{"id":3033,"date":"2008-04-18T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/18\/the-cd-cover-meme\/"},"modified":"2011-11-11T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:43:10","slug":"the-cd-cover-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/18\/the-cd-cover-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"The CD cover meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a web meme I can really get behind&#8230;. I&#8217;ve never been tempted to try one of those long list affairs filled with questions such as &#8220;what was your favourite breakfast cereal when you were a child?&#8221; The CD cover meme is more my kind of thing and it goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random<\/a><br \/>\nThe first article title on the page is the name of your band.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\" target=\"_blank\">www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3<\/a><br \/>\nThe last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/7days\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/7days\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.<\/p>\n<p>4: Combine all three elements in your photo editing software.<\/p>\n<p>5: Share<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Et voila! Without further ado I give <em>Someone or Something Else<\/em> by Tolnaftate, that well-known Berlin Techno outfit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/tolnaftate.jpg\" alt=\"tolnaftate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Someone or Something Else by Tolnaftate, Feuilleton Records, 2008. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the record (as it were), Tolnaftate is &#8220;a synthetic over-the-counter anti-fungal agent. It may come as a cream, powder, spray, or liquid aerosol, and is used to treat jock itch, athlete&#8217;s foot and ringworm&#8221;, and the quote, I&#8217;m pleased to say, was from HL Mencken, &#8220;All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.&#8221; The pylons were unwittingly supplied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hinius\/2412709271\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Flickr user<\/a>. Flickr has <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/groups\/cdcovermeme\" target=\"_blank\">a pool devoted to this meme<\/a> and they encourage you to add your own creations.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/sleevage.com\/various-cd-cover-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sleevage<\/a> which features some choice examples.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-album-covers-archive\/\">The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a web meme I can really get behind&#8230;. I&#8217;ve never been tempted to try one of those long list affairs filled with questions such as &#8220;what was your favourite breakfast cereal when you were a child?&#8221; The CD cover meme is more my kind of thing and it goes like this: 1. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/18\/the-cd-cover-meme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The CD cover meme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3,12,23],"tags":[818],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-music","category-photography","category-work","tag-hl-mencken"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-MV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}