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Readings of Other Posters' Names

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23:19 / 17.05.07

EXTREME LENIN I take quite literally, as Lenin redesigned by the Liefieldian Extreme Studios. All sketchy lines and mad pointy beardness with tiny little ankles and wrists and giant bulgy pecs.

Thinking palindrome fishes I keep reading as 'palindromes' and so somehow cobble up the one thought in the world that could magickally palindrome 'fishes.' That is, thinking the thought turns 'fishes' into a palindrome. Powerful thought.

Madame Miriam Mooncat is that picture posted, yes, but darker, a little sleeker, and she has to take a step forward very sharply with each part of the name pronounced. Madame [step] Miriam [step] Mooncat [step].

Phex, Howlin' Robot reads like a command. Them howlin' robots must phex and they must phex now!

17:12 / 20.05.07

Thinking Palindrome fishes is two long, overlapping, circular chains of white fishes with clusters of symbols on their sides aligned along the lateral line (where electric fish have their electrics), one chain moving clockwise and one anticlockwise, the fishes moving through each other like ghosts. The fish are all identical in shape but have gold and red carp-like markings around the symbols, which merge and change and split as the fish move through one another. In this way, the fishy group mind makes it's thoughts known.

19:04 / 20.05.07

Madame Miriam Mooncat?

Closed for Business Time

11:26 / 22.05.07

Ognarud Suitangi Ognajd; I think of an orangutan in a three-piece suit, monocled, dancing a slow and sombre tree-top tango. Sort of a hybrid Ang Lee/Aki Kaurismaki shot.

14:44 / 08.06.07

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:16 / 08.06.07

Roadblock'd!

17:05 / 08.06.07

Dammit, hang on, alternate route...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:19 / 08.06.07

Hang on, a bit late returning to this thread, but on the previous page did I REALLY see the same picture of a cock three times? With animals???

I despair sometimes, I really do.

17:20 / 08.06.07

Interpret this, facists!

Mon Oncle Ignatius

17:57 / 08.06.07

01:30 / 01.08.08

Been awhile. So...

All Acting Regiment is a troop that's, to be blunt, faking it. They aren't aa regiment, but a bunch of players putting on a good show. Method acting.

Foretold Soldier is one of those are they/arent' they scenarios from pop fiction and many a soap opera, where the helping hero figure does dark suspicious things and you must tune in next episode to find out the truth!

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE. is the fresh, confident, uber-Stoat, similar to that golden Superman from DC One Million.

Secret Bat-Fairies is yes, totally ripped from recent Batmite appearances, but he's totally going to throttle that weird deathy facehugger puppetmaster any moment now. And then... continuity-obsessives beware!

Superbeast Machinegod Transfer cut an album once. Only once. But playing it generated its own lightshow, intense bass shuddered straight off the surface of the disc, and Bootsy Collins and Dave Wyndorf guested on some songs.

Neon Snake is Snake Plissken done up in neon and eighty foot tall. His hand moves and the good eye winks at you.

So, 'lithers, show us your hand. Whaddaya got?

02:55 / 01.08.08

I picture you all as a bunch of louche slackers, none of whom have English accents except Lurid, Stoatie, and fridgemagnet, the only three British posters I have met in person. I mean, there are definitely particular imaginary faces attached to particular posters--E. Randy Dupre is very specific--but I don't think I could usefully describe them, except maybe to a police artist.

However, it may be of interest that some posters have these funny free-associated secret aliases with me: Life Critic is Tugjob, Olulabelle is Whey, Xoc was Crocogator. Explain that. There are others and I may post them as I remember them.

03:07 / 01.08.08

Actually, I know where Crocogator comes from. Several years ago, before Grant Morrison had finished his X-Men run, I was (correctly) prognosticating about Marvel's immanent return to a '90s esthetic. To prove my point, I plotted a 12-issue Xpinoff mini-series to be developed by Rob Liefeld called the XLA, which was all based on Barbelith posters. It was hi-larious. Xoc was a villain called Xocodile, and that's where Crocogator comes from.

Tugjob seems more like a Bond villain, no?

03:51 / 01.08.08

No, just like death-grip masturbation.

13:06 / 01.08.08

haha hey guys i want in on this! do me!

All Acting Regiment

13:18 / 01.08.08

All Acting Regiment is a troop that's, to be blunt, faking it. They aren't aa regiment, but a bunch of players putting on a good show. Method acting.

No it's not. It's a troupe of people who can do all kinds of acting.

13:25 / 01.08.08

do me!

It's kind hard not to picture a male horse that has never been tamed. y'know?

13:36 / 01.08.08

that's true although many have tried

13:41 / 01.08.08

13:58 / 01.08.08

Is that photo from the upcoming Matrix prequel?

All Acting Regiment

14:00 / 01.08.08

Or, you know:

The Natural Way

14:30 / 01.08.08

There's a certain easily identifiable category of name that I really don't like, one that just seems entirely unimaginative and somehow generic - the stringing together of random words to form a wacky conclusion greater than the sum of its parts. For example: delirious chess frog, amiable car spoon, driving automatic gopher - that sort of thing. It's just crap. I'm not sure if there's anyone on Barbelith doing it now, but it's all over the internet.

14:49 / 01.08.08

You can probably thank ebay for that. That idea was part of their campaign, helping people think up ebay names without having to use numbers. And of course also some indie bands (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Flotation Toy Warning, Major Organ and the Adding Machine, Daisy Chainsaw, Tokyo Police Club, Olivia Tremor Control, etc.).

19:45 / 01.08.08

... Joe lean and the Jing Jang fucking Jong...

I like Mistelheim, anyways, as it portrays to me a small village in the shadow of a large forest, somewhere, with a castle in the distance, and a heavy, creeping fog...

Mysterious Transfer Student

20:19 / 01.08.08

Or Cloud's hometown in Final Fantasy VII. Because that's how I, you know, roll.

Liger Null brings to mind a small, intense, furry creature, part but not fully kitten, probably genetically engineered with telekinetic powers to compensate for lack of opposable thumbs.

21:14 / 01.08.08

Hi, when I saw mist's new name I thought of this.

Well, that and a name of a new norse plane just by Niffelheim.

22:02 / 01.08.08

Liger Null brings to mind a small, intense, furry creature, part but not fully kitten, probably genetically engineered with telekinetic powers to compensate for lack of opposable thumbs.

Weird, that's exactly what comes to mind when I think of Mist.

23:35 / 01.08.08

Just thought I'd point out, Daisy Chainsaw doesn't really qualify as a nonsense or random name, as it's a portmanteau of 'daisy chain' and 'chainsaw' that I'm pretty sure is deliberate.

And, to stay on topic a bit, Cowboy Scientist is Doc Brown in the third Back tot the Future. With a little more Lee Marvin.

05:15 / 02.08.08

Oh, thanks with all the funky associations with my name, guys! I thought of Mistelheim, when I looked at the tracks of the new Therion CD/DVD Live Gothic, there is one track called Muspelheim.

I have so far unsuccessfully wrecked my poor brain for what imagery may come when I read poster names. But for me it´s some kind of vague mesh of feelings, ideas and images, I fail so far to verbalize.

08:23 / 02.08.08

Qalyn: I mean, there are definitely particular imaginary faces attached to particular posters--E. Randy Dupre is very specific--but I don't think I could usefully describe them, except maybe to a police artist.

This. With a lot of the people who've been here for a long time, I get a picture of their face when I read their posts. But not their face. Even with those whose photos I've seen - Stoatie's a good example - my brain still reverts back to seeing them as it had always imagined them.

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