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Sam Neill (RIP) as John Trent in a mental hospital, covered in crossed (drawn on his clothes and skin), taking a drag on a cigarette and looking a bit harried. From In the Mouth of Madness
close up of Plato and Aristotle walking and talking from Raphael's famous School of Athens fresco, which is supposed to represent me and bad bisque discussing frenched fries
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A framed poster that says and depicts: SUPER FURRY ANIMALS [with SFA "trademark" circle] The image from the single for "The Man Don't Give a Fuck," a photograph of the footballer Robin Friday showing a V sign to Luton Town goalkeeper Milija Aleksic while playing for Cardiff City THE MAN DON'T GIVE A FUCK LIMITED EDITION SINGLE
a picture of my left shoulder, with my right hand holding my t-shirt (the cover of Slowdive's Pygmalion LP) sleeve up so my then-new tattoo can be seen. it's the TCGS show slogan "LOSE WELL," in my case done in the handwriting (from Murph, maybe?) that was used on the old button design et al
what is apparently the "Speechless Stickman" meme, of a stick figure-type person first raising one index finger with an open mouth and a concerned expression, and then the same figure with closed mouth, concerned expression and lowering finger. here standing in for "i want to ask but maybe it's better not to"
One of those quadrant charts often used for political alignment, except the top is "Hear it Hurgling," the left is "Those Ferrari," the right is "Hi Doggy," and the bottom is "El Wiwi." These are all based on memes. The cardinal and diagonal extremes of the chart feature portraits of various types of bats, fitting each category and the midpoint between them.
A rickenbacker 360 and a prompt for one like one fave record
two panels from one of KC Green's comics, I forget which one, that have become a meme; the same collared-shirt-and-tie business guy is in both, the first he's god his arms crossed in front of him and is frowning in mild consternation, then in the second he flings his arms up and says "I GUESS," clearly still not jazzed about something but accepting it.
The text of Raymond Carver's poem "Rain," as follows: Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgiveable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
My hand holding a new copy of The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games by Super Eyepatch Wolf. It's a black hardcover with silver ink for the title and around the horror/fantasy art by Plastiboo on the cover.
A picture I took of Mark Rothko's "No. 1 White and Red" in the Art Gallery of Ontario from the couch on the other side of the room where it's displayed. It's a large black canvas with three horizontal colour bars, top to bottom white, red, and brown. The bars are rectangular but with indistinct edges and also the colour isn't always totally solid. The picture is from far back enough you can see the barrier showing how far back you should stand from it and the track lighting on the ceiling.
Dolly, a small black and white cat, in loaf form atop her pouf on a hassock I keep next to my desk chair because she likes to be close sometimes. This is her primary point of entry and egress for my lap. She looks very attentive.
A picture I took of my computer because I could never get screenshots to work while Hades was running and I was so shaken when I did this I didn't even want to try. It shows my win screen the first time I killed Chronos in Hades 2, featuring 1 singular point of health, no death defiances, and the main hammers/boons/keepsake I used to do it.
Taken directly from CRJ's own website's product listing for this 10th Anniversary Edition, this image shows the tracklisting for the second LP with all the songs from Black Heart through to Cut to the motherfuckin' Feeling NOT tagged as bonus tracks i.e. they are considered part of the album proper, which I am hooting and hollering at FINALLY MY 65-MINUTE VERSION IS CANON also on first listen to the new actually bonus tracks are pretty good! I will probably be obsessed with some of them soon!
the cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's 2015 immortal banger all time great E•MO•TION, Jepsen in a colourful top and black leggings sitting with arms and legs crossed, one hand partially covering her face, looking pensive
a picture of Dolly i took just now, she was curled up sleeping next to me but i did wake her up and so she is still glaring
my cat Dolly, curled into a u-shape on some blankets on the couch, glaring at the camera
Your test results: SUPER POWER Innate Personality; brain overload ugh... too much to process ! reading the room so busy ! whatever ! Character Traits: natural mind reader excellent memory best partner in crime i would die for art the jocks cult leader material busybody workaholic talkative and enthusiastic Most Compatible: GRASS FAIRY Least Compatible: ELECTRIC ICE TAIWAN DESIGN EXPO '23 in NEW TAIPEI CITY
beloved local poster trash, of trash tuesdays, posting "gonna test something" and then in response "just in case it's been an honor"
a cropped photo of me just after my 21st birthday, wearing an elastica t-shirt. i had not yet grown a beard (dark days).
Holding a can of Godspeed Brewery's Eins Zwanzig, a Rauchbier (smoked lager) that I am about to drink. My cat Dolly has heard me get it and in the background has climbed onto the back of the couch to investigate.
old meme, two pictures; first a large seal looking derpy with its tongue out, holding a light blue bucket in one massive flipper, caption: "I Has a Bucket" second picture seal is leaning back mouth wide open; really probably ready to be fed, but looks kind of like it's yelling; there's a human in front of him holding the same bucket, caption: "Noooo they be stealin' my Bucket"
a picture of one of my tattoos, a version of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "hammer of hope" seen in their liner notes but using the tack hammer i inherited from my paternal grandfather, which i use to fix things around the apartment
The cover of araabMUZIK's Electronic Dream 2, featuring the artist standing in front of his MPC with a Raiders cap pulled down so you can't see his face and a comically large jewelled MPC necklace
The cover of UK comedian/actor/musician Russ Abbot's 1985 LP I Love a Party, featuring: - lots of fun fonts - three of the songs listed on the front, like they used to do - a background that looks like wrapping paper for a NYE gift maybe? - a triptych of portraits of Abbot, best described as, in order: "ooooh look I'm cheeky I'm pointing at the camera by which I mean you, the viewer!" / "yes, I _am_ looking surprisingly handsome here for an 80s TV comedian wearing an era-appropriate garish shirt" / "I WILL STEAL YOUR SKIN"
a picture of the emoji as it appears on my phone, where it does not look much to me like a crystal
Meme image from some Sonic the Hedgehog game with the on-screen dialogue caption: [EGGMAN]: What are you two FUCKING talking about?
