The Vital Stats
Jul. 28th, 2003 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetSo - I'm bored. I should read something, I have books. I don't wanna. I could watch a movie. Eh. I could vid...*bitter laugh*
So - I'll update:
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devilpiglet
The Piglet has been located, safe and unharmed. While she is alarmed by the apparent invasion of the Piglet-Bots, I think it is only from a copyright standpoint. I'm sure that once she realizes the good that a massive infusion of Piglet-Bots can bring to the world she will understand the necessity. Oh, and by the way: no bears were harmed in the making of this update.
Status: Dad
Dad came through all tests with wonderful initial results and hopefully is back to aggravating my mother fulltime as I type. The coming weeks will find me and Daddy-Dearest engaged in that time honored father-daughter bonding exercise: brewing your own beer at home. Bound to to create the ties that bind as I like my Dad and I like beer.
Status: Vidding
Now that I can play and start new projects, I well...can't. I'm seized by, something very strange - something that doesn't really want to vid at all. So I'm revisiting "Battleflag" and playing. I'm also mercilessly cutting. I fear not the schmoop, because the I control the schmoop, it does not control me. I am going to get my hands dirty, I'm going to get into this, I am... oh hell. This song is hard and Brian is difficult and dammit. I need some fight sequences, cause this show? People talking and/or fucking and that is about it. And I want to capture these moments - the Big Emotion moments - but then I worry that I am vidding too deep into soap opera territory and I then have to realize that QaF is just one big ole soap. But so was BtVS and so is AtS. They just happen to have vampires. And QaF has Brian Kinney. I can vid this. ::buries head in hands::
Status: Work
Good thing I didn't take off today as the big boss picked this date to go through everyone of my pending files and give me feedback. It's good. Really. I like feedback. I do. It's how I learn. Except I really don't have a lot to learn about the current job since I've been doing a job above and beyond this level for a few years. But I'm fine. Obviously, I needed some guidance or my files would be perfect. Has nothing to do with gooding off on the internet while working. Nothing at all to do with that. Nossiree.
I also went to lunch today with a co-worker who apparently is pimping me big time to take his job if he gets the promotion he applied for (should be a done deal - his promotion). Here is the thing: I'm New Girl. There are several people in line for his position if it opens up - have been waiting in this office for a long time for such an opportunity. I'm New - did I mention that? I also have experience at his job - boatloads of it. They have none. They've been around for a while, yeah. But I have actually done the job. Do I want the position? Not really. But career-wise it would be unwise for me not to take it.
I hate my job.
Status: The Plan and the Extended Plan
Missed it. Bummed me out. If it wasn't for Vividcon, I might be depressed.
Status: New Skill
I can now make purty screencaps. I can't really do anything with them (Dawn made me a new title card for "Peacekeeper" - whoo-hoo) - but if I have it on disc I can cap it. Anybody wanting that Lethal Weapon in depth analyzation still complete with illustratory slides (is "illustratory" a word - I can't muster the enthusiasm for spell-check)? I can do it. Tyler Durden shots? I'm your gal. I really should takewisteria_'s photoshop tutorials, shouldn't I? Eh. My head hurts. Maybe later.
Status: Random QaF Thought for the Day
If I was Brian Kinney, and I know that I am not although we may be related, I'd be leaving my father's graveside service as well to smoke a doobie. Some friends he has - every single one of them is watching him intently, waiting to see him break-down. Fuckers. Don't stare at the boy burying his father. It is very bad manners. Give the dude some space. Oh - and don't be disgusted if he acts inappropriately at the wake. Did you meet his family? He is the well-adjusted one. I will now stop talking to fictional characters as if they exist.
Thank you for your time.
So - I'll update:
Status:
devilpigletThe Piglet has been located, safe and unharmed. While she is alarmed by the apparent invasion of the Piglet-Bots, I think it is only from a copyright standpoint. I'm sure that once she realizes the good that a massive infusion of Piglet-Bots can bring to the world she will understand the necessity. Oh, and by the way: no bears were harmed in the making of this update.
Status: Dad
Dad came through all tests with wonderful initial results and hopefully is back to aggravating my mother fulltime as I type. The coming weeks will find me and Daddy-Dearest engaged in that time honored father-daughter bonding exercise: brewing your own beer at home. Bound to to create the ties that bind as I like my Dad and I like beer.
Status: Vidding
Now that I can play and start new projects, I well...can't. I'm seized by, something very strange - something that doesn't really want to vid at all. So I'm revisiting "Battleflag" and playing. I'm also mercilessly cutting. I fear not the schmoop, because the I control the schmoop, it does not control me. I am going to get my hands dirty, I'm going to get into this, I am... oh hell. This song is hard and Brian is difficult and dammit. I need some fight sequences, cause this show? People talking and/or fucking and that is about it. And I want to capture these moments - the Big Emotion moments - but then I worry that I am vidding too deep into soap opera territory and I then have to realize that QaF is just one big ole soap. But so was BtVS and so is AtS. They just happen to have vampires. And QaF has Brian Kinney. I can vid this. ::buries head in hands::
Status: Work
Good thing I didn't take off today as the big boss picked this date to go through everyone of my pending files and give me feedback. It's good. Really. I like feedback. I do. It's how I learn. Except I really don't have a lot to learn about the current job since I've been doing a job above and beyond this level for a few years. But I'm fine. Obviously, I needed some guidance or my files would be perfect. Has nothing to do with gooding off on the internet while working. Nothing at all to do with that. Nossiree.
