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Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool \u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Eand shootin' some b-ball outside of the school. Not to mention conversations that went \"No way\" \"Way\" \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\"No way!\" \"Way!\" \"NO WAY!\" \"WAY!\". Good times. A last minute text from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/notactualsizeblog.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EThe Incredible Mulq\u003C\/a\u003E yesterday and a resolve to brave the hurricane-force wind resulted in the pair of us being flung into a shinier, more disco nineties, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bitcheswithwolves\"\u003EBitches With Wolves\u003C\/a\u003E as they tore up Whelan's last night in their own glittery way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TUwC5hoPSbI\/AAAAAAAABME\/oElFoI_822U\/s1600\/BWW.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TUwC5hoPSbI\/AAAAAAAABME\/oElFoI_822U\/s400\/BWW.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569830026453404082\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EQuote and photo from \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.ie\/\"\u003EState\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crowd, as expected, was hipster central. Haircut o'clock, you could say and ticking off the appearance of dickie bows \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(check)\u003C\/span\u003E, oversized glasses \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(check)\u003C\/span\u003E and ridiculous quiffs \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(check)\u003C\/span\u003E made for a fun game of hipster bingo. And that was just the boys. The girls were backcombed, red-lipped and too pretty to say sorry when they walloped into you. \"The cast of \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EFade Street\u003C\/span\u003E are probably here\" sneered I. Moments later, frontman, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003EHead Bitch\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E and \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003Ehuman disco ball\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E James pulled a girl onstage to dance along to \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EYou Can't Piss To This\u003C\/span\u003E, exclaiming \"Jaysus! It's yer wan from \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EFade Street\u003C\/span\u003E!\". Having only seen half of one episode I still can't confirm if that was actually the case, and neither could The Incredible Mulq.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking fun of cool kids aside, the gig itself was brilliant fun too. Copious changes of sparkly costume, \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ESolitary Brother\u003C\/span\u003E morphing into \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EPapa Was A Rolling Stone\u003C\/span\u003E, a dynamite Dolly Parton-inspired acoustic version of their disco \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003Eaural \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003Eassault \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EBroken Hearts\u003C\/span\u003E and quips like \"There's no we in Madonna\" made for an unquestionably entertaining experience. Demented, supremely danceable electro-pop. Next time we're bringing the boys to hold our coats so we can go nuts on the dancefloor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh, and Brendan Courtney was there too. Mega.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fshiny-shiny-disco-balls.html\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;show_faces=false\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1080570576416100325\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/shiny-shiny-disco-balls.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/1080570576416100325"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/1080570576416100325"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/shiny-shiny-disco-balls.html","title":"Shiny Shiny Disco Balls"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TUwC5hoPSbI\/AAAAAAAABME\/oElFoI_822U\/s72-c\/BWW.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-5330871562304256881"},"published":{"$t":"2010-11-24T14:02:00.007+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-04T16:17:05.383+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boys"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Comedy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Music"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Bear"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One Track Lover"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TO0tFUhkUzI\/AAAAAAAABAY\/em7DjJ9Hlo4\/s1600\/matt.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TO0tFUhkUzI\/AAAAAAAABAY\/em7DjJ9Hlo4\/s400\/matt.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543136285795046194\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven my previous \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/bainbridge-i-so-would.html\"\u003Eenthusiasm\u003C\/a\u003E about the fantastic Matt Berry on this blog, it was safe to say that I was really rather excited about seeing him live in Crawdaddy last Saturday. Or as Billy Flag put it, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsriu6a_ukw\"\u003ECrawFAAAATHERRR!\u003C\/a\u003E Nice. The gig itself was great fun, in all its folky, funky weirdness and the man himself was sound enough to hang around afterwards to allow the audience members to swarm around him for photos, signings and what have you. The Bear bought the 7\" vinyl single above, and had it signed. It now brings his record collection to a grand total of two. While our means of actually playing a vinyl record of any description remains at zero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TO0vTbfHGJI\/AAAAAAAABAg\/AXJAODlEL10\/s1600\/MattBerry-1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TO0vTbfHGJI\/AAAAAAAABAg\/AXJAODlEL10\/s400\/MattBerry-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543138727205214354\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaturally, the queue for a photo with Mr. Matt included \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/notactualsizeblog.