Friday, December 3, 2010

Alack! I have been tagged! Go on, Leave me! My legs are but hollow tubes.. leave me!

That's right folks, it's an interview with yours truly.

Why did you create the blog?
I started it a few years ago out of boredom. Originally I wanted to be a photo blog but my inane ramblings took over almost immediately. This year I turned over a new leaf though and decided to post more often. Its kind of a secret, only about 5 people know about it!

What kind of blogs do you follow?
The blogs I follow are mainly photography, culture, craft and fashion. I'm not a big blog reader to be honest, apart from the delectable Red Lemonade where I was tagged. I also like to keep abreast of 365things.

Favourite make up brand?
Probably Benefit because even their blush smells nice.

Favourite clothing brand?
If I had to pick one it would be Topshop. But none of that Kate Moss crap. 
I used to like River Island, until I was shopping there with the Billzer one day and he point out that its a shop for prostitutes. I protested but he immediately pointed out 10 items that would be suitable to turn tricks in. It was like a veil was lifted, he was right. Now we call it "Whore Island".

Your indispensable make up product?
I dont think it really counts as make up but moisturiser. I can't not moisturise, its probably because I'm a filty smoker, but I feel like my skin is gonna dry up and fall off one of these days.

Favourite colour?
Green Green Green

Your perfume?
It by Benefit, it has a name .. but it escapes me right now.

Your favourite film?
All of the Lord of the Rings Films. The Darjeeling Limited, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Milk, Lost in Translation, Mysterious Skin, Little Miss Sunshine, Good Will Hunting, Hot Fuzz, Killbill 1 and 2, Cabaret, Six Shooter,The Royal Tenembaums, The Hudsucker Proxy, Love Actually, Billy Elliot, The Chorus, Dead Mans Shoes, Rear window, North by Northwest, The Room, Purple Rain, On Deadly Ground, Under Seige 2: Dark Territory.

What country would you like to visit and why?
Iceland because I would like to see the Aurora Borealis

Write the last question and answer it yourself: What is the meaning of life?
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If she in fact reads this post, I am here by tagging you Deedee O'Brian

Mulq x

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Snow nice to see you

Ah there you are!
What is it about snow that turn us all back into children? At 1 am last Saturday night (after a few beverages) a group of us headed to a roof top in Rathmines for a snowball fight, giddy as skittle fed kids we pelted each other with abandon, no allegences, every person for themselves. Looking over the the roof tops one our number noted that Rathmines looked almost Dickensian in the snow, like Oliver Twist should turn up shortly. He was right, so we snotted him with a snowball. Twat.






Since then I've become perilously addicted to checking the temperature on my iPhone. (3 degrees C)
Yesterday it was minus 7 so I took a screenshot as a souvenir
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Mulq, the incredible

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

BEHOLD!! THE FUTURE IS HERE!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The future is upon us. Quite recently,  in Trinity Colleges science museum, I played Mindball. Yes MINDball. With my MIND.
It's real!!!

For many years I have felt cheated by the future, BBCs Tomorrows world promised things that never came to fruition, Robots that could do flipping everything! Television also promised me a hovering skate board. Where the fuck is my hovering skateboard?
If "The Girl From Tomorrow" taught me anything, it's that I'd be wearing white and showering without taking my clothes off.

However, I am willing to leave all of that bitterness behind me now, because Mindball is Awesome.

I sat at the opposite end of a table from my foxy lover with a head band velcrod on and GO! Well actually not really GO..In order to win the game you have to be as relaxed as possible and whoever consistantly has the least erratic brainwaves wins. Here is a video of Regis and Kathy giving it a whirl


Initially i didnt know how to play, and i have to admit i kind of did a cockeyed stare and the ball while shouting MOVE!!! MOOOVE!!! in my head.
Turns out I'm crap at mindball, but in my defense its really hard to relax when the FUTURE is velcroed around my forehead. 


Trinitys Science Museum is flipping amazing by the way. If it wasn't for all the kids. Darned kids.

bye,

Mulq

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Tips for Tripods

So in my "chained to the sofa" boredom I have been searching the internet for advise for folks on crutches... or to quote my sister "tripods". This search left me unsatisfied.

