Yesterday was wonderful. We had so many bad days out in recent months that we'd decided to stay home as much as possible. Yesterday changed that, for me at least. Our first stop was the the post office where we sent many overdue packages. Then I went to the library, and to a local bookstore where I got so much stuff I shall write about later.
Next stop was the movie theater where we saw Identity. It was our first big screen movie since Chicago and we really enjoyed it. After that, a brief stop at Ellen's Ice Cream place where Vic downed a milkshake and then asked if I wanted some. Typical! The night was rounded off by more movies at the home of Vic's friend from work where we had pizza and watched Sweet Home Alabama (hey, it wasn't so bad) and The Ring (I understand those who said it wasn't scary - it's so much more difficult to get caught up in a movie when you have distractions all around you. I've missed the theatrical experience.) Then we came home, watched a Carol Burnette video (my first time!) and went to bed. It was just a nice and relatively inexpensive day. Much needed after this week when both Vic and I sunk pretty low into the depths of despair and depression. The mind is a scary thing. I don't want to write too much about it, but I thought things that I should never think, would never think if I was rational. I wish doctors appointments could be more immediate, because by the time an appointment comes around I can't remember what it felt like to be so ... detached. And I think it's inevitable I'll feel like that again and I don't want to. This week it really felt like I was drowning at one point, but finally reached the surface. Now I'm trying to swim but the shore seems a long way off.
Anyway, Vic and I have been talking about moving to Florida. Having something to get excited about is nice. Vic tried to talk to me about this earlier in the week and I was cruelly dismissive. Thankfully, I'm more open now. The possibility seems a long way off but we can dream. West Virginia can be a depressing place, mostly because of the crushing influence of Vic's family, but also because there's a lack of positivity in our lives. Both Vic and I work with the old and jaded, there's so much ignorance and poverty, and generally not much to get excited about.

Moving on to the lighter part of my almost weekly updates, this week I have been enjoying the following:

Movies

I thought Evelyn was good, but that may just be because I'm Irish :) 8 Femmes was a wonderful joyous movie and reminded me how good foreign movies can be. Y Tu Mama Tambien should be on the way from netflix now. I watched Maid in Manhattan recently too - a mildly enjoyable experience. I'm still having trouble with Harry Potter movies. Most people say the second is better than the first, but still I can barely get through it. They're focusing so hard on getting most plot elements included that they're missing out on the magic that made the books so amazing. The movies are missing humor and warmth and soul.

Books

I haven't been able to read much this week, but I'm in the middle of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley which I'm loving. I also started Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, and The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield. I had been loving Jonathan Carroll's 'Bones of the Moon' until fantasy seemed to intrude on the wonderful narrative of young married life. It's been added to the growing list of books I've started but not finished. I did finish Girl Interrupted, which was disappointing for me, perhaps because I'd heard it lauded by friends for years. It was an interesting memoir, but I thought it vague and underwhelming. Among the many books I got for around $10 yesterday (yay for library sales):
Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
The Angel on the Roof : Stories by Russell Banks
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Blue Ridge by T. R. Pearson
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
I also borrowed several - the aforementioned novel of golf and philosophy (Bagger Vance) plus paperbacks by Douglas Clegg & F. Paul Willson, Hunted Past Reason by Richard Matheson, and Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories by Meave Binchy and 15 more Irish women authors.

Music

The current round of mixes are done. I don't know if many people like to read track listings, but you can find the link on my homepage, and on the entry below this one. I get a little obsessive. I had decided to make one upbeat summery mix and ended up with 6, had planned to make a tape of jazz favorites and ended up with 4. It took over 2 hours just to type all the track listings. But I enjoy it, I think I needed a break from reading so much, I'm happy to put my music collection to good use, and I often discover new favorites in the process. I hope recipients enjoy the music even half as much as I have. My final 2 mixes haven't been listed on my site yet, so here's a taster. I made these after being inspired by the musical numbers in 8 Femmes, being disappointed with a recent MTV countdown of best voices, and hearing of the death of one of my favorites - Nina Simone.

