Right Click and Die

Your desktop wallpaper is probably the most important aesthetic choice you can incorporate into your computer’s set up. It’s the first image that greets you once you fire up your computer to start a day’s work at the office, or to start an evening of deleting facebook requests at home.

Some people will set up a photo of a loved one as their background image. Others will choose an exotic vacation destination – maybe a place they went to, or a place they plan to go. Desktop wallpaper can give a keen insight into a person’s mind, and also their soul.

Which is concerning, because this is my current desktop:



Fuck.

I was looking on Amazon late one night for Japanese Horror movies to buy, and Meatball Machine revealed some interesting images. Just before shutting the computer down and hitting the sack, I right clicked the scene above in a ludicrous moment of impulsiveness and set it as my background. I completely forgot about doing this, and when I logged on the next day that filthy thing was staring back at me. I promptly shat my pants.

I swear it’s eyes follow me wherever I walk in the room, which is troubling, because it doesn’t seem to have any fucking eyes. Just metal buttons sewn into it’s eroded skull.

Fuck.

I should restore my old wallpaper that was up for about a month, this nifty image here:



Which is the emblem for a band called Japanese Cartoon. A kind of “Astro Boy Jolly Roger” motif happening here. I like it, would make a great tattoo.

The background that pre-dated the Japanese Cartoon one was this one below. Dowling made some upgrades to my computer for me one afternoon, inspiration struck him during the process and he left this as my wallpaper:



While we're on the topic, my "Weeping Dawson" wallpaper served me well for a few months too:



Anyway, wallpaper hi-jinks aside, hopefully I can get my sticky fingers on a copy of Meatball Machine this month. It’s looking like necessary viewing. I’m purchasing it for a film club I’ve cofounded, but more on that later.