Living colour shaped vinyl.

Above big bang they have extended into vinyl+books,what an extention.
Its like every charity shop in belfast dumped its best stuff into awesome shelves. Saw this shaped vinyl but vinyl buying is on hold before we move.

First Barrys adventure of the year

Its that time of the year when I grab my jar of saved up 2p's and head to 'the rush'. Always have a go on the 2p machines and as you can see its rather hard to win at Barrys. I came home empty handed but bags of emotional damage from the ghost ride. Over the past three years it has not seen much love and that is begining to show. Mostly due to the lights being left on during the last quarter of the ride. The things I saw would keep a health and safety officer up all night. Do not let this put you off Irelands largest amusements(not sure if thats true). Let the chavs sniffing glue,the grumpy staff and smell of vomit do that instead.

Catfish (2010) - A view

Contains spoilers. If you havent seen this film go watch it if yes continue reading.

Its a gewd bit ironic how I came to watch this film. I was trying to figure out who a person in someones profile pic on facebook was and went into their profile. They had a few films that I thought, they are pretty gewd and then they had Catfish so I thought this must be gewd too.
So I watched it the other night and it blew my mind. This year I have seen a number of great documentaries but nothing comes close to this. I was inspired, freaked out, intrigued, scared, excited and most of all gripped the whole way through.

I had watched a trailer and it seemed like the story to me was about a fella who was in a relationship with a girl online.....started watching it and he is making friends with an 8 year old girl, yeah I did start getting worried and the OH started giving me looks. *please dont let it be one of those films* I was worried as I had made her watch Capturing The Friedmans, on the premise it was about the Number 1 New York children's entertainer(which it is might I add). Anyway it soon transpires that this eight year old painter Abby who has been sending our lead Nev painting of his photography has a nineteen year old sister Megan. This soon blossoms into an relationship via that wonderful site Facebook.

The films really sucks you into the relationship and it gets rather intrusive of it and you at times feel a little awkward. This soon changes over a Tennessee stud. What really intrigued and hooked me in was the fact that this whole documentary is so heavily based on a great story. I really enjoyed the way the whole thing was filmed and as you can see it was not as if they had great equipment, merely a great story. This whole interaction between camera men and actor within the doc brings a whole new dimension that I feel extends the excitement and nervous anticipation of the meet up. I loved that the camera men are just as freaked out if not more in some places than Nev.

The climax to the film with the meeting of Angela is so weird. The bizarre ending of the painting along with a discussion on how she lied and tricked him is amazing and just blew my mind.

If you havent yet head on over to http://www.iamrogue.com/catfish and click on "enter nev's world" really interesting perspective with a lot more features and photos and actual conversation on it. Bizarre.

It has to be one of my favourite documentaries in the last while and have to give it 5/5.

Catfish (2010) - A view

Contains spoilers. If you havent seen this film go watch it if yes continue reading.

Its a gewd bit ironic how I came to watch this film. I was trying to figure out who a person in someones profile pic on facebook was and went into their profile. They had a few films that I thought, they are pretty gewd and then they had Catfish so I thought this must be gewd too.
So I watched it the other night and it blew my mind. This year I have seen a number of great documentaries but nothing comes close to this. I was inspired, freaked out, intrigued, scared, excited and most of all gripped the whole way through.

I had watched a trailer and it seemed like the story to me was about a fella who was in a relationship with a girl online.....started watching it and he is making friends with an 8 year old girl, yeah I did start getting worried and the OH started giving me looks. *please dont let it be one of those films* I was worried as I had made her watch Capturing The Friedmans, on the premise it was about the Number 1 New York children's entertainer(which it is might I add). Anyway it soon transpires that this eight year old painter Abby who has been sending our lead Nev painting of his photography has a nineteen year old sister Megan. This soon blossoms into an relationship via that wonderful site Facebook.

The films really sucks you into the relationship and it gets rather intrusive of it and you at times feel a little awkward. This soon changes over a Tennessee stud. What really intrigued and hooked me in was the fact that this whole documentary is so heavily based on a great story. I really enjoyed the way the whole thing was filmed and as you can see it was not as if they had great equipment, merely a great story. This whole interaction between camera men and actor within the doc brings a whole new dimension that I feel extends the excitement and nervous anticipation of the meet up. I loved that the camera men are just as freaked out if not more in some places than Nev.

