new eyes 13 January 2009
It is really interesting to see your adopted home town through new eyes – Connor (yup a crazy 2 R’s) who I made Hell’s Pavement with last summer in Uxbridge (surely coming to a cinema near us soon, or in a year or so) is here in Dublin to make a commercial and he can’t get over how well it looks – and it does. Thing is, I do look at it as ‘adopted’ cos I wasn’t born here and we know that precludes you saying you’re FROM here or being native. Grand. But you do also find yourself then thinking ‘but I am not from anywhere now if we apply such stuff’ in that it’s ages since i was properly in Galway where I grew up and anyway I wasn’t born there so I never got to say that anyhow – such things count, apparently…Doesn;t take away from the fact that Connor thinks Dublin is FINE and looks FINE and is FINE in the way of a Southern Gentleman saying ‘That Lady is FINE’ – it’ll do for me.
Some phrase in the play led to a discussion about cocktails ( the drink, as opposed to the telling of ‘em) and the idea that A Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall ain’t what you want as you get older at all at all – we all were in agreement that we wanted ‘The Slow Comfortable Silence’
‘nuff said….
