A Tongue Twister I invented…
I invented this tongue twister today… here we go…
Lesley liaised with the lovely Lebanese lesbians
Say it five times over really fast and let me know what ye think…
Good for welsh accents and maybe indian accents too, actually it’s really really hard to say it in an indian accent…
Thumb-suckers of the World UNITE!
You know what? I am proud to be a thumb sucker…
It’s the most lovely thing in the world to come home after a long day, give your hands a soothing soapy wash and then settle down to a good bit of thumb sucking.
I suck the thumb on my right hand only. I know of people who suck both thumbs, but I really only suck my right thumb.
Once or twice I have had to suck my left thumb due to a burn or cut on my right thumb and I can only describe the experience as weird. It’s like wearing your left shoe on your right foot. It just didn’t feel right…
My Dad really badgered me to give up sucking my thumb when I was in my teens, I suppose he felt that it was going too far. When we’d be sitting looking at the TV, he wouldn’t let me suck my thumb so I used to sit behind a plant and do it there.
I have been thinking about how lucky I am to have my thumb and to enjoy it so much. It really is an incredibly unique experience and I feel at one with other adult thumb-suckers. I always smile to myself when I spot them. They are as rare as albinos, but they are out there.
Once I had a bad skin disorder on my thumb. I mentioned it to the doctor in passing, when I was in for another ailment which I won’t go into now, I’m sure you wouldn’t be interested in that anyway. The Doctor told me that the digestive juices are at work when my thumb is in my mouth and it’s causing the skin to be broken down. I didn’t believe a word of that and sucked my thumb until it felt well again. It’s been fine ever since but it’s down to the bone now.
That’s alright though…
Fingerprints…
I often try to guess which way the world is going to turn out…
Like I was thinking today that in order to combat fraud we will have to start getting rid of all these codes and numbers and passwords; they’re too hackable. And all these credit cards and things are too stealable.
So I was thinking that everything will be replaced with fingertip identity patterns.
Like maybe we will just have to swipe our fingerprints at the ATM and purchase things by swiping our fingertips into a special fingerprint reader machine in the shops.
There will be no need for purses or money…
Maybe our personal computers will be fitted with chips that read our fingerprints too and allow us to log in that way.
Maybe we will be fitted with an internal chip which will slot in just behind our index fingertip. This chip will carry our hard drives and of all the information will be stored in there.
So laptops and things like that will be just a shell… this will inevitably lead to a new kind of crime… it will lead to fingertip robbery.
This is how far I got in my daydream tangent, then the boss walked past and asked me if i was alright!
Future Projects…
Myself and my acting buddies keep ourselves busy in between acting jobs by getting together and shooting some little sketches. It’s all very casual and we do it for the craic…
As well as acting, I love messing around with editing software and use this as an opportunity to learn about the software and gain more experience about that aspect of film making. I think it helps as an actor too, to know what is involved behind the scenes, if ya pardon the pun.
I have also started doing a bit of directing which I am definitely keen on doing again.
At the moment, I am penning a little sit-com (episodes only like about three minutes long) which is going to be set in my flat! It is about three flat mates living in London. I haven’t written any scripts previously so it’s all new to me and i don’t know how it will turn out.
I am planning to shoot the first episode soon! I will be playing the part of one of the flatmates, I don’t know yet who will shoot it as I really want to shoot it myself but I want to be in it too, so it may be a joint venture. When it is completed, I am going to post it on here and create an online mini soap opera for your viewing pleasure, so please check back and tell me what you think. Your input will be taken on board… (if it’s constructive!)
Here is a sketch that I shot at one of our little gatherings recently. Tanya Mackenzie & myself directed it. The Actors are Kim Falconer & Tom Shepherd. I edited it with Adobe Premiere software.
Let me know what you think anyway…
And don’t forget to check back to see my mini soap!!
Toodle pip for now!
The Lift Sketch from Shirker on Vimeo.
Shopping trolleys…
I like reading other people’s blogs as much as I like writing them. When I was blog surfing the other day I saw the ultimate shopping trolley:
The blog writer was living in Spain and he was writing in praise of his shopping trolley. This all happened a week before Joe’s birthday so I thought that it would be great to get him one for our grocery shopping trips. They’re really handy like…
Yeah, shopping trolleys are so under-rated.
I couldn’t find the spanish shopping trolley anywhere anyway, which was disappointing as I really wanted that particular one – I mean, I really wanted to buy it for Joe. I even contacted the blog writer but he chose not to reply to my query.
After hours and hours of googling, I decided to settle for this one:
I bought it online and it arrived on Joe’s Birthday…
…And oh my God! It is a HUGE thing, I’d be able to jump into it myself! It comes up to my waist and I’d be half scandalised going grocery shopping with that thing!
It’s proper old lady style.
I brought it to the supermarket today to give it a test drive.
I think I must be London’s youngest old age pensioner…!
It serves me right for getting him something that I wanted for myself…
Conked out on the Circle Line…
Look at this pair!
They’re a bundle of laughs altogether!
I’d say they’re sleeping buddies; joined at the hip, they travel the length and breadth of London, dozing away on the tube… shur isn’t it grand for them! Yer man on the right is a close contender too I’d say, he’s about to drop off at any moment and the heavy eyes on him…
Snoring and slobbering and sudden head jerks, then waking and looking around, then settling back down to the slumber again… Round and round they go on the Circle Line…
Thats the Life!
Create your own bubble…
To survive happily in London you have to create your own bubble and then maintain it so no one can penetrate it.
When you’re in your own bubble, no one can annoy you or stress you out. Ipods, Blackberries and Electronic Devices such as these are great for building up bubble walls. Closing your eyes in public also thickens the walls of your bubble, but only do this whilst sitting on the tube or bus. Bubbles tend to get burst if you try this whilst in the pub or walking down the street because you attract unnecessary attention to yourself or you may have an accident.
Bubbles are designed to float, they should be light and airy and full of dreamy thoughts and fluffy feelings…
