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New Vid! Queer as Folk - Ensemble: Just Dance [Aug. 15th, 2009|01:18 am]

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So this is my vid that premiered at Club Vivid 2009. I wanted to do a Queer as Folk dancing ensemble vid for two years now to actually utilize all the great dancing clips (that aren't Brian/Justin) for Club Vivid. Last year I finally found the right song for it and so I managed to get it finished although I cut out some parts. I'm working on an extended version though of the whole thing that should be done soon. I hoped it'd be the perfect vid for Club Vivid as it's full of dancing, drinking, motion and lots of gayness. It was a bitch to clip but so worth it in the end.

Title: Just Dance
Music: Lady Gaga
Source: Queer As Folk US S1-5
Focus: Babylon ensemble
Summary: "So the "thumpa thumpa" continues. It always will. No matter what happens. No matter who's president. As our lady of Disco, the divine Miss Gloria Gaynor has always sung to us: We will survive."

Link: Just Dance, 50 mb avi, right click, save as
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Many thanks to [personal profile] par_avion for the website space. All feedback (including concrit) is much appreciated. Enjoy!

On another note, Club Vivid was the best I've ever had and I've had some amazing ones. Being drunk is much more fun :)

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Marriage is love. [Nov. 5th, 2008|11:07 am]

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I don't even know what to say. I was slowly accepting that Prop 8 passed last night and then waking up to it this morning was even more shocking and depressing. For the first time I feel ashamed to be a Californian. At the same time I feel proud to be American and that really, really sucks. It hit me in the car this morning on the way to class and I couldn't stop crying. How can this happen? What is wrong with people? I just don't get it and I doubt I ever will. How can anyone ever understand hate, discrimination and inequality? To take those civil rights away from people is just wrong. I cannot believe people cannot separate religion and government when separation between church and state is so important to this country from the very beginning. And makes me feel even more negative to the destructive part of (some) religions. And the worst part is so many of the same people who voted for Obama voted for this proposition and I find that so hard to believe.

I wish I could have done more. I wish I could have voted, been in California and campaigned and done everything possible to stop this disgusting proposition. It's my own fault though and that frustrates me so much. I want my state to be a beautiful, amazing, equal place to live for everyone and this is such a big stop to this. I can't believe that I trusted this state so much to do the right thing and they didn't. I feel so let down by both them and me.

Randomly bursting into tears because Obama won or because Prop 8 passed? Not fun. I want off this roller coaster right about now. Trying to cope by watching some Queer as Folk vids with plenty of love, kissing, romance and sex and although I don't want Brian and Justin to get married, I want them to have that right. I'm never one to put marriage as the biggest end goal, I NEVER say, I want to get married but I want to find true love/a long term romantic partner/etc but I want everyone that wants to get married, between two consenting adults, to have that chance. At least now that Barack Obama is president I don't have to fear constitutional bans so much and hopefully he'll help inspire people to change their minds.

So what do we do now? I'm not up to speed on California proposition rules (although I really need to catch up) but how do we overturn/repeal/etc Proposition 8? Cause no matter how much I feel beaten down, tired and like I want to give up right now, I know we have to keep fighting til the end of days. And I have to keep remembering that just like we ended slavery and gave black men (and eventually women) the right to vote, ended discrimination in the 60's and now have an African American president, our country will go in the direction of equality, oppurtunity and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Which includes gay marriage. We'll get there no matter how much time it takes.

This is also not helped by the fact that even TV is being disrupted by this bigotness. ABC Fires Brooke Smith who basically is in a lesbian relationship on Grey's Anatomy while also changing a future bisexual character straight. I am disgusted and sickened by ABC after admiring them so much for being so gay friendly. Ugh, it just pissed me off so much.

And hopefully, I'll be back to my regularly scheduled fannish activities starting now. It's good to know that I can trust fandom to be decidingly No on Prop 8!
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TV, the Olympics and VIVIDCON (4 more days!) [Aug. 10th, 2008|12:13 am]

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OMG you guys! [livejournal.com profile] sisabet just made an Arrested Development vid!!! It's about George Michael and it's incredibly cute and hilariously funny (show, how are you so brilliant?) and I adore it to pieces. Go watch now!

Remember how I said I wasn't going to spoil myself for House? Well I resisted until a few days ago when the promos came out and I just couldn't not look (plus video spoilers aren't as bad as text) And thank god I did because OMG can House and Wilson get any slashier? I swear, I was speechless and then sent into the land of flailing squee. I just...wow. Don't ever change, show! (SO CANON) Spoilers for the promos, I can't not talk about them )

So Flist, how did I not hear that Nathan Fillion is going to star in a new show, The Castle about a horror writer that consults with the NYPD that's probably going to be picked up by ABC midseason? And that there's also a good chance that Rob Thomas's show, Good Behavior about a family of criminals led by a matriarch will be picked up then as well. So awesome! ABC keeps getting good points with me. Also I updated my TV schedule with premiere dates and apparently I'm watching 27 shows this year not counting the 10 or so new shows I'm checking out. Um, I'm crazy? Thank god I like it that way. And I'm so behind but apparently J.K Rowling is going to do a collection of short stories including something with Dumbledore/Grindelwald OMG YAY! I definitely want to learn more about my one remaining HP ship.

