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03 Apr 2013
The good folks at Thames & Hudson have given me two copies of Kylie / Fashion to give away. Squeeeeeeaaaal! It's gorgeous.
It's a lavishly illustrated large format hardback celebrating Kylie's 25 years in the business through her fasion and costume work with some of the biggest names in fashion and design. It is "curated" by William Baker, Kylie's long-time collaborator and creative director, has an introduction by Gaultier, and the dazzling photographs (candid shots of Kylie being dressed by the designers, promo shots, stage shots from her tours...) and design illustrations are accompanied by specially written texts by some of the many designers and stylists Kylie has worked with, including Dolce & Gabbana, Loubutin, Stella McCartney and many more. And of course from Kylie herself. The Kylie fans among you will wet yerselves.
"This book charts my relationship with some of the most talented people in fashion throughout my career. It makes me very proud to see gathered together all the great designers and houses I've worked with over the years. Looking through my personal archives has been a real trip down memory lane and it is the fashion that brings back moments and memories of the last twenty-five years." - Kylie Minogue
To enter, see below these few pics from the book:
TO ENTER: Send me an e-mail at PANTIBLISS@GMAIL.COM putting 'KYLIE' in the subject line, and answer this question:
The video for which Kylie song heavily featured a pair cheap, gold, second-hand hotpants that made Kylie's pert bum an icon in it's own right?
I'll pick two winners at random next Monday. Good luck!
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29 Dec 2012
I read Warm Bodies and while I was reading it I kept thinking "this could make a fun movie" and then of course, they did. It's coming out in the spring. It stars Nicholas Hoult (Skins, About A Boy) and also cutie-patootie Dave Franco, James' brother.
It's billed as the first "zombie rom com" and that's about right. It's a fun premise. It's set in a post-zombie apocalypse world where the few remaining non-zombies are struggling to survive in compounds, and Nicholas Hoult is a zombie who has some remaining ability to think, and he struggles with his conscience over being a murderous, blood thirsty monster. Slowly he starts to recapture some of his humanity while also falling in love with a human girl. Well, that's the basics - there's more to it than that f course. There's a horror/thriller/adventure element too.
Anyway, I'll definitely give the movie a go and hope for the best. Here' the first four minutes which have been released to the internet as a teaser.
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10 Oct 2012
This first one definitely is real, because it was available on Amazon long before the Jimmy Saville story broke, with helpful reviews from 1999 like: This book teaches your child the dangers of trusting strangers. It is easy to understand for the child, and keeps their interest. I have searched for this book again and again, and have not found it in the library since 1993. I am going to find it and share it with my 3 other young children.
And the internet says this one, a BBC handbook for childminders called Other People's Children, is also real even if it's hard to believe. But I guess if the first one is....
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17 Aug 2012
I've argued before that, with a new Liffey bridge under construction, I think it's about time we named one after a woman finally. And with the recent passing of the much-loved Maeve Binchy, and the fact that all of the last few bridges have been named after writers (Joyce, Beckett, O'Casey) naming the new bridge after her would seem to be an obvious - and I suspect popular - idea. I'll put my hand up and say I don't think I've ever read any of her books - though I have often read her journalism - but she is one of our most successful writers ever, and is undeniably popular. And she always seemed like a lovely woman and was of course a Dubliner. That would seem to tick all the boxes. It also has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? The "Binchy Bridge". Alliteration already works well with the Beckett Bridge and Butt Bridge (why isn't "Butt Bridge" more of a gay joke? We're missing a trick there). In fact, let's only call bridges after 'B' people from now on....
Anyway, if the Binchy Bridge is in your circle of friends and you can picture a lilac bus driving across it (there the only two I can think of off the top of my head and I'm resisiting the urge to Google) you can add your voice to the petition at this website.
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03 Aug 2012
I came back from my holiday to see the new bridge - only metres from O'Connell Bridge from which I took this snap - is reaching the "spanning" stage. It won't be carrying private traffic, only pedestrians, busses, and eventually the new LUAS "link" which finally got the go ahead from An Bórd Pleanála this morning.
