actually, I'm feeling like I'm having an icon crisis today, but I can't make new ones right now!
I know, I haven't posted in forever and now I'm just doing an icon meme. If you're wondering what I've been doing with my time, I have been watching sports. Or hanging out at ontd_extreme. I also went to the USA-Brazil match, which I actually did sort of write up but it's sitting in an email draft - it started as a comment and then I was like "what the hell, I'm going to write down everything I can remember!"
Of course, it being not only my first football match but also only my second major sporting event (I'd gone to a Mets game the week prior, before that it was minor league all the way) I think a lot of the stuff I wrote down was exciting to me but normal to most people. I was definitely fascinated by seeing everyone warm up before the game! Since that's what I don't get to see on TV.
And roomie!Corey and I did have a fun moment when we were waiting to leave - huge crowd of people waiting to get back on the trains to NYC (stadium was in New Jersey - but it was actually an easy trip, there were just quite a lot of people trying to leave all at once) and at one point we ended up right on the other side of a barrier from a train that had already loaded and was waiting to pull out. There was a very handsome man of maybe 35 years leaning against the door of the train, looking very solemn. We were staring at him because he was so poetic and fascinating, so he spotted us staring and we smiled at him and he smiled back and we waved and he blew kisses and we blew kisses back. It was fun, and I felt like we cheered him up - and it was hilarious because then after all of this. . . the train did not pull out. EXTREMELY AWKWARD SITUATION. XD Luckily eventually our line moved. This stuff does not happen in movies, I'm just sayin.
. . . I don't know what that's the anecdote I decide to share after several weeks of radio silence. I also saw a friend from my study abroad in Manchester last week, after a two year separation, and that was completely, completely awesome and deserves more of a write-up, really. And I saw some of Katie's friends from college that I like as well. It was fun, and a pretty eventful week actually. And my roommate is returned and her mom is visiting, so I've been worrying about that but of course they are being as unobtrusive as my roommate always is, and I am only left worrying that they don't feel comfortable enough using the living room.
Hahahaha oh my god I just got a phone call and I had my legs curled up underneath me and when I shifted to get to my phone I completely put my foot into my garbage can and almost knocked it over. Luckily it only had a kit-kat wrapper in it.
All right, there you go. Now this entry is pretending to be a real one. (Are you supposed to change the code words? I like these though :D)
1.) Reply to this post with the word PIRATES (or NINJAS) and I will pick six of your icons.
2.) Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3.) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4.) This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.
I made both ktdone and jobiegirl6 do this for me because I am greedy, so I have 12. Actually, 11. There was one hilarious duplicate.
1.
I LOVE JOEY B. LOOOOOOVE SO MUCH. And I know we'd be bffs because I have incredible allure to people from Delaware. (IT IS TRUE.) And when I saw this picture I knew it required an icon with a sketchy comment. JOEY B I WOULD LOVE YOU EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T VP.
2.
One of my two icons I didn't make myself! (I'm not a good icon maker, I just really like making them so much that it seems silly to use someone else's that much. Although lately I've been frustrated by my general difficulties maintaining a nice image quality, I don't know what's up.) I not only really enjoyed the Vancouver Olympics from an Olympics perspective, I also enjoyed it from a Canada perspective. Being a huge Canada fangirl. So this icon is perfect. :D Plus, Mounties!! <333
3.
ohmigod. Will Eisner's legendary The Spirit, as drawn by Darwyn Cooke. I have such a hard on for Darwyn Cooke's art. And he was such a perfect fit for the Spirit! I don't use this icon enough because I know most people I talk to don't know what it is, but I love it. Maybe I'll make it my default for now, I've changed my default about 80 times today. Anyway, even though it's a bit awkwardly shaped for an icon and I worry that it's not legible, I love how perfect the words, the pose, everything - ooh, Darwyn Cooke!!
4.
BWAHAHAHA OK so for actually quite a long time, I was a big fan of Japanese boybands, and TOKIO in particular. This is Leader. He's almost 40 and he's awkward and not good-looking and hilarious. And I photoshopped muttonchops onto him. I was on a muttonchop photoshopping frenzy. When I posted the results, I was asked why I did it. It never even occurred to me that this would be a question. Why wouldn't you photoshop muttonchops onto people?
5.
