A green plastic watering can
Apr. 19th, 2017 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blownthroughtheceilingI was thinking of a name for this new journal and could not come up with a single idea. Nothing clever, poignant or of particular resonance stood out. Last time I had to create a username my mind was so blank I ended up putting together my dog's name and breed just because she was sitting next to me at the time. I don't claim to be the most creative when it comes to clever wording.
This time around my brainwaves had been running flat for a while before I tuned in the song I was listening to, Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, and I decided to go for the easy route - lyrics. Because, why not. After all, it is one of my favourite songs. One of those I have in a playlist on Spotify called My Favouritest Favourites (this is a lie, it's just called Favourites). One of those songs I scream-sing along to, sometimes with a small tear in the eye, virtual lighter in hand, waving gently as if starring in a Coca Cola ad (you know the one). For the longest time I thought this song had one of the best lines - he used to do surgery for girls in their eighties, but gravity always wins - only to find out Thom Yorke actually sang "girls in the eighties", thus breaking my heart a little bit.
The username comes from the peak of the song, that bit almost at the end that goes (caps intended, to show the glass case of emotions) BUT I CAN'T HELP THE FEELING, I COULD BLOW THROUGH THE CEILING. I might be older but I still love a bit of 90s angst.
There is a mixture of reasons behind my decision to open a new journal. To sum it up, I missed writing and I felt like a change of scenery, so here I am. Now I need to find myself a userpic - I had forgotten about those!
This time around my brainwaves had been running flat for a while before I tuned in the song I was listening to, Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, and I decided to go for the easy route - lyrics. Because, why not. After all, it is one of my favourite songs. One of those I have in a playlist on Spotify called My Favouritest Favourites (this is a lie, it's just called Favourites). One of those songs I scream-sing along to, sometimes with a small tear in the eye, virtual lighter in hand, waving gently as if starring in a Coca Cola ad (you know the one). For the longest time I thought this song had one of the best lines - he used to do surgery for girls in their eighties, but gravity always wins - only to find out Thom Yorke actually sang "girls in the eighties", thus breaking my heart a little bit.
The username comes from the peak of the song, that bit almost at the end that goes (caps intended, to show the glass case of emotions) BUT I CAN'T HELP THE FEELING, I COULD BLOW THROUGH THE CEILING. I might be older but I still love a bit of 90s angst.
There is a mixture of reasons behind my decision to open a new journal. To sum it up, I missed writing and I felt like a change of scenery, so here I am. Now I need to find myself a userpic - I had forgotten about those!
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Date: 2017-04-20 12:09 pm (UTC)Cool to read the origins of the new handle.
I wish I had the guts to rename my journal, because the username is shit (don't even know what my thought process was 12 years ago) but this has been me for forever, so I'm kinda stuck.
Anyway, looking forward to reading you here.
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Date: 2017-04-23 09:11 am (UTC)I know what you mean. I have a love/hate relationship with phoebeagle; on one side it's uninspired and unoriginal, on the other it has been my online 'name' for the last 13 years (!!!) and I've been strangely attached to it and reluctant to let it go. What made me take the plunge in the end was that I didn't feel any connection with the name/journal anymore - it felt like a past me, if that makes sense.
:)