Dear Festividder* 2013,
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sisabetOh wow, how far we have come, dear Festividder. How far we have come. And yet, look at how much we still have to go. I am feeling philosophic, dear Festividder, and I suppose you are as well. In fact, this is probably why we matched: Deep Thoughts. I know I has them and I know you has them, too. Or something.
Dear Festividder, can I confess something to you? I have not slept. Well, much. At all. In weeks. I have forgotten how to even structure a proper sentence, dear Festividder. I suppose that is untrue because even while raving from the depths of sleep deprivation, I still can recall that Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence and what the predicate says, he does. I think. Possibly.
Who the fuck is Mr. Morton?
Dear Festividder, it is at this time that I feel pressure to be charming and somewhat entertaining and funny so that you will be charmed, entertained and happy about being matched with me and not freaking the fuck out about what fresh hell the match process has wrought upon you. Oh, no - please don't be scared dear Festividder. I am not a scary person at all. I am a pile of nonthreatening goo - goo which has a nostalgic streak a billion miles wide and a tendency to over-share and romanticize the 90s. Also the 80s. The 70s were not that bad, come to think of it.
I am also way old.
My likes far exceed my dislikes. I tend to love the shit I love unconditionally and without irony. I still don't understand how people like things ironically. I thought for a minute that maybe I liked Britney Spears ironically but then I realized that no, I don't, because I LOVE Brit-Brit so much and people really need to stop talking shit about her, dear Festividder. Do you feel the same? It is okay if you do not. Just know that when I say I pretty much love ALL music, I truly fucking mean it.
Except for Wilco. Jeff Tweedy can go fuck himself. I hate Wilco so much that I won't even listen to the Mavis Staple collaboration and I LOVE Mavis muchly. Just. Ugh. Wilco.
What else do I hate? Lima beans? Christian Bale? None of these things should come up, but just in case...
OH! I am not a fan of subtlety in vids. I kind of believe deeply that if you have 3 minutes to make a point, while you can make that point repeatedly in differing and interesting ways, the sledgehammer approach works best.
This is all to say, dear, kind, amazing Festividder, that almost anything you can do with the sources listed below will delight and please me. Any music you use will be loved and cherished. Unless Jeff Tweedy is involved. Just. OMG IF JEFF TWEEDY IS ASSIGNED AS MY FESTIVIDDER, HE SHOULD JUST DEFAULT RIGHT NOW. Yes, Jeff Tweedy, I am now talking to you. Directly to you, you, you, you PERSON WHO I DO NOT LIKE. YOU DO NOT MAKE ME A VID, JEFF TWEEDY. YOU DO NOT BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE WON BACK OVER SO EASILY.
If, however, dear Festividder, your name is Jay Farrar - welcome. It is lovely to have you and welcome to my journal.
I am so very very tired dear Festividder. So very tired and apparently the wounds of Uncle Tupelo run deep and fresh.
On to the requests!
Purple Rain (movie): Oh god. If I could figure out how to make a vid to this source, I would. Honestly, I'd probably be happy with a vid of the movie intercut with the ending performance of Purple Rain. I just... okay, so I saw this movie when I was waaaaay too young to figure out how to handle it and I was also entering a very early puberty AT THE SAME TIME and so many things about me make sense when you know both of those facts. I was also really popular that summer at church camp because inner knowledge of Purple Rain was, like, 4th grade currency. In conclusion, I learned about masturbation because of the song Darling Nikki. Good times.
21 Jump Street (movie): This is a repeat request, dear Festividder, but omg this movie. I long for Schmidt/Jenko. LONG FOR IT!
ATL (movie) - this is one of the few movies that I watch at work (I work with teenagers) that I have not gotten sick of and eventually hid in self preservation (sorry "New Guy" and "Twilight"). I love the story, I love the nostalgia and I LOVE the roller skating. If you want to go deeper -- the drama between Rashad and his brother and friends would make a very compelling vid.
