tell us about your avatar
ketan
Warmly booming riffs 3,169 Posts
frank/eat me!'s recent pic (balls on cone, if you missed it) got me thinking. how does your avatar reflect you? what else are you trying to tell us?
i do a lot of highway driving during the school year. during one particular semester i kept coming across this van with this awesome lionel hutz piece by mish (local writer)... eventually i decided i needed a pic.
i came of age as a simpsons addict (although i haven't watched it years and still haven't seen the movie!) and i love graf too.
i do a lot of highway driving during the school year. during one particular semester i kept coming across this van with this awesome lionel hutz piece by mish (local writer)... eventually i decided i needed a pic.
i came of age as a simpsons addict (although i haven't watched it years and still haven't seen the movie!) and i love graf too.
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Salmon and toaster.
Da struts been t bagged by Frank!
I wanted an upside down shield, but only realise why now on pondering Ketan's first post.
I like to be perverse, but within the bounds of a semblance of normality.
The England flag is a redesign relic from the 2010 World Cup. It was formerly dark blue and black. And staying with this avatar for 5+ years, I think, signifies the desire and ability to stick with something I'm happy with, through thick and thin. It also betrays a streak of apathy, if not a tendency to the status quo (no joke boogie blues coke heads). The simplicity of design speaks to a need for uncluttered and uncomplicated surroundings, both physically and psychologically.
The baseball bats and glue tell of an adolescence spent with the epitome of my one true love, power pop: the Ramones, with overt homage to the name but also the motto, which felt like my era's version of YOLO. And that's how I've tried to live life, give or take the odd lost decade in which I lost sight of that truth.
because, paul newman.
Awsome
whats this like?
This happens to be my favorite:
My avatar is meant to big up the self-titled LP by Sweet Apple, a soul/rock outfit on Columbia (1970).
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Breaks Yo.
Stick Jive, with and without the vocals. If I recall the refrain is "You hit, you hit, you hit like this."
Ah here we go:
It looks cool; that's pretty much it. I envision a darkly humorous situation where the world's most pathetic armed robber draws on Groovy Bank Teller / DMV Chick, only to realize that she's behind bulletproof glass and his revolver is empty. "Next window, please!"
Laserwolf, yours is one of those avatars that has always looked really beautiful, but I never had any clue what it was. I'm kinda curious to see the whole drawing now. Props to your wife!
Skel, you clearly win the avatar game and thank you for that description. You avatar is epic and majestic and I applaud your very being. However:
"The England flag is a redesign relic from the 2010 World Cup. It was formerly dark blue and black. And staying with this avatar for 5+ years, I think, signifies the desire and ability to stick with something I'm happy with, through thick and thin."
Please know that you will have to stick with England for many, many more years before they do ANYTHING of worth on the international stage. I'm not sure why, but I have a feeling that it's because your players are too damn comfortable with their existence - they lack the fire that competitors from other countries have. Or you're just the Charlie Brown of futbol. You should prolly just change teams/nationalities at this point.
Jesse, Trailer Park Boys por vida! I still need to see Swearnet... was it any good?
BigStacks - feeling that Sweet Apple (thanks!). For some reason, I never noticed that your avatar is a record cover! Why is it sideways? I think that threw me off!
Hey Ketan,
Actually, the LP is sitting on the floor in the lab opening side up (for easy access). It's in an unfiled pile of LPs I pulled looking for joints to include on a mix. Maybe, one day I'll stop being lazy and file them (and get the missus off my back). I'm glad you felt the track. It's a cool album.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Jungle Fire was the first uncommon record I ever turned up. I got it in a $50 box full of better-known titles -- it was one of the only joints I didn't recognize. I put it on, and, by the time "Got Myself a Good Man" hit, I was slack-jawed. I've been chasing that magic ever since.
The record has a remix of funkin lesson, it's dope but I still prefer the original version. So many hip hop 45s are only available as (european?) remixes.
I believe he has since changed it.
Paging Mini!
Skel's old one (before the newest incarnation of this site) was killer with those moving eyes.
edit: this is actually the higher res version they took in 2014 with hubble.