So I was thinking about how I'm just not very interested in the sports at the Olympics but then someone mentioned gymnastics and I was like YES THAT. That's what I want to watch! I love gymnastics, used to do it as a kid but got frustrated that I had to do floor and sometimes vault when I really just wanted to do bars and beam all day. I still would like to take it up again someday as I reeally liked doing the uneven bars. Apart from that and a little tennis, I'm mostly just going to be checking out random sports once and awhile. I'm rooting for USA of course but I'm always up for cheering for any countries and players who do a great job and make it fun to watch. And of course, I'll cheer more for teams from people who are on my Flist. So far the countries I've got are Canada, the UK, Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Spain...anyone on my Flist from somewhere else? I'm sure I'm forgetting some because I suck at thinking of things at the top of my head.

I watched a little of the So You Think You Can Dance finale and it was fun. I finally got to see the great Will who was wonderful. Mostly though I lamented the lack of m/m dances. I wondered if there ever was any until conveniently someone on my Flist answered my question with no unless you count the fight dances or whatnot. Cmon, there's gotta be another Prom scene out there someday! I do enjoy shows like American Idol and the dancing shows because I do love singing and dance but there's just not enough of a creative competition element like Project Runway. Plus I hate the America voting aspect because ultimately it usually ends up like political elections where I am left cursing half the population for having the bad sense to choose someone I don't like. Thank god the stakes are much lower. I'd rather just get mad at a few judges who at least are more qualified to judge than me.

Have I mentioned that my last external hard drive stopped working on my laptop? Works on other computers, just not mine. Argh. And it has all my Queer as Folk episodes on it! Not only can I not vid it but now when I'm in the mood for my B/J and pretty gay boy loving, I can't even watch it. Why is life so unfair? And to continue with the tech curse, three pairs of headphones (two cheap, one expensive), stopped working. The first two in a span of two days. It's ridiculous really.

So I went to Ithaca this weekend to visit [livejournal.com profile] lianri and did some shopping and found some great things! I'm excited. Project Runway has also influenced me way too much and I kept finding clothes that reminded me of Christian. I found one shirt that is *perfect* for Vividcon...except I won't be able to wear it til next year. Damn it. I love it LOTS though.

Speaking of Vividcon, only 4 more days! Eeeee. I'm caught up with Psych so now I only have to finish Smallville season 7 in four days. Totally doable, at least for me. I am so glad VVC is this weekend because the one thing that I want to go to second most in all the world, training with Jillian Michaels (and hanging out!) with a bunch of people from her site is that very same weekend. On the one hand, it sucks that it's at the same time but since there's no way I could afford it anyway, at least I won't spend a weekend at home being jealous. I'll be at Vividcon having an amazing time! In the end, VVC rules all.

One more day until Mad Men! Yes, I have been counting down days every single day this week. I am so easy sometimes.
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Lots of Little Things Part 1 [Jun. 11th, 2008|10:35 pm]

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Okay lots of little things to talk about so I'm going to divide this up into two posts.

First a really important announcement if you haven't read it yet:

[livejournal.com profile] counteragent's little sister-in-law, Jenny, is very sick. It would be so wonderful if you could take a quick moment (just like 3 minutes) to check out her family's blog (http://jenjensfamily.blogspot.com/) and see if you think you might know anyone like Jenny. They are looking for "comparables" (people who have similar symptoms) that may have had success with treatments Jenny's docs haven't yet tried.

They would also really appreciate it if you post about this on your blog and thus help them spread the word.

Check out [livejournal.com profile] counteragent's vid that she made on her journal as well.

Book rec: Everyone should read and if you can, buy [livejournal.com profile] claudiagrays new book, Evernight for it is awesome! If you like vampires, definitely check it out but there is also great characters, romance, wonderful twists and great writing. I really enjoyed it and cannot wait to read the sequels! I read it in one night as is my favorite way to read (and watch) things so that was fun.

A request: If you make icons, PLEASE label all your icons with your username/icon community. It makes it so much easier when saving icons to use for LJ later. In order to credit, I do type the names of icons but its annoying and I wish every iconmaker would make it easier for people to credit them. Also if you make fanmixes or provide music to download, PLEASE make zip files for people to download. I am lazy and don't have the time to click on every sendspace link or whatever so I usually skip it if it's in that format. It doesn't take long to zip a bunch of files and if someone doesn't want a file, they can just delete it. If you have a personal website, it doesn't apply as much. Which I really am going to get my website back soon, I hope.

On the computer front...more and more crappy tech issues keep coming up. Both of my hard drives stopped working after a year and a half and there is no hope of recovering them *sigh* So I lost 800 GB of space and 90% of my music collection, lots of DVD footage and all my episodes. Most can be redownloaded/reripped but it still sucks. I have sworn I won't buy another external hard drive until I can afford a 2 TB one because multiple hard drives are annoying but I at least have one left to rip dvds and download stuff too. My keyboard got fixed...but now it's not working again ARGH. The tech guy bought me a new DVD drive since that didn't work (I paid for it) but then couldn't install it and in the process has messed up my sound so now sometimes its all staticy and weird. Why universe, WHY?

Plus now I have to buy a new external dvd drive and can't start vidding the Premiere vid until Friday. So I now have two weeks to get that all done...going to be a race against time. We'll see if that gets done. Thank god for shortness and knowing what I want in terms of clips. It's not a big deal if I don't finish it like last year, I just REALLY want to have a vid at Premieres. Plus I think it'll challenge me and push me past my usual style so I hope I can finish it.

