Recap: The Year In Liz Review
Dec. 17th, 2004 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI feel like I need to take this time to reassess or however you spell that word. End of the year and all that crap. So what did I learn this year?
1. My dog is most likely insane. I knew he was a special case before, but now I know that he is just truly neurotic. I worry that he takes after me.
2. I can be addicted to many many things and I can give up those things but I will never, ever, never give up my coffee (FREEDOM! /Braveheart). I would not get up in the morning at all if it was not for this stuff.
Okay - this list sucks. This is shit I already knew. Think Liz think! This year - what happened *this* year and what did you take away from it?
So - Year In Liz Review '04:
The year started interestingly enough with me abandoning the making of the vid "Would" to spew forth a Smallville vid (of all things! Fancy that) for Escapade. "Without You I'm Nothing" taught me many many things about structure and framing and narrative devices but if you ask me what I learn I'll just look at you a little bug-eyed and say "Levels are good" and that is that.
Lum tricked me into collaborating on "Whatever" - She told me it was going to be a serious address of *our* Angel - a documentary, almost, of the man he is and what is important to him. I feel that we were able to shine a light, so to speak, over his darkness and maybe, just maybe, make the man a bit more accessible to everyone. He's like Ghandi in a way...
In February I headed down to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tzikeh's for Notcapade and fannish fun and friendship and I watched "The Invisible Man" for the first time. I'd sing "Memories" but I don't really know the words and I hated "Cats" so - I'll sing Olivia Newton-John's "A Little More Love" cause I like it and think I know the words to it. I'll also do big hands. I learned about big hands at Notcapade as well ("Well, we can't *all* do big hands"):
Will a little more love bring a happy ending?
Will a little more love make you stop pretending?
Will a little more love make it right?
Will a little more love make it RI (big finish) HIIIIIIIGGHT!
It's gets me nowhere (sing it like you mean it, sistah!)
To tell you no
It gets me nowhere
To make you go
Notcape also featured Puppet Angel. The week before we found out that Angel was cancelled so Puppet Angel was at best - bitterweet. But like chocolate, anytime your favorite superhero is turned into a felt being, is a good time. Angel is a puppet. His nose is made of felt. It comes off.
In March I began living by myself for the first time in 4 years and hey - it's pretty cool. I want to frame comic books and hang 'em on a wall - I can! I want to decorate my Christmas Tree in Batman/Superman - I can. Actually, to be fair -- I could have had all the Batman ornaments I wanted on Dawn's tree. I just would not be allowed to pick where they go.
In April - I think it was April - I made Paradise. That vid kind of sent me on this vidding spiral of "Death, death, double death, shower, and more death" - I blame a combination of my favorite show ending and Richard Ashcroft. I still need to break out of that mold. Argh. Angst.
In May - I think it was May - I went to Slayage with Lum and we presented a HUGE vid show of all of these wonderful Jossverse vids (I mean - it was a GREAT show) to a teeming audience of academics - many who had never heard of the concept of fanvids before. Then we did a presentation-like type thing about what vidding is and such later on in the con. I think. To tell the truth I was so nervous that everything is all a blur and all I can really remember about that weekend was that there were Dead Gay Swans and we kept going to Noshville to eat and at "The Great Escape" I picked up the first issue of the Joss Whedon penned X-Men series and the next thing you know I am spiraling back into a comic book addiction I thought I kicked when I was 19 and Superman died, Batman was in a wheelchair and Superman came back to life with a mullet.
I have no idea what happened in June. Maybe Slayage?
In July I moved all by myself. Well - I mean - I had help, but I found my own apartment and was able to get my shit in it without relying too much on the generosity of family and friends. Of course, I also moved across the street from my sister, but over-attatchment is an issue for 2005.
Not only did I move - I also finished my Vividcon Challenge vid - SOS - Farscape's John dies and makes a prayer for the future (lucky there was a spare) AND I finished the auction vid with Miss Murchison "Caravan" (Spike is lonely all his life and then he burns up and dies. Then there is Angel) and THEN I made Two Words (everyone dies in the span of Angel's sword) and I am quite the little downer. See what I mean?? Death - Death - INCREDIBLE PAIN - Torture - Death!
Damn. I did a lot in July. No wonder I was so nutty. I also pimped my baby sister to Smallville. The things I do for family.
In August - the best most wonderful thing of the year happened. Vividcon. Sigh. I learned that I do not deal well with having a challenge vid (NERVE WRACKING), that Two Words is not really a con vid. I knew that - but still, that I *loved* veejaying a vid show (and I think part of the love was having such a wide open topic as "Unexpected Levels") and I cannot work a remote to save my life.
I was rearended by an uninsured motorist in August as well. I still need to get my car fixed...
September. Huh. I don't remember September.
October. I'm drawing a blank here as well.
November - Wild Wild West Weekend started the month. There was an election and I am still dealing with issues of Southern Abandomnent. I'll be fine. Don't mind me.
December - I am still here. I have a vid that does not suck that I will one day finish. I have good friends and a somewhat strange but working family. I'd say to hell with what I learned and I'll stick with what I got -- but that is not really a me thing to do. It is very much a me thing for me to say - but doing - not so much.
