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Una

strictly no crowd surfing or moshing

About Me

I like dvd’s, seeing people fall over, great food and old people who cycle bikes. I’m very not fond of stickers, people who beep their horns unnecessarily, the three minutes that it takes to actually leave the bed and dirty finger nails. Me and my best friend have a habit of getting over excited about choosing things, like what desserts we can get or what colour tights to wear. I love a bit a messin'. I can’t dance, but I like to these days. Me and my brother once stayed on the piss for 68 hours. It was amazing. I love drinking pints and playing pool, I'm pretty good for a girl. For my birthday this year we spent the entire day dressed in giant babygrows drinking bottles of champagne, eating sushi and watching grey's anatomy in bed. It was perfect. I had my birthday party in my parents house the week before, it started at 3pm and there was a bouncing castle. Seeing my parents not able to bounce on it because they were laughing too hard was my favourite moment this year. I don't like that people aren't surprised by how young i am anymore. I love nerds, old style not new age trendy ones. I want my face to be infallibly carved with laughter lines when i'm old and grey, as a record of the deadly buzz i've had in life. ..
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My Interests

drinking tea, getting stuff done, weekend benders, beaches at night time, listening to music on big headphones, hats, hanging out in my room, finding new music, finding money on the ground, good conversations, my amigos, nice food, my family, nice photos, putting on good gigs, being on tour, my mam's hands, having parties, nice wine, being comfy, my dad's stew, thinking about stuff, not thinking about stuff.

I'd like to meet:

the fox that played robin hood/captain james hook/gene wilder/myself when i was 9/my dad when he was 9/nelson mandela/peter pan/atreyu/falcor from never ending story/a pirate/bruce springsteen

Music:

bon iver, bruce springsteen, burt bacharach, m.ward, arthur russell, talking heads, feist, the boy least likely to, saul williams, the beta band, fats domino, joanna newsom, ivor cutler, perry como, james brown, anthony, rhob cunningham, sigur ros, leonard cohen (sometimes), waits, dylan... i like anything that makes a nice noise... especially liser hannigan.

Movies:

my life as a dog, mad hot ballroom, me you and everyone we know, the squid and the whale, finding neverland, anchorman, oldschool, 25th hour, guys and dolls or anything with marlon brando in it... let's be honest, rear window, musicals (love 'em), zatoichi, y tu mama tambien, the science of sleep, eternal sunshine...

Television:

don't really have a tv. just one for a dvd player. it just has rte on it... it's not that i'm high-brow, i'm not even sure that's how you spell high-brow. i'm just easily swayed into laziness at times.

Books:

peter pan, danny the champion of the world, goodnight mister tom, the velveteen rabbit. love kids books. have loved grown up books like, the history of love by nicole krauss, grab on to me tightly as if i knew the way by bryan charles, letter to a christian nation by sam harris, charles bukowski, ivor cutler poetry books, timbuktu by paul auster, never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, gene wilders last autobiography was brilliant, the book of lost things by john connolly.

Heroes:

my mam and peter pan

My Blog

The blog formerly known as This Week

I wrote this blog last week. It was called This Week. However, I do not wish to deceive the growing 3 and a half people who happen upon my blog ramblings, so now it has been renamed. Since the curre...
Posted by Una on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:17:00 PST

friend cull

In an ongoing attempt to put off the long list of tasks that have awaited me since Thursday I decided to do a friend cull today& frankly, 856 friends was just too many and to be honest, I'm not sure a...
Posted by Una on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:41:00 PST

Mo Laethanta Saoire

When we were kids on the first day of school after the summer, wed all run in to the classroom with our new pencil cases and fresh copy books and massive school bags on our tiny 9 year old backs and ...
Posted by Una on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:28:00 PST

this summer i went swimming. this summer i might have drowned.

but i held my breath and kicked my feet and i moved my arms around.
Posted by Una on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:09:00 PST

guilt guilt go away come again another day.

i got talking to this fella who hangs out off grafton street reading books with a paper cup in front of him today. he was reading a book that i really like, 'never let me go', so i just said i liked i...
Posted by Una on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:15:00 PST

His Dark Materials I

His Dark Materials, Northern Lights.my favourite extract from book one of the trilogy... (I get ye Lyra... and I'd like my daemon to be a lion, but I suspect it's a poodle)Her friend Able-Seaman was n...
Posted by Una on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

america’s war based economy


Posted by Una on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:22:00 PST

The Book Of Lost Things

'deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life'-Friedrich Schiller (1979-1805)'Everything you can imagine is real'-Pablo Picasso (1881-1...
Posted by Una on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:32:00 PST

kinda takes the pressure off....

don't feel stressed!.... is doesn't matter a toss, see? The Size Of Our World           ...
Posted by Una on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:36:00 PST

why can’t i own a canadian?

Why Can't I Own a Canadian? October 2002 Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant...
Posted by Una on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:27:00 PST