Here's What You Guys Look Like (In My Head)
This is something Gav came up with a while ago (or maybe he stole it from someone else, I don't know - you'll have to take that up with him), and at the time I asked/told/warned him that I'd be doing it someday myself.
This is that 'some' day. (Incredible, ain't it?)
So anyway, this is as close a representation to what many of you look like in my head. I've done basically everyone on my blogroll (plus a couple of other surprises), so if your link's listed on the right, your 'photo' appears below.
*** BY READING BEYOND THIS POINT YOU ARE AGREEING NOT TO GET OFFENDED BY WHAT FOLLOWS. I USED THE CLOSEST PHOTO I COULD FIND THAT REPRESENTED THE IDEA OF YOU I HAVE IN MY HEAD. THIS IDEA MAY NOT BE ACCURATE OR EVEN VERY CLOSE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU SO MY MIND'S EYE HAS 'PACKAGED' YOU INTO DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPEARANCES. (WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU GIRLS BRUNETTE IN MY HEAD?) DON'T BLAME (THE CONSCIOUS) ME. SOME OF WHAT FOLLOWS ARE DONE AS GAGS ANYWAY. PLEASE JUST TAKE IT ALL IN GOOD HUMOUR. ***
In no particular order:
Sally Smart:
Cape Man:
Adie & Noshie:
Cotton:
Muffin:
CBomb:
Jess Ausculture:
Channy:
You've Got What I Need:
Sherriff:
Logan:
Melbourne Girl:
Princess:
Her Radicalness:
Clem Barstow:
Jellyfish Online:
Clokeeeey:
Sublime-ation:
Tuppence:
Anna A Spades:
Anna A Spades (left) and Tuppence (right) in happier times:
Gav:
Ms Fits:
Steph:
Djali:
(Haha - get it? Everyone thinks she's a guy! And that'd make her angry!)
Thomasr:
Jobe:
Dxxxx:
Kranki-boy:
Chai:
Ang:
ChickyBabe:
Locket:
Sarah:
Riss:
Adam:
LadyCracker:
MeghansDiscontent:
SBR:
Susanne:
Fluffy:
Drowning In Jello:
Scary As A Kitten:
Rowena:
Quirkie:
Roguemaze:
Little Faerie Girl:
Gregory Surlyboy:
La Nadine:
Elaine:
Waiter Rant:
Gun Street Girl:
Magical_M:
Sheriff of Nothing:
Gianluca Di Milano:
Peter:
Auburn:
The Truth Fairy:
Now it's up to you - how close was I? Do the rest of you agree with my guesses? And what do you think I look like?
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54 Comments:
Ha, Ha, Tee Hee, It is to Laff.
You're dith-picabul.
You got me pegged. Cotton wants me to look like Nathan, but I'd rather have Eddies wallet.
scary thing is- in about 1992- you would have been spot on.
Now I'm a sort of post modern Tony hAwk/Michael bolton...
Check me with my fish - I am so fucking WHOLESOME!
(ps I didn't rape anyone, promise)
that was so totally close (except that everything is exactly the opposite. Hair - straight and light coloured, eyes- green, skin- pale-ish, brain - not thinking)
Um, but are you sure you never met fluffy?
oh you bastardo. I don't know what to be more offended by: the deformed looking girl, the skinny dog IN A T SHIRT, or the friggin piano accordian. As if I would ever play a piano fucking accordian!
Do me again!
Although I do have a green t a bit like hers.
Everyone else was absolutely fucking brill though. And very close to what I think they look like to.
Hey there, Cape Man - good to see you're still around. :)
Clokeeeey, what a coincidence. Yes, I completely understand, re Eddie's wallet. It just seems to grow and grow, eh?
Thomasr, I'm having trouble imagining what a postmodern Tony Hawk / Michael Bolton would look like. Oh, no - there it is. Ewww. (No offense.)
