I don't even know how many icons there are, but I continued to iconify the Boosh (S1 dvd extras, plus the first two eps of series 2) and made some icons of the last three episodes of Doctor Who. They're probably spoilery, but I'm putting them right at the end, so if you want the Boosh icons and not Who, you don't have to look. I'll also be sure to fire a spoiler cannon or two.

I finished off the Rose sim. What do you reckon?

Instead of spamming up the creations section at GoS, I'm spamming up here instead. I made the changes suggested by the GoSlings and now I'm stuck on choosing her a skintone. Here they are, help me choose! A poll is quite tempting at this point. Hmm.

The first series of the Boosh all iconified, yay!

I just found some pictures of what happened once I finished taking the portrait pictures of Donna!Sim and actually bothered to build her a house. It's not really dramalicious, but there is a fight and Donna makes friends with someone entirely unexpected. Or not so unexpected if you know my neighbourhood.

24 more Boosh icons for your collection. If anyone's a forum moderator anywhere, you might be particularly interested in number 8. :P

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is absolutely bloody brilliant. Seriously. I can't really describe it, but it's great. Even weirder than the Boosh which is quite some feat as well! But yes, I did promise you Fielding fans pictures. But first I should warn you that he plays a psychotic ape and he's only in one episode (though the rest of it is like a 'spot the person who's also being in the Boosh' game. There's Saboo, Bainbridge and that cameraman from the Punk episode as well as...well. You'll see).

Oh, synopsis from Amazon:

I saw this on jenfold's LJ before I came to uni and now I'm here it seems that everyone has done it. So what the heck!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them.

The second part of my Boosh icons series, this time the episodes 'Bollo' and 'Tundra'. Enjoy! I tried to be a bit more even handed with the icons of them seperately this time. Did it work?

That episode of Doctor Who was bloody good wasn't it?! I'm not going to give spoilers and I don't think it'll be spoiling anything for anyone when I say; woo! Leeds is now Doctor Who canon! and; what the hell is wrong with Leeds exactly? and; that most certainly wasn't Leeds. Looked like Cardiff. In fact, it looked like the street where The Master confronted Martha in last years finale. Hey ho.

Actually, I can't help but notice there's been a few (ok, two) Yorkshire references in the past couple of series. In 'Blink' last year that woman ended up in Hull (a very hilly Hull. I think that was probably Cardiff as well) and now Leeds! Are they gearing up for a Yorkshire Doctor once David Tennant is done? Because that would be brilliant, 'Eeeeh bah gum, it's t'daleks, what we gunna do? Where's me sonic screwdriver? 'ecky thump!' Or you know, something along those lines. Might I suggest Julian Barratt for the role? Yeah ok, I know I fancy him, but he's a good actor! He can do the comedy stuff very well as we all know, but he can do the serious as well. Just look at Nathan Barley! He was the best thing in that and he had a pretty serious role. He'd be a great 11, you'd just have to keep Noel Fielding and co. away from set or it could get silly. He could compose some of the incidental music as well and give Murray Gold a holiday. So yes. The Barratt for Eleven. Excuse me, I have to go photoshop a picture of Howard Moon with the sonic screwdriver....

The extended WNF downtime is killing me, so in the absence of sim related drama I made some Boosh icons of the first two episodes. I tried to keep my Howard bias in check, but I think it ended up with there being two more icons of him on his own than there are of Vince on his own, so er, sorry about that if jazzy Yorkshiremen aren't your thing (*cough*freaks!*cough*).

Finally, the Forest of the Dead icons I've been meaning to upload since....Friday? I'm sorry, I'm a bad bad bad person. Also some Mighty Boosh icons I knocked together this afternoon. And a bonus Freema one.

I had a PM on MTS2 this morning asking that changes be made to my upload. Read it and tell me what you think:


I corrected the second one, the picture hadn't uploaded properly and I hadn't noticed. So it's basically that I haven't credited the mesh maker or the maker of the textures (Nouk) right? Well, this is why I'm confused!

Wow, I'd forgotten how slow it is to upload stuff to MTS2. I've submitted the Raon bob retexture *crosses fingers and toes* but I really can't be arsed going through all that again with the XM retextures. So you lucky lucky people/aliens/deep sea transexuals get them first. Both sets because who can be bothered waiting for MTS2 to approve them? If they ever even do, they're upload guidelines are getting well strict.

