MeMer & LaLa in Dystopia

bum

2009-08-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking to myself
of maybe being someone else
for a second month or year
but i'm still here
i'm still here

And these sober walls
are shadowless and frigid
and give me a serious case of the nods-
chronic even
restlessness provided by coffee and mirrors
and random calls on my tell-me-anything
telephone
are distant callings that remind me
i'm not alone
not alone

This may seem a bit strange but it has to be said......I LOVE EGGS!!!!

2009-08-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

Some days all i want to do is eat eggs or soy sauce or both together. I love them so much. I could eat 3 or 4 or 6! There just so great. My favourite way to eat them is in a stir fry with noodles or scrambled and fried by themselves. I'd marry an egg. Or make my partner do a sexy egg dance and bring them to me in bed with a glass of soy sauce on the side. Oooh spicy

Tit & Tat

2009-08-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Its going to be dark green and gorgeous

Awww man

2009-08-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

Ive turned into the token alcoholic on the 19. Everytime i get on that bus i'm drunk or a little bit drunk or else suffering with a shitbag of a hangover. I realised this today as i swayed back and forth stinking of whiskey. Its kind of embarassing actually when i'm getting off and i forget I have earphones in and i scream at the bus drivers. THHAANKKS MATE!!!! CHEEERS! BYE NOW

THINGS THAT SCARE ME

2009-08-01T22:26:00.000-07:00

1. Being Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later where everyones either dead or nuts

2. Deadlines

3. Friends parents when you've been an acomplice in something bold

4. Zealots

tbct

A GRIN FOR THE WIN

2009-06-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

> Playing tricks on people. Yesterday I checked my phone when I was at work, there was a message from a friend saying 'Ur workin 2nite while i'm out on the beer. ha ha'

I decided to send him a message back : 'Jokes on u bold boy! Went into work earlier and they were over staffed so I got a paid night off work, Yahoo!'
Literally laughed at this for about 10 minutes

> People say you have to love yourself before anyone else can, WELL the same can be said about laughing at your own jokes. It would be weird if you delivered an ace one-liner while staring stony faced at a wall. Lets be honest, I'm pretty funny?

QUESTIONS

2009-06-14T07:44:00.000-07:00

Q: Does anyone actually like Take That?

A: Yes, atleast 80,000 people (?)

LA NAOMH PADRAIG YA BOLLOX

2009-03-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

Even today as I did the laborious and oh so excrutiating walk of shame town was still packed. Dublin is after all Irelands damaged liver on Paddys day. I for one had a splendid day! I'd imagine my entails are translucent due to the copious amount of vodka I consumed AND the best best best bit is I don't have a hangover :) Although I do have spinadiffia ( Its like scoliosis but worse ). I contracted this painful ailment in Merrion Square in an act of youthful exuberance. That is not a sexual reference.

I really dislike when things are overratted like many days of celebration commonly are. The last few March 17ths have been unremarkable really but yesterday was up there with christmas. I did bump into the lady I babysit for which was bad luck considering I was a bit tipsy and not my most competent. Its so nice to have a week off college and not have an agenda. Its only Wednesday and I've already had a hectic few days. The drama! The disputes! Yesterday in the midst of our inner city rambles we decided to go back to Caraghs to watch The Simpsons which sadly we forgot to record ;/ I can't wait to see it. We ended up going to trashed(!) which was actually good fun and super packed. I have a strange feeling I took my shoes off though and was walking around like that as Ive never seen my feet so dirty. Strange days to be sure! I was wearing two pairs of tights and the filth still managed to seep in. Pretty cool, ja?

News reporters and cameras scare me. Global TV channels were dotted around the place hoping to catch candid behaviour from the tourists and natives alike. After being caught by RTE on my Juniour Cert results night drinking out the back of the Ambassador theatre I am suitably terrified of being caught again. I had to dance infront of the telly box to avoid my parents seeing me. I had my Garda radar turned on to the max yesterday also, its quite acute. I'm available for rent if you desire protection from being caught in your dirty dealings.
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did yesterday. High five ginges!