This is from the Merode Altarpiece. As you can see from that awkwardly large image, Robert Campin's Northern Renaissance masterpiece, features, above the angel Gabriel's head, a teeny tiny Jesus, rocketing towards Mary's crotch. Womb. My sister is an art history major, I am a religion major, we team up and do stuff like this. Zoom in!
6.
Devastatingly hunky curler Johnny Mo makes a shot with the best sweepers in the world, Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert, ready to go. :D My curling icons are some of the ones I wish were nicer quality but also, curling is kind of hard to icon. Is this the full size? No it's not. Close enough, though.
1.
Hahaha another Japanese boyband one. This is Murakami Shingo, of Kanjani8, aka Hina. I'm not much of a K8 fan but I will always adore Hina. And there's something really funny to me about him shaving. I've gotten a lot of opportunities to use this icon, actually.
2.
::swoons, fans self:: Levon is the sexy as hell drummer for the Band. He's also the only non-Canadian member. He also does vocals on a lot of their songs but even though he still performs with his daughter, he no longer sings because he SMOKED A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT. There's a story about when they were filming some of the studio pieces for the Last Waltz and he was smoking two cigarettes at once - "One cigarette in one hand and another cigarette in the other hand." Apparently he offered one of the Staples Singers one of the cigarettes because he "didn't want them to think he was greedy." See, that is class. Step aside, Xabi.
3.
WISHBONE!! What more is there to say, it is the best show ever. Hard to find pictures from, though. My friends and I had a Wishbone revival fiesta during senior year, it turns out the episodes are still totally enjoyable. I should use the icon more.
4.
Bwahahahaha see above. Yes, I need to say bwahahahaha any time Leader is mentioned.
5.
This is from art by illustrator Stina Persson. I know I was looking at fashion illustrations at the time so I guess that's what she does (I don't care about fashion but I like fashion illustration). I was talking a lot about race and politics and gender on LJ so I wanted some more neutral icons that could be used in a serious situation. And I'm from New York. I always forget I have this one, though.
6.
Jordan Malone, Apolo Ohno, and Travis Jayner upon receiving their bronze medals from the short track men's relay at the Vancouver Olympics. I wanted an icon with Jordan in it, I think, since I was stanning for him a bit at the time. But not just Jordan, because his face is. . . his face. He has since demonstrated that while he's a great guy, he has a lot of issues with women and they frustrate me, so I'm less enthused. It's still a cute icon, though. :D Hopefully I'll use it a bunch when short track starts up again.
Now to see if the right explanations ended up with the right icons.
I'm so long-winded.
Of course, it being not only my first football match but also only my second major sporting event (I'd gone to a Mets game the week prior, before that it was minor league all the way) I think a lot of the stuff I wrote down was exciting to me but normal to most people. I was definitely fascinated by seeing everyone warm up before the game! Since that's what I don't get to see on TV.
And roomie!Corey and I did have a fun moment when we were waiting to leave - huge crowd of people waiting to get back on the trains to NYC (stadium was in New Jersey - but it was actually an easy trip, there were just quite a lot of people trying to leave all at once) and at one point we ended up right on the other side of a barrier from a train that had already loaded and was waiting to pull out. There was a very handsome man of maybe 35 years leaning against the door of the train, looking very solemn. We were staring at him because he was so poetic and fascinating, so he spotted us staring and we smiled at him and he smiled back and we waved and he blew kisses and we blew kisses back. It was fun, and I felt like we cheered him up - and it was hilarious because then after all of this. . . the train did not pull out. EXTREMELY AWKWARD SITUATION. XD Luckily eventually our line moved. This stuff does not happen in movies, I'm just sayin.
. . . I don't know what that's the anecdote I decide to share after several weeks of radio silence. I also saw a friend from my study abroad in Manchester last week, after a two year separation, and that was completely, completely awesome and deserves more of a write-up, really. And I saw some of Katie's friends from college that I like as well. It was fun, and a pretty eventful week actually. And my roommate is returned and her mom is visiting, so I've been worrying about that but of course they are being as unobtrusive as my roommate always is, and I am only left worrying that they don't feel comfortable enough using the living room.
Hahahaha oh my god I just got a phone call and I had my legs curled up underneath me and when I shifted to get to my phone I completely put my foot into my garbage can and almost knocked it over. Luckily it only had a kit-kat wrapper in it.
All right, there you go. Now this entry is pretending to be a real one. (Are you supposed to change the code words? I like these though :D)
1.) Reply to this post with the word PIRATES (or NINJAS) and I will pick six of your icons.