If you ever wanted to see a list of Stargate Atlantis vids to download, here's a good one. So many amazing ones for this fandom. Another Sunday is a MUST for anyone, I don't care if you've never seen the show before. One word: sparkles.

VID REC: Sexy Back by [livejournal.com profile] dayln03. This is a Brian vid from Queer as Folk to a song that's been used a lot but it is sooo beautifully edited and proves once and for all that Brian is the sexiest guy alive so it totally works. I love this vid so, so much.

I apologize in advance for the spam but it's not like I post all that much anyways.
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Read less, more TV. [May. 15th, 2008|11:14 am]

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I watched The Office up to The Client last night and it was so much fun! Michael/Jan were so perfect back then, it makes my heart happy. Everything was perfect in my eyes. Oh, my show.

Gossip Girls is reminding me of Veronica Mars (and not because of Kristin Bell's voiceover) in terms of relationships which can only be a good thing. Spoilers for Gossip Girl up to Woman on the Verge )

There's a new interview up with Silvio Horta's thoughts on this season of Ugly Betty and the next. It reminds me of Tim Kring's interview where he acknowledges the mistakes of S2 (although UB's weren't as bad IMO) and promises to fix them next season. Plus UB is moving to NYC next season! Personally I love it because shooting on location brings more of a realistic touch to the show. The sad thing is that Marco Pennette's leaving the show :( He wrote the Thanksgiving episode (Dreamgirls dancing!), Don't Ask, Don't Tell (favorite episode still), East Side Story and the Wedding episode (one of my absolute favorites). Spoilers for Ugly Betty up to Betty's Baby Bump )

Nothing much to say about BSG except that the last episode was awesome and got me excited about the show again so yay BSG!

Spoilers for Doctor Who up to the latest episode )

If you've ever considered watching How I Met Your Mother (or haven't!), I'd check out [livejournal.com profile] spectralbovine's pimping post for it here. He sums up a lot of the reasons I love it so much from it's lovable, pretty, relatable ensemble of characters to the nonlinear narrative timelines and flashbacks. It really is a smart, great show and after the first 8 episodes or so gets immeasurably more awesome. Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother up to Everything Must Go )

Spoilers for Grey's Anatomy up to The Becoming )

The thing that bugs me about 30 Rock which I also had an issue with on Veronica Mars and Alias is how it seems like since they have the main character be a woman, they have zero or one other woman regular and that's it. The biggest thing about 30 Rock is where are the women writers? We have Tina Fey and that's it. Personally I only like Twofer and think the other writers are pretty lame. I wish Amy Poehler would star as a new writer although I doubt that's likely now. Anyways, I will keep enjoying the hell out of Liz and Kenneth like I always do. Spoilers for 30 Rock up to the finale )

Taken from [livejournal.com profile] celli: Cast your dream TV series of all time. Three to five actors, must include at least one male and one female. Tell me why they'd be so awesome together.

(Bonus points for show premise/location.)


Here's my answer and yes, I have thought of this a lot:

Lena Olin, Victor Garber, Gale Harold, Randy Harrison with special guest starring by Jennifer Garner. Insane amounts of chemistry all over the place and lots and lots of pretty.

It'd be an Alias spin off where Irina and Jack start their own spy agency in NYC (solving the Lena Olin problem) and eventually get Gale and Randy (characters TBD)to join them who fall in love and are the gay spy team. Sydney shows up a lot to go on missions with her parents. Jack is still never sure if Irina is using the resources and plans for her own motives...but that's what makes it fun. Flashbacks to earlier times in their relationship abound, Irina gets to spend lots more time with her sisters and family (Isabelle Rossalini guest stars) and there is an elaborate plan they work against that is completely serial starting from the beginning and ending with a huge bang that was all worth it. Lots of kissing and sex for all members of the cast as well as lots of Office like humor.

I'd probably spontaneously burst into flames because of the awesome, hotness and perfectness of this show every week but it'd be worth it.

So what are yours?
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Some short TV thoughts [Apr. 24th, 2008|05:37 pm]

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Happy Office Day everyone! I am reeeally looking forward to tonight's episode as it sounds really, really good. And the promo was absolutely delightful. Michael/Ryan, yay! Plus ALL my shows are coming back for the best night on TV. Ugly Betty, Grey's and Supernatural are all back making me very, very happy along with The Office, Scrubs and 30 Rock. I am annoyed at the Scrubs and 30 Rock shift because it messes up my perfect comedy night of Ugly Betty, The Office and Scrubs that all fit so well with being all about the character love. But whatever, downloading solves all problems. Now all I need is for House to come back and all my favorite shows will be back (not counting the ones returning in the fall).

Lost and me are broken up now. I'm going to marathon the show once it's over but I barely get any pleasure from it anymore and feel like a puppet being dragged in crazy directions. I just don't see the brilliance no matter what people say. Hating Jack and most of the characters is probably the biggest reason. It's going to stop being abusive boyfriend now.

