Articles by Liam O'Brien
Muse Editor (2008/09)
Liam has written 75 articles for Nouse
Never mind romcoms, make your first date a trip to Martyrs or Antichrist
By Liam O'Brien — June 22, 2010
The date movie is perhaps the worst genre Hollywood has to offer. So vast is the gulf between Valentine’s Day, The Bounty Hunter and films someone in full possession of their mental faculties would actually want to see, that one must seek out other entertainment
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — June 22, 2010
While thinking (admittedly for about five minutes, with a Corona in hand) about my last column in Nouse, I have come to reflect upon just how big a part Pokémon played in my childhood
Getting the ‘Fred’ Finish
By Liam O'Brien — May 25, 2010
After designing Gaga’s infamous Telephone hat, Fred Butler’s star is on the rise. Liam O’Brien asks just how you turn paper and plastics into fashion
So-called Life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — May 25, 2010
The advent of Freeview has increasingly meant that my life away from home is dictated by the TV schedule
Johnny Blue Eyes
By Liam O'Brien — May 4, 2010
Liam O’Brien talks to Johnny Blue Eyes, creative director of the endearingly zany House of Blue Eyes
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — May 4, 2010
I, like many others, am in the last term of my degree at York, and like many others I have amassed a grotesquely large number of friends
Squalor and Struggle
By Liam O'Brien — March 16, 2010
York’s Gypsy and Traveller community has been exiled to the margins of the city. Liam O’Brien is shocked by their living conditions and police intrusion on their sites
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — March 16, 2010
I had been waiting in earnest for the ‘Telephone’ video for about two months
For once, York students can be glad to be Oxbridge rejects
By Liam O'Brien — March 16, 2010
For a great many students here, Oxbridge rejection is the first real disappointment in their lives, lighting the curmudgeonly way for the even greater woe of joblessness upon graduation
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — February 23, 2010
Everyone has their favourite words, and when you write reasonably often, as I do in this very paper, you tend to repeat them
That girl is a monster
By Liam O'Brien — January 26, 2010
Extreme Christians from the Westboro Baptist Church think Lady Gaga is about to get a ‘Smack from God’. Number 1 fan Liam O’Brien asks why?
The Sorrow and the Pity
By Liam O'Brien — January 26, 2010
Near the beginning of this documentary about the German occupation of France, a bourgeois pharmacist tells director Marcel Ophüls that rather than being moved to courage in the face of the German forces, elicited instead were the emotions of sorrow and pity.
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — January 26, 2010
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Departmental cuts a symptom of devaluation in education
By Liam O'Brien — January 26, 2010
As York’s academic departments are called upon to collectively make £1.2 million in savings, there is the considerable temptation to suggest that these budget cuts should indeed be made on an uneven and disproportionate basis
So-called life: Liam O’Brien
By Liam O'Brien — December 8, 2009
Though its significance may escape (or probably disinterest) you, you are currently staring at the pages of New MUSE. As I write, I am all too aware of this column’s placement on M4, described in some circles – and not without due cause – as ‘The Black Hole’. Deciding upon how best to avoid a [...]


