kill yr icons

Icons - we've all seen them. Elvis is one. James Dean is one. Che Guevara is one. However, the icon on my mind at the moment stands a mere 16 pixels tall.

- yo!

Pretty enigmatic huh? She exudes cool, non? If she had a cigarette in her mouth I'd be on the phone to Rick Moranis straight away.

Err, no, it's a tiny picture, I made it in about 20 seconds by taking an image and resizing it to 16x16 pixels. Genius. Then i left it under my pillow and the favicon fairy did the rest.

According to favicon.com, a website dedicated to these tiny marvels,

"The Favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more customized appearance within a visitor's browser. Often, the Favicon reflects the look and feel of the web site or the organization's logo."

which i greet with the same skepticism that i showed towards frames between 2002 and 2005. The best bit is that favicon.com decided that the symbol to best sum up their website was an ugly red 'F' - pretty inspired especially considering how they charge $75 minimum to design one for you!

As always, my flippancy is a thin veil to hide the fact I'll soon be spending whole nights, zoomed in at 2000%, trying to decide between two shades of marl.

rubbish blog idea #5

One of my compulsive habits is to listen to an album/watch a film/read a book and then immediately visit wikipedia to read about it (this is especially hard with books because there is always the temptation to read the wiki page, whilst midway through the book, and ruin the ending).

Anyway, I am often faced with a paragraph detailing 'discrepancies between book and film' - sometimes with BULLET POINTS - and this was my basis for an idea so rubbish that it was not even limited to a blog basis.

Basically I was going to focus on the discrepancies and then use these as a basis for hilarious vignettes, song lyrics and maybe even a story. Still with me? It's like going to an art exhibition and staring at the spaces between the paintings.*

I psyched myself up and headed over to wikipedia to find some material; I have to say, it was pretty disappointing. If I were to follow through with this idea, it would be full of really dull plot devices like "he was called Smith, not Smithe" and "rather than living in New York, and merely visiting Ireland, they in fact lived in Ireland".

There is precisely one synopsis for a book or film based on these inaccuracies:

"A compulsive liar volunteers a wealth of information, which is later found to be false"

It's got SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER written all over it.

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*note to self: idea for a photo blog...

nadge biscuits

Okay, so since the last post I've gone through numerous ideas for this blog. I had ideas for one where I write about ideas for blogs, then one where I write mainly about failure - then I considered how hilarious it would be to do NEITHER and got stuck in an infinite loop of smug post-modernism.

I then thought of one where i take this warning:



and apply it, out-of-context to other pictures. My test was the famous Eric Cantona kung-fu photo, but then once i'd done it i realised it's exactly the kind of thing i HATE. You know you should steer clear of an idea when you can picture it on a t-shirt being worn by a student with a mullet.

Anyway, this post is just to say "hang in there" while i think of a great idea; in a way this post doesn't really exist. But, in another way, it does, so let's press on...

Bands. I currently have two bands, neither of them have names so let's call them band 1 and band 2. Band 1 has practised a few times and is stretching me on all musical fronts, which is definitely good. Band 2 is an unashamed attempt to be liked by as many people as possible, whilst pretending we don't care. Simon is in both these bands, and also band 3. Band 3 have a name but i'm not into AdSense. Oh man, and then there's band 4 - which is just so crazy it just might work - and band 0 - who may reform for a one-off gig.

Don't be surprised if the next post is me moaning about how EVERYTHING fell through and muttering something about home recording and exotic tunings (again).

Right, that'll do for now. By the way, the reason I'm doing this post is because i gritted my teeth and gave the blog its first link; now i'm worried that there will be an influx of people (1 or 2) and nothing interesting to read. But then, i haven't really addressed that problem.

Also, I'm ditching the song lyrics for titles idea, but here is what i used up to this point:

Morris Chapman - Be Bold! Be Strong!
Bjork - Sonnets/Unrealities XI
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the World
Peeps into Fairyland - Suilven from Elphin
Kate Rusby - Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Deftones - Korea
Bardo Pond - Walking Clouds
Laura Veirs - The Cloud Room
Manic Street Preachers - Revol
Lisa Loeb - Listen, Lisa
Logh - The Passage
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Teenage Fanclub - Take the long way round
Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfilment
Kate Bush - Dream of Sheep
Joanna Newsom - Sadie

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