The cover art from Readymade's 1997 LP The Dramatic Balanced By, a record nobody's ever heard of when I mention it and sometimes that makes me sad.
A pizza bun sitting in open plastic clamshell packaging. It's a wide, flat, round bun with a bit of tomato sauce and a bunch of cheese on top. You can heat them up, but if dissociating it's easier to just eat them as is. Doesn't taste as good as it looks, sadly. I'm saving this one for tomorrow.
Dolly still on her pillow, but now curled up and almost sleeping. Except she heard me pick up my phone to take a picture so she's glaring at me.
Dolly the black and white cat sitting on her pillow on top of her ottoman, in loaf form
a picture from Joseph Beuys' I Like America and America Likes Me, showing Beuys wrapped in a rug with a cane sticking out and the coyote he shared a room with investigating him
The cover art for the 1967 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim LP
Cover art for the Left Banke's LP Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina
A screen shot of the run summary from Peglin I just had this evening. I'm playing the Spinventor and only have four balls: one that generates a ton of bombs on the playing field, a lightning one that detonates bombs easily, one that gets stronger per bomb you detonate, and one that throws out three of the next ball in your 'deck.' My relics include a first one that gives you extra money if you collect it outside of battle (which funded a LOT this run), an early one that increases your max HP per enemy you defeat, several that enhance bombs into instantly-triggering proximity poison bombs, one that significantly boosts the strength of your balls every time you shuffle (which I did often, with such a small 'deck'), one that means you can't be hurt while you're shuffling, and several others that synergize really well and add insult to injury.
The cover art for the 1965 LP The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
this is Dolly, the world's most persistently stressed-out tuxedo cat. She is lying curled into a U-shape on the couch amidst some clothes and blankets and giving a suspicious look to the camera
my beautiful idiot cat Dolly, curled up and sleeping
The cover art for the Oscar Peterson Trio's 1964 LP We Get Requests.
The cover of Rhys Chatham's An Angel Moves Too Fast to See (For 100 Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, and Drums)
The cover of Bunny Wailer's 1976 LP Blackheart Man
The cover art for Delays' album Star Tiger Star Ariel
The cover of the 1995 Blood & Fire compilation Termination Dub (1973-79) by Glend Brown and King Tubby
The cover of Burning Spear's 1975 LP Marcus Garvey
The cover art for Codeine's first record, Frigid Stars LP.
A tweet from @MahdiJabr1 from 7/11/15 that says "If my wife has a better job than me, then good for her wtf, she didn't go to school to be my slave. Go best friend, that's my best friend"
The cover of Adelphi's 1997 album Truth to Be Told, which includes the label name (Kingsize) in the top left corner.
Cover art for Archie Bell & The Drells' 1968 LP Tighten Up
classic meme image of a fun ghost with arms outstretched next to the text "it is a mystery"
An image from HHS in America depicting alcohol-related cancer risk with too much text to replicate. The image and text related to it can be found at https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/alcohol-cancer/index.html
My cat Dolly, curled up on her pillow next to me. She's actually just about to nap, but she looks pensive, possibly like someone's been yelling at her.
A 2024 albums list from Topsters 3 that has the following records in alphabetical order: Alan Sparhawk — White Roses, My God The Body & Dis Fig — Orchards of a Futile Heaven Cassandra Jenkins — My Light, My Destroyer Charli XCX — brat Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She claire rousay — sentiment Clinic Stars — Only Hinting Doechii — Alligator Bites Never Heal Glass Animals — I Love You So F***ing Much Godspeed You! Black Emperor — “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” Hypnodrone Ensemble — The Problem Is in the Sender — Do Not Tamper With the Receiver Jessica Moss — For UNRWA Locrian — End Terrain Los Campesinos! — All Hell Midwife — No Depression in Heaven Underworld — Strawberry Hotel Vince Staples — Dark Times Water Damage — In E Whitelands — Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day Xiu Xiu — 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
the potato result from https://sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/
a thicc stack of concert ticket stubs rubberbanded together on my desk, the top one is for a Primal Scream show at the long-gone Guvernment in May 2000
A picture of three horses standing in a pretty barren landscape next to a bit of water (a puddle?) under an almost white sky. Two of the horses, to the left, are brown and the one in the middle of the image is white. Above them is the motivational poster text that inspirobot.me came up with: "The mind is a reaction to the ultra-phenomenality of nothingness"
the scrungler
L'Rain playing at the Garrison in Toronto, January 2024. Picture taken by me.
The second half of that Donkey Kong "You may spank it... Once" meme, so it's just DK sitting on a pier absolutely cheeked up, looking away from the viewer and holding one index finger up with the caption "ONCE," in this context as if to answer haus's question.
Me holding up the cover of a rather timeworn old book, of unusually square shape. It's from 1975 and called PHILIP K DICK: ELECTRIC SHEPHERD, edited by Bruce Gillespie and with an introduction by Roger Zelazny (best of SF Commentary, Number 1). SF Commentary was (is?) an Australian SF zine, based on the intro here.