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EThe Incredible Mulq\u003C\/a\u003E and myself, giggling nervously with no clue whatsoever as to what we were going to say when our turn came. When it did and Mulq's iPhone didn't work properly, meaning she had to explain to the girl taking the picture what to do, I was standing there thinking \"BALLS! I have to say something now before this gets ridiculous and awkward\" which resulted in something along the lines of:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EMe:\u003C\/span\u003E Awesome gig...it was really....eh...awesome! (How smart do I sound right now.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMatt:\u003C\/span\u003E Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Did you think it was going to be a stand-up gig?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMe:\u003C\/span\u003E No! I have Opium and Witchazel (his albums, nothing drug-related, I assure you) at home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMatt\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(impressed)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Really!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt this point our picture was taken and I figured I should quit while I was ahead before I made a complete fool of myself, so we thanked him and skittered off back to our respective boyfriends, delighted that we managed to get a decent photo. Deadly. It was up there with the time Russell Brand told me I had nice boobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fredlemonade.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fone-track-lover.html\u0026amp;layout=standard\u0026amp;show_faces=true\u0026amp;width=450\u0026amp;action=like\u0026amp;colorscheme=light\u0026amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5330871562304256881\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/one-track-lover.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5330871562304256881"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5330871562304256881"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/one-track-lover.html","title":"One Track Lover"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/TO0tFUhkUzI\/AAAAAAAABAY\/em7DjJ9Hlo4\/s72-c\/matt.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-5028709829099820594"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-26T18:40:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-05-26T19:45:52.920+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boys"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Graffiti Boy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_1dDd8oo-I\/AAAAAAAAAws\/oJnR4UIbvaE\/s1600\/48sheet-desk.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 199px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_1dDd8oo-I\/AAAAAAAAAws\/oJnR4UIbvaE\/s400\/48sheet-desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475635036112331746\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOld Man FM, or 4FM as it's also known have this as one of their billboard ads of late. When I saw it, it put me in mind of how I met my first boyfriend. I was in Sixth Year and there was a supervised study that used to run for Leaving Cert students a few evenings a week after school. Everyone had a designated place to sit in the study hall, which used to have these huge tables that around four people would sit at. They were metal tables painted grey and as such were really easy to doodle and write on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne evening I was sat at my table and instead of doing homework, I proceeded to draw the band logos for the likes of Slayer, Pantera, The Offspring, Machine Head, Nirvana etc etc. I was something of a metalhead back then and a rubbish goth, seeing as I was way too smiley to really pull the whole thing off. Anyway, I had built up quite a little gallery on this table over a few weeks and one day I noticed that someone else had been adding to my doodle collection. Then some other person scrawled about how crap they thought all those bands were across MY heavy metal table, the cheeky fuck. So I proceeded to slag them off, via more scrawling and Mystery Doodler Friend wrote something like \"Stick it to the scobe!\" in agreement with me. (It was a bit like blogging using a table and a pen, now that I think of it.) So somehow we ended up having little conversations, all through the medium of this mild act of vandalism, until he wrote his email address down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter that, we exchanged emails and spoke on MSN Messenger and in the meantime I had figured out who he was. It wasn't too difficult seeing as there weren't many people in my school who wore \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kaliteliresimler.com\/data\/media\/1447\/coal.jpg\"\u003ECoal Chamber\u003C\/a\u003E t-shirts to PE and were into that type of music in general. Eventually we started talking in real life and it pretty much went from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately he turned out to be a controlling, jealous, possessive douchebag, and after a year and a half we called it quits. One messy breakup and five years later, I get an email from he who was later to became the Bear through a dating site I had joined. Now it's an altogether different story, seeing as he's just brilliant, so it's a much better conclusion this time around.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt also appears that I'm incapable of initiating relationships in real life. Fuck it, at least I don't need to now. YEAH."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5028709829099820594\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/graffiti-boy.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5028709829099820594"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/5028709829099820594"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/graffiti-boy.html","title":"Graffiti Boy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_1dDd8oo-I\/AAAAAAAAAws\/oJnR4UIbvaE\/s72-c\/48sheet-desk.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-6760146154031814094"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-24T20:15:00.007+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-03T12:27:01.872+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boys"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Comedy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Llama Girl and the DOD"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Oh my. A weekend of sitting out in the sunshine and turning slightly pink, only eating things that came off the barbecue, copious amounts of Bulmers with ice and partaking in four-player MarioKart Wii till the small hours of the morning. (My swearing abilities increase tenfold when I'm having a particularly bad race. Or when someone picks Yoshi before I get a chance to.) All of which took place back home home (on the range, like), where there's a deck to sit out on and alpacas to befriend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_riA_TQz_I\/AAAAAAAAAwk\/g2JaiHxoIVg\/s1600\/alpacas.