Anya discovered today that Irvine Welsh is living just minutes away from us in Rathmines. He's opened a new theatre down in Dundrum (my favorite shopping mall/cinema googleplex). I don't normally praise malls as I am more of an urban than suburban person, but the Luas line makes it so easy to go down to Dundrum for all my consumer and entertainment needs. Well, really it's just for the movie theatres, as I can't bring myself go to a bar that is attached to a mall.
Irvine Welsh was a huge influence on me in during my 20s. I read all his books and I tried to imitate his writing style. However, one must always master the craft before expressing one's individual style through the craft. This I have failed to do, and so today there is no Canadian answer to Irvine Welsh.
As someone who considers themselves to have a high degree of self-awareness, I have realized that I am not a good referential blogger. I simply don't have the time to search the web for the few friends that actually read this thing and post links to interesting new articles or ideas upon which I have extrapolated. People like Jason Kottke are very good at that. What I do is merely therapy for myself and to check off one of the boxes in my Full Engagement Accountability Matrix.
I loved the seating arrangements for the theaters in the UK - assigned seating (that was the best part). How are things going out there man?
Posted by: Harvey | May 19, 2006 at 04:47 AM