Sunday, Not-So-Bloody Sunday

Just a note. My Friday night drunken ramblings was not my review of the Vividcon DVD. I was just really excited to have it in my house. All of these excellent vids now live in my house. Have I mentioned the part where they are in my house? Cause that is key for me.

I've gotten a lot of emails from people interested in purchasing the DVD now. As far as I know, it is too late, but I'll ask around. If your dying to see these vids and can't get the DVD, then just come visit me and we will hang out, drink shiraz (raises glass in toast to elke_tanzer who joined me in spirit and spirits Friday night) and squee over the fabulousness.

So, yesterday I installed a 3rd Hard drive and today I get cracking on some vid recuts. Cause now I have space to do it properly. I am also muy inspired watching "Superstar" to recut "Without Me" - so that is what I am doing today. I think I can do this is a day - hell, the original vid only took a week and half of that time was spent on the titles. The making of the titles actually took much longer than the editing of the clips. Cause Lilah waits around for no one - oh no.

I was trying to recut Last Stand, but it is depressing the shit outta me, so I'm gonna do Without Me now cause that makes me happy.

Oh, - I went to see Matrix: Revolutions yesterday and I'll post my thoughts on it later - including how I drifted off at some point mid-movie casting myself and heres_luck as characters so I would at least have some kind of emotional connection to the plot - cause I think we would make an awesome duo in a buddy flick. heres_luck is an Grad Student with a secret past and I am the FBI agent assigned to protect her. Only I am not that competant, just well connected and get in over my head and seriously screw the whole thing up and then we have to go on the run Intrigue! Intrigue! Intrigue! Poor heres_luck deserved a much better agent than me and now she has to use her street-smarts and computer saavy to save us both. Oh!! And at one point we are on a boat that capsizes. Actually, it was the boat capsizing along with Lethal Weapon that sparked my heres_luck/sisabet buddy movie idea. It is a whole new fandom.

Right now, Dawn is back from Toronto, her bags are in Atlanta and her truck is still at the airport. She is on the phone with truthseekersara justifying her gym. Apparently, her gym is a meat-market (we all knew this) but not the early am crew. No they are all there for the work-out. Uh huh. Sure. We believe you Dawn. Her credibility was just shot, cause she admitted to joining 2 gyms before this one but ultimately joining this 3rd gym cause the guys were so much hotter. I heart truthseekersara and her ability to totally see through my sister. I wish she was here again, along with Undercover Brother. We could have Smallville Parties! It would be great. Now Dawn is giving truthseekersara advice on joining a gym. I fear her.

I love eavesdropping - now Dawn is lamenting the decline of her stalking skills (she was in Toronto for 3 days and never once saw Gale Harold -- of course, unless he was dressed in Armani saying "Hi, I'm Brian Kinney" she would never recognize him. This is the girl that can't recognize actors in character on Saturday Night Live. Halloween parties are fun with Dawn).

The Matrix Revolutions and Hope Found In Fic (Unrelated Except for In My Head)

So I was gonna post all about my reactions to "The Matrix: Revolutions" and then, well I just didn't. And, with out spoiling anyone about any plot points whatsoever: I did not like it. I liked parts of it, but as a whole, I did not enjoy it.

Which actually, really pains me to say, because I wanted to like it. I really was all set to like it and I am so fucking easy when I am in that mindset. This grim determination that I will enjoy myself and this will be fun dammit - well, it's what kept me watching The X-Files and probably why my season 7 BtVS experience wasn't that bad. If I want to like something, I will make every fucking effort to enjoy the experience.

But I just have to admit that if half-way into the movie, I am having to go off into my own version of the movie in my head just to keep from falling asleep, then it just isn't working for me. And it didn't - but some parts did. Just not enough.

Gorgeous camera work in some scenes, incredible lighting and effects and if the movie had been just that I would have been okay.

I'm sad that I did not like it and I still want to like it in that desperate to hold on to an asshole of a boyfriend kind of way. I don't think it is a healty relationship anymore - me and Neo. Which is sad cause it started out mind-blowingly. I'm sad.

So valereix cheers me up. Well - beyond cheers me up. She had me gasping for breath and wow that sounds dirty...cool. I am so lucky that she likes me and sometimes writes stuff that she knows I will dig just cause she can. Or maybe she has all those kinks as well, but I suspect "The Wind Beneath My Wings" thing is just to humor me. I think it should be her calling card - Brian should quote that song in every single fic she writes from now on. Even her original shit. Brian Kinney should show up - walk into a room, quote a line from WBMW and then walk out. Oh!!! Buffy and Dawn are fighting - Brian Kinney turns around in the next booth, quotes WBMW, smiles his shit-eating grin and then drops the smile suddenly (it's like his face can't hold a smile) and then turn around. It could be like Kilgore Trout or something.

But I am off track from what this was becoming which is a "Get Thee Ass to Valerie'S LJ" Fic Rec type thing. For she writes "Blissed" which is so funny that I actually hurt myself.

Brian hadn't put on shoes in three days.

As he lay on his bed, cradling the telephone in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, he contemplated his lack of footwear. His first thought was that it was probably unhealthy to not leave one's house for three days. But then he took another shot straight from the bottle, and his mind was filled with more pleasant thoughts.

"Damn, I have sexy feet."


Go - read.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/valereix/234332.html