Canucklehead Icons

In honor of Mr. Kelly's birthday (and my own, as it happens), here's a Gene Kelly icon set. All are from Singin' In the Rain but the first, which is from For Me and My Gal. The preview:



( I am a shimmering, glowing star.... )

So, it's been quite a while, huh? I haven't forgotten about this LJ, just haven't really had the time or creativity to actually use it lately. But I've been feeling a bit more creative of late, and I come bearing icons, so I figured I'd go ahead and post them up. I also need to do some housecleaning around here- I've switched hosting providers, so there are probably a lot of dead links floating around that need fixing, and I should really see about actually tagging posts so anyone who might be looking (even if it's just me) can actually, y'know, find stuff.

This batch of icons are all from MST3K, most from the Space Mutiny episode.

The usual rules apply: comment, credit and don't hotlink. A preview:



( In the not too distant future.... )

Really, I doubt there's much left to say that hasn't already been covered by other people with regard to the inauguration, but I felt like I should express my profound sense of relief at the end of the Bush administration. I think Richard Lewis said it very well in a recent interview with Keith Olbermann when he said, "I was always proud to be American, but these last eight years, I was hiding under my bed. But I'm out now!"

As someone who spent a sizable chunk of the last eight years living abroad, I can't begin to describe how tough it's been to be an American overseas during the Bush administration. And in all honesty, I think it's a little more annoying to have to do all of the explaining and reasoning and, "Listen, we're really not as crazy as our government makes us look sometimes," when you didn't even vote for the guy. So yay for having a president that people overseas, at least for the moment, actually like.

I'm not naïve enough to think that everything is going to magically change because Barack Obama's President (although Biden's ascension to the Vice Presidency might mean that people actually know that Delaware has a university- excitement!). I'm a little nervous that he's going to go so centrist in the name of "bipartisanship" that the policies he outlined during his campaign will be shunted to one side, and I won't be impressed if the torture and Geneva Convention violations of the previous administration are just brushed away in the name of "moving forward." But I think it's a huge step in the right direction, and if nothing else, Obama has gotten a huge number of people engaged in the political process who previously didn't care, and that's something to be proud of.

Or, as Stephen Colbert just put it, "I feel like my heart is going to burst... because it's full of rainbows!"

So I just downloaded a client to post to LJ straight from my (jailbroken) iPhone, and I thought I'd try it out. It's pretty bare bones at the moment, but if it works well,I bet more features could be added on in future versions. And since I find typing on my iPhone way less painful than it was on my previous cell (admittedly, not everyone agrees with me on that point), I may actually make use of this.

So, I've severely neglected this LJ of late, mostly due to lack of time and inspiration. Working nine hours a day with a two-and-a-half hour commute thrown in on top doesn't leave a lot of time to, y'know, have a life. But I now have a new job, along with a fast, shiny new iMac, and it would have been remiss of me not to get on the ball and make a few icons and suchlike. I've been watching a lot of old movies recently, and I was inspired to do a Gene Kelly fanmix (because Gene Kelly? Trés hot. Oh, and talented. Ahem). Most of the icons here are sort of throwaways, but anyone who's interested is welcome to download them; just please comment to let me know what you're taking (so I can make more) and credit in keywords.

Please comment and let me know what you think of this; I opted to go with a mix of Kelly songs and songs by other artists, but I might be convinced to do a second fanmix at some point with solely Gene Kelly material. All of the download links and such are provided below.

( To the mix! )

Hmmm... so having read most of the insanity going on around the latest bannings and complete lack of professional PR skills from the LJ staff, I have to ask whether any of the fine folks on my friends list might have a JournalFen account and would be willing to send me an invite or request an account on my behalf. I think I'm paid up for the next six months or so, so I don't anticipate fleeing immediately, but I'd like to get my ducks in a row to do so just in case things around LJ go further into the shitter. Um... we are still allowed to say "shitter," right? Or is LJ underage?

Gah. My mind, it is blown.

Just watched two great rugby matches today on the Six Nations coverage. Neither was technically spectacular, but in terms of having the match up in the air until the last possible second of play, both were phenomenal. Lots of tension and excitement, plus Ireland won (which makes me happy), and Wales are looking at the distinct possibility of a wooden spoon. Hilarious.

As a spectator sport, I'm not sure rugby can be beat. Great stuff. It's a shame it's covered so little in the States; I feel like I've been missing out, not having had easy access to it all this time.

Now if England can just pull out a miracle win against France tomorrow to force a draw in the standings with Ireland. That sends it to points scored, and I think the margin will be higher between Ireland and Italy than it will be between France and Scotland. Hopefully, anyway.

This is so true. Heh.

I actually do love watching football when it's a good, solid match and people aren't falling all over themselves diving. Unfortunately, the latter seems to have taken over the sport in the last couple of years, and it's harder and harder to find games where that kind of crap doesn't happen. Plus there's the constant arguing with referees, trash talking... give me rugby any day of the week.