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 248px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_riA_TQz_I\/AAAAAAAAAwk\/g2JaiHxoIVg\/s400\/alpacas.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474936803642363890\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003EBehold a selection of said alpacas\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs luck would have it, David O'Doherty was doing a gig a mere twenty minutes away from my house on Sunday night. I had discovered this fact during my spell of inconsolable jealousy when he was supporting Flight of the Conchords at the Olympia and I was woefully ticketless. As such, I became determined to at least see \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Ehim\u003C\/span\u003E live. Especially since the last time was Electric Picnic in 2008 and this just would not do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_rVgtdubCI\/AAAAAAAAAwc\/3VK8eJGOVrI\/s1600\/david-odoherty1.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_rVgtdubCI\/AAAAAAAAAwc\/3VK8eJGOVrI\/s400\/david-odoherty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474923054959062050\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe great thing about the venue was that it was so small he barely needed a microphone, and our seats were about two feet away from the side of the stage, to the extent that when he thanked the crowd for coming he actually just said it to me seeing as I was the closest one, as he put it. The gig itself was a minimum of eight kinds of deadly, the first half mostly featured his reasons for being late (an untrustworthy and seemingly quite pervy Sat Nav was to blame) and in the second half the tiny Yamaha keyboard was unleashed. During the course of the gig, he ended up asking me and the Bear what we'd been up to that day, which led to about ten minutes of David asking me questions about alpacas. I was subsequently referred to as Llama Girl, and he even worked them into one of his songs. Which was \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Eexactly\u003C\/span\u003E as fucking deadly as it sounds."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6760146154031814094\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/llama-girl-and-dod.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6760146154031814094"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/6760146154031814094"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/llama-girl-and-dod.html","title":"Llama Girl and the DOD"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_riA_TQz_I\/AAAAAAAAAwk\/g2JaiHxoIVg\/s72-c\/alpacas.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-9002778476839898614"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-20T18:51:00.010+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-12-20T16:08:34.021+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boys"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Films"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vidjoe"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Weapons of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_V9KFjSJWI\/AAAAAAAAAwU\/UK2ED5dlAZU\/s1600\/expendables_ver3_xlg.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_V9KFjSJWI\/AAAAAAAAAwU\/UK2ED5dlAZU\/s400\/expendables_ver3_xlg.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473418534381036898\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EImagine if He-Man, Rambo, The Transporter, John McClane, The Terminator, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/steynian.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/machete02.jpg\"\u003EMachete\u003C\/a\u003E, STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN and oh, I don't know...Jet Li were all in a film together, running around blowing shit up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell imagine no more! \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Expendables\u003C\/span\u003E is a ridiculous, overblown, forget-storyline-let's-just-take-out-some-bad-guys film coming out in August and it looks AMAZING. The trailer doesn't really tell you anything but that matters not! What DOES matter is that Arnie, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis are in a crazy ass movie together with every other action hero from the last oh, twenty years. Apart from Jean Claude Van Damme (who was offered a role but he turned it down claiming that there was no substance in the  character. Substance? I forgot that JCVD was one of the most respected actors of our time), Wesley Snipes (couldn't do it since he's busy being in jail for tax evasion or somesuch) and Steven Seagal (didn't get on with one of the producers). All they need is MacGyver, but some people might say he's not actually a real person. I hate those people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KdrGbmnoHME\u0026hl=en_GB\u0026fs=1\u0026\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KdrGbmnoHME\u0026hl=en_GB\u0026fs=1\u0026\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey've got hilarious names like Lee Christmas, Dan Paine, Toll Road, Hale Caesar and Tool. Brilliant. They're like man versions of Bond Girl names. It's a shame that Wesley Snipes couldn't do it though. I'd love to see if the script for this could ever top his classic line from \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EPassenger 57\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\"Always bet on black.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESavage."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9002778476839898614\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/weapons-of-mass-destruction.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/9002778476839898614"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/9002778476839898614"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/weapons-of-mass-destruction.html","title":"Weapons of Mass Destruction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S_V9KFjSJWI\/AAAAAAAAAwU\/UK2ED5dlAZU\/s72-c\/expendables_ver3_xlg.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970712784003281497.post-2319167948079051590"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-08T14:30:00.007+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-01-03T12:27:01.873+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boys"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Films"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Weird"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hey Roomie!