I also went to lunch today with a co-worker who apparently is pimping me big time to take his job if he gets the promotion he applied for (should be a done deal - his promotion). Here is the thing: I'm New Girl. There are several people in line for his position if it opens up - have been waiting in this office for a long time for such an opportunity. I'm New - did I mention that? I also have experience at his job - boatloads of it. They have none. They've been around for a while, yeah. But I have actually done the job. Do I want the position? Not really. But career-wise it would be unwise for me not to take it.
I hate my job.
Status: The Plan and the Extended Plan
Missed it. Bummed me out. If it wasn't for Vividcon, I might be depressed.
Status: New Skill
I can now make purty screencaps. I can't really do anything with them (Dawn made me a new title card for "Peacekeeper" - whoo-hoo) - but if I have it on disc I can cap it. Anybody wanting that Lethal Weapon in depth analyzation still complete with illustratory slides (is "illustratory" a word - I can't muster the enthusiasm for spell-check)? I can do it. Tyler Durden shots? I'm your gal. I really should take
wisteria_'s photoshop tutorials, shouldn't I? Eh. My head hurts. Maybe later. Status: Random QaF Thought for the Day
If I was Brian Kinney, and I know that I am not although we may be related, I'd be leaving my father's graveside service as well to smoke a doobie. Some friends he has - every single one of them is watching him intently, waiting to see him break-down. Fuckers. Don't stare at the boy burying his father. It is very bad manners. Give the dude some space. Oh - and don't be disgusted if he acts inappropriately at the wake. Did you meet his family? He is the well-adjusted one. I will now stop talking to fictional characters as if they exist.
Thank you for your time.
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:30 pm (UTC)If I was Brian Kinney, and I know that I am not although we may be related, I'd be leaving my father's graveside service as well to smoke a doobie. Some friends he has - every single one of them is watching him intently, waiting to see him break-down. Fuckers. Don't stare at the boy burying his father. It is very bad manners. Give the dude some space. Oh - and don't be disgusted if he acts inappropriately at the wake. Did you meet his family? He is the well-adjusted one. I will now stop talking to fictional characters as if they exist.
You should have these thoughts every day! All so true. He is the well-adjuted one...heh.
::hugs::
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Date: 2003-07-29 04:22 am (UTC)I sometimes get frustrated with the characters - such as when Michael or Debbie will be going on about how "Brian doesn't care" or yada yada yada and I'm thinking that it couldn't be any more obvious the dude is in pain than if he had a huge fucking "Hurt" sign around his neck. Then I have to remember to automatically default to "Brian is an asshole who doesn't give a shit" mode is well-within character for them.
My random thought for today is about Brian's extended adolescence - and Michael's by extension. I'm stuck somewhere mid-season one currently. Michael's boyness, for lack of a better word, was much more visually apparent than Brian's - but Brian's was much more real. Emotionally he never really got passed 16. Except for when he did. Gah! This character is muy complicated and I can't seem to get a firm hold on anything I want to say.
I need more essays. My vid needs more essays. I need indepth-thought-out analysis. I also may need some fic. I'm hitting a critical mass watching episodes over and I'm at that "point" where the show starts to not be enough and you look to fandom to fill the void. You know, that point.
Heeheee- Ok, Ashlyn sent me to here to read & peruse...
Date: 2003-07-29 10:11 am (UTC)I've been submersed in Brian/Justin QaF fic, since I don't have the vids/dvds to watch over & over & over & over again, so May I suggest/reccomend for some great fic that "GETS" Brian, heck- gets Michael & Justin this site: http://www.toolunaticsnwon.com/
Myrna's If You Needed Me series- is fabulous- & she manages to write an intricate story where each part has a different narrator (she captures Brian, Michael, Justin's voices very well, & heck- she even makes Ethan palatable) & each person's 'take' on the story adds additional depth & emotional power. Heck, I've read a rather significant portion of it aloud to Ash over the phone because I coulnd't contain my excitement.
& Violet has some great stuff also- including the start of a Great Brian/Justin road trip fic.
Ok, I could make many more recommendations here. If you were interested- as well as some ACK- they did what? fics. (got well into one AU fic & realized I think it was originally a General Hospital-Sonny & Carly fic with the names changed, & some key gender-body part references changed. *shakes head*)
Read, enjoy- & then get to making some more Brian/Justin vids, please. Loved Battleflag & 66! Great song choices & image selection. Just lovely.
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Date: 2003-07-29 10:47 am (UTC)General Hospital, huh? Y'know - nothing will get me past my GH glory days - Sonny/Jason circa 97-98. Good times.
