icon meme

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Going back through some old comments, I see that I've signed up to do the icon meme twice, so this is a double meme (although, the first was for three icons and the second was for five, and they both picked one icon in common, so it's really only a little longer than normal).

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme 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 squee.

I LOVE ICON SQUEE. But then again, I have about 2,000 icons saved to my hard drive because I love icons, period, so maybe I'm not terribly unbiased about this...

From marinarusalka:



This one has hung around since my days of being heavily into Due South fandom. It cracks me up that whoever made this managed to fit so many Canadian stereotypes into one image. :D I use it mainly to poke fun (lovingly!) at the Canadians on my flist.



I found this randomly while poking through someone's icon journal. They'd done a whole batch of icons from art by Michael Parkes, who has a lovely surrealist, fairy tale-like aesthetic. This one is from a piece called "The Creation." I like that it crops out the gratuitous nudity and the mostly-superfluous tiger to focus on my favorite part: the woman painting a mask in thin air. I like that image; it's about creating something from nothing, and the masks we make for ourselves, and staring at our creations face-to-face as if they have a life of their own, etc. Plus, it's pretty. :)


From both marinarusalka and ignipes:



I stole this from the fabulous slodwick. It's from some Rolling Stone article on Alexi Murdoch, who I adore beyond all reason. You know how there's some musicians you hate, some you don't like, some you do like, and then there's some that you listen to and say "This music speaks to my soul and says everything I've never been able to put into words and makes me feel less alone in the universe, and I mean that in a completely un-ironic way"? Yeah. He'd be one of the latter for me. He's also a giant sweetheart (I met him twice a couple summers ago, at a signing and then after his show, and he let me record a video of him saying hello to a friend so I could cheer her up, and it's the MOST PRECIOUS THING EVER OMG). And he owns some great t-shirts (this one, and the one with the ninjas he was wearing at the signing). And did I mention the Scottish accent? *has a crush*


From ignipes:



This also has stuck around from a past obsession (it's moved into the low-level hobby category now) -- when I was totally BPAL-crazy. It was a nice catch-all for any perfume-related posts. Now I just think it's pretty; I like black and white photography, I like Paris, I like perfume, and I like vintage/retro images.



Haha, I love that this one terrifies ignipes, because I am a terrible person. :D That's just a recent bonus, though. I originally loved it just because it's utterly absurd. I really, really love absurdity, and this is close to absurdity nirvana. I mean, it's a giraffe with crooked ears, popping into frame out of nowhere, doing a suggestive eyebrow waggle. What's not to love? (unless you're convinced that giraffes are the devil incarnate. Sorry ignipes!)



Hahaha, do I really need to explain this one? Bad puns and punctuation-related sexual innuendo! Come on, it's amazing, admit it.



I grew up in Austin, in possibly the hippiest neighborhood in the whole city, surrounded by hippie friends who did things like smoke lots of pot and not wash their hair for a month straight because they went to Barton Springs often enough that they were happy with their hygiene. (She really did stay pretty clean, honestly. This is probably why I didn't think the band boys were quite as hygiene-deprived as all that, come to think of it...) But I also grew up in Texas, where there are lots of conservatives who hate hippies and their crazy ways. So, this sign cracks me up, because I totally get both sides, and, I don't know. It's exactly the kind of sign you might see ironically displayed in a typical Austin-small-business window. My sense of humor, let me show you it. (In my description, I see I wrote "we don't serve their kind here." Which you should all know is a Star Wars reference, shame on those who don't).

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