Les Femmes

I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl - Nina Simone
Across the Universe - Fiona Apple
Mean to Me - Billie Holiday
Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan
I'm Through With Love - Jane Monheit
The Captain - Kasey Chambers
Comment Allez Vous - Blossom Dearie
I Believe in Love - Dixie Chicks
Dreamsville - Sarah Vaughan
Falling in Love - Lisa Loeb
East of the Sun - Diana Krall
I Don't Wanna Talk About It - Indigo Girls
One Flight Down - Norah Jones
Mary of the Wild Moor - Sara Evans
Cry Me a River - Julie London
No Frontier - Mary Black
Blind River Boy - Amy Corriea
My Invitation - Sarah Slean
Not Only Human - Heather Nova
High - Erin O'Hara
Dream On - Fisher
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Nina Simone

Les Femmes 2

Little Girl Blue - Nina Simone
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin
I'll be Seeing You - Billie Holiday
Life is Sweet - Natalie Merchant
A case of You - Jane Monheit
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
My Funny Valentine - Sarah Vaughan
Safe and Sound - Sheryl Crow
Playing of Ball - Kate Rusby
Never Saw blue Like that Before - Shawn Colvin
Si tu N'etais Pas La - Frehel
Silent Night - Lisa Hannigan
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Love Gets in the Way - Dayna Kurtz
I'd Rather Be Blind - Etta James
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Save Me - Aimee Mann
She Cries Your Name - Beth orton
Thank You - Dido
Sitting At The Window Of My Room - Alison Krauss
Selah - Lauryn Hill
Fools Rush In - Rosemary Clooney
Goodbye Sadness - Astrud Gilberto
Barbara Allen - Emmy Rossum

TV

It was such a frustrating TV week that I upgraded Netlix to 5 at a time, so we'll have something to watch. Last week I watched the first Dawson's Creek DVD. It was good for the first couple of episodes - I was feeling all nostalgic. So much has happened in my life during the course of that show. But it got a little tedious towards the end and I've deleted the other discs from our list.

And that's about it. I didn't really have the concentration for TV or internet this week. I got Moonlight mile, Bird, and American Rhapsody from the library, and we currently have Harold & Maude and Julien Donkey Boy from Netflix, with Perfume and The Five Senses on the way. I've been craving some indie goodness!

In life, the landlord just stopped by - he hadn't gotten this month's rent yet (I did mail it - honest!) and suggested I pay for both April and May. So that's another $800 gone. Up and down. C'est la vie.

Most of my spare time recently has been spent making mix tapes for friends. Here are the results.

From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:

"Work, play – at sixty our powers and stases are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking – thinking!” . . .. “Now – such is progress – the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, not leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think – or if ever by some solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a weekend, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon; returning whence they find themselves on the other side of the crevice, safe of the solid ground of daily labour and distraction, scampering from feely to feely, from girl to pneumatic girl, from Electromagnetic Golf course to . . ."

"Christianity without tears— that’s what soma is."

"Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am."

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

I'm deleting most of a message I wrote earlier because things have changed already and I didn't want to create a misleading impression. I will however leave you witht he following taster...

It's horrible how quickly perspectives can change. Being home with Vic can be so wonderful. We enjoy each other's company. It doesn't take much to make us happy really. But sometimes, being here can be intolerable. The feeling of being anchored down and drowning. You reach for the surface but the anchor gets heavier, and it seems like you will never breathe again.

The survey phenomenon known as Friday Five:

> 1. Who is your favorite celebrity?

Angelina Jolie, Katie Holmes, Liv Tyler, Salma Hayek, Sarah Polley, Nicolas Cage, Jeremy Davies, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

> 2. Who is your least favorite?

Charisma Carpenter, Anna Nicole Smith.


> 3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life?

Met Kathy Fisher, Luka Bloom, & some internationally known DJs, and I saw Lennox Lewis outside a Dublin hotel once.
Since my list is so pathetic, I'm going to list those I've seen from a distance (in concert!) Metallica, Therapy, Ash, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, OTT, Outhere Brothers, Louise, Sean Maguire, 3T, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Norah Jones, Odetta, Joan Baez, Joan Osborne, Natalie Merchant, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, Tori Amos, Allison Moorer, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, The Saw Doctors, Altan, The Chieftains, Dayna Kurtz, Peter Mulvey, Amy Corriea, Lucinda Williams, Vic Chesnutt, Ron Sexsmith, Kami Lyle, Pin Monkey, The Derailers, Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams, Black 47, Buddy & Julie Miller, Loudon Wainwright III, Nini Camps, Josh Ritter, Twink and of course, Dustin the Turkey!

> 4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not?

Probably not. I'd prefer recognition or respect. Famous people are in general kinda fucked up, n'est-ce pas?!


> 5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why?<

Royston Langdon - I could be a rock singer for a day and sleep with Liv Tyler. Lovely!

Speaking of fucked up, searching for the guy's name I found this:

The opening act on this leg of Todd Rundgren's tour is his new son-in-law of sorts, Royston Langdon, former lead singer for Spacehog.

Langdon is the husband of actress Liv Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and model Bebe Buell. Liv Tyler was raised by Buell and Rundgren, whom Tyler considers her "spiritual" father.

