I thought I'd already posted these, but evidently not. Everyone in the world has iconned Rachel McAdams but I like her in Slings & Arrows particularly. So there.



( gliding through the snowdrifts in a miniskirt )

I am, very likely, the only person in RPdom who is PBing Robyn Hitchcock. But you--yes, you--could be the second, or even the third. He is not a pretty PB. Robyn's sex appeal is pretty debatable, but if he is sexy at all, most would agree that it's in an ugly way. When he was younger he had buck teeth, a unibrow, and hair that looked like a lawnmower cut it. In his later years, well, he is old. Some of his photos are actively frightening.

Iconnable non-concert photos of him are hard to come by, so at 29 I feel very accomplished. There's quite an age range, which works for me but might not for you. No money returned.

As for his music, he is some kind of weird squirrelly English genius, which is why I use him for cut tags and titles and such on this journal. Have a listen ("Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl). You're in or you're out after that, but if you have some time and want to hear his eerie vocal resemblance to Lennon, here's more. Track 5, "The President", in particular is fantastic.



( Python's last series and the Guardian said, 'The stench of rotting minds' but what else could you smell back then? )

Like Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Tielli is one of my obscure-musician PBs who is difficult to icon. I put mine up not because they're that great (they're not) but because nobody else is going to do him. You want a unique PB? Here you go.

I've seen Martin live a number of times with the Rheostatics, and unfortunately photos don't capture it--spacey, cute Italo-Canadian with a strong Toronto accent, a weird pre-war-looking wardrobe, a shy reticence talking to strangers and a bizarre energy performing to them. He paints (Thumbelina illustration; old thumbnails found on Google). He was in a pretty bad Canadian movie, although they're all pretty bad, but he was interesting to watch as always. He has yet to complete a project that fans paid for four years ago, and his apology is worth reading on its own for the weird writing and punctuation. He's starting to look a lot like Andy Kaufman as he gets older. All this means I fangirl him quite a lot.

So here are some icons.



( I've got a dream, I've got a plan: I leave this world, live off the land )

Sarah Slean opened for someone else a couple of years ago and I missed it--I no longer remember who the main act was, either, although I remember it was at Elixir in Kingston. I think. Or the Grad Club. It might have been the Rheos since fans are chatty at those shows. Anyhow, youtube for your and my sampling.

She's interesting to icon since she can look completely different from one shot to the next, but she always has that very sleek delicate quality. She starred in the bad movie that Martin Tielli was in, as I mentioned in his post.



( So fabulous and well dressed up like a talk show )