Sinead/Get Him Eat Him/Looking Glass Wars
Sinead Moynihan
Sinead was the runner up in Evian’s natural beauty awards 2004 and is soon to be seen on British screens as ‘Ashley Webb‘ in the BBC drama/sitcom ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ The series is penned by the writer of The Royle Family and follows the rise of a teenage model (Sinead is 24?! How very american) and the affects this has on her working class family.
This is Sinead’s acting debut, she is a model with the nemesis agency in Manchester, and from the brief look at the press release for DDG she looks like she’s set for bigger things. Think Keira Knightley in dodge TV drama ‘Princess of thieves’
Get Him Eat Him
The band that were once called ‘Grumble Grumble’ and whose members include a Pitchfork journo see fit to cover my favourite band, and not just any song either, one of the first that turned me on to the Magnetic Fields. Having said that 'Luckiest guy' has never been one of my favourites but Get Him Eat Him have put a new spin on it by hamming up the keyboard sound to a pitch that makes you glad to be alive.
Magnetic fields covers generally suck - Arcade Fire doing no favours to ‘Born on a Train’ for instance – this is usually because no one can match Stephin Merrit’s unique vocal style, but here for once someone has actually pulled it off.
MP3: Get Him Eat Him - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
The Looking Glass Wars
Don’t go to the website that accompanies this book - the first in a trilogy – it’s awful. Really awful. The author Frank Beddor was a ski champion, stunt double, actor, producer - he produced the hit movie ‘There's Something About Mary’ - and is currently CEO of Automatic Pictures, a film, television and interactive game production company. So you’d think he’d have a better website really, wouldn’t you.
Anyway, regardless of this the book, or at least the concept within, is quite an interesting one. The premise goes like this: Alice in wonderland wasn’t a story by Lewis Carroll, it was in fact a series of real events that happened to a real Alice (Alyss) that Carroll rehashed into his own work of fiction. Wonderland is at war and Alyss the future queen is cast out into the real world by Red (the red Queen) and her sinister sidekick The Cat (Cheshire cat) who kill her parents. The rest of the story is constructed around Alyss’ attempts to get back home and the various battles that ensue. Beddor creates a violent and imaginative, if at times slightly contrived, world with characters we all know from Carroll’s work re-imagined as tangible yet otherworldly people waging an epic battle.
Maybe the website will improve as the trilogy continues…knowing Beddor’s leanings there has to be a film in the off eventually.
(Read Unread Reading)
Sinead was the runner up in Evian’s natural beauty awards 2004 and is soon to be seen on British screens as ‘Ashley Webb‘ in the BBC drama/sitcom ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ The series is penned by the writer of The Royle Family and follows the rise of a teenage model (Sinead is 24?! How very american) and the affects this has on her working class family.
This is Sinead’s acting debut, she is a model with the nemesis agency in Manchester, and from the brief look at the press release for DDG she looks like she’s set for bigger things. Think Keira Knightley in dodge TV drama ‘Princess of thieves’
Get Him Eat Him
The band that were once called ‘Grumble Grumble’ and whose members include a Pitchfork journo see fit to cover my favourite band, and not just any song either, one of the first that turned me on to the Magnetic Fields. Having said that 'Luckiest guy' has never been one of my favourites but Get Him Eat Him have put a new spin on it by hamming up the keyboard sound to a pitch that makes you glad to be alive.
Magnetic fields covers generally suck - Arcade Fire doing no favours to ‘Born on a Train’ for instance – this is usually because no one can match Stephin Merrit’s unique vocal style, but here for once someone has actually pulled it off.
MP3: Get Him Eat Him - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
The Looking Glass Wars
Don’t go to the website that accompanies this book - the first in a trilogy – it’s awful. Really awful. The author Frank Beddor was a ski champion, stunt double, actor, producer - he produced the hit movie ‘There's Something About Mary’ - and is currently CEO of Automatic Pictures, a film, television and interactive game production company. So you’d think he’d have a better website really, wouldn’t you.
Anyway, regardless of this the book, or at least the concept within, is quite an interesting one. The premise goes like this: Alice in wonderland wasn’t a story by Lewis Carroll, it was in fact a series of real events that happened to a real Alice (Alyss) that Carroll rehashed into his own work of fiction. Wonderland is at war and Alyss the future queen is cast out into the real world by Red (the red Queen) and her sinister sidekick The Cat (Cheshire cat) who kill her parents. The rest of the story is constructed around Alyss’ attempts to get back home and the various battles that ensue. Beddor creates a violent and imaginative, if at times slightly contrived, world with characters we all know from Carroll’s work re-imagined as tangible yet otherworldly people waging an epic battle.
Maybe the website will improve as the trilogy continues…knowing Beddor’s leanings there has to be a film in the off eventually.
(Read Unread Reading)
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