Once again, I'll be going in to work with fewer than five hours of sleep under my belt. It's almost 2:30 in the morning, and I'm still wide awake? Why? No idea, but whatever it is, it's not good.

I wish I could call in sick to work tomorrow.

Guess who just got a 73 on her assessed essay for Foundations of Political Science? Totally unexpected on my part, but I'm not complaining!

And, realizing that the above makes no sense to anyone who's not familiar with the way the British system works, a 73 is good (best in the class, in fact, going by the marks list they sent out). Rumor has it that I beat out a couple of PhD candidates who are teachers in their own countries, but I'm chalking that up more to language issues than anything else.

Anyway, I'm aware that I'm bragging, but I think I earned a little bit of it, and I don't really want to be that bastard that does it around all her friends. Guess I'm doing all right after all, considering how little I've enjoyed most of my classes and how unsure I was that I should have been doing this degree in the first place.

Here's a batch of 20 Beatles icons (John and Paul with a George for good measure).

-Comment
-Credit
-Hotlinkers will have their legs broken just as soon as I find "Russian mobsters" in the Yellow Pages.

A preview:



( Yeah, yeah, yeah.... )

Cross-posted to beatleicons, beatlepics, johnheartpaul

So this isn't very icon-related (but no fear, I have a good-sized batch to post in the hopefully not too distant future), but whatever, I felt like sharing.

The other day I downloaded the EP for thenewno2, a band featuring Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's son. I had my doubts, mostly because I never really got all that excited about any of Sean or Julian Lennon's stuff (though Julian does sound eerily like his father), but I have to say, I've been listening to this EP a load since I got it. I really like the style Dhani's adopted, and it's so different from the kind of thing I associate with his father that there's really not that much room for comparison. Anyway, it's a refreshing change from a lot of the stuff out lately; I hope they release a full-length album soon. I'd definitely go see them in concert, and I recommend giving the EP a listen if you have the chance.

In other news, if anyone has any earth-shattering knowledge about the Marxist concept of relative autonomy that they might care to share with me, you would make this long-suffering term paper victim very happy.

This is in response to a Beatles survey posted over at beatlepics. Lots of long-winded, self-important commentary found within.

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Here's a small batch of Beatles icons I've been messing with. Resources can be found on my user info page. Rules are as follows:

* Comment if you're taking, so I know what people liked.
* Credit canucklehead909
* Don't hotlink.



( Yeah, yeah, yeah.... )

Wow.

And to think all of my trig textbook's examples were based around things like flagpoles and the flight paths of rockets and such.

Actually, I do have a small stash of icons to post, but since I saw this and felt like filling it out, I thought I would. Icons to follow, though, promise.

1. WHAT CURSE WORD DO YOU USE THE MOST?
Hmmm. "Damn" or "shit," probably. There was a time when it would've been the f-word, but I've cut back on my swearing a bit lately.

( The rest of the story.... )

No icons, but I do have some to post eventually when I get the chance. In the meantime, ganked this from angelsnow and thought I'd post it.

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

Opening Credits: Staring At the Sun (U2)

Waking Up: LIFE is... (Ken Hirai)

First Day At School: Pastures of Plenty (Alison Krauss and Union Station)

Falling In Love: All Er Nothin’ (Oklahoma)

Fight Song: All Kinds of Time (Fountains of Wayne)

Breaking Up: Emancipate Myself (Thirsty Merc)

Prom: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (U2)

Mental Breakdown: Every Night (Paul McCartney)

Flashback: Ride Cowboy Ride

Getting Back Together: Counting Blue Cars (Dishwalla)

Wedding: You Didn’t Know Me When (Harry Connick, Jr.)

Birth of Child: Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)

Final Battle: Hey Mama (Black Eyed Peas)

Death Scene: Summertime (Paul McCartney)

Funeral Song: Hash Pipe (Weezer)

Some of the results are sort of odd, but it would be totally awesome for a bunch of people to show up to a funeral and be treated to... "Hash Pipe."

These are for the er_icons50 challenge, based on the episode "A Walk In the Woods." They are, predictably, Luka-centric. Comment, credit, no hotlinking (note: I'm being a bit of a bastard about credit these days, since I've seen a couple of my icons floating around credited to people other than myself).

Teaser:



( Because you can never have enough Luka.... )

Here's a batch of icons I did based around the ER episode "The Lost." Focus on the Croatian Sensation, since he's my current favorite. These are the first proper ER icons I've done, but they were pretty fun to do, so I anticipate doing more. The rules for using them are simple:

- Comment, because I like to know whether what I'm doing is of interest to anyone.
- Credit, because I spend some time on these, and plagiarism isn't kosher.
- Don't hotlink, because that's uncool and will result in this stuff being made friends-only.

Preview:



( More, more, more.... )

This is a songset I did recently, inspired by the Green Day song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," off of their American Idiot album (which is excellent and highly recommended, BTW).

Preview:



( Four more under the cut.... )