Be So Glad

[sisabet]

First things first: piper47 - I did not see your IM until this morning - AIM has been opening and closing itself willy-nilly on me all weekend (more on that later). Yes - VVC deadline is today for ALL vids. The deadline is until Midnight either EST or CST. To be safe? Go with EST. Or just check out the FAQ at vividcon, cause I really do not know what I am talking about.

Things to be grateful for:

I have friends like sockkpuppett and tzikeh and kadymae and mlyn. Lum and tzikeh for hand-holding and geek squad enabling and just general everything this weekend when my computer went KABLOOEY less than 32 hours before the VVC deadline. Kadymae of the gift of Birds of Prey and fangirl squee and M'lyn for the gift of due South Season 4. I have it on very good authority that Fraser gets the shit beaten out of him in Season 4 and I have already identified the potential footage for this by watching vids so I am very excited. I like my Mountie bruised and a bit bloody. Or in church. Ohh - bruised and bloody in church. That would be so freakin' cool.

So - sweetestdrain - let me know when you are ready for S3 and we can then marathon the rest!

My computer bit the big one this weekend. It was an ex-computer. It was pining for the Fjords. Actually - not really - but my OS fucked up but good and there was much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth and at one point I had to look into the future and accept that there is a very real possibility that I will not be able to send any vid at all to this year's VVC. And it turns out that I am okay with that. I'm not happy about it, but I don't think that it would impede in my enjoyment of the con at all. Gah - I just want to be there. Actually having a vid is just icing and while I had hoped that my attitude was shifting in this direction - I am glad to have proof that this is my real and deep down feeling.

Luckily - thanks again to Lum and tzikeh, it looks like I will be able to get my premiere vid in on time. So yay! I am really thrilled. My computer works again and I think I have almost all of my data. These are good things.

Due to stress I watched A LOT of movies this weekend:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I liked it well enough, but I had sufficient difficulty in believing in and also sympathizing with the premise and so it never really touched me the way I thought it could. I just... there was a scene with a man in the waiting room and he is holding a trophy and part of me wondered if this was his son's belonging and that movie - I'd like to see that movie.

American Splendor: I forget how much I adore this movie until I watch it again and everytime I am just thwapped upside the head with "OMG, I LOVE this movie!"

Anchorman: I lost it when WF started yelling "I freaking LOVE you!" and I never got it back. Just... Dude - STAY CLASSY!

Seabiscuit: Due to oversaturation of the Lexington market with this movie (everyone I know is like "I was an extra in Seabiscuit! It is the best movie eva!) I avoided this despite being interested in the subject and loving that little Tobey Maguire. I don't know if it was stress or hormones or what but I cried at 3 separate times during this movie and the last time I cried I couldn't even tell you what I was crying about. It is just... That horse had HEART y'all!!! I am a sucker for this - total and complete wimp. I am getting choked up just thinking about it now.

The English Patient: Psych! I didn't really watch this. I've actually never been able to sit thru this entire movie and I was flipping thru HBO and it was in its final minutes so I watched just to see what the hell happened and yeah - I still hate this movie. Like passionately hate. Like I read this story where it is Fraser's turn to pick the movie and he chooses this film and yeah - I can see that. He would. But dude - that is my personal dealbreaker. If someone loved me - really really love me - he would not do that to me, expect me to sit through this movie. I can't imagine... I'd rather sit through the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre with my eyes and ears completely open and my hands tied down and my head stationary so I can't look away (I am terrified of this movie) than sit through The English Patient. I'd rather have the numbing shots at the dentist office deep in the corners of my jaw than sit through that movie. I'd rather be a claims adjuster for the rest of my life than sit through that movie.

Now I am terrified that I will meet someone and fall in love and everything will be perfect and suddenly and without warning this movie will show up and ruin everything.

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

did you hate ondaatje's book as well???

and yeah on the computer..

[rydra_wong]

Aaaargh, horrible computer stress *shudders*. Many sympathies.

[luminosity]

The thing about Eternal Sunshine? I loved the way it *looked*, and I loved the lunacy of the receding memories--that was cool. I just thought it was depressing.

I've never been able to sit through all of The English Patient either. I really have to be motivated to watch a movie where sand is a major character. Now, snow? Oh yeah. Natural disasters? Sure. Would Fargo have been as great a movie if it had been shot in Nebraska? No. But sand. Eww. Except for Tank Girl, but it was in the supporting cast in that movie. Of course, sand played a major role in The Conqueror...

[askye.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it through The English Patient. I didn't see any chemistry between Ralph Fiennes and what's her name so when they ended up in a passioate embrace it felt really random and stupid. I just stopped watching and never fastforwarded to see the parts with Naveen Andrews.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I am relieved to hear that your computer is back in the land of the living. Gah, it sounds like you had quite a dramatic weekend. :p

Will keep various digits crossed for you as you speed toward the deadline. I have faith in you.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

"Now I am terrified that I will meet someone and fall in love and everything will be perfect and suddenly and without warning this movie will show up and ruin everything."

No, no, no. Real terror would be if the movie showed up and you suddenly liked it. cuz you were in love.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Did you get the disks yet? *Crosses fingers* And although it's not my fault, I'm still going to apologize for the Swedish episodes. I think there ended up being something like four in there. I hope it doesn't impede your vid making...but hey, the actual Atlantis Alliance disks are on their way to the shelves this fall. Provided that certain distributors aren't fucktards.

And Seabiscuit chokes me up, too. One of the places it does this is really random, and I blame David McCullough for it. I have this odd weepy reaction to the documentary-like segment where he talks about people getting hope. Other than that weirdness, it's just a beautiful and well-made movie, so I expect a little heartstring-tugging.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Seabiscuit was cute! I fell asleep when I saw it for a bit because the chairs were comfy and I was in the middle of finals, but it was cute. I'd probably watch Tobey Maguire read the phonebook though because he is adorable and wee.

And gah, computer issues. They make me quite literally sick -- the computer is like my evil demonic hell-child baby and so when things go wrong I freak out. :sends good vibes:

Linzee

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Thanks... I got almost completely done with my video for submission and I thought I had missed the deadline. Good, means I might get it in on time. Thanks.

Btw, hope the computer is doing okay.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

WORD about the English Patient. The parts with Naveen Andrews are grand, but all of the rest of it is quite odious. It's a snore, and a completely overwrought snore at that. Sounds impossible, but there it is.

I know you are a fantastic vidder [I love your Angel vids!] and I was wondering if you might know a link to a site about capturing video from DVDs. I've done a few google searches but the results don't make a ton of sense offhand. I have Premiere 6.0 and all the Alias DVDs and a decent idea for a vid. I just don't know what's next. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.