I've mentioned before that I think it's abvout time that one of the Liffey bridges was named after a woman, and seeing as the last few bridges have all been named after writers, I think naming it after Maeve Binchy is a pretty good idea. I've heard it suggested a few times since her death on Monday evening. I have to admit that I've never read one of her books (though I have read articles and short stories in newspapers over the years) but she was hugely popular and always struck me as a lovely woman when she appeared on radio and TV. And it's clear from the outpouring of affection since Monday that she was enormously loved. And it certainly doesn't hurt that "the Binchy Bridge" has a nice ring to it!
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12 Jul 2012
One of the small perks of keeping this blog is that I occasionally get invited to events, or get sent things. Not always are they interesting or fun things, but when they are I appreciate them. One such is Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich, a compendium of pithy biographies of gay men and women through history. Or at least, men and women whose intimate lives couldn't be described as heterosexual, because some of the lives described are from times and places where a gay identity as we know it now didn't exist.
It's a handsome, lavishly illustrated book that begins with two men from ancient Egypt whose shared tomb, decorated with carvings of their life together, was discovered in 1962, and ends with the life of Reinaldo Arenas, the Cuban writer who wrote Before Night Falls, a memoir of his harrowing time as a gay man in Castro's revolutionary Cuba, and which was turned into a movie with Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp. (Another book I can't recommend enough by the way - left a huge impression on me). And in between, along the way, we get short biographies of a huge variety of gay men and women. Some of them are well known - Sappho, Wilde, EM Forster - but often more enlightening are the stories of the less celebrated - a Chinese poet, a French general, Africans, Americans, and Eva Gore-Booth from Lissadell House in Co. Sligo who is the only other Irish entry apart from Oscar Wilde. Her's is a wonderful story, the pacifist lesbian sister of Constance Markievicz who campaigned for women's suffrage, argued for an end to capital punishment, defended Roger Casement, believed passionately in gender equality, and whose thirty year relationship with another woman was an open secret.
Many of the stories have a heroic quality, the flip side of the often difficult lives led by many of the subjects. However, it's not a sad or difficult book. The overwhelming impression is of a vibrant, almost gleeful queer family whose disparate threads somehow connect across continents and centuries. And although it's not ostensibly a political book and steers clear of overt proselytising, it's hard not to see it as a beautiful riposte to the like of David Quinn who was arguing - again - against gay marriage on the TV earler this evening. Because what this collection of lives makes clear (apart from the fact that gay marriage has existed for millennia, in various times and places) is that it's simply impossible to prescribe what makes one relationship greater than another. Life and love come in a myriad of forms, and like life itself (as Jurrasic Park has it), love will find a way.
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich.
Thames & Hudson - not sure what the recommended euro price is, but the sterling price is £19.95
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19 May 2012
... to say that according to today's Irish Times, I am "a well known member of the transgender community". I was tempted to punk her but decided she's had enough shocks. Still though, it's nice to get an upgrade.
Though at the same time, I'm outraged. "Well known"?! I'm a fucking megastar in the Dublin 1 area!
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29 Apr 2012
Though why my gay Karim thought of me when he came across this book today I can't imagine...
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16 Mar 2012
Look, I love little fellas. We all know that, so, I think he's cute as a button. However, nowhere does it say that the male tribute from District 12 is a tiny fella. When Katniss is kissing him and the whole of Panem is glued to their screens watching them, it never says "Katniss gets down on her knees to kiss him deeply", or, "Peeta wraps his arms around her knees and pulls the Girl On Fire to him". Does it say, "Cinna worked through the night to make a full-sized costume for Katniss and another half-sized one for the baker's boy"? Does it? No, it doesn't.
So cute as a button he may be, but the male tribute from District 12 of my imagination he is not. Maybe they had him standing on a lot of boxes during filming?
And if you read all that and are thinking, 'What the Hell is this old queen banging on about now?", well, like, ugh! You are just, like, so uncool. Scarlet for you.
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24 Feb 2012
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