Peter, that made me laugh. Wholesome indeed. But what's with your PS? I'm not sure I get it, and I gotta tell ya - it's a little creepy when you don't understand it ... Are you just saying that your pic looks like some kind of sexually perverted criminal? You coulda done a lot worse! Check out the pic I attributed to Cotton!
Elaine, oh well - it's good to know not every chick on my blogroll is a brunette. I shall amend my mental image of you accordingly. :) No, I've never met Fluffy. I take it from your question that I've got it pretty close in her case, though?
Um, Sublime-ation ... if you look really closely, I think you'll see that it's a goat. So I reckon you should be most offended by the T-shirt-wearing goat that's dancing to your piano accordian playing. :) Or the goofy grin on the woman's deliriously happy face. ("Look, Mama! I made Nelly dance! Yee-haw!") I may indeed consider "doing you again". I was having some fun with a few of those photos (yours included) instead of making real guesses, so I might re-do those few 'gag ones' at some point next week. Hopefully you won't look as retarded in the next one. (But no promises.)
sxyyWhy am I always the nerd?
You've got it all wrong... in real life I'm really, really cool and I've got really great taste in music and movies and stuff and all these girls are totally on me all the time and I'm really funny and tough and rebellious and everything.
AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do me again too, dammit!
Hint: I'm way prettier, way younger, my hair is way longer. Also: Blue eyes, orange hair.
Also, you missed that "graciously-living-with-
unrecognised-genius" look I often wear.
**sullks***
Ooo you made me pretty, Bev.
A goat you say? I thought it was one of those dogs from those 'Dog Playing Cards' paintings.
Funny how if you put something in red type no one reads it hey? We're a fussy, rule flouting bunch.
So, Yes, do me again!
(this is said in a Stewie from Family Guy voice, not a 0055 voice. Although I could look more like the latter, just the good bits only if you please).
Seriously though, Cotton, Fluffy, Rowena and Ms Fits are spookily accurate.
You peeked at my page!
When I read you, Mr Bevis, I always piture this: http://docu.watchfarscape.com/gfx/bilder/feld6.jpg
I am not offended...not miles away anyway!
I picture you like kermit, you mean you are not??!!
Oh that is so funny!!! I pictured Clokeeeey! the same as you did, and Chai as well. But if Adam and Jobe look like your photos, I'm going to check out their blogs...
As for you Bevis, I imagine a man not a muppet, of medium height, thin build, shaves his head and has green eyes! Am I close? Probably not...
And for ChickyBabe, I love her smile! I won't say how close you got because I'm going to write a post of my own and link to yours ;).
The effort that has gone into this is mind-blowing Bevis.
Well, you were pretty much dead on with me, as Subby asserted earlier. I have blonde medium-length hair, love to expose a bit of shoulder now and then and can often be found gazing into the middle distance.
I suspect the fact that I have my photo on my blog may have helped a bit though, non?
In my mind's eye you look like Steve Buscemi in Ghost World. (PS I love Steve Buscemi in Ghost World)
hey just saw this.
this is so funny! i think surly's response was so so funny! come to my blog gregory and see what i come up with for you, to make you feel better. everyone still has that other profile pic stuck in their heads.
i am going to copy you and do the same thing.
you were way off with me and princess. i'll include pics of us in mine to set you straight.
i was thinking the mg of your photo should be going out with thomasr instead of john.
and hey! surely you've seen photos of some of the bloggers? and you've not met any?
[runs off to source pics for copy-cat blog]
Gregory Surlyboy, as MelbourneGirl said, I've still got that image of your former bio pic in my head. Actually, that's not the entire truth. When I stumbled across that picture of the kid with his artwork on the wall behind him, it reminded me of your former bio pic (it wasn't the other way around), so I just had to choose that one, for laughs! It looks like I'll be re-doing a few this coming week, so I'll add you to the list, grumblegrumble ...
Quirkie, got it, you're on the list. I've locked away those very vague and non-specific hints, and will see what I can come up with. (How do you Google search for a "graciously-living-with-unrecognised-genius" facial expression? I tried it and it wasn't much help.)
