Alice and Interiors

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

I dont really wear alot of Jewelry but I am quite fond of unusual rings. Here are a few photos of my current collection, most of these were bought in either Penneys, A Wear or Topshop.

This is my own video of Florence and the Machine's performance of "Strangeness and Charm" in The Olympia Theatre Dublin in May 2010. It was the first time Strangeness and Charm was ever performed and heard by anyone apart from the band. It was also a song or two after Florence sang Happy Birthday to me and I think you can tell in the video that she was aware that I was filming it, I still cant believe how close I was to her and how lucky I was at that gig. I really hope she comes back to Ireland next year to do a concert I was so disappointed when I couldnt get tickets to her O2 gig in Dublin last March.

Saturday, 4 August 2012

White Rabbit

This week I visited my local vintage shop "White Rabbit", this store started up just over a year ago and has become a very successful business attracting many customers from all over Donegal.
I recently found out that they were offering an exchange in vintage items for store credit, I brought along a pair of heels that I only wore once and a pair of brogues which my mother bought for me in a sale but were unfortunately the wrong size so I never got the opportunity to wear them at all, I also left in a vintage style shirt and dress from a high street store . Once I left them in, I then only had to wait until the next day to find out that they were interested in taking both pairs of shoes.
Today I went in and collected my other items and received my store credit I am now free to use it on any items in the store, Im hoping I will find a nice vintage style dress in my size and if anyone else is interested in the store, it can be found through their Facebook page here.

"Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit "
Perfect opportunity to post this song on my blog, Ive always been very fond of it!

Friday, 3 August 2012

Go Ask Alice

I adore this photo.

After Glow

Im a major fan of the English band Foals, my blog title "Blue Blood" is taken from one of their songs off the album “Total Life Forever”. When I found out that they were doing a DJ set in The Twisted Pepper in Dublin I was ecstatic, the band have not performed in Ireland since November 2010 and at the time none of friends were interested in the band, unfortunately this time around was the same story and I wasnt going to force people to go see a band they werent interested in... even though a DJ set would be just more like a night out in a club since they wouldnt actually be performing their own songs but I wasn’t going to expect people to pay to travel for a night out 4 hours away from where we live.

Ever since I saw Foals performing in the Skins secret party video Ive always wanted to see them in concert, their performances live are so different to what I expected, but I was unsure if the DJ set included all members or just the one because I was aware that the member Edwin Congreave was most known for his DJ sets and after an incident a month ago in my local nightclub I was uncertain if all members would be attending.

Only a few weeks it was advertised in my local nightclub that there was going to be a Snow Patrol DJ set but turns out it was only one member from the band attending the DJ set... I was not in the position to spend all that money going to Dublin if there was only going to be one member there.

Today I finally found out for sure whether or not the entire Foals band would be attending or was it just gonna be Edwin as I assumed and hoped since i was no longer attended the event.... after seeing Edwin tweet on my timeline saying "nothing in life is certain -- apart from the strangely comforting fact that @YnnsPhilippakis will never, ever answer his phone" I decided to tweet him asking if it was certain that all the foals member would be attending the DJ set tomorrow night. I was not expecting to get a response so I was delighted when he actually replied to me! The only other time Ive been replied to or retweeted by someone famous is Oliver Phelps who played George Weasley which to be honest will top any retweet or reply I ever get off a celebrity unless of course it is Florence Welch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Louis Tomlinson or Zooey Deschanel who are all regular twitter users.

The fact you can find out this kind of information directly from band members or actors is one reason why I will always prefer Twitter over Facebook.

Only Revolutions

I set up this blog at the start of June and honestly Ive neglected it alot more that I thought I would, my initial plan was that I would hopefully have a job for the Summer so then I would be able to afford to go on more trips and buy clothes so I could blog about all of that but unfortunately I did not get a job this Summer and although Ive been out on different nights blogging about being at nightclubs is not exactly what I intended to put in my blog.
On the positive side of things after being reminded about my blog today Ive been inspired to start it up again, I currently have no camera because my sister has been away at the Gaeltacht for three weeks and is in possession of it. This is quite annoying and is also another reason why I havent really been blogging because I like adding photos to my posts since alot of them consist of either my art pieces or social events but she is back this weekend so I will be able to photograph all the August antics I get up too.
I also hate adding titles to my posts so from now on I think I will just use song or album titles when its possible.