Icon Worship

[davidn]

Two pieces of good news recently, in that my replacement pendrive has arrived (this time with a decent-sized keyring attachment so I won't lose it), and my car radio has stopped asking for a "COdE" after I was provided with one by my "mUM".

To my astonishment I was tagged to do a meme about a week ago and I still haven't got round to it. Instead, I'm going to invent one of my own, containing just enough LJness to be feasible, just enough interactivity to be passable, and just enough niceness to... be nice, I suppose. I call it "Icon Worship".

Reply to this post with one or more of your LJ icons, and I'll say what I think about it, what it reminds me of, or what it means to me.

Then copy this into your own journal and propagate it all round the Internet so that I can be smug about having started it.

Comments

Re: Because I'm ill and have nothing else to do...

[davidn]

1. Sean Bean. I remember thinking that he had a name that is spelled much better than it actually sounds when I was very young and he was credited as narrating a nature program for some reason. I believe he's also going to be in the upcoming Silent Hill film, which may break new ground in being the first game to film conversion to not be catastrophically dreadful.

2. I've no idea where this icon is from, but it's rather happy and uplifting. Hooray.

3. A very good attitude, seeing as it's what we all are (unless "Muggle" takes on a new meaning in the fan community of which I'm not aware). What's most striking about the icon is its flagrant lack of punctuation - I remember pointing the same out about another one of your icons and helpfully correcting it. This made me feel like a despicable pedant for days afterwards, so being not one to learn from my mistakes I attempted similar surgery on this one, but was forced to give up after I was unable to insert an apostrophe convincingly between the N and T.

As for the icon you commented with, it contains a well-known image but which I can now only see as the Stratovarius logo.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

[davidn]

Seinfeld. I saw that a couple of times during my virtually non-existent sixth year at school on midnight on channel 4 - it was faintly amusing, but didn't live up to the expectations that I had been fed with, that of it being an "encyclopaedia of comedy". The episodes I saw concerned a bookshop (and I have a faint recollection of bathrooms), and a Frogger machine that had to be taken over the road before the battery ran out.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

It would have been BBC2, which it was giving appalling times on. A couple of bookshop ones, one where george took in a big art book into the toilet and irreversibly contaminates it and the other where it was a take on Cyrano de bergerac with Kramer and Newman pops into mind. The Frogger machine does epitomise the sort of stuff that happens to George.

Two episodes that you should watch, the first is the one from my last Icon where George realises that since every choice he has made in his life has been the wrong choice then he should do the opposite and the second is the outing where jerry and george are outed even though they were never even in. Oh yeah and also the soup nazi is another good one.

[clonion.livejournal.com]

*bites*

Ok. Firstly, the one I'm commenting with.







Hope that works...

[davidn]

The icon you commented with depicts the first episode of Father Ted that I ever saw, "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse". It was rather a great introduction to the surrealism of the programme.

1. The potato makes me laugh every time I see it.

2. Iron Maiden happens to be the name of a once excellent but fairly repetitive (now going senile and falling to pieces) band. I don't know where your particular one is from, though.

3. Looking at the word "dance" reminds me - did that second dance competition you organised ever go anywhere? I never heard anything about it during my third year when I cut off all communications from... virtually everywhere, really.

4. You girls like Sean Bean, don't you? I've never seen nor read any Sharpe, though.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

2. not sure if you were sticking out your tongue when you wrote it but just incase you weren't it looks like metropolis.

I have not read any sharpe but have read the Starbuck books by the same author and they are very good.

[pim2005.livejournal.com]

Go with the default. Cos I'm a techie-thick & can't get it to put pictures in the comment box.

[davidn]

I didn't know what Avada Kedavra was, so I looked it up and it appears that it's a Harry Potter RPG. From reading the synopsis, it looks fairly interesting, but folowing exposure to Harry Potter fanfiction I can only imagine what goes on in there.

[davidn]

Oh, I see. In that case, I can think of a few people who fit the criteria in the icon.

[steveo-h.livejournal.com]

There we go.

[davidn]

If there's one thing you can say for the Conservatives, they've got a good logo. The newer one looks rather similar to their old design ditched in 2004, though.

However, if you were looking for intelligent political commentary then I'm not really in a position to give it - I am no longer sure of which party to support, disliking all of them to varying degrees.

bit of a challenge?

[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

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Re: bit of a challenge?

