Hello, world. I’m MacDara Conroy, and this is my blog.

Date: July 2017

The new Dead Neanderthals out next month is as intense as you’d expect but with a mournful edge they’ve never quite had before #aside

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Linkin Park fans will be feeling how I felt about Chris Cornell, who’s birthday would’ve been today and all #aside

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That 'words from the year you were born' thing: among others, Bee got 'death metal' and I got 'air guitar' #aside

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Worth picking up the first two Battles Without Honour and Humanity films in the Arrow sale? #aside

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Catching up on @RankandVileCast and I've got 2 things: 1) Eraserhead def influenced by Lynch's xp as a new dad; & 2) Surveillance is AWFUL #aside

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No way is it only 69% humidity. I’m fixin’ to peel off my skin like a wetsuit right now #aside

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Almost forgot to do my Duolingo for the day! Got a 62-day streak going here #aside

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I just saw what happened on last night’s Raw. Nope. Nope nope nope. Nope nope nope nope nope #aside

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Ugh, I just touched my glasses. Off to wash ‘em I go, then back to my usual bullshit #aside

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I’d love to watch the first day of #G127 but it’s another sunny day so our broadband’s cut out about five times an hour since 9 this morning #aside

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Martin Landau as well? Ah FFS #aside

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Still don't care about the G1 as much as the BOSJ but that's OK #aside

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Ah no, George Romero. Cinema would be very different today if it weren't for him and some dentists looking for a quick investment #aside

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Rewatching Jake West's video nasties docs, and the anti-working-class angle is decidedly underplayed #aside

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"[Andrew] Divoff can speak nine languages ... He used to speak Romanian but forgot the language when he had no one with whom to speak it." #aside

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Conor McGregor is a racist and an embarrassment to this country, and if you're making excuses for him you'd better check yourself #aside

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

It’s a maddening catch-22 situation. Such mass preservation of knowledge is the kind of thing governments should be doing, but they can’t justify the expense. Private enterprises like Google can, but the fear of proprietary ownership of knowledge shuts the whole thing down. Gah! The best we can hope for is that Google (or someone else) continues the project for a future generation that will see its value to the whole over the objections of the few. #link

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#NowPlaying The Blood Brothers - March on Electric Children #aside

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WWE cancels Talking Smack. Because how dare the company's talent try to get their work over with engaging off-the-cuff promos #aside

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If your car has low-profile tyres and you’re not an arsehole, you’re an exception to the rule #aside

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Gah I’ve gone deaf in my left ear again! Stupid sinusitis grumble mumble #aside

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Almost out of brain juice after an early start. Just a few more things and then I’m watching movies for the rest of the day #aside

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Wait a minute, there’s a wrestler whose real name is Glen Benton and he doesn’t have a Deicide-adjacent gimmick? #aside

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Zeroed my inbox. I will be doing feck-all till, well, tomorrow morning #aside

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Somehow I feel like seeing an ‘immersive’ production of The Great Gatsby is missing the point of the book #aside

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Not sure what’s worse here: the whataboutery, the wilful point-missing or the delusion that Radiohead are ‘crossing… https://t.co/Chfoa3fxVw #aside

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Here's a question: what might the US deaf community make of War for the Planet of the Apes? Or the rest of the trilogy for that matter? #aside

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Rescheduling the rest of my week midweek is a pain in the hole, indeed #aside

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New BIG|BRAVE album out soon, nice one #aside

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Five minutes into The Circle and it hits me hard that Bill Paxton and Glenne Headly are no longer with us #aside

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This Atriarch record is pretty good, isn’t it? #aside

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I only properly watched the pre-show match and the main event last night; I appreciate that both were marked by ball-based offence #aside

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I guess you can't put the coquina clutch on someone with no neck #WWEGOBF #aside

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Just woke up, turned on #WWEGBOF and WTF? Was that a double turn? Heath Slater? 10 mins left for Brock/Joe? What? #aside

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Warren Ellis is right about omelettes, though I use soya sauce instead of salt, and oil for butter #aside

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Review mostly written, front garden mowed. Good Saturday so far #aside

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Mike Watt & co are supporting Shellac at the Tivoli? Now I have to go #aside

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Too humid for me today. I need a bucket to melt into like Odo #aside

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Ah, the bus to Dublin is so quiet when college is off for the summer #aside

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My 20,000th tweet was about the green triangles in Quality Street. Yep, that's fitting alright #aside

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This ‘coming up with interview questions’ thing is harder than you might think #aside

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I knew Ireland didn't really give a shit about heritage when the Iveagh Market was left to rot, which remains the case today #aside

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