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sisabetCappy has decided that we should move in May, so that means I give my landlord notice in April and all that - but before that happens, I need to have most of my stuff boxed up and moved out so when the landlord shows the place, it will go quickly for him. I don't know - she said a bunch of other stuff that comes from watching too many of those "Sell My House" shows on HGTV.
The important thing to note in the above run-on sentences is that: 1. Cappy is boxing up the front room. 2. She dressed my dress-makers dummy in a French Maid costume and moved her in front of the windows/door to the balcony. 3. She opened the shades on the windows/door to the balcony. 4. The sofa in the next room runs perpendicular to the window/balcony. 5. The French doors that separate these rooms are open.
Yes, I know you couldn't gather all the above from the pitifully long sentences I opened this post with, but PLAY ALONG, please. Geez. I am setting the freaking stage. Alright. So last night I fall asleep watching that episode of Battlestar Galactica that I cannot seem to stop watching for fucking obvious reasons (and I say this with no spoilers whatsover: If you know me, and you have seen this episode, and you STILL don't know what I am talking about, do you really know me? Cause, I feel I am a very transparent person and you should KNOW this about me). So anyhow, I fall asleep, Sid jumps up on the sofa and snuggles into my shoulder and does the same. A few hours later, all is dark and the pain of a 50 pound beagle finally sinks in and I open my eyes and SCREAM MY HEAD OFF!!!
Cause the Headless French Maid is coming to get me. And now that I think about it, someone should really write that Supernatural story.
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killabeez tagged me and normally, I'd try to resist but she used SAM EYES and everything and I am resistantless to *that* kinda persuasion and I think she knows it.
post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. this isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. then tag five other people to do the same.
Except for me this is vids since what I write is... you just don't want to go there. The mixes are really good, though. I should probably just share the music mixes.
I've done a lot of vids. I actually do not know how many. I was just now telling Lum that perhaps I should try keeping all of my vids in one folder. That idea makes SENSE! Oh man, you should see the mad scramble I do when someone asks me for the m2v/wave files of any given vid cause the location is... dude, I really hope I actually *have* an m2v/wav file of "Perfect World" cause I might not and it's project folder is, well, somewhere. Maybe.
S.O.S.: I just love this vid and it does exactly what I want it to do right when I want it to do it. I can't tell you what I feel about death and losing everything and prayer and hope but I think this vid does a fair enough job putting it all out there. The source cooperated, the Johns cooperated, Aeryn was trascendent and all I had to do was figure out how to communicate that my idea of "luck" is probably not the same as the vast majority of, well, people.tzikeh had the idea to shift the coin toss to the beginning - to drive home that the John of my vid (My Dead Blue John!!) is really just a matter of luck or chance. And so then I have to show him living and loving and losing it all because that is just what life is. You lose everything, eventually - one way or the other. And he has to lose it because that is what you do.
Is it my genes that have made me/Is it the things I took, is it the things I said/Does karma rule? and John has to put right what the wormhole knowledge in his brain made wrong. He has to sacrifice everything because of that - because of his responsibility and THEN it still doesn't end. He has to put the charge on the other John because he also holds the key and he has to end it all. But that isn't all!! It isn't all bleak!
I made this vid in conjunction with Paradise and BOTH vids deal with the exact same thing: you lose everything (and let's not talk about vids as therapy right now, but OMG the angst-machine I was for those months). The reason I love this vid more? There is hope here - Paradise is full of love and pain and grief, but there is only comfort in the memories. The memories end, however; and Cordelia leaves (and eventually everyone else) and Angel is alone. With John it is different. I was able to show him looking over water, over the expanse of something and maybe he is starting another journey? I don't know. And he still lives ON in his hopes and dreams and prayers and his charge to the still-living-John - I could kinda vid that! I think it has more to do with POV than anything. In Science of Silence, the POV is of the dead guy and in Paradise the POV is the person left behind.
