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Persephone
14:21 / 15.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flux = Rad:
I see Peresphone as being a tall, thin woman with long brown hair wearing dark colors, very nice clothes.


Hm. Do I write tall? People say that I walk tall. That is because I am the tallest in my family: in the land of the five-foots, the five-foot-four is QUEEN.

quote:Originally posted by Kit-Cat ClubFlux I see as being lanky, dark blonde hair (mussed), wire-framed specs, jeans, shirt (not tucked in), possibly with very pale blue stripes, Converse shoes

This is the exact picture I had of Flux the last time we had one of these threads! Though now I know that he looks like Max from Rushmore.

Kit-Cat Club I see as a petite red-haired <flash of childhood envy, how I wanted red hair!> girl carrying a load of books and a cello. Sweater and long skirt.

Rothkoid: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, with a fez and an Australian accent. Complete with fully-stocked bar.

Lothar Tuppan and PATricky are twins-- not you can't tell 'em apart twins, more like Jackie Chan in Twin Dragons twins.

modfive and autopilot disengaged, also twins --though since I'm still using the blue spaceman image for autopilot, that's how modfive's coming in too. Except orange instead of blue.

For Haus I have gleaned six-foot-five, always wears all white like Tom Wolfe, ginger though I don't know quite what color ginger is (strawberry blonde or sandy?) and carrying a foil. Or, alternately, Shrek.

My picture of [infinite monkeys] has not evolved beyond, er, monkeys.

Have I seen a photo of Flyboy? Medium height, medium build, dark curly hair and a merry look?

There is an Atul Gawande who writes the most terrifying articles in the New Yorker about medicine and surgery, that's ZoCher to me.

Cavatina: Cate Blanchett.

Lord, there's lots of you...
 
 
sleazenation
14:27 / 15.02.02
Ladies and gentlemen, the 'Waspish and intense' flyboy

 
 
suds
14:27 / 15.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Sax:
Suds, you won't thank me for this, but whenever I read your posts I always think of Suggs from Madness. Which I'm sure you don't.

that is so cool!
 
 
Sauron
15:13 / 15.02.02
Zoom looks like Captain Zoom in the full get up.

And his kid looks like mini-Captain Zoom.

And they are both cool as fuck.
 
 
w1rebaby
15:19 / 15.02.02
whenever this thread comes up I'm always torn between popping up and saying "what about me? what about me?" and keeping quiet in the hope that, eventually, someone will do it unrequested

oh well
 
 
Sauron
15:25 / 15.02.02
You look like a long line of cable with an infant hung on the end of it.

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Sauron ]
 
 
Shortfatdyke
15:26 / 15.02.02
w1rebaby - yeah, well, the other side of that is that a few barbefolk are going to be incredibly disappointed should they ever meet me in the flesh....

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
15:27 / 15.02.02
Actually, whenever I see w1rebaby, I'm reminded of this time when I was working at Pantorama. Horrible fucking job. It was really quiet one day and my friend took out this roll of wire that was under the register. It was a low gauge on, just a little sturdier than twist-ties. He proceeded to fashion a human figure out of it that resembled a 3D version of a very hasty comic book sketch. He still has it to this day. That is my vision of w1rebaby.

Zoom.
 
 
Saveloy
15:27 / 15.02.02
Rothkoid:



Cop Killer:

 
 
pointless and uncalled for
15:32 / 15.02.02
Not wishing to be pushy or anything but were mine even slightly correct?
 
 
suds
15:35 / 15.02.02
i always think that sfd looks like a super cool riot grrrl like the ones who are in radical cheerleaders.
 
 
cusm
15:46 / 15.02.02
Shortfatdyke: naa, that one's just way too easy
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
16:00 / 15.02.02
I just took a look at the Collective page and discovered that Mr. Coates looks like my brother-in-law from his university days.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:52 / 15.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:

sleaze really does look an awful lot like this photo...


From the photographic evidence that's been posted here before, though, Mr Thompson is sadly lacking in the mutated giant hand department.
 
 
Rage
13:04 / 16.02.02
Not bad, Bio.

quote:Rage- Looks young, early 20s maybe. She has a nose piercing. Her hair is died black (this week). She wears goth/raver/hippy clothing all at once, to her its completely interchangable. Punky Brewster for the millenium. Backpack instead of purse. Her shoes are worn from walking. She has a WWJD necklace just for laughs.

True, minus the backpack (I carry nothing) and the WWJD necklace for laughs. (I stopped wearing my for-laughs-WWJD-bracelet in high school) What I wear for laughs is the interchangable goth/raver/hippy clothing you refer to. Sometimes. Other times I'll just wear jeans and a plain ass t shirt. Depends on where I'm going and/or what's clean.

quote:She sits across from people and asks embarassing questions on the bus. If she catches you looking at her she screams WHAT! and everyone looks. She wants to bum a smoke and doesn't say thank you.

