! a kids book , from Victorian times called The velveteen rabbit- made me sob as a kid, but oh how true it is...no easy way to become 3 dimensional- all too easy to be a stereotype. Black beauty- the original political opinion changer , which led to better treatment of animals- whata way to change the world! with compassion instead of spin! I still love the narnia books, which is a bit sad to admit.Although That Hideous streghth is a phenomenal book and I wish they'd make it into a film. Or maybe not when you consider Disney doing things to books you love. Lots of dull old books on theology and stuff, but lets not get into those because they are sort of private guilty pleasures! I'm the person who sits and has a row with theologians on tv! LOL CS Lewis adult books... if its good, I'll read it. Oh! and Andrew Marvell( to roll the universe into a ball... oooh, yes please!) and a few other obscure metaphysical poets. Ach, get me drunk and I sit quoting shakespeare.. everybody knows that! LOL Special adortaion for Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado and Midsummers Nights Dream.. in school, I recall I played Puck.I was a good Puck.Possibly still am ;)otherwise, I'm as happy with a copy of Q or Vogue. And the nice pictures amuse me for hours and hours !I remember St Expeditie from New orleans - he's not quite saint or sinner- therefore, he probably belngs here on me page! Best fuun thing I read was that he's now offiicially the patron saint of geeks -One common trait that computer Power Users and, for lack of a better word "geeks" have in common is a need for speed. That craving for instant gratification. Do you salivate at the thought of a 3 + GHz PC with all the bells and whistles and a cable internet connection? Then you my friend should get to know Saint Expedite. He is known for quick action. When you need help and you need it now, He is the saint you want in your corner. so here he is, for your daily devotions. amen!( he squashes a crow because in latin it says cras, cras!' which means ' tomorrow! tomorrow!' Expie( as his mates call 'im) does things NOW!

Heroes:

I still believe in heroes. you have to. Its like believing in God - maybe I'm wrong if I do, but i prefer to have a really strong code to live by, and believe that there are better things around us to help us when we're down or weak, than not to believe in anything at all. I believe in the basic goodness of people, so my heroes aren't big flashy politicians or that - they're people I know from everyday life, because you know what they have to over come to be the individuals you know and love so much. They're my heroes mostly.Friends and family, those who have proved to be true and loyal.but apart from the sincere stuff.. here's the rest! Joan of arc- there was a girl who could handle a horse and keep the faith. Dolly parton, she's one of the coolest people on earth Elsa Schiaparelli, for all the obvious reasons! Lenin! Churchill, not for his anti irish thing, but he knew how to rise to an utterly impossible challenge and see it through. Claude Raines, Errol Flynn, Frank Miller, Joss Whedon,Rita hayworth, Louis McNeice, CS Llewis, Tolkien, TS Ellliott, John Garfield( I do like my film noires!).. I'd be a gibbering idiot if I ever met any of them, but considering at least 50% are dead.... whew!!* draws hand over brow*! Prince - Acoustic
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My Blog

The Vinyl Solution?

We actually get to sit and chill and chitter on a Sunday in our house. The only day of the week now wecan, due to commitments elsewhere for all of us.So, its luxury to sit on the stoups on a warm day...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:41:00 PST

Radio Update

 Righty-ho....    there's a new show  up on  www.nocelticboundaries.co.uk/NinthWaveAndCounting If  you click on audio links  to the  left side, and  ...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:03:00 PST

Higher ground..........

Ghostbusters 2 had it right, y'see. The bit with the statue of Liberty and the battle against the pink goo of negativity. Let me explain&( oh god, its going to be one of those blogs- brace yourself ...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Sat, 24 May 2008 01:09:00 PST

ParkLife

Today was such a beautiful day I couldn't stop walking places. It started with a sharp green breeze whisking off the hills, and a whole heap of morning sunshine turning the air into citrus and gold. ...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:08:00 PST

The Age Of Miracles

I'm going to tell you a story. It's a story I find it hard to understand. Beautiful, yes, slightly eerie, but real, nonetheless. I have the item in my handbag to prove it happened, otherwise, I think...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Fri, 09 May 2008 07:40:00 PST

Sakura Springtime

I wish I could write you pretend stories; tales of elves and dragons and warrior gods. When , ages ago, I tried to make stories like that up for my kids, with a collection of beanie baby and pokemon ...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:21:00 PST

Radio Daze...

    please note- this blog is my opinion and not reflective of any show or enterprise which i may be involved with - this is purely rena  shooting off  from the hip as an individu...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:22:00 PST

Ways to catch our show.. NCB 33 details in this...

NCB 33 is now ready and on my webpage's mp3 player, and rip roaring for your delectation. It will, of course be on other places, like Kinross, Celtic radio. Net , Feile Fm and various places, but bec...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:07:00 PST

For the love of the game

Another day of mayhem in the House of Many Stringed Things. I have dreams of how other people live; how I used to live - calm, organised, and graciously. Not galloping from phone to door to phone, to...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:59:00 PST

The Great Irish Pub- an endangered species.

Greece gave the world democracy. Yaortapitta too, of course, but lets not go into my personal fetishes. Italy gave us good roads and dictators and Prada. But Ireland gave the world the Great Irish Pu...
Posted by Nancy Hartigan on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:04:00 PST