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sisabet ([personal profile] sisabet) wrote2004-07-02 03:45 pm

Posting Binge Continues...

So I just realized that three of the vids I was considering as replacements were all in the comedy show last year and man o man. It just ain't funny unless it is meta-funny.

I need a moment.

Someone suggested Lionel/Lex as a mindfuck pairing and here is where I have to admit my total Smallville ignorance: I've only seen one L/L vid, and it did not work for me due to sloppy editing. And I am hard-pressed to think of any truly meta looks at SV beyond "A Morality Tale" but again - I have not seen that many SV vids. Also - "A Morality Tale" was in the comedy show last year - right?? Or was it in Nearly New? Wait - there was the Lex vid to "I Can Change" in the Comedy Show - was AMT also there? A Hero's Tale was in it and that works on many a meta level for me, but I wanted another Lum vid more.

In other news, I am currently listening to my new mix from [livejournal.com profile] heres_luck: The Exuberance Mix: Indie Pop with a Post-Disco Coda - I think that is the title. I'm bad with words and letters and remembering the order of things so bear with me. I can never spell certain words - like convience - wait that is not right - convinience - nope not right again. Okay - 10,000 Pyramid Rules Apply: "The word I can not spell wants to make things easy for you - it is a kind of store. 7/11 is a ____ store. I only want a boyfriend when it is a ______. If I was to marry a dude just to combine farmland and it was a total business arrangement, that would be a marriage of ______ "

Bingo. I cannot spell that word. I have like a block. [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh figured out why I could not spell Orinoco last night and now I think I can spell it. I suspect the reason I cannot spell the other word is probably "i before e" related. Also the "n" fucks me up all the time.

What was I saying? Oh yes - the new mix. Man - I have been listening to it for like 24 hours and already I am on repeat and obsessed with one song. This is probably a record. And just cause I know h.l. likes to know these kinds of things - it is "Baby" by Imperial Teen. I don't know - something about the song really appeals to me. It makes me think of High School and watching football games -only really sophisticated. And so I started thinking about what I could vid it to - natch. And I was all wondering if it would work as a Nicole vid for "Popular" with Mary Cherry accents cause I love her, and Popular comes out on DVD in October and then I decided it would not work for Freaks and Geeks, although - really - to be fair - I should probably *watch* Freaks and Geeks before I totally dismiss it. But I don't think it is slick enough. Neither is My So Called Life.

So I was getting nowhere, wondering what this song was about, but I was all wanting to have pom-poms somewhere in the vid - and not willing, thusly to give up the idea of high school as a setting. 90210 is out cause, just no. Not vidding that. BtVS doesn't want to be this vid, although it *could* work. I could make it fit although that would be a tight squeeze. And I know the reason I want pom-poms is cause of the "whoo"s in the song - but dude. That woo needs at least one pom -y'know? Also - the more I listen to the song while driving, the closer I come to wrecking my car cause I have to do a shoulder dip at the "whoo."

Naturally, by this point, I am actively considering a Torrance/Missy "Bring It On" vid and really, I need to call an end to the insanity.

Then I realized that Baby is Lana Lang. This is a Clark/Lana/Lex vid. And now I am happy cause I was really worried there for a minute that I'd have to vid Kirsten Dunst. This makes up for the SV fic I was reading the other day - it was really long and kinda flat (not poorly written, just flat), but I was excited cause I thought the author was dropping hints that Lex was a robot and really - I have this total thing for man-bots and androids that I like to blame on "Bionic Woman" (cause she battled them, yo) and then it turned out that no one was a robot - it was just me inferring it from the roboto-y foreshadowing that apparently did not exist. I was disappointed. I mean - how can you tell a story that has a total *need* for a Robotic Lex Luthor and just not go there? I ask you, how?

[identity profile] grackles.livejournal.com 2004-07-02 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. When I can't spell a word, I always try to come up with a similar word I can spell and work from there. Like convenience:
That's kind of similar to convene, which is to get together for a gathering of some sort. So I would think, a convenience store is a gathering of crap I probably shouldn't buy. Hopefully you could also remember to remove the e and put on the ience. I noticed from your spelling attempts that the ience didn't seem to be a problem.

I used to always misspell sacrilegious and I got around the problem using something similar. For some reason I always thought the root word was religious when in reality is is sacrilege. Trying to spell it thinking of religious always resulted in an extra i.

Anyway, sorry to barge into your journal but spelling is one of the few things I am actually good at so I thought I would share.

[identity profile] sisabet.livejournal.com 2004-07-02 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
noticed from your spelling attempts that the ience didn't seem to be a problem.

See, you would think that it was not the ience that was the problem - but that - combined with the middle syllable always fucks me up. Convene -I can totally do that, but I can never depend on the ience to do what I need it to.

Restaurant is another word that used to fuck me up - but I think I have it now. Did I spell it correctly??

[identity profile] grackles.livejournal.com 2004-07-02 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, so you have at least defeated one word. I don't know what to tell you about that ie thing, it's tricky. That I before E rhyme is so totally unhelpful, it's wrong so frequently.

[identity profile] sisabet.livejournal.com 2004-07-02 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
OMIGOD

Convenience

I did it!! I can spell convenience and it is all because of you!!

Thank you. I thank you. My Spell Check thanks you.

I did spell it right - right??

[identity profile] grackles.livejournal.com 2004-08-04 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes, I only just now got this comment notification. Thanks, livejournal.

You spelled it right! Yay!