Random TV snippets: Absolutely loved How I Met Your Mother (which reminded me why I ship and watch TV with the euphoria) and The Office last week but don't really have much to say about them right now. Enjoyed the latest Doctor Who eps but the episodic nature of it bores me to death. Still miss Martha. OMG NEXT WEEK though. Caught up on Gossip Girl and am enjoying Chuck/Blair, Chuck/Nate and the cuteness of Eric. Also finished watching Eli Stone and Victor Garber continues to make me squee along with the yummy slashiness that is Eli/Jordan. I LOVE all the singing and musical numbers. Having sworn off Law and Order, Christopher Meloni made me change my mind with SVU because he is SO DAMN HOT and I just can't resist his insane amounts of charisma. I swear I don't usually watch actor's work just because I like their character but Victor Garber and Chris Meloni act in a way that reminds of their past characters and it's just nice seeing them again. I wish Lena would do more TV because I want to see her as well! Oz and Beecher/Keller have managed to get under my skin so I can't help but love and think about them so I'm slowly rewatching the first season. B/K kind of traumatized me by hurting me so much though so sometimes it's hard to watch.

I'm posting more of my Queer as Folk and Brian/Justin thoughts at IJ since some of the fandom is over there so if you want to read about that my journal's here. I'm also posting pretty regular updates at Twitter here if anyone is actually interested. I do better with short updates so I can override my perfectionist tendencies and I'm hoping this will be useful in the future if I want to see what I was up to back in the day.

I may have finally settled on my Premiere video after three tries. With some audio editing, I think it's manageable. I really hate vidding to deadlines though, the pressure can be so paralyzing. Hopefully someday I'll learn to start early.

Next up on my TV catching list: The OC S4, Flight of the Conchords, Prison Break S3, Psych, Sports Night and Carnivale.
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Update Pt. 1 [Feb. 21st, 2008|09:43 am]

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I have a lot of stuff to catch up on so bear with me.

So I have made it back to Syracuse, NY but not before the Travel Curse struck again! I had my first late night flight a week and a half ago and it was awesome to have Dan in Real Life being the movie they played for us. I had a one stop flight so I landed in Philly where I had to go from the D gate to the F gate. I carry my heavy laptop bag and backpack and walk to get to the F gate when I see a metaphoric fork in the road so to speak saying one way to the ABCD gates and another sign to E and F and another with a warning about how if you go this way you have to rescreen. They mention a shuttle but I don't see a sign for it so I go towards the E and F gate. When I see a security guard I ask him where I can catch the shuttle to the F gate. Surprise! I missed it and I was told I couldn't go back and had to keep walking. And of course I had to rescreen at 7 am EST with a huge line and 50 minutes til my flight left it. I kept getting closer and closer and hoping I'd make it, pissed off because I never wanted to be in a situation where I would miss my flight (I always try to get there 2 hours early) and of course with 10 minutes to my flight leaves I get through airport security where they take five minutes taking out ALL my hard drives and cords and putting them through the baggage checker even when I told them I needed to hurry. And of course my gate was the farthest away so even though I ran I missed my flight. Thankfully another one left in two hours so it wasn't too bad a wait but then when I get back to Syracuse they lose my check in luggage. The good news is they returned it a day later but it was still extra frustration.

I'm back now and although it's cold, I'm all layered up and at the moment it's not too bad so I don't even need my winter coat :) I can deal with it for a few months. I am SO happy to see my cats again, I missed them so much and now I have many hugs and cuddle sessions to catch up on. Am currently looking for a job which I should hopefully get soon as I need some money. The bad news is TWO of my hard drives have stopped working, the ones with all my DVDs (thankfully I have some on my last remaining hard drive for my current vid projects), music (I have some on my laptop so I'm not totally screwed there) and TV shows. But I do have fast internet back so it doesn't take very long to download stuff. I had forgotten how nice it is to download an episode in 10 minutes or so :D I'm disappointed that a short trip to NYC I was going to do today didn't happen but thankfully NYC is only 5 hours or so away and hopefully I can visit soon! I really want to see Bryant Park and hopefully Tim Gunn if I can plan a trip right. I just miss the city even if LA will always own my heart.

I spent my time after my trip catching up on some shows, marathoning Lost and reorganizing my vid files and a few other things. Up til now, My Videos has been organized by having many folders named by fandom and I'd put a vid I downloaded into the fandom folder it belonged too. But to make it easier to open up a lot of vids all at once, I decided to rename ALL my vid files by adding the fandom to the beginning of the video even if it was just "Anime", "Movies" or "Multifandom". I also made a New Vids folder for the vids I download that I'm too lazy to rename and to make it easier to watch new vids I download. It took awhile and I had to reconstruct my vids playlist but it's been worth it has everything is much more organized and easier to get at and with my 40+ GB of vids, I need that. How does everyone else organize their vids? In order to catch up with my Flist I also made some filters to put every single member of my Flist on a smaller reading list to make it less overwhelming to reply to posts. So far that's worked pretty well although hopefully I won't need to use it too much.

The Writer's strike is over! YAY :D I find it wonderfully coincidental that I leave for CA when the strike began and left right when it ended. I am so happy to at least get a salvaged season with some news episodes of some of my favorite shows. Namely The Office in which we get 6 more episodes and possibly an hour finale! I'm am just SO EXCITED to see the next episode on April 10th which is supposed to be amazing and funny and intense and unique. So I'm really looking forward to that. Not so excited about them skipping ahead in time because I like to see how things progress and for vidding purposes. The good news is almost all my shows are renewed and I'm hoping desperately that Friday Night Lights will be renewed. I cannot wait til April! Should be awesome to have new TV on almost every night.

