That Ole Music Meme

[sisabet]

I got tagged by vagabondage!!

1. Total volume of music files on my computer: I have no earthly idea. I have music files (multiple) on every hard drive and then I have downloaded music floating in one catch all before I move it to a file and then I also have a lot of music in different aim ID folders and it all becomes very confusing but somehow - I can usually find stuff. I just have no idea where it lies as a whole.


2. The Last CD I bought was: "Quality" by Talib Kweli. I think.


3. The Last Song I Listened To Before Writing This: "When I Paint My Masterpiece" by Emmylou Harris because it is my favorite Dylan cover of all time, which is saying a LOT, but when Harris sang it - it went from being a song that I enjoyed to being a song that was suddenly intensely personal. Also, I am vidding it. This song is currently on repeat, indefinately.


4. Five Songs I Listen To A Lot:

All are songs that I want to vid or are vids or that live in my head because lately I have been in imput mode fannishly, so all songs I listen to are vids in a way. Or not. But still, are.

1. "No Touch" Madder Rose. This is my River song.
2. "Night on the Sun" Modest Mouse. This is my Atlantis song if just_eunice will collab with me.
3. "Grace" by Peter Mulvey. I love this song and it makes me happy and I just found a promo single in a dollar bin at a local used CD shop so I don't even have to hit repeat.
4. "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik" by Outkast. In my head it is about Atlantis. Just. Leave me alone.
5. "Hold Fast to the Right" by June Carter Cash. If I can get through a song she sings without crying, I am doing really good. This could be an intensely creepy Carnivale vid that I will never make or advocate making because I think June would disapprove. But other than my own issues - I can see where this would really work.

Now, five songs that I have been listening to a lot in the past couple of months would be:

1. "Baby" by Imperial Teen - vid
2. "Johnny Feelgood" by Liz Phair - wants to be a vid
3. "Underwhelmed" by Sloan - yearns to be a vid
4. "Talking to a Brick Wall" by the Cooper Temple Clause - vid
5. "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" by Emmylou Harris - vid


And now I tag five people to also complete this meme - BUT ONLY IF THEY WANT TO DO IT!!
renenet
heres_luck (and I can wait until you get back to your computer and have time and all that)
sdwolfpup
f1renze
permetaform

Also - I know exactly what linzeems and piper47 are listening to. Hee!

Comments

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm listening to "When I Paint My Masterpiece," too! All day in my mind (well, every moment that I'm not in conversation with another person or writing or reading intently). ::happy sigh::

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Am I almost finished? Cause it wants to be finished.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is almost finished, but I have some concerns that I will share with you this evening.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

It's Daddy Adama isn't it?

[renenet.livejournal.com]

[laughing] Well, not exclusively, but, pretty much, yeah. Is it any wonder that the vid is conflicted about how to behave with Daddy Adama during the two most stressful Starbuck-Adama interactions of the season? This vid *is* Starbuck and has Starbuck's issues. Or you have Starbuck's issues. But only about Daddy Adama, because you and the vid handle the flock of wild geese with great aplomb.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Above, where I say "during," please read "during and/or just after." Thank you.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The flock of wild geese was my twenties so I had a great time with that.

And I knew the climb part would be hard but it is turning out to be my flowers for hobbes moment. I have no judgement.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

We'll figure it out. Disco Adama is just never the answer.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

OMG DISCO ADAMA!!!

::floves::


And I knew when I did it that it would never fly, but I still had to try for it. I shall condense and recut and let the emotion speak for itself. That's what I need to do, right?

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Yes, recut and let the emotion speak for itself. And if related emotions from outdoor and indoor Adamas are speaking in tandem (as in the first draft), something should be done so they don't fight each other visually.

(Can we add "Disco Adama is never the answer" to our vidding-themed line of embroidered pillows, please? We do have a vidding-themed line of embroidered pillows, right? I didn't just dream that?)

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Sorry to just jump in, but I want to learn to be a good beta (like you). There isn't a Being A Good Beta panel planned, is there?

[renenet.livejournal.com]

::just about *dies* laughing::

My immediate thought was "What, is Flo being ironic?" because I've just snarked publicly (above) about my vidder's vid in progress. Poor form, renenet, poor form! Although, admittedly, when the vidder in question is sisabet, the forms are liable to give way to unorthodox configurations of one kind or another. I suppose the core principle at work here is that you can say almost anything when you beta a vid as long as its done with love and respect for the vid and the vidder. And that a beta relationship takes patience, nurturing, and practice, but the time investment is worth it if you can get to a point where you can shorthand the description of a problem with a term such as "Disco Adama."

But you didn't ask for a beta disquisition, you asked about a panel. As you may have noted on the recent call for moderators (http://www.livejournal.com/community/vividcon/27654.html) post, there is a panel on betaing in the running for August. There had been interest in an examples-based approach — sort of a case study of the beta process of a particular vid with drafts shown and everything. heres_luck and I have volunteered to run that panel* and share the formation of "Superstar," but since it's us, I'm sure we'd be tying in principles and issues in betaing as they relate to the case study. 'Cause we have too many thoughts and very big mouths. And because that makes the panel function on multiple levels (the story level of how something got the way it is and the translatable principles level about the beta process). Believe me, I have thoughts about Being A Good Beta and the "Superstar" experience exemplified good and bad aspects of how to beta, so there should be lots of fodder for the panel.

*nothing's final about panels at this point because we're still in the call for volunteers stage. We won't know for sure that this panel is on or that we'll be the ones doing it, but I suspect that there will be a panel on beta.

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Hee - no, not being ironic *at all*. I've been behind due to travels last week, and so I only skimmed that post you linked and should've checked again for volunteer developments before I asked. I thought I'd ask anyway because I wanted to compliment (!) and perhaps nudge you to do it before I forget!

[...] a beta relationship takes patience, nurturing, and practice, but the time investment is worth it if you can get to a point where you can shorthand the description of a problem with a term such as "Disco Adama."

I hear ya. When betaing my vid recently, sisabet and I came up with "static motherfucker" as a name for something to tweak. Hee.

I'm glad the panel will be example-based, and I can't wait to see how "Superstar" (one of my absolute favorite vids) came to be. Thanks, and I can't wait!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliment (!) and the would-be nudge. *g*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

If you did dream it - it was one of those shared dreams, like on the X-files.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I know I have them with someone. You are the likeliest candidate.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Also - I know exactly what [info]linzeems and [info]piper47 are listening to. Hee.

Ah, but that is where you are WRONG, my friend!

WRONG!

Linzee, is unpredictable!

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Like you aren't humming it in your head. ;)

We are *totally* transparent.

Well... cept for me... I'm on a new kick... until the stupid fucking Mac will cooporate and let me listen to Something to Be. ::kicks Mac::

[piper47.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to Tegan and Sara. :-P

Although, this is because my Mac won't let me listen to Rob... it's against me.

You've been on a Liz Phair kick lately haven't you?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was on a Liz Phair kick. Now I am on to something else. I still like Liz Phair, I just listen to other people.

Variety is the spice of life.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Variety is the spice of life.

I hear ya. I'm bad with music though. I go through spurts where I listen to something for a long time and then move on to something else and so on and so on.... which explains the Tegan and Sara, since I just got their new CD yesterday it's on permenant play... at least for a couple more days at least.

Then other stuff will filter in I'm sure. Rob.

Music = Happy Place. Always.

I would be sad if we were without music. :(