AURAL SEX

2009-03-11T13:36:00.000-07:00

I highy reccomend you download these now please. Do. I think you should :)

Electric Feel - Cleast Eatwood

Can you tell - Ra Ra Riot

Dog days are over - Florence and the Machine

Skinny Love - Bon Iver

Bowie - Flight of the Concords

Enjoy. I really do. Really <3

GOLDEN MONKS BLAZING FOR THE PEOPLE

2009-03-11T13:15:00.000-07:00

Today I was in the Zoo and it was uber-great-fantastic! I saw a pretty peacock, a whiskered wolf and my absolute fave: majestic monkeys! Before this week I always preffered more humble specimens such as the trusty donkey. I think there adorable with there furry rumps and glazed eyes. However, my heart now lies with the little yellow-bellied Ms.Coulter monkeys that I enjoy poking with sticks. Hours of fun was spent stamping my foot and throwing my had back with glee in the company of our playfull cousins. Other faves were the bearded Anne Doyle monkey as well as the jouly jouly joule joule monkey. Enjoy!!

Foggy Music for a heavy headed Girl

2009-01-18T16:32:00.000-08:00

Oh Sunday. Sunday is it? Below I intend to list some sweet tunes I particularly enjoy on the day the french like to call Dimanche. The Catholic often meet on this day to read stories from a thick, dusty book. Youtube these songs please:

Not for sale - CocoRosie

The Youth - MGMT

Ladies and Gentlemen - Spiritualized

Eyes on Fire - Blue Foundation

No One - The Honorary Title

Wasted - Angus & Julia Stone

Lonelily - Damien Rice

I will follow you into the dark - Death Cab

I can't make you love me - Denison Witmer

My taste is probably a bit whiney for most. I am partial to a good moan. As you well know :) The picture is by Edward Hopper. My favourite modern Artist. There is something outer-worldly about his work despite the fact his studies are nearly always of scenes that typify everyday life. Check hom out, he's immense!

TO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

2009-01-18T13:22:00.000-08:00

The looming portfolio admittance date is giving me many a sleepless night. The feeling is considerably similar to pre-leaving cert anxieties. Holy moly! Gee whiz! So as of today my goals have dramatically shifted. As opposed to being an extremely successful and globally recognised artistic sensation I have decided to instead, be a drug dealer. While casually discussing the bains of college with a pal, the idea struck me and I havn't looked back once in the half an hour that has passed since that conversation. Incredible wealth, Big guns, Fun cars.Perfect, nigh? And also, how apt would my fur coat be for these dirty dealings? I'll be like a modern Pablo Escobar. Except I'm a girl and white.And 18.And Irish and probably not as threatening due to my lack of facial hair( Miracle Grow in my Earl Grey?). A Robin Hood of the Northside, giving copious amounts of filthy substances to my adoring customers. I can see it now. The fierce almighty Emer Of Cremore. Rivalled only by the Hunch back of Glasnevin who I can assure you does exist. That tower in the cemetery they fob off as some kind of memorial marking? Its all lies baby. Its her crafty castle. I'm thinking of starting off low-key. Panadol anyone? Medicianal Cannabis? Have a line on me.

Can you feel the love? <3

2008-12-20T09:41:00.000-08:00

I want to listen to eighties love songs all day and dance like the drunken fool that I am at Christmas discos.

Oh Simon!

2008-12-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

'And I was travelling lightly, barefoot
over bedrock, then through lands that were stitched
with breadplant and camomile. Or was it

burdock. For a living I was driving
a river of goats towards clean water,
when one of the herd cut loose to a cave

on the skyline. To flush it out'

I first came across the work of Simon Armitage a few years ago. He is an English Poet and I think he's ammmmmmmazing. Ive never read something that so immediatly and intensely pulled on my heart strings. Not so long ago I acquired a collection of particular interest - Dead Sea Poems. His witty, often wicked humour is thought provoking yet peculiarly traditional:

'I shaped
a sling from a length of cotton bandage,
or was it a blanket, then launched a rock

at the target, which let out a racket -
the tell-tale sound of man-made objects.
Inside the cave like a set of skittles
stood a dozen caskets, and each one gasped -
a little theatrically perhaps'

The unpredicatble format demands attention and makes pauses unavoidable. Were reading the poem exactly the way Armitage intended.
The Poet is in his forties and lives in West Yorkshire. He still writes poetry but has dabbled in film, radio and television in recent years. To date, he has scripted four stage plays and two novels.