This week we received a card with a sum of money enclosed. The card was unsigned and the envelope had no return address. It's so rare these days to experience such an unselfish gesture of goodwill. I have my suspicions about who our benefactor is and hope they receive the good karma they deserve. Thank you.

> What have you been enjoying or hating
lately in...<

> -Music:

Making jazz mixtapes again, so I've been
listening to all my favorite tracks,
which I shall list when I'm done!

> -Movies:

There's a little Irish movie called Rat
which stars Pete Postlethwaite as
Dubliner who's transformed into the
titular creature which leads to much
hilarity. I loved this movie because of
it's simple humor. I think Vic was
scared at the similarities between the
wife and my mother. This movie and the
book I just finished made me a little
homesick.

> -Books:

The Ship Inspector by Ferdia MacAnna,
not much about a ship inspector after
all. It's written from the perspective
of a twenty-something Irish guy who's
got relationship and job issues, and
also about his growing up in a family
abandoned by the father. I got this book
for less than a dollar in Indiana and
thought it was wonderful. I had read the
author's previous book (Last of the High
Kings which was adapted into a movie -
called Summer Fling in the US) when I
was in High School.

The First Victim by Ridley Pearson
wasn't quite as good as others I've read
by this author. It's an above average
suspense thriller though, about
smuggling illegal immigrants and a
missing reporter.

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy was
excellent as are all his books. This one
is set between The Black Dahlia and LA
Confidential and is about a vicious
serial killer!

I've been listening to Snow Crash by
Neal Stephenson which is much better
than I expected. Fast paced plot, a
fascinating vision of the future and
some interesting biblical references.
Love it!

> -TV:

Six Feet Under, Buffy & Angel were all
pretty enjoyable this week - the latter
2 infused with new energy courtesy of
post-Foxfire guest stars. Real Time with
Bill Maher is probably the show I most
look forward to, but maybe that's cos
it's on friday!


> -Internet:

Email, radio, message boards.


In other news: work has been simple,
talk radio is turning me into a
Republican, the car is fixed, I survived
our annual Jehovah's Witnesses meeting,
I like Amber Bock, my teeth are not
aching so much and financial pressures
have been somewhat alleviated.

That's all folks!

Just made a little page promoting Damien Rice and simplified my homepage. Tired now.

I didn't write about last week's Mountain Stage show yet, so I think it's about time I purged myself! It was disasterous, lasting an hour longer than usual. The performers messed up on at least 5 songs for reasons ranging from having a cold, to the hamburger that didn't go down properly, to technical difficulties. The songs weren't particularly good to begin with so hearing most of them twice was tedious. Tracy Grammer and some other guy were at best forgettable. My favorite performer of the night was Jeannie Kendall. Her songs were what you might expect from a country artist, but her voice was superb, putting her up there with Natalie Maines and Kasey Chambers on the 'country singers I'd voluntarily listen to' list! Josh Ritter was good too, but his songs all sounded alike. Vic seemed to enjoy the Joan Baez set. I realise she's a legend and all, but.. not my cup of tea. I don't like her voice, and the songs were unspectacular, with the possible exception of Motherland which of course was sung much more beautifully by Natalie Merchant.
Incidentally, both Joan Baez and Josh Ritter were heard on the episode of Six Feet Under that originally aired the night of the concert.
Looks like the next live music experience for us will be a Mountain Stage show headed by Ani DiFranco in June. Alas, financial constraints have made impossible out of state trips to see Damien Rice and/or John Mayer perform.

So far this weekend, I have seen 2 movies. Far From Heaven, which looked good, and I'm sure was wonderfully acted, but simply didn't hold my interest. There were a couple of touching scenes, but I thought this movie was extremely overrated. I don't think it's spoiling anything to say most people who watch this movie already know that it's about a married man who tries to deny his homosexuality, and a white woman who becomes friendly with a black man. And that's it really. The movie doesn't resolve anything, and like Road to Perdition, it took itself too seriously. It's nice to have a film beautifully photographed, but it's nicer to make it interesting.

Which leads me to Femme Fatale. This movie had both qualities. The direction by Brian De Palma was so incredible, I want to watch it again just to take notice of how everything is framed, of the wonderful setting, of his use of slow motion and splitscreen, of the music. The acting and plot are good enough to hold my interest, and the eroticism is simply a bonus :)

I may have posted some of the following details before, but I think I should gather them together for full impact! Among the problems that have cropped up in the past month are:

Ingrown toenals
Owing $1000 for federal imcome tax
Owing $300 for state income tax
Car crash resulting in $500 uninsured damages
Toothaches & dental appointment

The latter cost $60 for a dentist to say he couldn't help me. He mentioned the options of a root canal - $2000 - or the extraction of 2 teeth - $400 - and said he'd have to refer me elsewhere to have the work done.