Jobe, no I didn't. God made you pretty. I just reported the facts.
Sublime-ation, you're on the list for this coming week as well.
SBR, um - yeah. A little. (Plus, I went to school with you.)
MindlessMunkey, thank you for being the first (and only?) person to provide me with a 'return image'. And you didn't even feature in my post! (Apologies for that.) It's interesting to see how you imagine me. I'm not quite so old and not quite so gaunt.
Ang, I'm pretty similar to Kermit, just not as green.
Sheriff of Nothing, excellent - thanks. Brown hair, check. And do you own a trampoline?
ChickyBabe, thanks for the compliments (and for linking to mine from yours). Adam and Jobe are that hott. Check them out! (Although Adam's on temporary hiatus for the moment.) Your estimation of me as a man and not a Muppet is a ground-breaking one. I've got blue eyes, but otherwise what you said is pretty-much correct. (Did my own caricatures of last year help with that?) I wish I knew how close I was with my guess of your picture, but from reading the comments on thi ssubject over on your own blog, I'd say that if she'd been blonder, I would have been closer.
Gav, no worries. The placement of the pics was totally random, but I'm glad you were able to read something into it. Admit it, you're like totally a surfer dude. Knarly! Jobe's next album will be 'house'.
Rowena, ah ... yes. That certainly helped to sway the judges (and I remember your previous bio pic, which I always thought looked a lot like Natasha Stott Despoja - I hope that doesn't offend you!). So I had a pretty good idea of what to do with yours. Does that detract from my choice of image, though? I thought it was a lovely little photo of you looking all pensive and distracted in a "I'm totally intriguing but extremely busy and important" kind of way. I haven't seen Ghost World, but I know that Steve Buscemi's not going to win any awards for World's Most Attractive Man, so I'll reserve my judgement on this assessment of yours until I look into it a little more ...
MelbourneGirl, I was wondering when you'd show up. I know you've had a busy week yourself (MG GOT ENGAGED THIS WEEK, EVERYONE! HEAD ON OVER TO HER BLOG TO CHECK IT OUT! EXCITEMENT GUARANTEED!), but I knew it wouldn't be a proper post until MG has deigned us with her presence. (Actually, I wanted to hear what you thought of the dual pictures of yourself and Princess - I found them to be too adorable to pass up, even though they weren't a legitimate expression of how I imagine either of you.) I'll re-do you guys this week as well. Surlyboy's a little whinging nerd. (But fair enough, he's on my list. The good sort of list. They one where I'll be re-doing an image for him because I used one for laughs alone.) I welcome the 'copy'; I copied from Gav, and even he is encouraging all and sundry to take it up. ChickyBabe has already linked to my post, but is only referring to her own image on my blog, rather than doing her own version of the post (narcissistic, much?). Hopefully others will be inspired to take it on and enlighten us to how they see us all. Yes, I've seen a couple of photos of bloggers, and met a few, but wanted to keep the pics as 'freestyle' as possible.
The bloggers whose appearances I actually knew (or had - possibly incorrect - assumptions about) before I put this post together, are:
Adie & Noshie
Channy
Logan
Riss
Ms Fits
Sherriff
SBR
Rowena
Little Faerie Girl
Thomasr
Cotton
Cape Man
Her Radicalness
CBomb
Clem Barstow
Djali
Clokeeeey!
Dxxxx
Magical_M
Ang
Adam
and perhaps a couple of others.
So quite a few, really. A lot of the above names are only guesses taken from photos on their blogs that provide partial visuals only, and even then may have been photos of other people they were merely PRETENDING were themselves (if that makes sense).
But either way, I wanted to keep it loose, keep it fresh, keep it funky.
So is anyone else going to copy this post idea? Is anyone else going to provide me with an image they think reflects me?
Or do I have to sit here and cry in the corner until someone brings me an ice cream?
you have to wait until i do my copycat from ballarat post, and then i'll put in there how i see you when i read you...
