meme time!
Icon Meme! (From brdgt)
DIRECTIONS:
Reply to this post with the word MEME and I will pick six of your icons.
Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
1.
This was actually my default for a long time. It's a scan of a little pin designed by Itsuko Ayano, a Japanese designer of pop art bric-brac that I fell completely in love with when I lived in Tokyo--I really like how her characters aren't the typical big-eyed anime sweethearts. I liked the tough attitude of this one particularly at the time.
2.
Another Japanese stuff scan--this was the envelope in one of the hundreds of Y400 stationery sets I bought (probably at Tokyu Hands, which is also where I got all the Itsuko Ayano stuff). I actually used this scan as the cover of a mix CD; it seemed like an appropriate Japanese English phrase for me.
3.
When I was about 6, the BBC production Robin of Sherwood aired in the US on Showtime; being a huge Robin Hood fan, I was totally obsessed with it. I'm sure all my friends' parents would have been appalled, given that I lived in southeast Missouri and this was the most pagan Robin Hood ever: he was the divine champion of Herne the Hunter. FOR SERIOUS. One of my earliest memories is of being sick but demanding to be allowed to stay up and watch my Robin Hood anyway, and then it was the episode where this Robin, the first (played by Michael Praed) was killed and replaced with a second Robin (Jason Connery) because you can kill a person but you can't kill a CELTIC GOD. This also allowed them to use both of the big Robin Hood origin myths (yeoman archer/forester vs. son of Saxon earl), which now I recognize as pretty neat, but needless to say, at the time I was disconsolate. Anyway, "Nothing is forgotten" was actually a catchphrase on the show, referring to things like people who died fighting injustice and the various hurts visited upon the poor by the Sheriff, etc.
4.
Another mix CD cover--actually created as one. The phrase you may recognize from The Blues Brothers; the picture is an altered photo of my sister Hannah in the car that I really liked. I like making road trip mix CDs; this was one of my first.
5.
A long-time X-Men fan, I was thrilled with the first and second movies (let us not discuss the third). I really liked what they did with Mystique, and I thought they nicely took on the themes of difference and prejudice that have always been the basis for mutants in the Marvel universe. The phrase is a direct quote from Mystique addressing Senator Kelly. ...I should really make an Iceman one for "Have you tried NOT being a mutant?"
6.
Heh. silmarian made this one for me in response to my constant complaints about students using the word "prove" in papers. The word "prove" is ALMOST NEVER appropriate, students. You provide evidence, you demonstrate, you support--you DO NOT "PROVE." I proved your mom, bitches.
7.
(Bonus--brdgt didn't actually ask.)
But I was reminded by the Robin of Sherwood icon, since Optimus Prime was another huge crush of my early primary school years. Apparently I have a thing for powerful guys who die and are in some sense revived. And yet I have no Jesus icon.
DIRECTIONS:
Reply to this post with the word MEME and I will pick six of your icons.
Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
1.
This was actually my default for a long time. It's a scan of a little pin designed by Itsuko Ayano, a Japanese designer of pop art bric-brac that I fell completely in love with when I lived in Tokyo--I really like how her characters aren't the typical big-eyed anime sweethearts. I liked the tough attitude of this one particularly at the time.
2.
Another Japanese stuff scan--this was the envelope in one of the hundreds of Y400 stationery sets I bought (probably at Tokyu Hands, which is also where I got all the Itsuko Ayano stuff). I actually used this scan as the cover of a mix CD; it seemed like an appropriate Japanese English phrase for me.
3.
When I was about 6, the BBC production Robin of Sherwood aired in the US on Showtime; being a huge Robin Hood fan, I was totally obsessed with it. I'm sure all my friends' parents would have been appalled, given that I lived in southeast Missouri and this was the most pagan Robin Hood ever: he was the divine champion of Herne the Hunter. FOR SERIOUS. One of my earliest memories is of being sick but demanding to be allowed to stay up and watch my Robin Hood anyway, and then it was the episode where this Robin, the first (played by Michael Praed) was killed and replaced with a second Robin (Jason Connery) because you can kill a person but you can't kill a CELTIC GOD. This also allowed them to use both of the big Robin Hood origin myths (yeoman archer/forester vs. son of Saxon earl), which now I recognize as pretty neat, but needless to say, at the time I was disconsolate. Anyway, "Nothing is forgotten" was actually a catchphrase on the show, referring to things like people who died fighting injustice and the various hurts visited upon the poor by the Sheriff, etc.
4.
Another mix CD cover--actually created as one. The phrase you may recognize from The Blues Brothers; the picture is an altered photo of my sister Hannah in the car that I really liked. I like making road trip mix CDs; this was one of my first.
5.
A long-time X-Men fan, I was thrilled with the first and second movies (let us not discuss the third). I really liked what they did with Mystique, and I thought they nicely took on the themes of difference and prejudice that have always been the basis for mutants in the Marvel universe. The phrase is a direct quote from Mystique addressing Senator Kelly. ...I should really make an Iceman one for "Have you tried NOT being a mutant?"
6.
Heh. silmarian made this one for me in response to my constant complaints about students using the word "prove" in papers. The word "prove" is ALMOST NEVER appropriate, students. You provide evidence, you demonstrate, you support--you DO NOT "PROVE." I proved your mom, bitches.
7.
(Bonus--brdgt didn't actually ask.)
But I was reminded by the Robin of Sherwood icon, since Optimus Prime was another huge crush of my early primary school years. Apparently I have a thing for powerful guys who die and are in some sense revived. And yet I have no Jesus icon.