'when opened, then gave out a breath of musk

and pollen, and reaching down through cool sand
I found poems written in my own hand.
Being greatly in need of food and clothing,

and out of pockets, I let the lot go
for twelve times nothing, but saw them again
this spring, on public display, out of reach

under infra-red and ultra-sonic,
apparently worth an absolute packet.
Knowing now the price of my early art

I have gone some way towards taking it all
to heart, by bearing it all in mind, like
praying, saying it over and over

at night, by singing the whole of the work
to myself, every page of that innocent,
everyday, effortless verse, of which this

is the first'

Nice and Tight

2008-12-02T11:13:00.000-08:00

Being a pale lass, wary of builders and a fan of skirts, Tights have always been a must have pour moi. I was pleasantly suprised by the truck load of fantastical tights that have been paraded up and down the catwalk this season. Naturally the high street stores have picked up on this cosy trend and have a panoply of styles and textures to chose from. I have cream argyle ones in my mind...but I have yet to find a pair. Let me know if you do!

1st of December, is it?

2008-12-02T09:57:00.000-08:00

The Hurdy Gurdy house in Ballyfermot is decked out, The gaudy lghts on Henry Street are up, The mini christmas cards from the pound shop are alreay starting to take over my locker in college. What does this say?
It says Christmas is a piss take and were still over three weeks away!
Don't get me wrong:
I want twinkling lights as much as any pilfering magpie, I crave wine as much Jiz, I enjoy chistmas carols as much as the next old bat, I love Christmas! Just not in November. Am I a stinky Grinch? Not a chance. Later in December you can expect tasty recipes for cinnamon snaps and ginger bread. Top craft tips for jobless swines and festive reviews on terrific holiday tunes.
Give it two weeks yeah? ;)

Fight Like What?

2008-11-18T12:06:00.000-08:00

Like Apes, friends.

When primitive instinct takes over, and the urge to jump around; screaming and swearing like the true Irish lout that you are, FLApes debut album "Fight Like Apes and The Mystery of The Golden Medallion," would certainly provide a suitable soundtrack. Its a raucous, contagious mixture of loud noise, some of the most surprising lyrics ("and did you fuck her? / did you stick things up her?") and a song for pretty much every mood.

I'd bought both EP's a few months ago, and so, I'd become familiar with about five or six songs on the album. I know there's been debate over the originals versus the re-recordings, but to be honest i think if anything, the superior sound quality of the new versions is much more like the authentic, live FLApes experience. And by that, i meant they're better. :)

The two new tracks on the album that i cant stop humming / listening to / singing in my sleep are "Tie Me Up With Jackets," and "Digifucker." I think the first is probably the closest thing to a love song that we've seen from the Apes. With lyrics like "but i'd love to see you in the nude with faux fur jackets round your head," and "but you can live there too and we'll play Lovely Noise, lovely noise that makes you love me," there's just something about it i can't get enough of. MayKay's voice is soft, and it's just a babe of a song.
"Digifucker," is a bit more like what i'd come to know and love from MayKay, Pockets and co. A bitta lewd vulgarity ("did you stick things up her? and did she love it?" doesn't actually come across as harsh as it might sound. The emotions in MayKays voice communicate something else to. Something you might relate to if you've ever asked the question "did he/she fuck him/her?" yourself. ;) I'm not so sure yet if i like the little voice over piece in the middle. I like the effect the same thing gives to "Battlestations," but here, i think it detracts a little from the action.

Out of Ten? Ten. It's fantastic.

And the Academy gig on the 5th of December? €14.50? Bargain!
I'm there.