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-V3PAnnUiI\/AAAAAAAAAuM\/cKuVLWnuaaM\/s1600\/ROOM.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-V3PAnnUiI\/AAAAAAAAAuM\/cKuVLWnuaaM\/s400\/ROOM.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468908422259233314\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003ECheck out the steely alien gaze of Tommy Wiseau (middle). There can be only one.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've previously blogged about the cinematic wonder that is \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Room\u003C\/span\u003E over on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.culch.ie\/2010\/03\/18\/the-room-soundcheck-2\/\"\u003ECulch.ie\u003C\/a\u003E and attended a SoundCheck screening back in March. I also happened to mention a screening that would take place in May which one of the cast members, Greg Sestero (Mark), would be at. That fortuitous and magical evening has been and gone and last Thursday night was one of the most surreal and hilarious experiences I've had in quite a long time. For the uninitiated, The Room is the demented masterpiece of Tommy Wiseau, the actor\/director\/producer\/writer of this film, he's something like the polar opposite of Orson Welles, with \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe Room\u003C\/span\u003E often referred to as \"the \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ECitizen Kane\u003C\/span\u003E of bad movies\". That should have been bad in capital letters, actually. And that wouldn't even begin to cover how terrible it is. Here's the trailer, just to give you a feel for the glorious mess that it is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yCj8sPCWfUw\u0026amp;hl=en_GB\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yCj8sPCWfUw\u0026amp;hl=en_GB\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EANYWAY.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith myself and the Bear that night, among lovely others were two thirds of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedeadflags\"\u003EThe Dead Flags\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#%21\/eleventyfour?ref=ts\"\u003EEleventyFour\u003C\/a\u003E (who got recognised on the night as \"that girl from the TV licence ad\"), and B (to whom we are eternally grateful for introducing us to The Room). Now, Eleventy and one of the Flags had never seen the film before and honestly, it was JUST as entertaining to watch their expressions of horror and bewilderment as it was to watch the screen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe thing with these screenings is that there's a lot of audience participation\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E, \u003C\/span\u003Emuch like\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"main\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"visibility: visible;\" id=\"search\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ERocky Horror\u003C\/span\u003E. One of the biggest things, along with roaring general abuse at the characters, is to shout 'SPOOONS!\" and fire plastic spoons at the screen whenever the weird framed pictures of, you guessed it, spoons, dotted around the apartment set come into view. This was the scene after the movie was finished:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-VwUNjjNxI\/AAAAAAAAAt8\/6RyhbsZ14lM\/s1600\/spoons.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-VwUNjjNxI\/AAAAAAAAAt8\/6RyhbsZ14lM\/s400\/spoons.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468900815049799442\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ESpoons ahoy!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ECarnage o'clock. After the screening and before the Q\u0026amp;A with the actually-great-craic Greg Sestero, there was a competition for a signed tshirt, where contestants has to roar the famous(ish) \"YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA!\" line, which can be seen in the trailer. At the time of calling for contestants, I found myself herded onstage by B and the Bear and had to get the biggest cheer from the crowd. And guess what? I only went and fecking well won. GO ME.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Q\u0026amp;A, Greg came off as an absolute legend, well able to take the piss out of himself and the film, which was good seeing as many questions were along the lines of :\"what were you \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Ethinking?\u003C\/span\u003E\". So seeing as my obsession with The Room shows no signs of abating, I went and got my photo with him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-V2yn-nHtI\/AAAAAAAAAuE\/6IvkeMveEuM\/s1600\/greg.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 212px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-V2yn-nHtI\/AAAAAAAAAuE\/6IvkeMveEuM\/s400\/greg.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468907934608465618\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EYEAH.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, to summarise: \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGO SEE THE ROOM AT SOUNDCHECK BECAUSE IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. \u003C\/span\u003EThey screen it once a month so get thineself over to their \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#%21\/pages\/Dublin\/Oh-hi-THE-ROOM-at-SoundCheck\/284013367223?ref=ts\"\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E page to check when it's on again. Because words cannot describe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2319167948079051590\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hey-roomie.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/2319167948079051590"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7970712784003281497\/posts\/default\/2319167948079051590"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/redlemonade.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hey-roomie.html","title":"Hey Roomie!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Kitty Catastrophe"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08783550352881766193"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-y1G0SXlwykI\/U-DwTouCmwI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/M3NH_VZo0T4\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qVUWkJbYrBM\/S-V3PAnnUiI\/AAAAAAAAAuM\/cKuVLWnuaaM\/s72-c\/ROOM.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});