Deal.
:)
I wouldn't stoop so low as to respond.
Thanks! I am so going to copy this idea, when I have a spare few hours...but I always picture you as the cartoon guy you put on your blog.
My photo has been occupying my mind. What is going on in that photo? How did she get the goat to dance, and in a t shirt? And more importantly, WHY??????
It's messin with my head man.
Yup. Great. I look like an ASS apparently! Why not just zoom on up to the asshole!!!
Love your work Bevis.
Well, I am feeling left out. :-(
bevis has taken the blog industry to a new high with this entry/post! ;)
Chai, come now - don't be like that. You're young, you're good looking, you're happy ... what more could you want? :)
Sublime-ation, it certainly took me a while, particularly with my slow Internet connection at home (and I'm still battling all these annoying error warnings and virus checking pop-ups), but I figured I owed it to you all for the past little while's whinging and unhappy subject matters ... and for being so scarce around the place. I look forward to seeing what you do with it! I'm sorry to have caused you so much distress over this photo. I think the girl is just happy to finally be able to enter her favourite pet goat into The National T-Shirt-Wearing Goat Dancing To Retarded Piano Accordian Music Competition held at her local RSL Club. (She came third.)
Steph, I just tell it like it is. :)
Thanks, Gav. I still get a chuckle out of that photo. You're not too far off, if you lighten the hair a tad, make the eyes less googly, and add some meat on them bones.
LeighAnn, welcome! I don't think you've ever left a comment here before, but I may do this idea again later on ... and hopefully there'll be new people added to my blogroll by then.
BlinkWhenPassing, welcome to you too! Your praise is extremely generous, but I must insist that I've merely stolen Gav's idea. That said, I've done about ten times the amount of images that he did, so yeah - what you said is totally deserved. :) Hehe!
OK, here's a possibility. Am I close?
BEVIS
That's if I got this linking business sorted out.
Wrong answer! you're supposed to say i have a hot ass not i look like a friggin ass!!!
There are some that would back you up however. For reasons best known to themselves.
One wet, juicy fart just for you!!
Natasha Stott-Despoja??? Oh dear. I mean she's ok for a politician, but in the real world... noooo! I'll just have to calm down by focusing on how I was once told I looked like Marianne Faithfull (young, pre-smack version of course).
But, yes, even though you'd seen my photo your choice was very apt. I truly am a dreamer. And busy. And totally intriguing, bien sur.
Steve Buscemi in Ghost World is sweet and quirky and charming and has a kind expression... and that's how I imagine you. So I guess I'm saying it's not just his looks, it's his vibe that seems Bevis-like.
Well, you've definitely got my hair right, you cheeky devil.
Can't say the same for Logan's though. Sorry, love. :*
Not a horrible guess, Bevis! The coloring's right. I have brown hair and dark eyes. And I am female. This girl is skinnier than me, though, and for that I LOVE YOU.
Wow, I'm impressed.
And you know what, you're pretty damn close.
As for what you look like . . . I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I picture a Hugh Laurie-esque type.
Where's my pic?
By the way, does anyone here like Elvira?
Look at me, Bevis. Check that nasty glint in my eye. There's just something about being in the woods and appearing friendly that screams sex crime.
(I'm not actually a sex offender. Promise.)
You get no complaints from me...
That pic of me is hot.
Superb effort Bevis... I'm very impressed.
I don't get it, I think that's a rather nice portrait of me, where did you find that? It really captures the essence of what is to be ...er...me. And the smoke frames my face nicely too, don't you think?
Mwa X, thanks Bevis, great post.
Oh yeah, I'm still here enjoying your blog, by the way; just been a bit conservative when it comes to leaving comments lately is all.
Oooh, great post!
I LOVE it that you think I have dark hair.
(I'm actually blonde)
Dude, having not met any of these people.... so damn close on so many, except SAAK of course.