Nope, I sit across from them and start in on a Brilliant Nonsense monologue to gain personal entertainment from their reactions. I always say thank you for smokes.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
13:41 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flux = Rad:

I picture Sweet Jane as looking a lot like Jonny from Radiohead, but with blonde hair.



Apparently not, when I went out the other week, people kept coming up to me and saying "You should be in The Strokes!"

Of course, I asked them if they would kindly leave me alone. But as they still seemed to be wildly entertained by "should be in The Strokes-ness". I started talking about Iggy Pop's penis until they ran away...

[ 16-02-2002: Message edited by: Sweet Jane ]
 
 
suds
13:52 / 16.02.02
but the ladies love the strokes. so i wouldn't feel too bad.
 
 
Ganesh
14:05 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by w1rebaby:
whenever this thread comes up I'm always torn between popping up and saying "what about me? what about me?" and keeping quiet in the hope that, eventually, someone will do it unrequested


I have a really macabre mental image of you, W1rebaby, possibly because I remember discussing mental health stuff with you early on. Your name makes me think of the attachment/bonding experiments Harlow carried out in (I think) the 1950s, on baby monkeys - y'know, where they mocked up two dummy mother-substitutes, the Soft Mother (warm and cuddly) and the Wire Mother (hard and spiky, but bearing milk/food).

Anyway, I think of 'W1rebaby' as sort of the progeny of the Wire Mother, a razor-wire monkey infant suckling on a hard metal teat...

Which is quite disturbing, really.

 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:24 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by suds:
but the ladies love the strokes. so i wouldn't feel too bad.


Yes, apparently I'm a hunk now. I don't like it. Make it stop. Stop the madness!
 
 
Captain Zoom
14:28 / 16.02.02
I know that's going to give me nightmares tonight.

Ganesh sitting in the lotus before his computer, incense wafting through the air, two arms furiously tapping on the keyboard, others holding books, drinks, esoterica.

bear sitting in a hollowed out stump of a redwood. Satellite dish and phone cables running from it. Inside it looks like Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. bear is a bear.
(Sorry, Sat. Morning cartoons on the mind)

flux is constantly changing. constantly. as if he's been infected with the disease that keeps your waveforms from collapsing in Greg Egan's "Quarantine".

The only trouble with actually having met a few Lithers is that now I can't describe them here. moriarty was always the Holmes villain typing away on the keys with a fiendish glint in his eye.

Zoom.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:31 / 16.02.02
Zoom always appears to me as a hyperactive child on a sugar high, running around in a cape, going "Zoooooom!"

 
 
suds
14:43 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Sweet Jane:

Yes, apparently I'm a hunk now. I don't like it. Make it stop. Stop the madness!

i thought boys like being sought after. but then i don't know what it's like to be a boy and to be sought.
but i feel i must point out that the word 'hunk' makes me think of david hasslehof (who my mum actually used to fancy) and the strokes aren't hunks.
they're just dirty, mean, cool lookin boys.
and if i was a boy, i'd be glad to look like i was in the strokes.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:48 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by suds:

i thought boys like being sought after. but then i don't know what it's like to be a boy and to be sought.
but i feel i must point out that the word 'hunk' makes me think of david hasslehof (who my mum actually used to fancy) and the strokes aren't hunks.
they're just dirty, mean, cool lookin boys.
and if i was a boy, i'd be glad to look like i was in the strokes.


Ah, I look pretty dirty, yeah. Must point out though, the usage of "hunk" was due to someone else saying it (of me). I mean, I fell on the floor laughing.

Scared now. Oh, and suds makes me think of washing up... but then that's proabably just me
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:58 / 16.02.02
Jonny, are you somehow implying that the concept of you being physically attractive to a girl like Suds makes you feel very uncomfortable?

You should be so lucky, man!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:41 / 16.02.02
quote:Ganesh and ZoCher- one of you is fairly big, bear like and hairy. The other one is slightly smaller, big, bear like and hairy. You're both good looking in an ugly kind of way, and are both very very very much in love with life and each other. And lots of leather.

Well, Sauron, we're both mentally ursine and I have the grrrrrowllll to match. And we're phenomenally good looking (particularly Big G). I think Sax got me bang to rights with the Nick Fury comparison tho!

I used to have a lot of mental images of you guys but some of those have been superseded by the second hand images my spy has described to me after barbemeets he has enjoyed irl.

For instance, my mental Mordant Carnival was a tall, gorgeous, honey-bronzed (and orthodontically challenged) drag queen samba-ing down the streets of Rio de Janheiro, snorting coke thro Princess Margaret's cigarette holder, and dispensing pearls of wisdom from a sequined handbag...

My private Haus was a dapper, be-sworded Reepicheep figure from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, wearing a Lecter-like mask to protect lesser intellects from his rapier-like wit and classically trained tongue... A giant among lesser mice.