Alas...
Date: 2003-07-29 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: Alas...
Date: 2003-07-29 06:55 pm (UTC)Ahhh- I have FOND & Vivid memories of the intro of Robert!
Date: 2003-07-29 07:01 pm (UTC)Still have hope that Anna will be reuinited with Robert. *sigh*
Re: Ahhh- I have FOND & Vivid memories of the intro of Robert!
Date: 2003-07-29 08:22 pm (UTC)Ahhhh!! I can't go there- can't picture Luke & Robert! Ack.
Date: 2003-07-29 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 11:52 pm (UTC)Oh, I totally know that point. It has often been embedded in my soft little head. {g}
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:56 pm (UTC)I'm happy to hear your Dad is doing better. And it's usually a good sign when they are back to aggravating various family members ;)
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Date: 2003-07-29 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 05:22 am (UTC)Meanwhile, we can only hope that Love has not short-circuited the Pigletbot.
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Date: 2003-07-29 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 10:16 am (UTC)Saussy - beware, those Pigletbots have supernatural endurance. A mere flesh and blood woman may exhaust herself in such company....
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Date: 2003-07-29 10:49 am (UTC)In fact - Saussy/Piglet-Bot may be a OTP...
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Date: 2003-07-29 11:38 am (UTC)*jealous*
How come Saussy, and Miss Murchison, and Love all get Pigletbots, when I just have some left-over crumbs and a newly in-depth knowledge of Krispy Kremes?
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Date: 2003-07-29 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-30 12:36 am (UTC)And in return, I feel I deserve a Piglet-bot.
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Date: 2003-07-30 05:21 am (UTC)I think the manufacturers should have prepared for the inevitible Piglet-Rush.
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Date: 2003-07-30 06:38 am (UTC)Hmm.. I see I will need to look at the possibility of 'acquiring' a second-hand Piglet-bot.
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Date: 2003-07-30 07:43 am (UTC)Christmas just ain't Christmas without a Piglet-Bot, yo.
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Date: 2003-07-28 09:26 pm (UTC)LOL! Soaps with vampires, I's never have thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right.
And QaF has Brian Kinney. I can vid this
Yes. yes, you can.
I hate my job.
*petsyou*
I really should take wisteria_'s photoshop tutorials, shouldn't I? Eh. My head hurts. Maybe later.
I still need to write you. I'd AIM you, but I fear that program, so we have this thing going where we glare at one another all the time. But I've mastered email, so we're good. :)
*stabs LJ again, just because*
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Date: 2003-07-29 04:25 am (UTC)::dies::
Please email me. I'm in a very strange weird place vid-wise. Lum says I'm on imput mode, but it seriously feels like I forgot how to vid and it is kinda freaking me out.
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Date: 2003-07-29 10:59 am (UTC)And Another Thing...
Date: 2003-07-29 11:30 am (UTC)That is all.
Re: And Another Thing...
Date: 2003-07-29 12:07 pm (UTC)The oceans should be turning to blood any day now.
Re: And Another Thing...
Date: 2003-07-29 12:43 pm (UTC)One is sweet and schmoopy and all about the bitter-sweet end - but how it never really ends. B/C - yeah, that hasn't been done to death, so I probably won't do it unless I start it while in the throes of PMS
The other is to Pulp's "This is Hardcore" - but I can't get the song edited to fit the vid in my head - or at least the vid that wants to exist in my head. See, I need the middle of the song to be the end and the end of the song to be the middle and it doesn't matter cause I feel very stale now. Vidding stale, I mean.
Re: And Another Thing...And Yet Another...
Date: 2003-07-29 12:45 pm (UTC)it just hit me.
You have B/A ideas?
Whoa.
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Date: 2003-07-29 02:38 pm (UTC)On the other hand, the vid's all about Pain, Resignation, and Moving On -- as opposed to Twu Wuv. So, you know. It's still me. Sort of.
Stop looking at me like that.
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Date: 2003-07-29 06:06 pm (UTC)::mouth open::
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Date: 2003-07-30 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-30 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-30 02:11 pm (UTC)In all seriousness? I bet you could pull it off.
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Date: 2003-07-31 05:35 pm (UTC)That would rrrock. With three "r"s.
Also... those Fight Club screencaps? Is there any way you could also send them to rliz@livejournal.com? I would love you forever, &c, if you did that.
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Date: 2003-07-31 09:11 pm (UTC)::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-28 11:58 pm (UTC)Re: ::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-29 04:26 am (UTC)Anything really specific (other than what you requested up there?) - and what email should I use?
Re: ::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-29 08:19 am (UTC)Oh! And one of Marla: that shot at the cancer place where you see her mouth open and the smoke swirl around her face in slow-motion.
Thanks!
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Date: 2003-07-29 09:09 am (UTC)Re: ::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-29 09:51 am (UTC)Re: ::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-29 09:59 am (UTC)It'll be worth it to see the icon.
Re: ::clutches Sisabet::
Date: 2003-07-29 08:31 am (UTC)