Louise McSharry

At this point, I’m sure you’re familiar with the story of Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice.  If not, have a look at this:

Since the video of him went viral, he appears to have been inundated with offers of work.  I’m a big believer in second chances, so I’m glad for him.  This is one of the first examples of his new work that has been released:

G’WAN TED.

Today is Jermaine Clement’s birthday.  Happy Birthday Jermaine, you have given me more pleasure than you will ever know.

(via Dlisted)

Over Christmas, someone asked me who my dream celebrity crush was as part of a kind of would you rather game.  I honestly didn’t know what to say, the only person I could think of was Rihanna (as you know she has been giving me special feelings recently).  However, after seeing the trailer for “Blue Valentine”, I now know that my dream celebrity crush is Ryan Gosling.  I can’t believe I forgot about him.

How lovely is he?

This is AMAZING.  AAAAAAAAAMAZING.

And can I just say – Whitney Houston could so have a hit with a reissue of “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” with that beat underneath.

Whilst browsing the sale on ASOS last week, I found this exquisite piece and feel it is essential that I share it with you.  It’s gorgeous from the front.

But PERFECTION from the back.

Hoo dawgy…he won’t be able to resist you in that.

The fact that I saw this featured in a David Walliams programme shown over Christmas highlighting embarrassing TV moments is a little tragic, but I am grateful to have been made aware of it all the same.

RAPE IS WRONG.  It is.  But so is this video and rap song.

It’s defo movie season, between now and the Oscars there are loads of good un’s coming out and I plan on seeing them all.  Thus, I’ve been to the cinema 4 times in the last week.

I started with “Love and Other Drugs”, which I dragged my poor suffering boyfriend to.  A mutual friend of ours had said he liked it, so I thought it would be a good romcom to force the other half to attend.  I was wrong.  In it’s attempt to be smarter than your average romcom I think it lost a lot of it’s charm.  As a comedy I think it’s weak, I may have laughed twice.  It certainly wasn’t for me.  (However, it wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t mention here that despite my best efforts, I am always irritated by Anne Hathaway and therefore may be somewhat biased).

After making Boyfriend go to LAOD, I couldn’t say no when he wanted to go to see “The Way Back”.  All I knew about it was that it had Colin Farrell and Siaoirse Ronan in it, and that apparently they had gotten Ed Harris into Father Ted during filming.  It was ok.  It starts out in a Siberian prison and follows a group of men on their challenging mission to escape and surivive the walk through Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet.  The acting was brilliant, but not a whole lot happens, (I fell asleep for 20 minutes, and missed nothing).

Next, I went to see “Catfish” in the IFI.  It is brilliant.  So cringey, so enthralling, and so tragic at times.  I highly recommend it.  There are some questions flying around about how real it is, but I think those questions always come up when a documentary is this striking.

And finally, “The King’s Speech”.  I went to see this last night.  It, is, BRILLIANT.  The cast is amazing, each role is perfectly performed.  (Apologies to anyone who was sitting near me and suffered my excited squeal when I realized that Princess Margaret was played by Karen from Outnumbered…total highlight.)  I can’t recommend it enough.  I would like it if every single person in and around the film got an award.

I’m currently DYING for the Black Swan and trying desperately to resist watching a screener.  It’ll be worth it to see it in the cinema I think.

I’ll be posting more about movies as the next few weeks go by, I’d love to hear your thoughts on anything you’ve seen recently, maybe you disagree with my views?

 

Amnesty International have launched a new campaign with an aim to end prejudice towards people suffering from depression.  This campaign is so important.  Having witnessed depression first hand in friends, and sadly the prejudiced attitudes around them, I advise everyone to watch this video, share this video, and learn a little about mental health issues.  They effect all types of people, from all walks of life, and it’s important that people remember that just because they can’t comprehend something doesn’t mean it’s not real.

The Christmas holidays are well and truly over so I am back here with renewed commitment.  And a renewed appreciation for Mary Poppins amongst other things.

Since I haven’t posted for a while, please bear with me if I am attempting to alert you to things you’ve already seen.  I like to be on the ball but there are certain things it is just ESSENTIAL that you do not miss.

I’ll start with an exciting development in my life.  In around July of last year, I moved from Galway to Dublin.  As I hadn’t yet found accomodation I was staying with my parents for a while, and space is at a premium in their house (I mean, my sisters only have 2 rooms each!  Poor things…but that’s a discussion for another day).  As a result, my aunt offered to let me move my non-essentials into her attic until I found a new gaf.  I took advantage of the situation and moved everything other than my clothes, laptop  and toiletries in.  I moved into a new place on September 1.  I got my stuff back last Monday.

Procrastination is a big part of my life.

Unpacking was a nightmare, but it is nice to have all my stuff back.  My Winter duvet in particular is appreciated.  The reason I’m bringing this up however, has little to do with practicalities and everything to do with the wonder of hoarding.  What I am about to show you I have held on to for 14 years, and am immeasurably grateful for that fact.

Ready?  Here we go.

Yep.  Yep.  That’s right.  A full set of Spice Girls Chupa Chups.  I know, try to contain your jealousy, which is completely understandable by the way.  These are the most awesome things I own, and I will never ever give them up.  The feelings Rick Astley had for whoever he was singing to are nothing compared to how I feel about these babies.

BIG LOVE. x