Dr.Who on Holiday: This was just such fun to make. I sponged off Lum for as long as I could the vid farr of her Sci-Fi in a Blender project and at the exact same time I was obsessed with the Dean Gray mashup she sent me. It had to happen and when it did happen it took like, three days to vid and once a clip was set - it was set. No cutting up my baby here. I mean, I had renenet look at it and Lum was highly involved but I loved it as is and they didn't tell me otherwise and so when I watch this I just feel exhilarated and happy with it. YAY Starbuck! Yay Roslin! Fight an impossible fight Aeryn! Emote prettily John! OH ROSE!!! DEATH AND HUGS
Ring them Bells: This vid just came together and again, there was no cutting up of the baby in the beta process (and yeah - I do eventually love a vid more if the labor was easier. I can't help it - I look at WYIN or Icebound Stream and I like them, I am proud of them, but their flaws are still so noticible because I lived with them and I tried and tried to fix them but I couldn't all the way and so it is an imperfect expression). I made it my Premiere vid for VVC in 2005 because I loved it so much I wanted to force over 100 of my closest friends to watch it. :)
Peacekeeper: I've made better vids. I know I have. I still love this one with the pure true love of My Buffy. And if you weren't around back in 2004 in this fandom? The Buffy-hate was fierce and inexplicable and I die a little just remembering it. So, yeah - BUFFY! This is Xander and Willow's (and my!) love letter to her. I know there was a beta process for this vid - but it has been long enough that I don't remember the pain.
Two Words: This is quite possibly the angriest vid I have ever done, which is really saying something. I mean, I have this SPN vid in the works that is me, and is me REALLY PISSED OFF, but it still doesn't even come close. This was also one of the easiest vids I have ever done - it just kinda poured out. There was extreme vid farr going on and I didn't even think most of the things through. I would lay a clip and it would be the exact right one and I'd move on. It's possibly the culmination of a connection to the source (and boy howdy, do I know me some Angel source), a really driven emotional state and the right song for the vidder, but again - once this vid was made - it was finished. There was no struggle at all.
Honorable Mention:
Golden Years: I haven't had this posted in years. Oh hell, hang on. There, it's posted. Get it here, if you want. This vid is ridiculous, overly literal to the point of silly, made with WMM(version 1) so the timing is haphazard although I did my best and there are clip tags everywhere, but it was a. My first Angel and Spike vid and b. It still cracks me up. These are their GOLDEN YEARS!! Spike comes a lot! Angel loses his pants a lot! Spike comes when he thinks about Angel losing his pants! (well maybe that last bit was only figured out by me).
The important thing to note in the above run-on sentences is that: 1. Cappy is boxing up the front room. 2. She dressed my dress-makers dummy in a French Maid costume and moved her in front of the windows/door to the balcony. 3. She opened the shades on the windows/door to the balcony. 4. The sofa in the next room runs perpendicular to the window/balcony. 5. The French doors that separate these rooms are open.
Yes, I know you couldn't gather all the above from the pitifully long sentences I opened this post with, but PLAY ALONG, please. Geez. I am setting the freaking stage. Alright. So last night I fall asleep watching that episode of Battlestar Galactica that I cannot seem to stop watching for fucking obvious reasons (and I say this with no spoilers whatsover: If you know me, and you have seen this episode, and you STILL don't know what I am talking about, do you really know me? Cause, I feel I am a very transparent person and you should KNOW this about me). So anyhow, I fall asleep, Sid jumps up on the sofa and snuggles into my shoulder and does the same. A few hours later, all is dark and the pain of a 50 pound beagle finally sinks in and I open my eyes and SCREAM MY HEAD OFF!!!
Cause the Headless French Maid is coming to get me. And now that I think about it, someone should really write that Supernatural story.
killabeez tagged me and normally, I'd try to resist but she used SAM EYES and everything and I am resistantless to *that* kinda persuasion and I think she knows it. post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. this isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. then tag five other people to do the same.
Except for me this is vids since what I write is... you just don't want to go there. The mixes are really good, though. I should probably just share the music mixes.
I've done a lot of vids. I actually do not know how many. I was just now telling Lum that perhaps I should try keeping all of my vids in one folder. That idea makes SENSE! Oh man, you should see the mad scramble I do when someone asks me for the m2v/wave files of any given vid cause the location is... dude, I really hope I actually *have* an m2v/wav file of "Perfect World" cause I might not and it's project folder is, well, somewhere. Maybe.
S.O.S.: I just love this vid and it does exactly what I want it to do right when I want it to do it. I can't tell you what I feel about death and losing everything and prayer and hope but I think this vid does a fair enough job putting it all out there. The source cooperated, the Johns cooperated, Aeryn was trascendent and all I had to do was figure out how to communicate that my idea of "luck" is probably not the same as the vast majority of, well, people.
tzikeh had the idea to shift the coin toss to the beginning - to drive home that the John of my vid (My Dead Blue John!!) is really just a matter of luck or chance. And so then I have to show him living and loving and losing it all because that is just what life is. You lose everything, eventually - one way or the other. And he has to lose it because that is what you do. Is it my genes that have made me/Is it the things I took, is it the things I said/Does karma rule? and John has to put right what the wormhole knowledge in his brain made wrong. He has to sacrifice everything because of that - because of his responsibility and THEN it still doesn't end. He has to put the charge on the other John because he also holds the key and he has to end it all. But that isn't all!! It isn't all bleak!
