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Questions Post #12, Vid Recs?
1. There's a gray bar at the top of my journal and everywhere I go in lj land that has a tiny pic of my icon, and stuff like "post to journal" "view friends page". Was that always there?
2. When you're about to post to your journal, so you use that gray bar, do you just call up semagic, do you go to your user info page and go to "Journal" and then "update"?
3. If you have your journal bookmarked, what is bookmarked--the "recent entries" page?
4. Do you sometimes suspect that everyone has easier ways of navigating their journals than you?
5. Do you reply to thing on your flist the first time you see the posts? Or do you mark them or remember them and go back to them? Or do you just not reply to a couple of people for a while, then all the sudden click on their names and reply to like 5 posts of theirs at once?
6. Do you still have comments from over a month ago to which you mean to reply?
7. Do you feel bad when you don't answer someone's comment to a post you've done?
8. Do you get bunnies for icons every once in a while the way you do for fic?
9. Do you ever feel like everyone is going faster than you somehow?
10. Do you have ideas for posts and half-written posts sitting around--kinda like fic?
11. Does anyone else feel weird IM'ing someone you know on lj but never talked to on IM before?
12. Does anyone else have trouble logging OFF IM once they've logged on because there are too many people they haven't talked to?
13. Is anyone else so one track minded that they can't do anything else or talk to anyone else once they're talking to one person on IM? I can't multi-task. At ALL. And when I try I just get all slow and agitated.
14. Does anyone else get itchy about their bio info? Like you'd really like to put something interesting there but can't think of anything?
Quintessential Vid Recs
So, I had these dl'ing problems and these soundcard problems and all kinds of other computer problems, but now those problems are gone. Except for the fact that I'm technologically illiterate and will never know what I am doing when it comes to these things. The point of the sad story is that I've never really watched fanvids before, and now I can. So, I'm wondering: What are your quintessential vid recs? What's the one that you think everyone should see, either because everyone talks about it the most, or because you love it the best? What's the defining fanvid of your 'ship, your character, your moment of truth? What's your canon fanon, vid-style? If you can, link please, because I suck at the whole . . . finding things.
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Two Words: This is epic. The entirety of the whole Angel series, all of the key relationships and plotlines in one vid. Probably *the* definitive AtS-general vid. Kanye's a little too smooth, too ghetto fabulous for me, but if I forget that he's singing the song, I can really appreciate how well the lyrics work with the images. Or, how Sisabet makes the images work, in any case. I love the part where the song goes, "Two chains, one neck," and we see Cordy and Wes as the two chains and Angel as the one neck. Also, the part where the song goes, "Fuck you, pay me," and it's Angel lifting baby Connor up from the alleyway behind Caritas. Also, the editing with Angel and Connor both walking away. Also, this vid makes me cry every time.
Cowboy: Um, I guess I'm doing quintessential after all, because this is probably *the* definitive Angel (the character) vid. By Sisabet and her sister Dawn (if memory serves). It's scary how well this song works. Angel *is* a cowboy. Or wants to be one, in any case. Really, just perfection.
Counting Bodies: A really fabulous look at the Darla-Angel-Connor arc and the literal body count that storyline wracked up. Awesome technique in this one, oversaturations and black and white footage and pinpoints of color to highlight the action. It reallly makes the story come alive as well, to see all the scenes cataloged in snapshots like this, the sorrow and the frustrations and the hope and the inevitability of it all.
Passive: I love this vid to pieces. It's more style and technique than story, but there's still a lot of substance to this one. The thing about vids is that they can make images really pop and if you can get a string of images that are similar you can make a really powerful point with them. The point of this vid is (I think) to show how brutal Angel's and Connor's relationship was, even before Angel slit his son's throat like a pig. I'm not sure that the vidder meant to infuse the vid with such a strong incestous vibe, but since the show itself sexualizes violence in really obvious ways, you can't help but see the blows as subtextual. Or, I can't, anyways.
Revolution: This Faith/Buffy vid literally kicks ass. I can't believe some of the editing this one, this vidder's eyes is so refined. It looks almost as if ME intentionally blocked and shot certain scenes in certain ways *just* so this vid could be made. I love watching this one over and over again.
Endless Love: I'm not even a Spike/Angel shipper and this vid makes me go, "AWWWWWWWWWW FOREVER LOVE!" I'll also never forget someone asking which one Diana Ross was, and AnnieSJ exclaiming, "Spike, OF COURSE." Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. It's funny 'cause it's true.
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I just cried for like, thirty minutes straight.
Do you have links to the Revolution one and the Endless love one? Because I couldn't find those. Probably just going to make me cry more. Jesus.
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*wipes*
Endless Love (http://f1renze.livejournal.com/168406.html), which *I* cried at. I don't know. They're so forever.
I have no idea where I got Revolution, but I have it on my computer at home so I'll try and upload it for you this weekend.
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Thank you so much for those recs.
Endless Love
Strange how cheesy that one way that it could make me feel kinda depressed as well. A/S always does that to me though.
I have no idea where I got Revolution, but I have it on my computer at home so I'll try and upload it for you this weekend.
Aw, thanks! I found links to it in several places, but they were all broken. Maybe her site is down or something, so if it's too much trouble or you can't get it or something, I'll just bookmark a site and check it periodically in case she gets it fixed.
Because, you have really good taste. Thanks again.