SAAK thought he commented earlier, but he could be wrong, he has been wrong before (once, it was a Wednesday if memory serves) ... Great job, not having met these people before, this seems pretty close (for the record SAAK is not that good looking ... and he has always pictured Steph's bum as being much prettier)
Last try, if SAAK ends up with three comments, he apologises;
SAAK thought he commented earlier, but he could be wrong, he has been wrong before (once, it was a Wednesday if memory serves) ... Great job, not having met these people before, this seems pretty close (for the record SAAK is not that good looking ... and he has always pictured Steph's bum as much prettier)
Quirkie, that's not too bad (well done on working out the link thing, too). However, I don't have (or hold) glasses, my eyes are blue, I have the little bit of facial hair underneath the centre of my bottom lip that goes down to the cleft of the chin (Shannon Noll calls it the flava-sava or something stomach churning like that, but I adoringly call it my tuff-tuff - and I had it long before Shannon Noll first "sang" or screamed/screeched his way onto Australian Idol), and finally I have less hair on the top of my head and more around the sides ... but I shave it all off when I can be stuffed anyway, which is usually once every two or three months. :) Despite that sounding like a big list of "things you got wrong", I actually think it's a pretty fair likeness. What do those of you who know me in real life think? Riss? CBomb? Logan? Channy? Her Radicalness? Mr Kahfarknarkle?
Steph, I actually reckon my original intention was clear: I think of you as slightly cheeky (pun intended), a little flirty, lots of fun, and kinda hot (in a totally-not-at-all-inappropriate-of-me-to-say kind of way, if such a way exists). Plus, you're kind of damaged (because you've got a crack, haha).
Rowena, yep - Natasha Stott Despoja (but in a good way). That's what your previous bio pic always reminded me of, sorry. Not your current one, though. Meanwhile, I think I can cope with a Steve Buscemi vibe ...
Riss, hehe. I had some fun with Logan. It's such a surfer-dude name, y'know? (PS - Beware: There's a tiny spider crawling out of your emoticon's mouth, there ...)
Sarah, I think I'd seen your hair colour on a photo on your blog somewhere (I have a vague memory of seeing it somewhere - perhaps on your first ever post, under a paper bag?), so that's been guiding my thought processes when it comes to imagining you. And everyone's as skinny or otherwise as they feel in the blogosphere, BTW. :) For example, my muscles are quite rippled here (or is that 'ripped'?). Whatever. The point is; in real life, I can't lift a potato.
MeghansDiscontent, cool! Another close one, eh? I'm good and stuff! As for Hugh Laurie, I can certainly imitate a flawless American accent like he can (it comes from us Aussies, Brits, etc, being raised on US films and television), and I'm a funny bugger in person (tickets please!), but reduce his googly-eye factor if you don't mind. What is it with me being accused by everyone of having googly eyes? First Gav, now you! What have people been saying about me??! :)
Mr Kahfarknarkle, it's up ya dumpty. And no, they don't. I already took a poll.
Peter, hehe, that nasty glint is sure to attract the ladies, don't worry. Perhaps the wrong sort of ladies, but still. Thanks for your promise, it means I'm happy to reply to your email. (Ahem - sorry I still haven't, but I will, I swear.)
Magical_M, I had no doubts! :) And thanks.
Channy, you'll get there. Just give it a few more years ... :)
Djali, hehe - I'm glad you didn't take offense. I'd hoped you'd see the lighter side of it (despite the fact that it must really annoy you - still, I'm clearly doing my bit for 'educating people' as to the truth of the matter). Always nice to know you're stalking quietly on the fringes; no worries! :)
Susanne, damn. I finally struck out on the hair, eh? Fair enough - I'd been doing reasonably well; it sounds like just you and Elaine are the only people I got majorly wrong (so far). Do you really love that I had the wrong image of your hair colour in my head? Would you rather be blonde or brunette in real life? (Cos you can change it if you want, you know ...)