1. My dog is most likely insane. I knew he was a special case before, but now I know that he is just truly neurotic. I worry that he takes after me.
2. I can be addicted to many many things and I can give up those things but I will never, ever, never give up my coffee (FREEDOM! /Braveheart). I would not get up in the morning at all if it was not for this stuff.
Okay - this list sucks. This is shit I already knew. Think Liz think! This year - what happened *this* year and what did you take away from it?
So - Year In Liz Review '04:
The year started interestingly enough with me abandoning the making of the vid "Would" to spew forth a Smallville vid (of all things! Fancy that) for Escapade. "Without You I'm Nothing" taught me many many things about structure and framing and narrative devices but if you ask me what I learn I'll just look at you a little bug-eyed and say "Levels are good" and that is that.
Lum tricked me into collaborating on "Whatever" - She told me it was going to be a serious address of *our* Angel - a documentary, almost, of the man he is and what is important to him. I feel that we were able to shine a light, so to speak, over his darkness and maybe, just maybe, make the man a bit more accessible to everyone. He's like Ghandi in a way...
In February I headed down to
tzikeh's for Notcapade and fannish fun and friendship and I watched "The Invisible Man" for the first time. I'd sing "Memories" but I don't really know the words and I hated "Cats" so - I'll sing Olivia Newton-John's "A Little More Love" cause I like it and think I know the words to it. I'll also do big hands. I learned about big hands at Notcapade as well ("Well, we can't *all* do big hands"): Will a little more love bring a happy ending?
Will a little more love make you stop pretending?
Will a little more love make it right?
Will a little more love make it RI (big finish) HIIIIIIIGGHT!
It's gets me nowhere (sing it like you mean it, sistah!)
To tell you no
It gets me nowhere
To make you go
Notcape also featured Puppet Angel. The week before we found out that Angel was cancelled so Puppet Angel was at best - bitterweet. But like chocolate, anytime your favorite superhero is turned into a felt being, is a good time. Angel is a puppet. His nose is made of felt. It comes off.
In March I began living by myself for the first time in 4 years and hey - it's pretty cool. I want to frame comic books and hang 'em on a wall - I can! I want to decorate my Christmas Tree in Batman/Superman - I can. Actually, to be fair -- I could have had all the Batman ornaments I wanted on Dawn's tree. I just would not be allowed to pick where they go.
In April - I think it was April - I made Paradise. That vid kind of sent me on this vidding spiral of "Death, death, double death, shower, and more death" - I blame a combination of my favorite show ending and Richard Ashcroft. I still need to break out of that mold. Argh. Angst.
In May - I think it was May - I went to Slayage with Lum and we presented a HUGE vid show of all of these wonderful Jossverse vids (I mean - it was a GREAT show) to a teeming audience of academics - many who had never heard of the concept of fanvids before. Then we did a presentation-like type thing about what vidding is and such later on in the con. I think. To tell the truth I was so nervous that everything is all a blur and all I can really remember about that weekend was that there were Dead Gay Swans and we kept going to Noshville to eat and at "The Great Escape" I picked up the first issue of the Joss Whedon penned X-Men series and the next thing you know I am spiraling back into a comic book addiction I thought I kicked when I was 19 and Superman died, Batman was in a wheelchair and Superman came back to life with a mullet.
I have no idea what happened in June. Maybe Slayage?
In July I moved all by myself. Well - I mean - I had help, but I found my own apartment and was able to get my shit in it without relying too much on the generosity of family and friends. Of course, I also moved across the street from my sister, but over-attatchment is an issue for 2005.
Not only did I move - I also finished my Vividcon Challenge vid - SOS - Farscape's John dies and makes a prayer for the future (lucky there was a spare) AND I finished the auction vid with Miss Murchison "Caravan" (Spike is lonely all his life and then he burns up and dies. Then there is Angel) and THEN I made Two Words (everyone dies in the span of Angel's sword) and I am quite the little downer. See what I mean?? Death - Death - INCREDIBLE PAIN - Torture - Death!
Damn. I did a lot in July. No wonder I was so nutty. I also pimped my baby sister to Smallville. The things I do for family.
In August - the best most wonderful thing of the year happened. Vividcon. Sigh. I learned that I do not deal well with having a challenge vid (NERVE WRACKING), that Two Words is not really a con vid. I knew that - but still, that I *loved* veejaying a vid show (and I think part of the love was having such a wide open topic as "Unexpected Levels") and I cannot work a remote to save my life.
I was rearended by an uninsured motorist in August as well. I still need to get my car fixed...
September. Huh. I don't remember September.
October. I'm drawing a blank here as well.
November - Wild Wild West Weekend started the month. There was an election and I am still dealing with issues of Southern Abandomnent. I'll be fine. Don't mind me.
December - I am still here. I have a vid that does not suck that I will one day finish. I have good friends and a somewhat strange but working family. I'd say to hell with what I learned and I'll stick with what I got -- but that is not really a me thing to do. It is very much a me thing for me to say - but doing - not so much.
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