You can know a rude chap by the way he set his cap

[in_the_blue]

I have 168 userpics.

What the hell: pick a number between 1-168 inclusive, and I'll tell you the story of that particular icon.

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[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me: 13.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

#13 in my pull-down menu. How appropriate.

Imagine the scenario: someone who writes a lot about Cowboy Bebop in her journal -- for absolutely no good reason -- not having an icon that included the name of the show. So... I made this one from one of the eyecatch sequences. I suppose this icon serves to reinforce that it's not just a lot of bishi fangirling, but that, you know, there really is a show associated with it, and I do watch it, and I sometimes write such very serious stuff about it.

[arasnaem.livejournal.com]

randomly generated numbers: 88 23 and 97

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

88. Vintage Bebop Spike, from a flashback in Session #5, Ballad of Fallen Angels. In the show he wakes up after yet another near-death experience, looks at Julia (who's watching over him humming), and says "just like that, sing for me, please." It's my fallback boy-have-I-been-beat-up-and-do-I-ever-need-a-hug icon.



23. This is from the Japanese cartoon series Cat's Eye. I don't think it ever aired over here, but the story's about a police detective named Toshio Utsumi going after a group of art thieves known as Cat's Eye. It just so happens that his fiancee Hitomi and her sisters Ai and Rui run a cafe called Cat's Eye just across the street from the police station. You'd think that since someone somewhere made him a detective, he'd put two and two together but he never really does. I have a few icons of signs and symbols, and this is one of my favorites.



97. Your randomizer must be a Cat's Eye fan. This is from season 1, episode 7, where Toshio finally tells Hitomi he loves her by talking the owner of the building into setting the lights this way so she can see them from her apartment. That's the translation of the words, by the way: I love Hitomi. Sometimes this is my generic love icon, or my generic love-at-night icon.

[neko142001.livejournal.com]

Number 100

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Miss Cleo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo)! She's the satellite psychic! She knows when you're going to call!

When I first moved to Oregon we had a big-dish satellite TV system. It was the only way we could get any reception at all and we spent some of our first nights in this house of ours in absolute hysterics watching satellite psychics. Not long after the one we used to watch went off the air (she was broadcasting from Brooklyn, NY), we started seeing ads for Miss Cleo. She filled a void in our hearts if not our wallets.

[neko142001.livejournal.com]

Miss Cleo! That's really very awesome.

[alienchrist.livejournal.com]

166

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, I found this Yoko Kanno icon on one of the Bebop communities and I liked it enough to comment and credit and the whole nine yards. To make a long story short, I didn't make it but I did swipe it.

I think it's so appropriate, though, even if most people don't get it. Her music does fill my head with stylish action fantasies!