The climax to the film with the meeting of Angela is so weird. The bizarre ending of the painting along with a discussion on how she lied and tricked him is amazing and just blew my mind.

If you havent yet head on over to http://www.iamrogue.com/catfish and click on "enter nev's world" really interesting perspective with a lot more features and photos and actual conversation on it. Bizarre.

It has to be one of my favourite documentaries in the last while and have to give it 5/5.

Singles (1992) - A view

Usually I ramble on about a film "blah blah blah" this about it put some photos up and make a snarky and pretentious comment or two and then give the film a rating. This time there is no need when there is a song that can so beautifully sum up this film. 

Spotify(full song)

Last Fm(30 Secs)

Singles (1992) - A view

Usually I ramble on about a film "blah blah blah" this about it put some photos up and make a snarky and pretentious comment or two and then give the film a rating. This time there is no need when there is a song that can so beautifully sum up this film. 

Spotify(full song)

Last Fm(30 Secs)

#nowplaying mewithoutYou - it's all crazy ! It's all false ! It's all a dream ! It's alright

This album is a gewd bit different to previous albums and not a favourite among many. I think its still a beautiful gem. Some great tunes in mwY's typical a little bit deeper meaning style and well worth a spin on todays glorious sun baked day.

Dancer in the Dark (2000) - A view

Dancer In the Dark

Decided to watch this after having it recommended to me by a number of people, always with the tagline of 'its a bit weird'. I think this sums it up pretty perfect. Great simple plot that drags you in with a real emotional pull without over doing it, beautiful hand held camera work to bring you into the intensity of the scenes and then the use of multi camera on the singing scenes (Oh yeah thats right its a musical).

Weird camera angles during singing scenes.

Have to admit I am not a big fan of musicals and it is hard to get great acting and great singing you usually are stuck with one or the other (aka Once). I think Björk really pulls it off in this though. Although some of the songs aren't going to be sung in the shower some dark morning in November they are suitable and poignant for the film.

Björk doing her thing.

I was pretty taken a back by the final scene which made me like the film even more due to the fact it is really a critique of musicals. I think this is added on to by the plot of the drama society doing 'The Sound of Music'. Overall great film, not for everyone but well worth a watch. A high 4* on the 5* scale. I feel that perhaps the production quality could have been a little bit better in places but with a rumoured £12million budget I expected better.

Dancer in the Dark (2000) - A view

Dancer In the Dark 

Decided to watch this after having it recommended to me by a number of people, always with the tagline of 'its a bit weird'. I think this sums it up pretty perfect. Great simple plot that drags you in with a real emotional pull without over doing it, beautiful hand held camera work to bring you into the intensity of the scenes and then the use of multi camera on the singing scenes (Oh yeah thats right its a musical).

Weird camera angles during singing scenes.

Have to admit I am not a big fan of musicals and it is hard to get great acting and great singing you usually are stuck with one or the other (aka Once). I think Björk really pulls it off in this though. Although some of the songs aren't going to be sung in the shower some dark morning in November they are suitable and poignant for the film.

Björk doing her thing.

I was pretty taken a back by the final scene which made me like the film even more due to the fact it is really a critique of musicals. I think this is added on to by the plot of the drama society doing 'The Sound of Music'. Overall great film, not for everyone but well worth a watch. A high 4* on the 5* scale. I feel that perhaps the production quality could have been a little bit better in places but with a rumoured £12million budget I expected better.

The Social Network - A view

This came with many a gewd review but wasnt expecting much. You shant be shocked when I switched it off after 20minutes,what a boring film. Who ever thought that would make for an interesting story probably came up with 'Dry, the paint and wall story'. 0/5 for attempting to glamorize geeks and a further -5000/5 for creating an evil empire.

The Social Network - A view

This came with many a gewd review but wasnt expecting much. You shant be shocked when I switched it off after 20minutes,what a boring film. Who ever thought that would make for an interesting story probably came up with 'Dry, the paint and wall story'. 0/5 for attempting to glamorize geeks and a further -5000/5 for creating an evil empire.

Caution sign

Atlantic pool party. All welcome. Bring your own towel.

Wonderful intrigue

Got sucked into this image over in Flickr commons. Such a great image wish I could have been there. Would love to know all the little stories behind these characters.

Caution sign

Friendly people round these parts, may not expect it.

Happy Record Store Day #rsd11 #ttv

Here is a TTv shot of some vinyl, not in a record store but the next best thing, a charity shop.