The people at work have told me I'll be in debt for the rest of my life so I'd better get used to it. Land of the free indeed.

There were some more little stories from WV reported nationally this week. Why the hell do some media outlets insist on calling it "Appalachia"? This is from today's New York Times:
"As Pfc. Jessica Lynch had more surgery at an American military hospital in Germany, the gifts, care packages and book deal offers began arriving at her home in Appalachia."
I remember too when George W visited the state at crucial times, the TV banners and reporters spoke about Appalachia instead of West Virginia. Is the country ashamed of us?!
The other WV story to reach beyond state lines this week was reported at fark.com, where you can read some news that's not war related!

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A male George Washington High School student is facing disciplinary action for allegedly sneaking into the girls' locker room and getting lodged behind the shower wall for several hours.

Principal Jim Vickers said the student, who he would not identify, was not injured in last week's incident, but did cause damage to a brick wall during his escape."He had his father come and get him when school was out," Vickers said. "We think his father probably used a hammer to free him from behind the wall."Vickers said the student sneaked into the locker room during school hours and stationed himself between a short brick wall by the showers and the piping behind it.

He used an ice machine to hoist himself to the top of the brick wall, which is about 18 inches lower than the ceiling."We're guessing he was trying to peek over the top," Vickers said. "But so far, we don't know that he actually saw anyone. I have no reports that anyone was a victim of that."However, the day after the student was caught, a female student came forward to say she thought she may have spotted someone in the locker room the day before.

Vickers thinks the two students made eye contact, startling the male student behind the wall and causing him to slip.

The student apparently waited until the final bell rang, before using a cell phone he had in his pocket to call his father for help.

Vickers said that the parent entered the school without alerting anyone in the office, heading straight to the locker room to help his son. Later, the father called the school to report the incident.Other students are being investigated for their role in the incident at the South Hills school, but so far only one student has been disciplined.

Vickers declined to say whether the student had been suspended because student records are confidential.Vickers reported it to the Charleston Police Department, but officers declined to investigate because they said a crime had not been committed.However, spying on fellow students in a locker room does fall under Kanawha County's sexual harassment policy.Vickers has been fielding phone calls from concerned parents after rumors started circulating throughout the school."Initially, you want to chuckle when you hear this," Vickers said. "But we're taking it very seriously. People have to know there will be consequences to their actions."

This report taken from Charleston's Daily Mail.

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This week was just filled with good news and joy. I had a head cold for most of the week, then had to deal with some ingrown toenails, then received a letter from the IRS saying we owed over $1000 when I was expecting a refund of $700. The $700 was supposed to help us return the $500 Vic's mom is loaning us to get the car fixed. And all this is in addition to over $300 owed for state taxes. So yes, it's been a financially oppressive week to say the least. We won't be buying cds or books, or going to any concerts (with the exception of tomorrow's Joan Baez concert, already paid for) for a few months. We may even have to reduce the amount of junk food we buy - shock horror!
Ooh, have you heard about the cast of Wes Craven's upcoming movie 'Cursed'? *Deep breath* .....
Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Scott Baio, James Brolin, Neve Campbell, Illeana Douglas, Shannon Elizabeth, Omar Epps, Corey Feldman, Scott Foley and Robert Forster. And it's written by Kevin Williamson. Dude! That's gonna be awesome!
Ahem. Time for some stream of consciousness provoked by cast names. The release of Prozac Nation has been postponed again? Whaaat? They canceled Miracles, the fuckers. Okay, it's time to boycott ABC, people. Come on! Who the hell's Scott Baio? Poor Neve. Didn't wanna get typecast as the 'Scream Queen' but damn, she made some bad decisions. Girl, you should be glad he's giving you a job. Y'know, 13 Ghosts wasn't as bad as you might expect. And, mmm, Nadja in little white panties. Scott and Jennifer broke up. That is so sad. They were such a cute couple. Robert Forster is like, the coolest old guy ever. In Jackie Brown? Man, that shit was steamin'. I once thought that Kevin Williamson was Christopher Pike. Because Christopher Pike's real name is Kevin Macfadden, because Pike seems to have just disappeared about 5 years ago. Used to be several books a year from him and then nothing and no explanation. And because I thought Kevin Williamson was the best teen horror writer since Christopher Pike! But I'm over that now.

Other ensemble casts I'm excited about...