Prize for the first person to spot the cut quote (I may have got it wrong, but it's as near as I remember it).

( ...well it would be, if we hadn't spent most of the budget on your hair! )

And now I'm off to treat my strained wrist by resting it, elevated over my head, at the same time pressing an ice pack on it whilst wearing a bandage. Or something..... ( :-P )

I went to the doctor this morning and she confirmed that I have strained my wrist. Well...yes, I could've told you that, the big clue was that my wrist is swollen. I'm supposed to rest it, which is a bit difficult considering it's my right arm and I use it quite a lot, and if it doesn't get better in a fortnight I'm to go back and I might have to go for an xray or something. Until then I am excusing myself from doing push ups in aerobics. I'll just get a nice little lie down for three minutes. How lovely! 

There's something in my bag that keeps setting the security alarms in the shops off. It did it this morning at Tesco when I was on my way to the doctors and I just presumed it was my library book that I was taking back. Nothing happened at the library so I thought it was done with. But no, I did it again in Borders and everyone looks at me like I'm a shoplifter and I had to empty my bag for the security man so they could see I hadn't stolen anything. They let me go, but then it happened again in Sainsburys. I am not a happy bunny! The only things I have any different are a magazine that I bought the other day and a tube of Ibuprofen gel, so I bet it's one of those. I'm just not going to go into anymore shops today just in case. 

When I got to Leeds there was a BBC Radio Leeds outside broadcast van pulled up outside Debenhams and an Elvis impersonater singing 'Viva Las Vegas' I mean seriously, what the hell? Then further up Briggate outside Harvey Nichols there was an honest to god mariarchi band in flamenco gear and everything. Three old guys. One had a guitar, one had a clarinet and the other had some what d'ya call 'ems....shakers. It was very very weird. It's warm again today, I think the heat's bringing out the weirdoes. 

Someone has left me some feedback about Catherine Tate on MTS2, but I'm not sure whether to listen to it as they're a new member. I know that doesn't automatically mean they don't know what they're talking about, but still.

Ok, I've finished the hair, I even did a retexture of XM76 because I felt like it. I've binned them all, but I'm not going in game to take photos because my wrist is absolutely killing me. I've had RSI for a couple of years, but it's been a lot better since I finished uni. But last week in aerobics when we were doing push up type things I had this horrible shooting pain go up it and it's not being the same since. Today though, I've noticed that it's a little bit swollen and it feels kinda hot, so I'm stepping away from the computer as soon as this is done, and I'm going to the doctor in the morning. Swollen wrist, that's not good is it? I hope it doesn't need a splint or anything, I can live without that, but the ibuprofen gel is doing nothing. Gah!

I ended up removing the hairband from that mesh altogether. You know why? Because it was impossible to do anything with because the area of texture that was relevant to the hairband was a tiny little square about 5x5 pixels wide. So no stripey headband for our sims today. :-( On the plus side,  I think it looks better because once you get in Bodyshop you notice that the headband sticks off the head oh so slightly which is a bit crap.

I also opened up a thread on the Creator Feedback section of MTS2 for my Catherine Tate sim. Feel free to go over there and tell me I should start again. Wonder how long it will be until someone shows up and tells me I should photoskin her. *sigh*

I'm thinking of Noukifying Raon's new hair mesh (depending on how many polys it has anyway). Does anyone have a colour preference for the hair band? I'm hovering between pink, purple, striped, or seeing if I can ditch it altogether.

And now, to the job centre! Oh joy!

I just found this on ihasatardis. The bloody Boosh guys get everywhere don't they? Surprised no one's done a Dr. Moon/The Moon crossover yet, but I suppose there's still time!

In other news, is anyone else having problems with GoS? Digital Perversion is working fine, but when I try to access the forum I get told it's still in maintenance mode or that I'm not authorised to view that page. I'm still getting topic reply notifications though so I'm beginning to suspect it's just me *kicks the internet*.

Oh the Black Books dvd works fine, so it's only The IT Crowd that has to be taken back. Sort of good news I guess, I just hope they don't blame me for the fact it's scratched when it was like that when I got it.

EDIT: So it would appear it's not just me and the new hosting people are being complete arses. *shakes fist in their general direction*

With nothing on the telly except Big Brother and Euro 2008 I retreated into my dvd collection and somehow ended up making 25 icons of the last two episodes of series 1 of The IT Crowd. To be fair, this might happen quite a bit this summer, until BB and the footie are over and done with.