Beautiful Retro Digitals

I know its silly these cameras are touching the 1k bar and far beyond on the money front but they are awesome looking. This Fuji FinePix X100 is a particular beauty.

This Leica is incredible looking but what the looks do for you the price surely will destroy. Take a gander anyway. The M9 is up into the 4k group at least but it looks gorgeous. Love the retro look of these.

Caution - Leg Crossing

Who designs these caution wet floor signs? They are so vague it beggers belief.

The Sound of Music (1965) - A view

Watched this the other night for the first time and I will now break it down simply rather than getting into the whole complexities of a complete lack of plot and the search for what must be the worlds greatest navy captain. Anyway so the intro is clearly taken from the nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Willing which sets the tone for this Scary Movie 2 style parodying film.

I thought I would put in the top rated comment on Triumph of the Willing video on Youtube.

My second conclusion can be broken down into one image and one quote as shown below.

This film drags, you could cut out at least 2hours and it would still make the same amount of sense to me. As a musical it just dosent reach the heights set on my musical scale by such greats as Grease 2 and it will never get there end of. I will give it a solid 2/5 for attempting rather successfully at parodying Sister act and some great scenery. Thats about it.

The Sound of Music (1965) - A view

Watched this the other night for the first time and I will now break it down simply rather than getting into the whole complexities of a complete lack of plot and the search for what must be the worlds greatest navy captain. Anyway so the intro is clearly taken from the nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Willing which sets the tone for this Scary Movie 2 style parodying film.

I thought I would put in the top rated comment on Triumph of the Willing video on Youtube.

My second conclusion can be broken down into one image and one quote as shown below.

This film drags, you could cut out at least 2hours and it would still make the same amount of sense to me. As a musical it just dosent reach the heights set on my musical scale by such greats as Grease 2 and it will never get there end of. I will give it a solid 2/5 for attempting rather successfully at parodying Sister act and some great scenery. Thats about it.

Summer is coming

Love the summer, not so much for the sun but what it brings. It currently has me walking across campus to try and get peace and quiet. This is easy enough for me. Three years in this place and I know it pretty well. The secret car park spaces, free printing and most valuable the best toilets. This being said today is a joke as are most days here, disorganised, unprepared, uninformative, unhelpful and creativity crushing its all going on.
But in the end I realised I love big brother...I mean University of Ulster.

@thehatter11 #wheresalice

Http://wheresalice.com

Ruby wax visits Mitsubishi Electric

'Let ruby give you a tour of Mitsubishi Electric and the benifits of joining the FX Plcs user club' a must buy!

About Last Night (1986) - A view

So I had it recommended to me by a certain birthday boy that About Last Night was a classic Rom-Com of the 80's. I decided to give it a gander and boy am I glad I did a wonderful roller coaster ride of excitement, love and fashion. The ride just stopped and I am already queing behind the thousands of people to get another thrill. Thats enough of the roller coaster metaphor I need to stamp a score on this film and nothing but 5*'s will do. Why you shout, how can this deserve such an acalade. Well I write these views so it goes by my scale so what I say goes end of and also here is a reason for every star in full picturetastic HD 3D. (may or may not contain picturtastic HD 3D images, read the label, never talk to strangers and don't do drugs. )

1) Christmas Jumperdress 

2) Some high top love

3) You could land a helicopter on those shoulder pads

4) It ain't even sunny out

5) Little Virgin Mary metaphor here, and who said Rom-Coms couldn't be deep.

About Last Night (1986) - A view

So I had it recommended to me by a certain birthday boy that About Last Night was a classic Rom-Com of the 80's. I decided to give it a gander and boy am I glad I did a wonderful roller coaster ride of excitement, love and fashion. The ride just stopped and I am already queing behind the thousands of people to get another thrill. Thats enough of the roller coaster metaphor I need to stamp a score on this film and nothing but 5*'s will do. Why you shout, how can this deserve such an acalade. Well I write these views so it goes by my scale so what I say goes end of and also here is a reason for every star in full picturetastic HD 3D. (may or may not contain picturtastic HD 3D images, read the label, never talk to strangers and don't do drugs. )

1) Christmas Jumperdress 

2) Some high top love

3) You could land a helicopter on those shoulder pads

4) It ain't even sunny out

5) Little Virgin Mary metaphor here, and who said Rom-Coms couldn't be deep.