I’ve gotten into a fairly unhealthy sleep pattern cycle that I really have to break – especially at the weekends, when I work in a bar and generally get home at around 2am. Once a week (Sundays, usually), I’ll stop off at the chipper and get a fresh cod and curry chips… probably a bad idea too, if I’m honest- health-wise certainly,- although I convinced myself recently that once a week is okay. I meant to make a new year’s resolution to cut down on it (or cut it out entirely) and get more healthy, but that’s easier said than done as I like it too bloody much for my own good!

Once home, I’m reluctant to go to sleep and usually watch a bit of TV with the dog for company. When I do eventually go up to the bedroom, I’m too awake to sleep and stay up reading, browsing, chatting, tweeting, facebooking, watching movies – and yes, occasionally, blogging.

Sometimes I have a few drinks while doing this… alone. Bad idea.. I know! – and this goes on until I finally start to feel properly tired – stupid o’clock usually (often after 4 or 5am) – a lot of the time actually in bed with the laptop on a tray on my knees, and I end up not getting up until 1 or 2pm the next day.

Three hours ago, I suggested a meme on twitter (where I’m @niallok by the way!) based on renaming movies in an Irish-y way. I called it “Movies Made Irish” and it involved taking a word out of the movie name and replacing it with an Irish place or town name with presumably hilarious consequences (you know?… like… “Raiders of the Lost Arklow” and so on).

I even proposed a hashtag for it (”#moviesmadeirish“) – yeah it won’t start trending or anything, but it helps to keep track of it and it grew quickly enough, evolving beyond just town names, with Irish-isms, symbols of Irish life and other silly mutations being thrown in.

Here’s some of the best ones (with town/place names):

Freddie Got Finglas’d, Castle-knocked Up, Lord of the Ringaskiddys, ET: The Extra Killesterial, Raiders of the Lost Arklow, Bray-Fart, Meath Myself and Irene, Dublin Indemnity, Dublin Your Money, When Harry Met Sally Gap, Romancing the Blarney Stone, Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Ennis, Die Another Bray, Jurassic Cark, Crocodile Ardee, Bridget Jonesboro’s Diary, Naas/Off, The Ring (Of Kerry), Finding Nemo Rangers, Kimmage Mutant Ninja Turtles OR Teenage Mutant Nenagh Turtles, East Wall-E, Armagh-geddon, Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones (Co. Monaghan), The Belfast and the Furious, The Fast & The Firhouse, An Offaly Big Adventure, The Killiney Fields, Schindler’s Lisdoonvarna, The Grapes of Bunratty, Dundrumdog Millionaire, Killaloe Framed Roger Rabbit, The Shawshankhill Redemption, D4 Confidential, Rush & Lusk Hour 2, Indiana Jones and the Templeogue of Doom, From Lusk ‘Til Dawn, Fantastic Mister Foxrock, Silence of the Lamb Doyle’s, Men in Blackrock, The Witches of East-Link, Derry Maguire, Marino Royale, Munster Vs Aliens, The Men Who Stare at Goatstown, Kiss Kiss Bang Bangor, How the Newcastlewest Was Won, The Replacement Killashandras, Alvin and the Leixlipmonks, Ringsend of Days, Das Booterstown, Carlito’s Bray, Macroom with a View, The Rock (Of Cashel), Mulhuddart Drive, Stand By Meath, Bridge on the River Moy, Munsters Inc., The Order of the Phoenix Park, The Spy Who Came In From The Coldcut Road, Sleepless in Stoneybatter, Lucan for Eric, Looking for Errigle, Malahide and Seek, A Cork-Work Orange, Singing in the Slane/Singing in the Slaney, Some Like It Howth, Dead Man Walkinstown, Glendalough, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Naas

And then there’s the ones that don’t mention town names but are still funny…

Apocalypse Cowen, Three Blokes and a Chissler, Sophie’s Joyce, The Mammy, The Mammy returns & The Mammy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Feckless (Clueless), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Rode Me, Ó Deartháir Cá Bhfuil Tú?, The Begrudge, Silence of the Shams, Twelve Angry Dublin Bus Passengers, The Sisterhood of the Traveller’s Pants, Irish Dancing With Wolves, Diddley-die Hard, The Breakfast Roll Club, Snakes on a Pint of Plain, Foot Luas, Macauley Culkin …in “Free Gaff I & II”, A-Wolfe-Tonement, Ghost in the Shell Garage, Sherlock Gaffs, Saving Private Ryanair

It’s still going on as I type… thanks to @duggan, @psneeze, @clearskies, @lecraic, @ByGina, @sharononeill, @calumvs, @garthicus, @GSheehy, @KeavyL, @nonsequitir, dartacus, @Mojo_Marty, pluincee, EvilPhil, sintaxasn, @gerrymulvenna, @dermdaly, @Azrael1, @cianm, @feylya and @sineadkeogh to name but a few for taking part… it kept me entertained (and kept me from working on a college assignment, lol!) – I was following a lot of you already, and am now following a bunch of you for the first time!

Well, according to famed Irish comedian, Dara O’Briain, that is.

Cue Don LaFontaine style movie trailer voice: “In a world, where rivalries are settled… with complicated and ridiculously over-the-top “dance-off”s… which have been made illegal… ONE MAN… ONE DESTINY… etc. etc.”