I made this vid in conjunction with Paradise and BOTH vids deal with the exact same thing: you lose everything (and let's not talk about vids as therapy right now, but OMG the angst-machine I was for those months). The reason I love this vid more? There is hope here - Paradise is full of love and pain and grief, but there is only comfort in the memories. The memories end, however; and Cordelia leaves (and eventually everyone else) and Angel is alone. With John it is different. I was able to show him looking over water, over the expanse of something and maybe he is starting another journey? I don't know. And he still lives ON in his hopes and dreams and prayers and his charge to the still-living-John - I could kinda vid that! I think it has more to do with POV than anything. In Science of Silence, the POV is of the dead guy and in Paradise the POV is the person left behind.
Dr.Who on Holiday: This was just such fun to make. I sponged off Lum for as long as I could the vid farr of her Sci-Fi in a Blender project and at the exact same time I was obsessed with the Dean Gray mashup she sent me. It had to happen and when it did happen it took like, three days to vid and once a clip was set - it was set. No cutting up my baby here. I mean, I had renenet look at it and Lum was highly involved but I loved it as is and they didn't tell me otherwise and so when I watch this I just feel exhilarated and happy with it. YAY Starbuck! Yay Roslin! Fight an impossible fight Aeryn! Emote prettily John! OH ROSE!!! DEATH AND HUGS
Ring them Bells: This vid just came together and again, there was no cutting up of the baby in the beta process (and yeah - I do eventually love a vid more if the labor was easier. I can't help it - I look at WYIN or Icebound Stream and I like them, I am proud of them, but their flaws are still so noticible because I lived with them and I tried and tried to fix them but I couldn't all the way and so it is an imperfect expression). I made it my Premiere vid for VVC in 2005 because I loved it so much I wanted to force over 100 of my closest friends to watch it. :)
Peacekeeper: I've made better vids. I know I have. I still love this one with the pure true love of My Buffy. And if you weren't around back in 2004 in this fandom? The Buffy-hate was fierce and inexplicable and I die a little just remembering it. So, yeah - BUFFY! This is Xander and Willow's (and my!) love letter to her. I know there was a beta process for this vid - but it has been long enough that I don't remember the pain.
Two Words: This is quite possibly the angriest vid I have ever done, which is really saying something. I mean, I have this SPN vid in the works that is me, and is me REALLY PISSED OFF, but it still doesn't even come close. This was also one of the easiest vids I have ever done - it just kinda poured out. There was extreme vid farr going on and I didn't even think most of the things through. I would lay a clip and it would be the exact right one and I'd move on. It's possibly the culmination of a connection to the source (and boy howdy, do I know me some Angel source), a really driven emotional state and the right song for the vidder, but again - once this vid was made - it was finished. There was no struggle at all.
Honorable Mention:
Golden Years: I haven't had this posted in years. Oh hell, hang on. There, it's posted. Get it here, if you want. This vid is ridiculous, overly literal to the point of silly, made with WMM(version 1) so the timing is haphazard although I did my best and there are clip tags everywhere, but it was a. My first Angel and Spike vid and b. It still cracks me up. These are their GOLDEN YEARS!! Spike comes a lot! Angel loses his pants a lot! Spike comes when he thinks about Angel losing his pants! (well maybe that last bit was only figured out by me).
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Date: 2007-03-08 06:15 pm (UTC)omg packing... I fear imminent packing.
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Date: 2007-03-08 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-09 02:12 am (UTC)*Killa nudges "The Bucket" sekritly onto Sisabet's honorable mention list*
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Date: 2007-03-09 03:11 am (UTC)And Ring Them Bells still kills me. Every time.
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Date: 2007-03-09 06:26 am (UTC)I also think Dr. Who on Holiday is brilliant. It's gutsy to take the POV of the enemies, first of all. Beyond that, the pacing is phenomenal, and the clips are woven so well together that the characters from the different shows seem to be interacting. Dang.
I've always loved Paradise--although I only watch that one when I think I can take The Sad. I think I literally cried the first time I watched it.
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Date: 2007-03-10 02:11 am (UTC)