Cian's Blog

Sometimes I Catch Myself,

Cian — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:27:01 +0000

Pondering questions like,
“How the fuck is buying a marimba going to help me?”
But then I just carry on.

UCC’s Students’ Union

Cian — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:52:36 +0000

Maybe it’s unfair to lay all the blame on the SU for these issues, but:

UCC students pay for the use of the Mardyke Arena in our capitation fee; it’s been closed for weeks and we’re not getting any compensation for it.

Secondly, all the roads in Cork are covered in snow, the buses are all cancelled, anyone who usually drives to UCC is in no position to make it in tomorrow, and yet college is still open. If the SU can’t successfully bat for students on a softball issue like this then what use is it?

“Sory Wrong Number”

Cian — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:18:39 +0000

Why would someone go to the trouble of writing down a made-up number for you and pretend it’s theirs? Why not just use some stock excuse, or say you’re not interested or whatever? I was having such a good day too…

New Alkaline Trio Song

Cian — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:37:16 +0000

‘This Addiction’. I love this band so much

(Yes, that’s right, Alkaline Trio get a smiley from me for being so goddamn awesome.)

Top Five Records

Cian — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:58:38 +0000

I saw High Fidelity earlier on, so inspired by that here are my top five albums:

1. Your Favourite Weapon (Brand New)
2. Dear You (Jawbreaker)
3. From Here To Infirmary (Alkaline Trio)
4. The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
5. Perfecting Loneliness (Jets To Brazil)

Honourable mention awards for Sing The Sorrow (AFI), Good Mourning (Alkaline Trio), United By Fate (Rival Schools), and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (The Smashing Pumpkins). Feel free to leave your own list in the comments.

Why, Why, Oh Why, Oh Why,

Cian — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:11:14 +0000

Why Is It Always Like This?

Back From The Dead

Cian — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:08:36 +0000

Essay deadlines are looming large on the horizon, so I’ll be posting nonsense here again for the next two weeks as I desperately try to avoid doing work. Here’s some stuff I encountered and liked while I was off-lining:

The Idiots (the Lars Von Trier film)
Wild Strawberries (the Ingmar Bergman film)
Biffy Clyro
The Big Dirty and New Junk Aesthetic (albums by Every Time I Die)
Billy Idol’s Greatest Hits (the less said about this the better)
The Distillers’ Coral Fang album
Tegan and Sara’s discography
The Smiths ‘best of’ album that Eoin Winning kindly lent to me
Ben Folds
Generation Kill (watched the series again; it’s my favourite show ever)
Borderlands (Xbox 360 game)
Tuning my guitar down a whole step

I also returned to veganism and got a job. Well, a Christmas job. But it would be pretty sweet if I could keep it on after Christmas, which is a minor possibility.

That’s about it. Stay Frosty.

Signing Off

Cian — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:20:18 +0000

I would very much like to put something up here, but I’m afraid that it could fuck everything up, so I won’t.

…

Looking back on it, blogging here has been a mixed bag. In the early days I posted reactionary political opinions which I’m thoroughly ashamed of now, but thankfully they were mostly washed away when I moved to my own domain. On the plus side, I did meet a very good friend through my early forays into the blogosphere; he’s probably the nicest admiring internet-stalker you could ever hope to encounter.

Recently I haven’t wrote a damn thing however. The only people who read this are friends or people lost in the Google-vortex. There’s nothing of value on this spot, I’m just another new-media vandal clogging up the intertubes with my bullshit half-assed opinions of stuff I know nothing about. This is no way for a man to spend his time. I expect that the only interesting things I ever post here are the kind of things that a sensible person would shy away from posting, and for that reason I hereby announce that cianboland.com is going on indefinite hiatus, effective immediately. Go rot your brain somewhere else.

Om Nom Nom Nom

Cian — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:24:21 +0000

“Braineaters”

OI! OI! OI!

Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal,
Why can’t we have some guts?

OI! OI! OI!

Brains are all we ever get at this rotten fucking place,
brains are all we ever get, why can’t we have a change of pace!

Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal,
Why can’t we have some guts?
Why can’t we have some guts?

Why can’t we have some fucking rotten guts?

Berlusconi Fail

Cian — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:48:12 +0000

From the Beeb:

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has described himself as the most persecuted person “in the entire history of the world”.

Mr Berlusconi also said he was “the best prime minister we can find today”.

In an impassioned statement, he then mistakenly told reporters he had spent millions of euros on “judges”, before correcting himself to say “lawyers”.

Wishlist

Cian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:44:02 +0000

€1 billion.

Ageless Immortality.

A better singing voice.

I’ve been having a pretty good week so far, so I’m just going to leave this here and see what happens.

Raditude Cover Variations

Cian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:46:53 +0000

This made me smile.

“Looks Like Meat’s Back on the Menu, Boys!”

Cian — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:54:00 +0000

I ate chicken today for the first time in about a year and a half. It was delicious.

Last Ever NIN Show

Cian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:35:34 +0000

I joked about this in the pub earlier, but it’s not so funny now. NIN shall never perform live again after tonight, and I find that quite upsetting. Like, almost crying onto my keyboard upsetting. I wish I was there, in The Wiltern in LA, but more than that I wish that this wasn’t the end, and that I knew I could see them again on their next tour, after the next album in a few years’ time. I hate myself right now for being so fucked up in Amsterdam that I don’t remember well over half the set, and I wish they had played for longer at Oxegen. And I wish that they had a gotten a longer slot when they supported the Foo Fighters in Marley Park way back when. I wish I had so much money that I could have followed their Wave Goodbye tour across the world, seeing every single show. More than anything, however, I wish I could properly express to Trent how appreciative I am. Ever since I heard Broken I’ve been addicted to NIN, and every time I feel awful The Downward Spiral is there to… well, not exactly cheer me up, but it’s helpful at any rate.

So thank you, Trent, for 20 years of music. Thank you so much. You are the best thing I have ever heard.

Hardy Bucks

Cian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:01:38 +0000

I don’t know what this is exactly, but it made me laugh.