2.) Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3.) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4.) This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.
I made both ktdone and jobiegirl6 do this for me because I am greedy, so I have 12. Actually, 11. There was one hilarious duplicate.
1.
I LOVE JOEY B. LOOOOOOVE SO MUCH. And I know we'd be bffs because I have incredible allure to people from Delaware. (IT IS TRUE.) And when I saw this picture I knew it required an icon with a sketchy comment. JOEY B I WOULD LOVE YOU EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T VP.
2.
One of my two icons I didn't make myself! (I'm not a good icon maker, I just really like making them so much that it seems silly to use someone else's that much. Although lately I've been frustrated by my general difficulties maintaining a nice image quality, I don't know what's up.) I not only really enjoyed the Vancouver Olympics from an Olympics perspective, I also enjoyed it from a Canada perspective. Being a huge Canada fangirl. So this icon is perfect. :D Plus, Mounties!! <333
3.
ohmigod. Will Eisner's legendary The Spirit, as drawn by Darwyn Cooke. I have such a hard on for Darwyn Cooke's art. And he was such a perfect fit for the Spirit! I don't use this icon enough because I know most people I talk to don't know what it is, but I love it. Maybe I'll make it my default for now, I've changed my default about 80 times today. Anyway, even though it's a bit awkwardly shaped for an icon and I worry that it's not legible, I love how perfect the words, the pose, everything - ooh, Darwyn Cooke!!
4.
BWAHAHAHA OK so for actually quite a long time, I was a big fan of Japanese boybands, and TOKIO in particular. This is Leader. He's almost 40 and he's awkward and not good-looking and hilarious. And I photoshopped muttonchops onto him. I was on a muttonchop photoshopping frenzy. When I posted the results, I was asked why I did it. It never even occurred to me that this would be a question. Why wouldn't you photoshop muttonchops onto people?
5.
This is from the Merode Altarpiece. As you can see from that awkwardly large image, Robert Campin's Northern Renaissance masterpiece, features, above the angel Gabriel's head, a teeny tiny Jesus, rocketing towards Mary's crotch. Womb. My sister is an art history major, I am a religion major, we team up and do stuff like this. Zoom in!
6.
Devastatingly hunky curler Johnny Mo makes a shot with the best sweepers in the world, Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert, ready to go. :D My curling icons are some of the ones I wish were nicer quality but also, curling is kind of hard to icon. Is this the full size? No it's not. Close enough, though.
1.
Hahaha another Japanese boyband one. This is Murakami Shingo, of Kanjani8, aka Hina. I'm not much of a K8 fan but I will always adore Hina. And there's something really funny to me about him shaving. I've gotten a lot of opportunities to use this icon, actually.
2.
::swoons, fans self:: Levon is the sexy as hell drummer for the Band. He's also the only non-Canadian member. He also does vocals on a lot of their songs but even though he still performs with his daughter, he no longer sings because he SMOKED A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT. There's a story about when they were filming some of the studio pieces for the Last Waltz and he was smoking two cigarettes at once - "One cigarette in one hand and another cigarette in the other hand." Apparently he offered one of the Staples Singers one of the cigarettes because he "didn't want them to think he was greedy." See, that is class. Step aside, Xabi.
3.
WISHBONE!! What more is there to say, it is the best show ever. Hard to find pictures from, though. My friends and I had a Wishbone revival fiesta during senior year, it turns out the episodes are still totally enjoyable. I should use the icon more.
4.
Bwahahahaha see above. Yes, I need to say bwahahahaha any time Leader is mentioned.
5.
This is from art by illustrator Stina Persson. I know I was looking at fashion illustrations at the time so I guess that's what she does (I don't care about fashion but I like fashion illustration). I was talking a lot about race and politics and gender on LJ so I wanted some more neutral icons that could be used in a serious situation. And I'm from New York. I always forget I have this one, though.
6.
Jordan Malone, Apolo Ohno, and Travis Jayner upon receiving their bronze medals from the short track men's relay at the Vancouver Olympics. I wanted an icon with Jordan in it, I think, since I was stanning for him a bit at the time. But not just Jordan, because his face is. . . his face. He has since demonstrated that while he's a great guy, he has a lot of issues with women and they frustrate me, so I'm less enthused. It's still a cute icon, though. :D Hopefully I'll use it a bunch when short track starts up again.
Now to see if the right explanations ended up with the right icons.
I'm so long-winded.