I saw Flyboy drinking lots of Jack Daniels and running round and round his living room holding his arms out in aeroplane mode, going phut phut phut and crashing on the carpet when his propeller fouled. I thought Bono singing the Fly, sort of punchy and barrel-chested.

Captain Zoom I saw bursting through walls and calling out ZOOM! a lot, as he stroked his granite chin, to announce that he had come to save us from peril. Then shouting ZOOM! again as he flung his big red cape back and shot off into the air through the hole in the wall, to return to the gentle, unassuming alter ego where he pretends to run a comic book store.

Potus / Wisdom of Idiots I saw sitting in a big but threadbare armchair, smoking a pipe, gazing into the blazing fire, woolgathering and pretending he was a Hemingway character, as the wolves howled in the great snowy forest outside his log cabin. Every ten years or so he gets a visitor and hears news of the outside world. The visitor is then cooked en croute with manly potatoes and no veg.

Sax dances on the tables and plays his big, well polished instrument in a former Working Men's Club in the North of England, which has been converted into a bingo hall by day cum avant-garde cinema at night. At night he sells ice creams, punches tickets and interviews visiting cinema celebs on stage, in the glare of the footlights.

Secretly, I think he looks like the fleshly incarnation of Ganesh (bespectacled love god, receding but fashionably tonsured hair, Michael Stipe look-a-like), particularly in leather breeks and from the back... On your knees, Boy...

I could go on at length but am in an internet cafe and credit's nearly gone. No time to describe w1rebaby the Pumpkin King from Nightmare Before Christmas or Sauron the Komodo Dragon, and what he did to that goat...

[edited to remove utterly fascistic and slanderous description of The Knowledge + 1 as Bernard Manning's skid-marked jockstrap]

[ 16-02-2002: Message edited by: ZoCher ]
 
 
w1rebaby
16:37 / 16.02.02
quote:Your name makes me think of the attachment/bonding experiments Harlow carried out in (I think) the 1950s, on baby monkeys - y'know, where they mocked up two dummy mother-substitutes, the Soft Mother (warm and cuddly) and the Wire Mother (hard and spiky, but bearing milk/food).

That's bizarre. That was exactly what I had in mind when I chose the name. I remember reading about that experiment when I was a child, somewhat odd reading matter but hey.
 
 
w1rebaby
16:38 / 16.02.02
(double post)

[ 16-02-2002: Message edited by: w1rebaby ]
 
 
Ganesh
16:44 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by w1rebaby:
That was exactly what I had in mind when I chose the name. I remember reading about that experiment when I was a child


Wasn't in Pat Mills' 'Marshall Law', was it? He bastardised the original experiment, if I recall correctly, as an example of how Marshall Law's scientist parents had fucked him up...
 
 
w1rebaby
18:38 / 16.02.02
oh yes, I remember that... I think I saw it before in some sort of science book that parents think will be terribly educational but in fact ends up terribly disturbing. I may be imagining it though.
 
 
Ganesh
18:40 / 16.02.02
Pretty damn weird that it conjured up the exact same mental image to me too, eh?
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:51 / 16.02.02
ZoCher, please write a novel so I can have your wonderful words on my bookshelf to read when I want.

Sweet Jane, that's a surprisingly apt description of my son some days. Those are loooong days....

Zoom.
 
 
moriarty
18:58 / 16.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
The only trouble with actually having met a few Lithers is that now I can't describe them here. moriarty was always the Holmes villain typing away on the keys with a fiendish glint in his eye.


And this differs with reality how?
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:03 / 16.02.02
I was trying to throw the authorities off the trail, dammit!
You'd best start running now.

Zoom.
 
 
w1rebaby
19:08 / 16.02.02
quote:Pretty damn weird that it conjured up the exact same mental image to me too, eh?

both interested in psychology, perhaps? though you obviously have the edge in knowledge there

or maybe it's those subliminal images I've been flashing up
 
 
Seth
09:52 / 17.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flux = Rad:
I don't have a solid mental picture for Expressionless, but I have a feeling he's really, really, really tall.


LOL. LOL LOL LOL.

quote:Originally posted by Bio K9:
Expressionless looks like Old Tom from the Invisibles. Big, bald, giant beard. That pic in issue two or three when he chops Dane on the head- thats him banging on his drums.


LOL!

Sadly, Bio K9 is closest. Big, shaven headed, beard. But not tall in the slightest (not that short either, though).

Flux picks a smart/casual image that doesn't limit him (in his self-perception) to any definite sub culture. He is stylish without being of a particular style.

persephone is very quick to smile, with bright eyes (intense stare).

Jack Fear is the immense, pulsating, kindly cloned brain of G K Chesterton, sitting in a jar with wires attaching him to the net.
 
  

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