This will probably end up as a rambling list type entry.
Saturday evening ended up with me telling things I never thought I’d tell to people I never thought I’d really talk to. It was quite surprising. I guess there is enough history, not quite 10 years but at least 8. It’s a long time. We were never really friends back then, we argued about stupid things which of course at the time were really important and equally of course in hindsight aren’t even worthy of footnotes.
My parents house, where I lived till I was almost 20 is right on the coast. The beach and a very nice beach it is at that, is less than 5 minutes walk away. Walking on a beach under the moonlight is really one of the best things in the world. A quick google search gives me this picture of the place. Not 20 minutes ago, I was walking up the little ramp you can barely make out in the middle.
It’s usually pretty clean. The village, Malahide enters the Tidy Towns competition on a regular basis and has won or recieved honours on almost as regular a basis. It’s cleaned a couple of times a week and certainly looked to have been tonight. Anyway a nice walk back from the village itself. The beach goes on for a good few miles from the Marina at the estury mouth moving onto another beach. You can probably walk a good 10 miles on it one way with just a few rocks to climb over. I suspect I’ll end up walking there tomorrow morning.
I really really do love the Irish accent. That and a nice Russian one gets me everytime. It’s so nice hearing the former everywhere I go.
I always said that I wanted to end up back in Dublin. I was never really that sure on it. I think now, I am.
This evening I saw the directors cut of Donnie Darko in the IFI. It’s easily the best film I’ve ever seen. I think I prefer the original release, the extra scenes are nice, some of them are really nice, but the pages from the Philosophy of Time Travel take away a bit much. They provide more of an explanation of what is actually happens than the original and I enjoyed thinking about what was going on a lot more than being told it. Still a certain purchase when it comes out.
Speaking of which, I don’t begrudge it a special editon DVD. Two main reasons, 1 it’s a directors cut and 2 it only managed that because it was so sucessful as a normal DVD. Even with the major takings in the EU market, the film was a flop in the US. What I do begrudge a re-release is The Godfather, there was full special editon box set a couple of years ago. Bastards.
Um yeah, so rambling.