Vid Rec!!! Due South!!

[sisabet]

I thought I could grab a few... oh crap there is the phone, brb.

Back. See!! I have absolutely *no* time to post what I want to post. I am weeks (well *a week*) behind on email. Actually - maybe I am forgetting some? OH SHIT, TINK!!! As *soon* as I can - I am getting back to you.

I actually have to give up on everything and just get away from my desk for a few minutes. Go out and listen to "Bang Bang Lulu" a few more thousand times because it is soooo a D'Argo vid. Of course, apparently North Mississippi Allstars = Farscape to me, which is fine. "Be So Glad" can be John and Stark and BBL can be John and D'Argo and eventually I'll find my Aeryn song, right? Which brings me to misogyny in fandom which is something I've been wanting to post about for forever but who has the freaking time? And I also just discovered that Uncle Tupelo works for both Firefly and due South which makes me insanely happy if it were not for the fact that, new for this week, I am allergic to Tweedy's voice. WTF? When I finally came down Son Volt over Wilco, it didn't mean what I think I currently think it means. Or something.

Did I mention the incredible amount of stress and allergy meds I am under/consuming right now? At least the stress in my head is helping to maybe balance the pressure in my sinuses... and god! The phone again! HELLS!

Back. Crap - I've been typing this for so long I forgot what I was doing and I should just stay here and work except I just reread the subject line and I realize I am here for a rec! YAY! VIDS!

::feels better::

I finally got a chance to check this vid out last night and it was completely lovely. It is F/K to Aimee Mann's Pavlov's Bells and I haven't sent feedback butterfly, but when I do I will be sure to gloat excessively over the movement lineups from shot to shot (something you *shouldn't* notice in vid cuts, but if you have ever struggled to make a vid flow - then you do pay attention when someone *nails* it) and how effective I felt this vid was a Fraser POV. I might have been paying special attention to the fact that there is *so* much about Fraser that we as an audience know because we saw it - but there is no way on *EARTH* Ray gets it like we do because he just wasn't there, because I was actually thinking about that (in particular how it relates to Victoria because I am sorry - there is no way he really knows what happened there just from reading a file. Hell, the ONLY person who really knows what happened there is actually Fraser. And maybe Bob - except I don't know that Bob has pieced it all together, but he could. Victoria even probably doesn't know everything that was going on there. Damn. Poor Fraser) when I finally had time to watch the vid. But it works - so go DL and it and don't wait to tell her what you think. Not like me. DON'T BE LIKE ME DAMMIT!!!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/butterfly/1071199.html

But this is like the second vid I've seen of hers in as many weeks and I know she is new to vidding - but what she is doing is really exciting and she is exploring some pretty cool themes in both this vid and the previously rec'd Buffy vid "Without A Sound" about failing and falling and being hurt (physically and in BIG HUGE WAYS and also the little tiny papercut moments that add up) but still getting up and continuing to try. It is the try or the impetus to do so - that need - that kinda defines a hero (at least for me) and so go - see - watch - comment - email - rec. Do what you need to do.

And I will do this. Stupid bills and job. OMG! But I can continue to *try*! I can keep working on my files even though it is hard and they hates me! I can be like Buffy. Also Fraser.

::imagines Fraser in a cubicle::

Okay - now I want DueSouth/Office Space. Christmas is coming - c'mon you guys. Help a gal out.

Comments

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I am really glad you recced this vid today. Because it made me remember that I enjoyed it on first download and want to rewatch. Which I just did a couple times. And it so, so, so works, this vid. And I'm very impressed by *how* it works. Sure, it helps that I've been reading F/K fic almost non-stop for the last four months, so I have the crib sheet. My pump is primed to get this vid. But I absolutely *delight* in watching this type of slash vid. I have been a vid fan a lot longer than I've been a slash fan, so I haven't made a particular study of the ways in which slash vids operate. I'm probably most familiar with the fairly blatant sex-and-violence brand of slash vid. This, on the other hand, is the subtle-facial-expressions-and-uncertainty brand of slash vid. It's so internal, in Fraser's head almost like fic, and I'm just blown away by seeing that done with the show's footage.

In general, I find that fic and vids tend to operate very differently from one another. To the limited degree to which I find comparing vids to anything written in words useful at all, I'm much more inclined to compare vids to essays than to fic. And I guess it's really not that this vid is behaving like fic, because it's behaving like a vid. I think what I'm fascinated by is how it successfully goes beyond just making a case for the subtext. It explores how this makes Fraser *feel*, given his history. And it uses the structure of the song very effectively to put all the different pieces together.

And I need — really, really need — to explore this further by examining specifically how it's doing these things and other things but but but but but... my thinking brain insists on working much too fast for my word-forming, typing brain lately, so I can't get it all out right now. (This inarticulateness is why I'm practically useless for hardcore beta these days — man, I should get a dictaphone, because I can *almost* speak my thoughts fast enough that I don't lose them like I do with the typing.) But I'm commenting with these thoughts-in-progress here now so I don't forget them entirely.