won't you come down and play?

it’s about time we gave some air time to the bernard shaw car boot sale. i think i can safely say it has become a much-anticipated event in our calendars these days. it seems as tho the gods smile upon it too as no matter how much of a shitty day it starts off as, the sun always comes out for part or most of the afternoon. kudos to the man upstairs.

i showed up a little late on saturday but knew i made the right choice on how to spent my afternoon when i was greeted by annie lennox’s “walking on broken glass”. only chewy could get away with banging that out. another highlight was chewy’s mystery bag which i hope will be making a comeback at the next boot sale. for a mere 50 cents shane “won” a knitted wristband, lisa got a pair of trackie bottoms and aodhgan got an old sock which he triumphantly sported in the back pocket of his jeans for the rest of the day. hmmm.

there’s an atmosphere at the car boot sales that i haven’t witnessed at any other event in dublin. there is an almost exciting vibe happening. the crowd is quite diverse and for some reason people are so relaxed, you can almost see a glow coming from outside. although it has much of the same crowd that you would see at various nights out in dublin, there is something about the day-time that seems to particularly suit these people. i think the clique element of other events fades a little and it has an element of shiny happy people. apart from that, you can get some good finds there as long as you’re willing to run some of the clothes through the washing machine first (apparently this hasn’t occurred to anyone who is actually selling the stuff yet) and where else are you going to get double dips, refresher drumsticks and swizzel lipsticks? that takes me back.

word to the wise though, if you wanna consume, get there early. if you roll in at 3 o’clock you’re bound to miss the best buys. even if you’re not so interested in buying, it’s worth going just to have abitova a swoon at the various types wandering around. they had quite a bit of difficulty trying to get us to leave at 7pm but eventually we were herded inside. a fair amount of the boot sale people ran home for a costume change and returned later on, ourselves included, although i don’t think we managed to make it into wardrobe. there had been week-long rumours circulating about a lock-in which never materialised. what joker started that one?!

in other news, david sedaris will be doing readings from his new collection of essays, when you are engulfed in flames, and signing copies at 8pm on thursday, 11th of september in the westin hotel. tickets are being sold for €8 at waterstones – money well spent if you ask me. in case ju don’t even know, david is the older brother of comedian, amy sedaris (is that how you spell comedian? i don't know grammar), what i do know is this – his writing is funny and quirky without coming off as contrived.

the ifi is showing the bridge over the river kwai on thursday which I was forced to watch as a child and has haunted me ever since. might go to it just to see how disturbing it is 20 years on. also killer of the sheep looks worth the tenner.

in any event, see yall at antics closely followed by lethal bizzle at club nme.

oh and if you haven’t got onto albert hammond jr’s new album, you should. for serious.

be safe. be scene.

jules