Jan
22
Am very, very happy the movie Once just got nominated for an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard. Irish KC has been flying the flag for a while and as ever he was right. On the off chance you haven’t seen it yet RUN and get the DVD - Now!
Well have you started running yet?
Assuming you are very drunk, in a dark room and squinting - a lot. Email me on Irishflirtysomething at hotmail.com
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Have to admit I didn’t care for the film very much, but it’s very romantic that Glen and Markéta are now an item.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 am
Well deserved. The soundtrack is excellent with “Falling Slowly” as a stand out track.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:14 am
Sorry, looks like an over-blown GH music vid to me. Plus I find it very hard to like him, given his interviews over the past few years. Check out eyebrowy.com - they really nail his attitude!
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Warms the heart to see something so good in the middle of the usual rubbish
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Oh and Glen (and the rest of The Frames) are perfectly wonderful in real life. Couldn’t be more down to earth.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Nick - if it were anyone else I would suspect a publicity stunt but guess it is not glen’s style.
Anthony - the cd is almost worn away from playing - love it
Nope - granted the interview in the Times was a little strange.
Con - completely agree, when did you meet them?
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I suspect that Glen and Marketa were an item from the start, and that’s why they worked together on the movie and the music. Perhaps Glen was involved in casting and chose Marketa for the role because he fancied her. The media might have thought the movie would sell better if it appeared that Glen and Marketa got together during filming. Romantic coincidences are few and far between in this life no matter what people want to believe.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I meet them over here about two years ago - a lovely bunch of people.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Glen 1st met her when she was 13. He was friend of her father’s. A little pervvy anyone? Charming as the music is, I cannot get over his interview in the Irish Time magazine before Xmas…he is truly an asshole.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
So Glen did know Marketa before they made the movie then. OK they might be lovely people but I KNEW all that stuff about them getting together while filming had to be PR crap. He probably didn’t make a move when Marketa was 13 but she probably had a mad crush on him for aaaaaggggeeessss after that and eventually they got together. Then they decided to keep it quiet because he was a friend of her Da and on account of the filming blah de blah de blah…the media must think people are fools! They made the friggin’ movie together because they WERE together!
January 24th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Fair play to them.
Don’t think the “perv” comments are very fair - I think it’s beautiful how they got together. And shows that love can come knocking in any form when you least expect it. And maybe we should all put down for a minute our shopping lists of perfect girls and guys and see what life really has to offer us.
Also read the Times interview with Glen and found it really touching when he talked about almost “grieving” at the loss of a part of himself. As someone who spent part of my life stuck in a rut, I know exactly that grieving you do afterwards when you finally move on. It’s totally unexpected and almost emabarassing cos you’ve finally gotten what you’ve claimed you wanted. But life is never that simple…
January 24th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I read the interview online. He’s 37, she’s 19 and fell in love with him on the publicity tour.
I personally don’t have a shopping list for a perfect guy, sometimes I feel like I’m trawling through a landfill site for the remnants of something…anything that can be considered coherent.
Other thirty something women including Flirty might understand what I mean by the landfill site!