In hopefully what will be the last time I talk politics before November, a quick word. I am for (and will vote for) whatever Democrat wins the primary. I'd be okay with either of them although I prefer Obama but as long as Bush is gone and there is not another Republican in the White House then I'm happy. Should be fun to live with a super conservative and Ron Paul supporter politics people until November though (NOT). I will find refuge in my politics free zone or mostly liberal Flist happy place though.

Okay, meme time! 5 question and 5 OTP memes )

[written yesterday] Yay Project Runway tonight! I love Wednesday's because it's the start of new episodes with PR and Torchwood. And tonight is a reunion episode and I LOVE reunion episodes. The video montages are always awesome and there is lots more Tim Gunn and it's fun seeing all the contestants again. I don't think they can ever beat the S2 one though but here's hoping. I'm SURE we're going to see a Ricky crying video and a Christian one with all the time he says fierce or similar funny statements. And this time I can actually watch it live and not have to wait five days for the torrent!

Spoilers up to the latest Project Runway episode (not the reunion) )

Spoilers for Stargate Atlantis up to Midway )

Contrary to most of my Flist, I'm just not feeling the Supernatural love these days. I don't know if it's overexposure or S3 in general but I just can't get emotional about the boys and show anymore :( I cried at the S2 finale and now just nothing. And I'm not really intellectually interested anymore. I have really liked the last few episodes and Dean and Sam have been really cute so at least there's that. I'm glad everyone else is loving and investing in the show though.

So I'm watching Eli Stone primary for Victor Garber and thankfully it is pretty funny enough to keep me entertained. The biggest GLEE moment is definitely getting to see Victor sing. Here's a youtube clip of it. I love his voice. It's such a disconnect seeing him so NOT!Jack Bristow but his line at the scene reminds me strongly of him so at least there's that. But he SMILES! I will never get enough of that; it makes me smile in turn. The other thing about the show I love is Tom Amandes is in it! I loved him in Everwood and just seeing him onscreen makes me happy.

Spoilers for Eli Stone up to 103 )

In more Victor Garber singing clips of LOVE, here's him singing and then singing and dancing in Anne with my favorite song from the musical. I pretty much die with glee everytime I see it. He's SO CUTE! It is a little too much for me to handle. Oh and him being gay only makes me love him even more. I sure do know how to pick them :)

Next post: DIY, more TV and Jack/Irina gushing (OMG I LOVE THEM SO MUCH).
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Vidding and TV Memes [Jan. 15th, 2008|03:51 pm]

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Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] klia! I love your vids and think you are a kind and awesome person :) And yes, I'm going to try to do these this year since I will hopefully be posting more.

Know what's wonderful? Being out all day (including reading some interesting/inspiring books in the local bookstore) only to come home to read my amazing Flist. Just reading LJ, reading comments and seeing lots of vidding love puts me in such an awesome mood as I saw once again yesterday. It's just nice reading about so many things I'm interested in and that feels like *home* to me in a community way. I love it and don't know what I did before fandom.

If you haven't seen by now (have you been living under a rock?), the The Great Vidding Truth Meme is going around again where you can tell listed vidders anonymously what you think of their vids including (and encouragingly) constructive criticism. My thread is here and I would LOVE to receive any comments especially any thoughts on how I can improve as I'm always looking to get better. But everything is definitely appreciated. So if you'd like to make any comments on any vidders work and maybe find some new vidders, it's a great place for it. I really love to read the various opinions on vidders' work, it's always interesting to see what people think.

That Television Meme which I had to do as they used some Office quotes for titles )

Speaking of TV theme song, I am in LOVE with the S4 theme of The Wire. I can listen to it over and over for hours nonstop. It's just so emotionally resonant especially with the singers. I uploaded it here if anyone needs it. Also, does anyone have the Due South theme with words that I could download? I only have the instrumental and the words make all the difference in this case.
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Vid Rec and Rewatching Shows [Nov. 24th, 2007|01:59 pm]

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Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a great day full of reasons to be thankful. I've been feeling rather laconic and withdrawn lately so I haven't had much to say lately although I have a bunch of posts to make at some point. I truly am thankful to be here in the greatest place on earth, California (for me) and to have family, friends and the wonderful joys of TV and fandom. Don't know where I'd be without all that.

For now though, I have a vid rec for a vid I'm completely in love with! When I heard [livejournal.com profile] buffyann was watching and loving Queer as Folk and specifically Brian/Justin, I was ecstatic (I believe my exact words were "We got Buffyann! We got Buffyann!"). And today she finally released a vid for the show! The vid is When the Sun Goes Down, Brian/Justin, Club Vivid style with lots of fast paced, amazing editing with the most beautiful, hottest clips out there of my favorite ship. I haven't seen a vid this hot since Danger by [livejournal.com profile] f1renze. Beautiful use of motion that mesmerizes you into the wonderful world of the show. Also, two boys kissing and loving will never not be hot. I am a slasher at heart and always will be. *rewatches vid over and over*

I watched Enchanted the other day and enjoyed it a lot but it made me wish for a gay fairytale movie to come out. Probably will take it awhile but that would definitely make me happy to see. Sometimes I really wish there was a lot more shows like QaF out there where the default wasn't straight and slashers wouldn't even have to slash, it would just be there. I will keep wishing!

