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[sisabet]

I just spent forever and a day on an entry about vidding and song interpretation and the Keanu Factor and now... it disappeared.

FUCK.

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[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

were you doing it online or with a client?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Online - that puppy is gone and I have such a hard time expressing myself verbally that I will not redo it. I just can't. I'll have a nervous breakdown.

And this was a funny one too - I told people to quit reading and stuff if they weren't interested in thinking about vidding.

::cries::

And the Keanu Factor is a real and important part of vidding and people just take it for granted.

::cries some more::

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Well maybe you can try and save it in your brain to amuse and amaze us all with in some future panel :)

I couldnt bring myself to re-write it either. I'd always have the horrid feeling that whatever I was writing wasn't as good as what I wrote the first time.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

You know, if "The Keanu Factor" were a Vividcon Panel, I would totally sign up to go.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to suggest it? And in the course of suggesting it - I would have to explain what, exactly the Keanu Factor is and that requires examples from movies like The Matrix and Johnny Mnemonic and actually goes a long way in explaining Will Smith and also *why* we need Bruce Willis. And how this applies to vidding.

We need to Keanu our viewers so they are comfortable - ya know? This involves literal interpretation and falling into audience expectations.

::cries::

The title of the lost post was "Keanu Reeves is to Vidding As Patrick Swayze is to Collating"

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Does Evil Ted factor in somehow?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

We could make it factor in - I have faith in us!

[luminosity]

The title of the lost post was "Keanu Reeves is to Vidding As Patrick Swayze is to Collating"

So, I'm not sure what that means, but he sure is purty.

However, it's your fault that this got me to thinking of a potential crossover with The Matrix and Office Space. That's totally where Mr. Anderson worked, for one thing, what with the cubicles and the really shitty boss, and he really should have just snuck in the back way, and then no one would be the wiser, and what the hell did he do there anyway, besides collate TPS reports? And? He had no stapler because THERE IS NO STAPLER.

I think that there could be a vid in there, if I could find the song, and DON'T suggest Take This Job and Shove It, although White Rabbit.... hmmm...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I happen to think "Birth, School, Work, Death" is about Fight Club, Office Space, and Dead Like Me -- and now I think it is about The Matrix as well. Damn your brain.

Sigh.

Basically the Keanu factor is that he gives the audience exactly what they expect - there are no real surprises with him, so the audience can relax and absorb the *actual* unexpected twists and turns of the plot. He is a comforting presence amongst the strangeness much like literal interpretation/expected lyrical interpretation can help ease an audience into a difficult portion of the vid -- same principle as your "blind them with candy and then gut them like fishies" technique, but with Keanu.

[klia.livejournal.com]

potential crossover with The Matrix and Office Space

*head explodes as the time/space continuum shifts and brings two previously unrelated BSOs together*

You've wrecked me for the day.

[luminosity]

Well, just think about it. You know that Peter really hates his job because they took his mouth away as a disciplinary measure. He doesn't remember it, but the hatred of the job is the same. (Not that you need to have an Agent take your mouth away to hate working in a lifeless, fluorescently-lit hell hole, though.) Since I've been thinking about it, I believe that the occupational hypnotist really offered Peter a red pill and a blue pill, and he took the blue pill and forgot everything, and was filled with a sense of well-being, which manifested itself in not giving a shit about his job.

For a while there, I thought Michael Bolton may know the secret of the Matrix, but I can't image his residual body image looking that bad. What got me going was "PC Load Letter!!" That has to be a code of some sort.

[klia.livejournal.com]

(Not that you need to have an Agent take your mouth away to hate working in a lifeless, fluorescently-lit hell hole, though.)

No, indeed. Though it often feels like that, anyway.

Since I've been thinking about it, I believe that the occupational hypnotist really offered Peter a red pill and a blue pill, and he took the blue pill and forgot everything, and was filled with a sense of well-being, which manifested itself in not giving a shit about his job.

Sounds about right. Where can I get one of those blue happy pills?

For a while there, I thought Michael Bolton may know the secret of the Matrix, but I can't image his residual body image looking that bad.

Maybe he just has more important things to worry about than his residual body image. You know men, they don't have the body image issues women do. They think they're hot no matter how dumpy they are in reality.

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

I would have to explain what, exactly the Keanu Factor is and that requires examples from movies like The Matrix and Johnny Mnemonic and actually goes a long way in explaining Will Smith and also *why* we need Bruce Willis. And how this applies to vidding.

I am just mad crazy about your brain.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

*curses LJ programming*

That's been happening a *lot* lately.

How utterly craptastic. ):

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. I just hate that.

You might try composing a long post in Word or something first, so you have it saved just in case LJ is being a bitch.

{{{L}}}

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Grrrr! I want to read that. I put Keanu in my latest vid. OK, so it was just Ryan, but it was a v. pretty shot of Ryan.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

You know, I've written and rewritten a post about how my crazy new sister-in-law has been telling us she is pregnant for over a year now and still actually seems to believe it about 5 times now. Every time I do, it gets eaten.

I guess the world just doesn't need to know.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. And it SUCKS. It sucks a lot. Stupid computers.

[drdawn.livejournal.com]

obviously the world chose the blue pill...or was it the red one?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I never can remember. One or the other. Heh.

How do you feel today? You made it to work, obviously.

[drdawn.livejournal.com]

yeah, for half a day. Better but not back to normal.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I think I am gonna make here's luck thai squash soup with red coconut curry tonight.

[drdawn.livejournal.com]

oh, that sounds good. I want some. I was going to make spagetti to feed sky man.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

It'll be late - I am at work until 7.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

!

I really would have wanted to read that.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I just saw her post.