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i have spent years of my life lamenting the fact that my name, my curious irish name, has never appeared in a pop song. i always felt this was terribly unjust. "why could you not have named me sarah," i would wail at my mother. "or beth. or martha?" invariably, when i got started on this tangent, my mother would look at me curiously, wondering why on earth i was suddenly so hell bent on the name martha. but all my protestations were for nought; all the wails in the world would not give me a radio-friendly name.

so imagine my delight and joy upon discovering that my name HAS, in fact, been featured in a nick cave song! lamentably, i have no idea what it's called, but it was introduced to me in a terribly charming manner, courtesy of the armoured bear:

" "...their daughter Siobhan/who pulled beer from dusk till dawn/ amongst the townsfolk she was a bit of a joke/ but she pulled the best beer in town!" Tragically, though perhaps predictably, the aforementioned Siobhan meets a rather bad end soon after being mentioned in the song, O'Malley's Bar - which was owned by her parents (who were killed just before poor Siobhan). Admittedly, none of this has any direct relevance to the Siobhan in question here, who is not fated to meet her end at the hands of a fictional Nick Cave penned psychopath (and i should know), and is much nicer and more stable than most people mentioned in Nick Cave's music. By a long shot. "

and lo. my discovery that my name has been placed by the king of literate goth rock into the musical lexicon, albeit murderously. and with intimations that "Siobhan" is a bit of a simpleton... but nonetheless an altogether fine way to start my day.