I finished my rewatch of Veronica Mars S1 today. Wow, that show will always emotionally get to me so well. Oh Veronica and Lily <3. I only wish the show had stayed at the same level for S2 and S3. It's nice getting to rewatch shows that I usually am too busy to. I'm rewatching House (or at least everything that has House, Wilson or Cuddy in it) in order to take clip notes (so boring but worth it!) for it and it definitely has some wonderful quotes and OTP and OT3 scenes. The end of 105 in particular is adorable :) House/Wilson just totally own my heart. It's funny how I've been adoring Wilson even more these days to the point where I almost wish the show was all about him. Are there any good Wilson vids out there that aren't too shippy? In any case, it's so nice to see Wilson actually get screen time that doesn't take place thirty minutes into an episode. In fact, a lot of the time he gets the very first scene. It just shows how important he really is, at least back in the day. Same with Cuddy who didn't get any of the screen time she deserved last week in an episode all about her. At least watching the first season is letting me see and enjoy House, Wilson and Cuddy so I can get my filling of them.

These Christmas sales are waaay too tempting when I don't have the money for it. I want so many TV shows on DVD! Not to mention the big screen TV and 1 TB external hard drive (it's for vidding!). Ah well, someday...
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Damn you, Fox! (wherein The Office writers are dawesome) [Nov. 14th, 2007|07:45 am]

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It's been a crazy week. Tuesday I went to the SAG solidarity stike at Universal and met a ton of famous people (more to come tonight as I'm too tired now) And on Friday I went to the big Fox rally and picketed with The Office writers and actors. It's hard to describe how awesome and nice and great everyone is. But I will do my best. Here's the list of people at the Fox Rally:

Fox Rally Meetings:
Mindy Kaling, writer and actor on The Office
Justin Spitzer, writer on The Office
Jennifer Celotta, writer on The Office
Paul Lieberstein, writer and actor on The Office
Ed Helms, actor on The Office (only a sighting here)
Brent Forrester, writer on The Office
Michael Schur, writer and actor on The Office (only a sighting here)
Greg Daniels, writer and executive producer on The Office
Rainn Wilson, actor (and improviser!) on The Office
Tony, new writer on The Office
Ryan, new writer on The Office
Larry Wilmore, one time writer and consulting producer on The Office
Two Reno 11 guys (sighting)
Jason Bateman, actor in Arrested Development
Matt Battaglia, actor in Queer as Folk (Drew Boyd!)
Josh Radnor, actor on How I Met Your Mother
C.S Lee, actor on Dexter and Chuck
Julie Louis Dreyfous, actor on Arrested Development and Seinfield and New Adventures of Christine (sighting)
Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men

It was kind of like celebrity overload. It was good to see all the support for the strike out there and to support them myself! Also I got to see [livejournal.com profile] hafital and [livejournal.com profile] snoopypez (Tuesday) which was fun and made both experiences much more enjoyable.

Details and Pictures under the cut )

The place I'm staying at has four cats who are all super cute and make me a lot happier to be here. I love cats. The pictures are under the cut as well.

Pictures under the cut although not too many, sorry! )

It figures that on the hottest day yet when I could utilize the Pacific Ocean and LA beaches, I'm too exhausted from Tuesday. Oh well. I've been rewatching Veronica Mars S1 and I love it sooo much. Now I remember how good this show can be and how much I love the great OT4, Veronica/Lily/Logan/Duncan or whatever way you want to put them. The Wrath of Khan still has one of my favorite storylines ever and the end always makes me cry a little. Oh, Lily. I still wish there had been a VM prequel. Still one of my favorite seasons ever and shows how important storylines are. I really want to vid it but am still searching for the right song. Today I also rewatched the Gilmore Girls pilot and OMG it's the cutest thing ever! It reminds me of Pushing Daisies in how charming and funny and how great the dialogue is. Plus I am full of love for all the characters especially Lorelai <3. Knowing how it all ends makes it all the more poignant especially that last scene. They really have grown a lot. I actually do have a vid song for the show but I'm not quite sure if it fits Luke/Lorelai and I don't have the motivation do it to Dean/Rory or whatever else would fit better. Ooh and I loved House last night! First all around good episode since the S4 opener IMHO (not counting the squeeful 97 Seconds plotline of LOVE).

It's weird, I always feel like I'm on East Coast time when I'm in California. Like at 6 PM, it felt like 10 to me or sometime later. And then I wake up at 6 or 7 which is just ridiculous for me. Brain, adjust to the time zone already! Also, it's sad that I actually wish today wasn't Thursday. Because it's the last time a new Office episode will be airing, probably for the year :( And I hear there's a cliffhanger which sucks. Today I'm going to the Raleigh Studios (where I met Melora last year!) to join the "Gay Gate" picket and hopefully see some people from Ugly Betty the "gayest show on TV" :) I love my show. Plus it'll be great to support TWO causes I believe in.
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Stockbridge/Boston and Harry Potter Book 6/7 [Jul. 17th, 2007|03:56 am]

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So I'm back from Stockbridge and Boston which was an amazing experience for the most part. Highlights include meeting Randy Harrison OMGYAY and seeing him twice perform stunningly in a play I love, meeting some awesome QaF fangirls, karaoke featuring singing, dancing, group songs and romantic QaF music, walking the Freedom Trail in Boston and watching QaF vids with fellow vidders. It was so much fun! Only bad was I had a bit of transportation trouble on the way home but thankfully I only made it home a few hours later than I expected. I will make a longer post about the trip tomorrow. For now I've read all my Flist and will try to catch up with commenting tomorrow.