Sorry to post all your comments, ScaryAsAKitten, but I couldn't resist. They made me smile and I wanted everyone else to share in the love as well. I've got comment moderation on now, so the comments sit in a queue until I can check them and publish them. They'll always be published by people like you guys (who I know); I'm just weedling out comments from any flamers who may swing by.
So was anyone offended?
Well Bevis, blonde is my natural colour so I think it suits me the best, yet I would prefer to be thought of as an 'inner brunette'.
Missy, welcome! I guess some people possibly could have been, but as you can see, everyone's basically been pretty good about it. :) It's possible that those who've remained quiet aren't happy with me ... but I suspect it's just that they haven't visited my blog since I posted it. I'm sure I couldn't have offended anyone too badly. (I hope not, anyway!)
Susanne, I'm not sure if you're referring to the unfair generalisation of "dumb blondes", but I hope you can achieve whatever you mean by 'inner brunette'. I assume you don't like blonde jokes and the way people generalise your intelligence when they see you? If I'm way off the mark with that guess, please ignore.
Yup, that's Fluffy. It's her signature 1983 hairdo.
Mine was close, but I don't have clothes. I just have the same blanket from when I was a baby.
Ha! Completely and utterly wrong for both myself and Ms Spades. If you swapped the names around you'd be closer...
I've actually had that haircut, so thats pretty accurate...if it was about six years ago.
*suddenly feels old*
Like I could ever get Adie to wear pink!
Hi. Yes, hello. I love this. I really, really love this. Of course, I'm very new here (this being my very first visit), so I can't really comment on anything or anyone. I'll definitely link you, but I must must must do my variation on this. Hope you don't mind.
To name drop, I got here by way of ChickyBabe who I got to by way of Egan.
I live in Canada and love your accent.
That's freakin' HI-larious! Where'd you get all those picts?
~Fab : )~
Kranki, I know you posted a second comment here about Jellyfish's photo being spot-on, and I 'approved' it along with the comment that appears above ... but I have no idea what happened to it, sorry. It's not the only comment I've approved that never made it to the site. Blogger is swallowing up a couple of comments at random, and I'm not happy about it. Anyway, it's always good to hear from you over here ... and I'm sorry that I couldn't find a photo of you naked. I was surprised that the naked shots were harder to come by, but there you go.
Tuppence, thanks for the tip. I trust my second attempt was closer to the mark, then. :)
Gun Street Girl, I wonder what you'd look like now, then. I reckon moody and mysterious, with a touch of what the French call "I don't know what". (But it would appear that my second guess was worse than this one. Oh well.)
Noshie, good point! (Great to hear from you, btw - I trust all is going swimmingly?) Hopefully you approve of my little theatrical tableaux from Friday 24th, then.
Thérèse, welcome! I love your name. And thanks for the high praise! By all means, feel very free to copy this idea; it's not mine anyway, but it's something I'd love everyone to have a go at completing. All the best to you with your attempts (I feel I must warn you that it takes quite a bit of time!), and I look forward to seeing the resulting post. Cheers! I thank you for the compliment on my accent, too - although I wasn't aware that you'd heard me speak. :)
Officially Thirty & Fabulous, welcome to you, too! I'm surprised to see so many first-time commentors coming out of the woodwork with this post. I seem to have struck a chord here. Naturally, it's always great to hear from someone new. Thank you for the compliment. In order to find the pics, I just looked on Google under different search words (using phrases that I'll be keeping to myself as I decided what each blogger looked like in my head and then selected the closest thing out of the images I was presented with). Not all of them were good guesses, it would seem, but it was a lot of fun regardless. Cheers!
Aw, what a warm welcome. You're welcome for the praise. It obviously took you a long time to post all those pictures, and I really do love that idea.
Oh, I've never heard you speak. Or have I...? (Hm. Might be a bit too soon in our acquaintance to come off sounding creepy.)
I was assuming you have an Australian accent. What with, you know, living in Austrayelia. I love it.
(giggle)
Good point. Well, I like to get oot and aboot, eh.
(That's fair, yeah?)
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