Strange Days (movie): this summer when I was making "The Sellout" with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sweetestdrain I promised myself to nominate and make a Strange Days vid this year for festivids. Then I got lazy and decided I wanted someone else to make me a Strange Days vid and really, dear Festividder, this is incredibly viddy source. I can't believe there are not a trillion vids to this already. God. This movie. So good. So... just - Angela Bassett has to repeatedly save Ralph Fiennes because he is completely helpless without her. Spoiler.
Gravity Falls: This show features the best continuity of any show in the entire world and possibly other universes and definitely alternate universes. I love every single thing about it and Mabel Pines is a national hero.
Moonlighting: Still have much love for Dave and Maddie, dear Festividder, although if we want to pretend that nothing ever happened after season 3, then I am down. Also, who is Herbert Viola? Never heard of him.
The Bionic Woman (1976): Dear Festividder, my love for this show is unconditional and true. I hope you feel the same and if so, nothing will please me more. Jaime Sommers is awesome! Also there was a bionic dog whichdestina totally forgot and that WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THE SHOW EVER DID! So, yeah - I'd probably like it if Max could show up as well.
Luther: Anything that focuses on Luther or Alice or Luther and Alice or Luther/Alice or however this shit pans out (I'm still in the watch zone with this show because it took me forever to figure out how to watch it without being distracted by the incredible and intense hotness of Idris Elba. Seriously. Like, he throws a tantrum and throws shit around his office and breaks a window and I have to go take a walk and drink a glass of water. I just... gah).
*who is positively not Jeff Tweedy.
Have I mentioned how I feel about Wilco? Because I want to be clear. Also, again - lima beans, Christian Bale, and subtlety. Those are like the ONLY things I do not like. I have friends who can verify.
Dear Festividder, can I confess something to you? I have not slept. Well, much. At all. In weeks. I have forgotten how to even structure a proper sentence, dear Festividder. I suppose that is untrue because even while raving from the depths of sleep deprivation, I still can recall that Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence and what the predicate says, he does. I think. Possibly.
Who the fuck is Mr. Morton?
Dear Festividder, it is at this time that I feel pressure to be charming and somewhat entertaining and funny so that you will be charmed, entertained and happy about being matched with me and not freaking the fuck out about what fresh hell the match process has wrought upon you. Oh, no - please don't be scared dear Festividder. I am not a scary person at all. I am a pile of nonthreatening goo - goo which has a nostalgic streak a billion miles wide and a tendency to over-share and romanticize the 90s. Also the 80s. The 70s were not that bad, come to think of it.
I am also way old.
My likes far exceed my dislikes. I tend to love the shit I love unconditionally and without irony. I still don't understand how people like things ironically. I thought for a minute that maybe I liked Britney Spears ironically but then I realized that no, I don't, because I LOVE Brit-Brit so much and people really need to stop talking shit about her, dear Festividder. Do you feel the same? It is okay if you do not. Just know that when I say I pretty much love ALL music, I truly fucking mean it.
Except for Wilco. Jeff Tweedy can go fuck himself. I hate Wilco so much that I won't even listen to the Mavis Staple collaboration and I LOVE Mavis muchly. Just. Ugh. Wilco.
What else do I hate? Lima beans? Christian Bale? None of these things should come up, but just in case...
OH! I am not a fan of subtlety in vids. I kind of believe deeply that if you have 3 minutes to make a point, while you can make that point repeatedly in differing and interesting ways, the sledgehammer approach works best.
This is all to say, dear, kind, amazing Festividder, that almost anything you can do with the sources listed below will delight and please me. Any music you use will be loved and cherished. Unless Jeff Tweedy is involved. Just. OMG IF JEFF TWEEDY IS ASSIGNED AS MY FESTIVIDDER, HE SHOULD JUST DEFAULT RIGHT NOW. Yes, Jeff Tweedy, I am now talking to you. Directly to you, you, you, you PERSON WHO I DO NOT LIKE. YOU DO NOT MAKE ME A VID, JEFF TWEEDY. YOU DO NOT BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE WON BACK OVER SO EASILY.