I used the time traveling today to read the entire 6th Harry Potter book. I had forgotten a lot since I've only read it once when it first came out. Now I regret that since there's so little time left before the 7th and it's making me sad that this is it in terms of canon. I wish I had been a bit more involved in HP fandom, it is a once in a lifetime experience and it's now approaching the end of an era. Hary Potter was the first fandom I was ever in and where I read my first fanfic so this is big for me. I will say that it made me love Dumbledore all the more and his relationship with Harry. I am deathly afraid of spoilers for the 7th book as I'm definitely waiting until Friday night to read the book. But I cannot avoid my Flist or LJ so I beg everyone, I plead (yes, 6th book reference there) with you to not spoil me or anyone else in any way and always put spoilers for the book under a cut tag clearly stating it as book 7 spoilers. I trust my Flist so hopefully nothing bad will happen there. I am very, very sad that someone actually uploaded it. Is nothing sacred anymore?

To end on a better note, one of my favorite Dumbledore quotes: "Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here."
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If luck weren't involved, I would always be winning. [Jul. 10th, 2007|07:47 pm]

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So I have both the worst luck in the world and the best luck. Mostly good though. Last Saturday I accidentally spilled lemoƱade on my laptop *cringe* I turned it off quickly and got most of it off but I was terrified I had broken my laptop completely. The fact that it cost a *lot* of money to buy and I don't have money to spare now was one of the bad parts not to mention my laptop is my most important possession with all the internet and vidding stuff I do. It's my baby, like Dean and his Impala. And the worst thing was I had just gotten back into vidding again and ripped all of my Office DVDs in preparation of the four vid projects I have for the show (1 ensemble, 1 Michael/Jan, 1 Michael and 1 Jim/Pam, Pam centric). So yeah, I had a mini freakout/cry but I let it sit for the night and today was able to take it to a computer place. There I get the best news in the world: my laptop still works!!! :D I had to clean it but most of it got on the DVD drive which with some cleaning is now fine. So I got lucky as the computer guy said, it had only happened to one other person. He even helped me more because my laptop is a *special* Asus laptop *adores* Thankfully I still have my external hard drives with backups with most of my stuff (although not the music and some vids) but it could have been a distaster without it. Let this be a lesson to everyone to ALWAYS back up your laptop/computer and never put any kind of drink near it.

So I have my internet back as I was only able to get on intermittently and at times barely at all due to my stupid, selfish, jerk brother (have I mentioned he's the only one in the world who I truly hate?) not letting me on the family computer. I will try to comment on some of the things I missed since I'm back now :) I used the time away to catch up on rereading the Harry Potter books and I have now finished the first five in time for the fifth movie which I'm seeing tomorrow afternoon :) I had forgotten how much I loved them for the characters, plots, platonic relationships and world building not to mention all the emotion inspired by them. SO GOOD. I am starting to get back into Potter mania just in time even though the fandom still is too big and scary for me to venture much inside. I will write up some of my thoughts on the books once I finish the sixth one.

Another thing I am deeply in love with at the moment are VIDS. Thank god my iPod still worked so I could watch them but I hated being away from some of the great vidding related posts I saw. I can't believe Vividcon is here in one month OMG! Vividcon is one of the best experiences I have ever lived through and I am psyched to go again and enjoy it once more. It's going to be fun hanging out with vid lovers and vidders and watching vids and talking about them and just GUH it sounds like heaven already. I really am truly grateful to have vidding, I need that creative outlet and making vids gives me more reason to feel excited about life and what I can do with it. And of course, watching everyone's vids and reading about them makes me incredibly happy. Yay vid fandom!

I have also been getting my parents to finally watch The Office! It's hard with S1 but I've been able to get them to keep watching so all is good. And it's good to see S1 again and get more familiar with it. The funny parts are more spaced apart but there are some moments that had me LMAO that are made more funny by knowing the characters so I still enjoyed them. I do love how they capture the characters so well but I'm glad they took away some of the distance towards Michael they had in S1 and gave him more plots in S2/S3 to make him more lovable. My favorite episode is still Basketball as it makes me laugh the most and the plot moves along well with all the characters involved but I always enjoy Healthcare and The Alliance with their great Dwight/Jim/Pam plots. After The Job, I love Dwight and Pam even more so if anyone has any fic recs with them (platonic but I'm okay with anything more), I'd love to read them.

Also, I'm seeing Randy Harrison and other QAF friends in Stockbridge/Boston in 3 days! I can't wait. Things are definitely starting to look up for me :)

ETA: Could Gilmore Girls could have ended more perfectly? I think not. It ended *exactly* the way I wanted it to *happy sigh*
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Vid Rec and Spring Break [Apr. 2nd, 2007|11:47 pm]

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So [livejournal.com profile] obsessive24 has been talking about doing a Brian/Justin vid for awhile now and I've been dying to see what she would do with it. She finally posted it and it is AMAZING! Absolutely stunning use of color and motion not to mention a heartbreakingly perfect portrayl of the B/J relationship and Brian's psyche. So go download here!