THE WATERBOYS

2008-11-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

After hearing the nicest story the other day, I thought It would be nice to pay a small tribute to one of the best songwriters in the last three decades! Mike Scott himself scripted one of the most memorable songs recorded in the eighties. Apparently Scott and his current girlfriend were sitting in a cafe when she asked him how easy it was to write a song, He responded to this by jotting down 'The whole of the moon' in the time while they were seated. Genius! :)

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, i guessed, and i tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon

With a torch in your pocket
And the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon

Unicorns and cannonballs,
Palaces and piers,
Trumpets, towers, and tenemets,
Wide oceans full of tears,
Flag, rags, ferry boats,
Scimitars and scarves,
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars

2008-11-17T07:47:00.001-08:00

These two charming dresses are from Miss Selfridge who seem to have a huge range of party dresses in their Autumn/Winter collection. Most of the dresses are black but if your prone to something colourful River Island also have a vast range of festive gear that would be perfect for a christmas do or night on the tiles.

The black lacy shoe boots on the far righthand side are By Christain Louboutin and are widely perceived a s a seasonal must. The bag on the left was seen being sported by the lovely Mary Kate Olsen recently in New York. It was made by Roberto Cavalli and comes in an array of different colours.

SAMHAIN

2008-11-17T05:49:00.000-08:00

Gorgeous

WawaWeeWa! Items of note

2008-11-17T05:28:00.000-08:00

I found these pretty gloves on ebay. Out bid me if you dare!
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National Rubbish Day!

2008-11-16T17:11:00.000-08:00

Today is the day you've all been waiting for! The day when the whole world comes together as a community to strew there waste all over the city. Children stayed up late last nite in the traditional vigil on the eve of this special day in hope that they may be so lucky as to spot a Trash Fairy flying about spreading the joy of humanities stupidity. Trash Fairies Memer & LaLa were a part of the festivities. The vintage enfants were spotted in the Glasnevin area dispersing empty bottles and broken cans ''We feel its important to be a part of such a beautiful event, Its refreshing to see such diverse denizens celebrate together in a giant caravan of stench and love'' said Memer. Ex-Part-time Taoiseach Bertrard Ahern also had a few words to contribute on the subject '' My Great-Grandfather was a bag of litter so I can really relate to this'' I think its fair to say everyone had a brilliant day and are already looking forward to next year. Children all over the world will be playing with dirty napkins and used cigarette butts, relishing in the knowledge that thier elders can provide them with enormous amounts of useless debris and crap.

2008-11-16T16:10:00.000-08:00

The naughty man on the right is Memer. Her antics are often sparodic and irrational they include; bidding on things she can't afford on ebay, drinking fizzy beverages, spying on her neighbours, collecting useless junk from charity shops, ordering her friends around from the safety of her pimp coat (bitch please!) getting refused from nightclubs for being a dickhead and lusting over clothes she simply can't have. She pretty much lives for a good time but has tried being sober and felt like a fish in a pool of lava. Currently listening to Lykke Li, Burt Bacharach (Greatest Hits) Stars, Sia and The Velvet Underground.

2008-11-16T15:35:00.001-08:00

This is LaLa. Shes a crafty scoundral who appreciates the finer things in life. Partial to Vodka and interesting haircuts, Shes a nice person to be around until she voms up last nights fastfood. At the moment shes listening to Ingrid Michaelson, Tegan & Sara, Fight Like Apes and foals. Wearing Memer's Pyjamas and being gently kissed by the sandman.

FUCKINGLOVETHISFUCKITYFUCK

2008-11-16T12:53:00.000-08:00

Greetings Friends, Foes and Future Fandooglers!
Memer & LaLa are two Dublin belles who have recently decided to become recluses. We have left our academic lives and wish only to spend the rest of our estimated 60 year lifespans drinking wine and smoking legal substances. We love amongst many thing: Posh togs, Yummy tunes and climbing up on the weekend horse and riding it like Seabiscuit all over Dublin city. If things go to plan this blog will be a sweet marriage of the three. A few snaps, birra tunage, that kind of thing. Sure fuck it like, Were on our holidays?