Tim Burton's Big Fish starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito and Robert Guillaume.

Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Donald Sutherland and Jena Malone.

Lars Von Trier's Dogville starring Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Siobhan Fallon, Chloë Sevigny, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Philip Baker Hall, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, James Caan, and Blair Brown.

Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Matt Damon, Jason Lee and Jason Mewes.

Michael Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood and Mark Ruffalo.

Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin starring Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds, Darragh Kelly and Gerard McSorley.

Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts and Laurence Kinlan.

Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Topher Grace.

Roland Emmerich's The day After Tomorrow starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Jared Harris and Ian Holm.

Clint Eastwood's Mystic River starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Emmy Rossum.

Ron Howard's The Missing starring Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Simon Baker, Evan Rachel Wood and Aaron Eckhart.

Christian Duguay's Hitler starring Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine, Peter O'Toole, Liev Schreiber and Peter Stormare.

Mike Figgis' Cold Creek Manor starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis and Christopher Plummer.

And last but certainly not least...

Wolfgang Peterson's Troy starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Peter O'Toole, Sean Bean, Brian Cox, Julie Christie, Brendan Gleeson and Saffron Burrows.


In distraction's this week, I finished several books, including:
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
The Body of a Girl by Leah Stewart
It's What He Would Have Wanted by Sean Hughes

I started Cover Her Face by PD James, Girl in the Photograph by Gabrielle Donnelly, The Black Echo by Michael Connelly and The Ship Inspector by Ferdia MacAnna. The latter book is Irish by the way.
And I'm listenening to Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy.

Every book I mention is recommended somehow unless I specify otherwise. I have a bad habit of just mentioning books here and not giving people any reason to read them. So if you search for books I've finished recently on Amazon you may find some reviews by me. I intend to write a review for every book I finish, but I'm not so good with intentions.

I told Vic this week that Miracles was my new favorite show, replacing The Shield. Guess I'll have to find a new one. There wasn't much good TV this week. I enjoyed The Ali G show. Yes, I'm finally admitting it. And The Daily Show is always good. I like Crank Yankers and Chapelle's Show too. And Scrubs. And The Office. That's all. Oh yeah, and I watched Colin Farrell on several talk shows. Nice to hear someone talking about getting twisted and this, that and the other. Pity about the bleeps :)

Online this week, I spent some time at radiowaves.fm - Irish radio sure has changed a lot. I continue to add books to my shopping cart at bookclosouts.com - highly recommended. New books at used prices!

I listened to some soothing scores last night - The Legend of 1900 by Ennio Morricone and Somewhere in Time by John Barry. This week, I continued my collection of 10 tapes for walkman/car/work/whatever transferring the following from cd: Elvis, Erin O'Hara, The Saw Doctors, The Doves, soundtracks for Vanilla Sky and Romeo + Juliet, and a mix of favorite instrumental tracks. I find myself listening to piano music a lot, especially cds by Jim Bajor and local legend Bob Thompson.

I saw some great movies this week too - Primary Colors, Guinevere and Secretary. We've got Personal Velocity to watch this weekend, and I recorded Priest and Bob Roberts, both of which I'd seen but think Vic will enjoy.

And to finish, I just read the following on imdb.com...

Indicative of what is wrong with this country:

*A charity single from the TV talent search American Idol is being changed to feature versions of two patriotic US songs. The show's finalists had been expected to release the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, "What The World Needs Now Is Love." But following viewer pressure after they sang the songs on the 25 March edition of the show, they will now record: "I'm Proud To Be An American" and "God Bless the USA." The songs, by Lee Greenwood, will make up a double A-side to be released later this month by RCA Records. RCA executive Richard Sanders says, "They got such an overwhelming, positive response from viewers for doing those songs that we decided to release them as the American Idol charity single."*

Irish guys are whores:

*Irish lothario Colin Farrell was a busy man at the premiere of his new movie Phone Booth, where he tangled with three mystery women. The sexy actor, whose girlfriend Kim Bordenave is expecting his baby, was in high spirits as he arrived at the post-screening party. He told reporters of Bordenave, "She's doing great. She's strong as an ox." But as soon as he was inside the Minority Report star got down to business. An onlooker says he was spotted doing a spot of dirty dancing with a girl called Sade before moving on to another lovely. The source says, "He ended up kissing her but she got mad because he kept pushing her away." But then Farrell exchanged the girl for yet another one and proceeded to kiss her passionately on the dance floor too. However, none of the three had the pleasure of accompanying the hunky star home. That right was reserved by his mother Rita. *

Car Repairs: $500
Taxes Due: $1400
Each Human Life: Priceless

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