Naturally I have come up with a list myselfs.
  • Don't be shy about jabbing rude people that have almost knocked you over with your crutches, and then watch the shame wash over them when they realise what they were hit with.
  • Get a backpack with a chest strap - you'll look super sexy (for a nerd) and your bag wont fall off your shoulders
  • Wear things with pockets - handy for storing things you cant carry in your hands when you are crutching around... which is everything. i found a bum bag, it is awesome.
  • Getting food from where you have made it to where you want to eat it - this can be tricky if there are no handy people around, i suggest using flasks and lunchboxes.
  • If you live in a two story house, when going from one floor to the other - pack as if you are going abroad.
  • Tesco.ie - they deliver.. let me clarify - they deliver booze.
  • Be prepared for strangers to offer random advise - accept it with a smile unless its a bad story - like your leg will fall off or something. Those people are not your friends.
  • Going up the stairs - good foot first then crutches, or if you're at home, bum first and everything else after
  • Going down the stairs - crutches first then good foot.
  • Up or down the stairs - if possible get someone to carry your other crutch and use a sturdy banister to help you.
  • When you're sitting at home on your ass you're going to start feeling useless after a few days - remember it could have been worse - could have been your head. you need your head.
  • Use socks and a surgical tape like Medisilk to pad the handles of your crutches - your hands will get sore anyways - but this will at least dull the pain - yaay!!
  • Having a wash - if you have one of those shower over the bath jobbys then you are in luck! strap on that industrial thickness rubbish bag (cellotape and rubberbands are my weapon of choice) and sit down in it for the least trouble preventing water getting at your cast.
  • Wash the toes of the foot that has the cast on, they get missed out on with the plastic bag over the leg job... and they will start to smell like a mature Stilton.
  • Toe cooling devices - fibre glass casts can get inescapably hot, i recommend getting into a car and put the aircon on cool and then put your toasty toes up on the dashboard ..oohhh!
  • If someone calls over to see how you are, prepare a list of things you want them to carry from one place to another.. they can do it alot easier than you! 
  • When people ask you what you have been doing? always say: dance classes, bungee jumping, skydiving, training for the marathon, or surfing lessons.. it cracks people up... but not the second time so made a list of people you have used this crack with to avoid embarrassment.
  • Do something with your time -start a blog, learn HTML, relearn crochet, make a menagerie of small felt animals (below),  organise your photos, read, watch IMDB top 250 movies, buy random things from ebay, laugh at the problem pages on boards.ie, watch an entire dramatic tv series (the wire, sopranos, six feet under, the west wing) interspliced with a really awful comedy series (how i met your mother, the big band theory).. however it is always completely unacceptable to watch Two and a Half Men and the Jeremy Kyle show.
  • Enjoy your new He-man arm muscles! Lift things over your head in a dramatic fashion! YAAAAARGAH!
Signing off
Mulq


Disclaimer: i don't accept any responsibility for bad thing that happen as a result of following this advise. I accept all responsibility for good things.

 

    Friday, August 27, 2010

    I went to Berlin and all i got was this lousy crack in my 5th metatarsal


    Greetings from my parents sofa!
    Since we last spoke I went on a short holiday to Berlin, it was class! I did lots of fun stuff, but instead of boring you with the details i'm just going to list my top 4 things and my bottom 4 things.

    Berlin Top 4
    1. Fat Tire bike tours - I'm never doing a bus tour ever again, absolutely the best way to see a new city.
    2. Playing a gig in the lobby of the Michelberger Hotel - number of attendees: 0, percentage of fun:140%.
    3. Cycling through the Tiergarten - oh leafy paradise!
    4. Hitlers bunker - sealed up 15 meters below the ground. On the surface it's a carpark, with gay sauna and Jewish dry cleaners adjacent. Take that Hitler.


    Berlin Bottom 4

    1. People on segways look like turbo nerds.
    2. Fleamarkets full of WW2 memorbilia being sold off.. uniforms, medals, old photos, battered tin boxes.. it was just a little sad.
    3. Checkpoint charlie being a tourist circus - complete wih uniformed actors.
    4. The Michelberger would have been the best hotel EVER, if i hadn't wanted to punch all of the douchebags in the face constantly. So so many skinny jean wearing, sunglasses indoors, straw hat types everywhere, all looking slightly miserable for no apparent reason.

    If you require further info on my trip to Berlin ring me on the telephone. or go here.

    The owie
    So upon returning to the Airport while realising I was in the wrong Terminal, i fell on the stairs. It made a cracking sound.
    Due to the complete unhelpfulness of the Schönefeld Airport staff, i then dragged my swollen foot and luggage around till i found my gate and two lovely 16 year old twins got me ice for my foot from burger king.
    So that's how i got to spent my birthday morning in A&E in Vincents hospital, but on the upside my cast is purple!
    It's the little things!



    Word,
    Mulq

    Sunday, August 15, 2010

    Yarg! i will stamp on your car!!



    greetings once again my petals!
    As you can see from above image (look i have boobs!!) my birthday is soon to be upon me. 28 huh? O to the L D. People always give out when you complain that you're getting older.. but those people are usually 30, so you gotta feel for them.

    Speaking of 30, i started my 30 things before I'm thirty list and got 12 items in before i was told that you're not allowed to start when your 27!! That's ridiculous! Is it true? How am i meant to afford to do all of these things in 1 year?

    Any how here is my list so far:
    1. Try to complete a Hedgemaze
    2. Skydive
    3. Falconry
    4. Cycle the Tulip fields in Holland
    5. Rock climbing
    6. Complete a full marathon
    7. Make a short film
    8. Go horse riding
    9. Climb a mountain
    10. Have a spin in a chopper
    11. Go to Newgrange
    12. Go to the Giant’s Causeway
    13. Hot air balloon trip
    14. Learn to Moonwalk
    15. Rocky Horror picture show
    16. See aura borelis

    Suggestions welcome (except stay away from anything to do with lakes, the sea, rivers, canals. i can stand near them but that's about it!)

    This week i am off to BERLIN! I cant wait, I've even booked a cycling tour for my first day! I'm staying in a fancy pants hotel.. from it's reviews it sound like a beacon for douchbags! Imagine if urban outfitters was a hotel..bingo! none the less i'm guaranteed interesting photos without even leaving the hotel! YAYZERS!

    So long,
    Mulq

    horse feet turd sneeze

    Seth McFarlane is a genius