Kieran McConville
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Sometimes even the 'K' is debatable.
My favourite signatures are those where there is absolutely no connection whatsoever with their name, like a weird O with a tail, or a formless ~~~~ for somebody with a name that should have a bit of variation like Timothy.
Mine's not too bad. Some of the letters have blurred together with time but usually you can distinguish at least a bit of an attempt at each one.
Despite my own handwriting and all my time with old documents, I still get flummoxed by some styles though. Who cares how nice your writing looks if it's fucking illegible.
The title was taken from a Sylvia Plath poem, but I was never sure what it exactly meant. That's all I know. It might be one of the very few Manics tracks without a noticeable meaning, but I would imagine the chorus (assuming Nicky wrote it) might have something to do with Nicky's own disgust at being a man (see Born A Girl off This Is My Truth).
The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | And If You Need An Explanation: Manic Street Preachers interviewed
This interview is pretty comprehensive but there's nothing on the song's content here.
I have (quietly) wished for a change to my screen name for years.
As I've said before, I'd happily transfer my post count to my more commonly used 'Zedbetty' identity, but it's too late to start over now.
I'm not going back to zero.
What would you actually change to, Vlad?
I seem to remember an unofficial policy that people could make changes where it was still obvious who they were, e.g. BonoManiac becoming BoMac, BonoVoxSupastar becoming BVS, etc. I recall Sicy's screen name used to be something longer too, but I think it changed either before my time or not long after I became a regular here.
If I had the chance to do it all over again, I'd call myself Achtung Bubba.
God I'm sick of this winter. At least around here, it is mostly cloudy, most of the time. I can't remember the last time we had a proper sunny day, it might have been that one day in between the last system and the current system.
Mostly it's just cloudy. And dull.
Oh, hahah! Those are the choices, huh?
No, I live in southern Queensland, some way north of those two places, which contrary to their inhabitants' impression, are not Australia in its entirety.
I can imagine it getting on people's nerves, those who don't live in ever-popular Syd & Mel. I visited your country for the first time in Jan this year. Yes, I too am guilty of having visited only those 2 cities. But hey, I had only 2 weeks vacation at my disposal!
I think you will find that Australia extends between Bell Street, Coburg in the north and the Yarra River in the south.