[davidn]

1. I think bees are all right, actually. At least they have two definite reasons for existence - namely making honey and being a physical impossibility. It's the wasps that serve no useful purpose and should be exterminated forthwith.

2. This looks to me like a cat head containing several other cat heads. I'm at a bit of a loss to describe it further except to say that it fits you.

3. I'm slightly unclear as to what this is - a Neopet? I never really got into them, though many people in the communities I visited in first and second year were.

4. This is from Questionable Content, a comic strip that I was pointed at by e_to_the_ipi last year. I haven't read it in a while, but I should, as it was unusually engaging for a webcomic. And Pintsize is rather adorable (though I admit my reading has been so infrequent that I had to be reminded of his name).

5. I have seen this icon before. I don't know where it is from. I don't know why it exists. I don't know what it is trying to say. All I know is that it is vastly unsettling.

Re: bit of a challenge?

[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

1. it should really say fuckbees, as opposed to fuck bees. i love bees. but fuckbees is an expression i use sometimes... like someone says crap, or damn. fuckbees.

Re: bit of a challenge?

[davidn]

Aha. I use several words of my own invention, as the situation demands, but try not to do it when anyone might hear and think me slightly strange.

[shoe--gal.livejournal.com]

Here's one...

[davidn]

I had to blow up the image in Paint to read the text at the bottom, and I hadn't heard of Kilauea before, but the photos on its website are amazing. It makes me wonder why I didn't continue with Geography.

There are also some backwards characters in the upper right, but they don't seem to say anything meaningful.

[stubbleupdate.livejournal.com]

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[davidn]

1. It's some sort of fiery/streamy logo, but I have no idea where it's from - it's not in your icons list, either, so I was prevented from garnering further information.

2. I thought that this was a picture of you with added scanlines at first, but now that I look at it, is it meant to be a Star Wars-style hologram?

3. I remember you saying that this picture was taken on a rollercoaster in America, and from the picture, it looks far more intense than your face implies. "The Stubble Update" remains one of the best journal titles in the world, ever.

4. When I first came across your journal and had no idea who you were, I actually assumed that you were female for a while because of your large number of LOTR icons at the time. True story.

5. The rhyme shown in the icon makes me realise just how little I know about LOTR, having seen the three films but never read the book. My brother has - it took him about three years to read it all the way through, but he would have a much greater idea of what was happening than I do.

[stubbleupdate.livejournal.com]

1 - it's the logo for the pop/punk band
2 - Yes, it is
3 - I was just congratulating myself on my own cleverness just the other day...
4 - The Bryn also mistook me for a woman on the Sinner. How embarassing
5 - the books aren't actually all that well written, imho. every character whether they're the humblest hobbit or the king of Rohan uses the same register.

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

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[davidn]

1. This is a Pink Floyd album cover with an interesting name, but I never really got into the band. I think my sister qutie likes them, though. The cover depicts my great-something-grandfather's experiment with light.

2. I used to listen to the Beatles when I was much younger, and usually had my mum's "best of" records on the record turntable in my bedroom (which is still in operable condition). Particularly amusing at that stage in my life was setting the speed to 45 and listening to them sing like Lemmings.

3. Where would we be without it?

[zephyr-pie.livejournal.com]

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[davidn]

1. It appears to be a snowmobile. My experience of these is limited to piloting one in Tomb Raider 2, but I've never seen one in real life - mostly due to the lack of available snow here.

2. A teddy bear, on fire. I know that you posted a video of this along with the reason for its being a while ago, but I have since forgotten it.

3. DDR, or ITG, or ALU, or something. Without seeing it move I can't tell what effects are on it - it looks almost as if arrows are tumbling from the top of the screen after they're hit, which would be a great effect. Either that or there are about 32 panels in various directions around the player, which would be slightly challenging.

4. I had to go into your userinfo to find out that this is Winbolo. It looks a bit of a Linuxy game to be honest, but from the site I'm actually quite interested.

5. A silhouette with cat/fox ears and shiny eyes... but I've no idea where it's from!

[kingradix.livejournal.com]

Kapow.

[davidn]

That skull looks like it's particularly uncomfortable. It looks like it's wearing what might be a turban, which reminds me of the only time I've seen a real life dead body (if that makes any sense), when I was at an Egypt museum with my primary school class, and we were shown a blue-tinged unwrapped mummy while passing a severed hand around.