My first (and one day late) "Friday Favourites" 9/11/13
Favourite song;
My taste in music is very much a little bit
country, so of course I stay up late to stream the CMA awards in the same way
most people stay up for the Superbowl. This stripped-down, country/folk
rendition of Red featuring Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Eric Darken and
Edgar Meyer was reminiscent of the Taylor Swift I stumbled upon back in 2006 on
YouTube before country got cool. And I liked it better that way.
Favourite place;
My room in my family home. Constantly reshuffling my
large array of unnecessary-to-most-but-necessary-to-me stuff.
Favourite movie;
Admittedly I hadn't even heard about the
buzz with this new Dame Judi Dench- Steve Coogan movie until I happened to tune
into the radio one morning. When you hear radio-callers talk about the life
that you could've lived had you been born 60 years earlier, you listen. In
fact, as I left the cinema I saw an elderly woman crying so hard it really made
me think about what it was like to be a young woman in Catholic Church run
Ireland in the 20th century. This true-life story of life after a Madeline
Laundry is one of the best films I've seen in ages; a perfect mix of funniness,
sadness and unfortunate realness.
Favourite eat;
Molloy's Artisan Bakery and Fine Food
Emporium in Roscommon town. When you live in rural Ireland, you sure get excited
about places selling artisan produce, freshly baked goods and things that are fancy
and French. So this places makes me very excitable. I've never ate something
from here that I didn't love.
When we were little, my siblings and I would
hang our stockings outside our bedroom doors for Santa. He'd fill them with
small random goodies, and when they had been filled, we knew that there was
more waiting for us downstairs by the tree. I haven't hung a stocking since I
grew up, but I'm hoping that this Free People creation might entice some chocolate
coins, mandarins and mini bubble baths like when I was 7.
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