February 14, 2008 at 9:56 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: christian, christmas, commercialist, consumers, depression, Ectomo, history, holiday, love, lupercalia, order, pagan, sherman foundation, trap, Valentine, wordlab, words ·
Simple links that summarize my feelings for this particular pseudo holiday that inspires more jealousy, depression, and ill-will than possibly even Christmas!
Enjoy tomorrow’s discount candy!
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February 14, 2008 at 1:52 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: adulation, Art, commercialist, cthuhlu, Cthursday, death, free, love, madness, symbolic gestures, thursday, V-Day, vagina, Valentine, valentine's day cards, vices ·
Just in time for both Cthuhlu Cthursday and Vag Day- I mean - Valentine’s Day, here’s a card for your scrumptious puppet of fear, madness, and in some cases the wasted human expression known as “love”.
Although he waits in a death-like slumber, Cthuhlu is still polite enough to at least send a card when the time comes again for the humans to get all agitated and rub against each other in various futile forms of staving off madness and death. The humor of your petty practices of self-adulation are not lost on The Tentacled One, and thusly he has usurped my standard functions and compelled me to create a card that you might share in the worshipful ecstacy of the passing regard issued forth by Mighty Cthuhlu.
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February 7, 2008 at 7:34 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 1950s, 2008, Art, children, design, flickr, gifts, goth, grammar, holiday, internet, love, mistake, oddities, placing_the_blame, ridiculous, Valentine, valentine's day cards, vintage, words ·
Poking about as I am wont to do, I discovered this Flickr account chock full of vintage Valentine’s Day cards. User Valart2008 has procured (at the time of this writing) 58 vintage card designs from the good old days. You know, when children were all extraordinarily hydrocepalic and wore thicker eyeliner and more rouge than a room full of goths.
I believe I’ve also found the culprit behind the shortening of the word “you” into the letter “u”. It all started back in the 50’s, with a little girl and a lamb.
Enjoy!
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February 5, 2008 at 12:18 am Post Author: Giania Tags: absurd, Art, free, gifts, Goodies, holiday, love, photoshop, Potent Potables, project, Valentine, wallpaper ·
I went in to reproduce the first wallpaper in a more common format and went and made a different one entirely. Luckily for you this one is in 1024×768, which is much more common than the previous one which I have yet to doctor into something more practical.
For this I found myself inspired by the age-old saying: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” - which is a load of crap, but somehow charmingly sentimental. Ah well. Enjoy the fruits of my blood, sweat, and tears you freeloaders… er, I mean, enjoy the wallpaper. Don’t forget to re-visit this and the previous post for more sizes of each. Card friendly PDF versions for easier printing will be generated on-demand.
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February 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: aneristic, Art, chocolate, commercialist, controversy, free, gifts, Goodies, history, holiday, martyrdom, pagan, revisionist, ridiculous, stupid, Valentine, wallpaper, wiki, wikipedia, winter ·
Let it never be said that I throw complete disfavor upon arbitrary, stupid holidays based around the martyrdom of one of three possible guys in order to overwrite pagan tradition. Far from it, any excuse to get more color in my dreary winter, and of course free candy, is a good excuse.
That said I have prepared a lovely little something to give to the one you’d like to get all cuddly-wuddly with for this (contrived, commercialised) Valentine’s Day. It works well as a wallpaper for 1600×1200 displays. I may edit this later to include other, more common screen sizes, so be on the lookout.
Please enjoy! The majority of this was constructed using photoshop brushes located over at brusheezy. They’re absolutely wonderful and I highly recommend checking them out at your next earliest convenience.
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June 19, 2006 at 6:21 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 24, 9, album, alternative, america, anger, Art, atmosphere, bomb, cake, children, classic rock, common, counter terrorist unit, cute, daft punk, death, door, experiment, forms, free, fun, FX, godsmack, google, heat, hip-hop, hotel, ian, IM, indie, kit, lcd, LED, lost, love, madness, meme, modest mouse, music, nickelback, Opera, original, party, pi, pink floyd, radio, rap, rats, religion, rem, smashing pumpkins, soundtrack, spring, suicide, thursday, ToM, trap, Valentine, ween, WoW, zen ·
Synopsis of totals available behind the cut:
Radio Rock: 1
Country: 2
Psychobilly: 1 (I would like to see Unknown Hinson in either country or Psychobilly. He’s great, you should google him and check it out!)
Pop: NA
Emo: NA
Original Emo: NA
Ambient: 0
Chillout: 5
Indie: 5
Metal: 0
Metalcore: 0
Hardcore: 0
Post Hardcore: 2
Grindcore: 0
Doom / Sludge / Experimental: 0
Powerpop: 2
Punk: 1
Pop Punk: 1
Street Punk: 0
Crust Punk: 1
Rap: 0
Hip-hop: 4
Ska: 0
Classic Rock: 12
90’s Alternative: 6
Industrial: 2
Electroclash: 2
Electronica: 2
My heritage wins out overall. If any bands are missing from my listening loop, please, fill me in! I really only checked off artists I either have albums for, or have a strong familiarity with. Which means there are several in these categories that I “sort of” know, but not enough to stand behind them for the purposes of this survey. Read the rest of this entry »
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