{"id":2780,"date":"2004-09-13T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2004\/09\/13\/where-the-girls-are-so-pretty\/"},"modified":"2004-09-13T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T22:24:00","slug":"where-the-girls-are-so-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2004\/09\/13\/where-the-girls-are-so-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"where the girls are so pretty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably end up as a rambling list type entry. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday evening ended up with me telling things I never thought I&#8217;d tell to people I never thought I&#8217;d really talk to. It was quite surprising. I guess there is enough history, not quite 10 years but at least 8. It&#8217;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&#8217;t even worthy of footnotes.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davebushe.net\/blog\/coast20_JPG.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;ll end up walking there tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>I really really do love the Irish accent. That and a nice Russian one gets me everytime. It&#8217;s so nice hearing the former everywhere I go.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I saw the directors cut of <i>Donnie Darko<\/i> in the IFI. It&#8217;s easily the best film I&#8217;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 <i>Philosophy of Time Travel<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I don&#8217;t begrudge it a special editon DVD. Two main reasons, 1 it&#8217;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 <i>The Godfather<\/i>, there was full special editon box set a couple of years ago. Bastards.<\/p>\n<p>Um yeah, so rambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably end up as a rambling list type entry. Saturday evening ended up with me telling things I never thought I&#8217;d tell to people I never thought I&#8217;d really talk to. It was quite surprising. I guess there is enough history, not quite 10 years but at least 8. It&#8217;s a long time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2004\/09\/13\/where-the-girls-are-so-pretty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;where the girls are so pretty.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}