If, however, dear Festividder, your name is Jay Farrar - welcome. It is lovely to have you and welcome to my journal.
I am so very very tired dear Festividder. So very tired and apparently the wounds of Uncle Tupelo run deep and fresh.
On to the requests!
Purple Rain (movie): Oh god. If I could figure out how to make a vid to this source, I would. Honestly, I'd probably be happy with a vid of the movie intercut with the ending performance of Purple Rain. I just... okay, so I saw this movie when I was waaaaay too young to figure out how to handle it and I was also entering a very early puberty AT THE SAME TIME and so many things about me make sense when you know both of those facts. I was also really popular that summer at church camp because inner knowledge of Purple Rain was, like, 4th grade currency. In conclusion, I learned about masturbation because of the song Darling Nikki. Good times.
21 Jump Street (movie): This is a repeat request, dear Festividder, but omg this movie. I long for Schmidt/Jenko. LONG FOR IT!
ATL (movie) - this is one of the few movies that I watch at work (I work with teenagers) that I have not gotten sick of and eventually hid in self preservation (sorry "New Guy" and "Twilight"). I love the story, I love the nostalgia and I LOVE the roller skating. If you want to go deeper -- the drama between Rashad and his brother and friends would make a very compelling vid.
Strange Days (movie): this summer when I was making "The Sellout" with
sweetestdrain I promised myself to nominate and make a Strange Days vid this year for festivids. Then I got lazy and decided I wanted someone else to make me a Strange Days vid and really, dear Festividder, this is incredibly viddy source. I can't believe there are not a trillion vids to this already. God. This movie. So good. So... just - Angela Bassett has to repeatedly save Ralph Fiennes because he is completely helpless without her. Spoiler. Gravity Falls: This show features the best continuity of any show in the entire world and possibly other universes and definitely alternate universes. I love every single thing about it and Mabel Pines is a national hero.
Moonlighting: Still have much love for Dave and Maddie, dear Festividder, although if we want to pretend that nothing ever happened after season 3, then I am down. Also, who is Herbert Viola? Never heard of him.
The Bionic Woman (1976): Dear Festividder, my love for this show is unconditional and true. I hope you feel the same and if so, nothing will please me more. Jaime Sommers is awesome! Also there was a bionic dog which
destina totally forgot and that WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THE SHOW EVER DID! So, yeah - I'd probably like it if Max could show up as well. Luther: Anything that focuses on Luther or Alice or Luther and Alice or Luther/Alice or however this shit pans out (I'm still in the watch zone with this show because it took me forever to figure out how to watch it without being distracted by the incredible and intense hotness of Idris Elba. Seriously. Like, he throws a tantrum and throws shit around his office and breaks a window and I have to go take a walk and drink a glass of water. I just... gah).
*who is positively not Jeff Tweedy.
Have I mentioned how I feel about Wilco? Because I want to be clear. Also, again - lima beans, Christian Bale, and subtlety. Those are like the ONLY things I do not like. I have friends who can verify.
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Date: 2013-10-13 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-13 05:29 pm (UTC)ANYWAY, he told us at one point about a little song that he and Lindsay Wagner came up with for the blooper reel. It was her, and him in his Sasquatch garb:
Birds do it
Bees do it
Sasquatches lurking in the treeeees do it...
He also was talking about an upcoming movie he was in with Michael York and Marty Feldman called "The Last Remake of Beau Geste," which is now available on Netflix, and if you've never seen it, I recommend it. With spittake warnings. Just sayin'.
We now return this thread to its state of considerably-less-crazy
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Date: 2013-10-13 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-13 03:26 pm (UTC)Suddenly I am imagining a Strange Days vid set to Jay Farrar and my brain hurts a little bit. ...probably less than it should, though.
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Date: 2013-10-13 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-20 01:53 pm (UTC)Interesting.