Thank god for Spring Break :D

1. First on Friday I met Colin and Brad, waited outside the stage door with some other fans and they came out and I got both their autographs, a picture with both of them (will post it online soon) and I talked briefly to both of them saying I loved Whose Line and their performances. Extra bonus I talked with Colin (*squee*) and asked him if he was going to perform with Ryan again anytime soon. He said Ryan was in semi-professional retirement to which I said he was performing with Greg, Jeff and Chip. He said he was mostly in the Northwest and since he hated flying (my reply: I know) that it was hard. But he did say maybe. So take that as you will.

2. I'm now in Minneapolis and after a rocky start, things are going well. I saw the Mall of America which is HUGE and sooo cool to have roller coasters in it. Best idea ever. Also it was great to see [livejournal.com profile] jackiekjono and [livejournal.com profile] lapillus again, both who are super nice and awesome. Currently I'm with [livejournal.com profile] heresluck who basically wins at life for being so generous and amazing. It's great spending time with fans :)

3. Only three more days until The Office! I an seriously dyng for new episodes here.
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The Office [Feb. 8th, 2007|08:42 pm]

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I was going to complain about East Coasters getting to see all the episodes before I do and making me jealous while I watch all the posts come up...and then I got my torrent of The Office and saw it a half hour early and all was well.

The Office: Phyllis's Wedding- There is no Michael hate allowed here, only LOVE )

There's One True Pairing and One True Character but there really should be One True Show. Because that's what The Office is for me. It completes me, it makes me happy and it makes me smile. I haven't been this obsessed with a show for a long time and now I'm reading so much fic, watching the vids, reading all the news and watching all the previews, checking out the cast blogs and rewatching the show over and over again. I've been working on converting more people and was very happy to find a fellow fan at work which led to much talking and squeeing about the show.

On a Queer as Folk note, is anyone on my Flist going to Berkshire, MA to see Randy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? If so, what dates? Cause I'm totally going to go since I'll be pretty close to it. Just not sure when. And I want to meet QAF fans if I'm going to go.
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New Vid! Queer as Folk - Brian/Justin: "Volcano" [Jan. 28th, 2007|11:12 pm]

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It feels like I've been working on this vid forever. Started it in May 2005 with WMM, lost it all when my computer files got erased, remade it only to have it get messed up in Premiere, remade it again and then finally remastered it with DVD footage. And yet I still love it and it's always been the vid that comes out almost exactly how I saw it inside my head.

Title: Volcano
Music: Damien Rice
Source: Queer As Folk US S1-early S2
Warnings: Some graphical m/m sex
Pairing: Brian/Justin
Summary: Volcanoes melt me down

Links: Volcano (25 MB Divx avi)
Streaming

Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] kitkatbyte for the beta and encouragement. All feedback is much appreciated.

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The Office *squee* [Jan. 17th, 2007|10:11 pm]

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OMG I love The Office! I was merely enjoying it yesterday and now it has blown into fullblown, addicted completely must watch every episode, love every character and relationship and makes me LMAO ALL the time, full fannish glee. I am so amazed by it, the acting, writing and cinematography (the camera is a character!) is all so well done. It's almost equal to Arrested Development in its brilliance. Maybe it is, I have to go back and watch AD to compare. But anyway, wow. I have never laughed so hard in my life for some of these moments and it does it in such a unique way. I love how the show mixes both the outrageous and normal, the cruel and the kind, the happy and the heartbreaking.

And yeah, I love Michael. I know he's horrible and can be such an idiot and say the worst things...but I can't help but adore him. He tries so hard, it's so obvious how desperate he is for others to like him, to be his friend and yet he has no idea how to go about it which further isolates him. It kills me, it really does. But then he does the cutest things with kids or with trying to defend his office family, I love it. Steve Carell is made of awesome; I saw him in Little Miss Sunshine again today (LOVE!) and he was amazing. But anyways, his relationship with Dwight is particularly hilarious (they both have that neediness to them that so works with them) and I have grown to love Dwight more than I ever thought I would. His geekiness is too cute. Speaking of cute, Jim and Pam are made of it and too adorable. I wouldn't say I ship them but I certainly like them together. I love them both, but Roy and Katie were the worst choices of boyfriend/girlfriend that I have ever seen. Especially Roy, I can't understand sticking with a guy who would treat you like that. But anyway, I adore all the secondary characters too and I absolutely love the family moments between them even with all their issues with each other. And I have this strange attraction to Michael/Jan but more in a push/pull "I can't believe I'm doing this" kind of way.

Seriously, so much LOVE for this show. I've marathoned the entire S2 from 204 today and just saw 301 which was made of awesome and OMG so funny. I am dying to see more but sadly reached my sendspace limit and bittorrent is not working. Argh. I totally rec this show to everyone though and if by chance you know of any good vids to it, link me up.

In other news, I'm officially going to see Greg Proops and Wayne Brady in Largo (in LA- *loves CA*) on January 24th. Can't wait! Now I will have seen all of the main Whose Line members in a span of three months. Niice. Which btw, Whose Line was mentioned on The Office! Michael said he learned all his improv skills from the best, "Drew Carey and Ryan Stiles". Now the first, while wrong, works for Michael but I was all happy with the Ryan mention. And as an added bonus, Chip Esten was in two episodes. That was awesome. Oh and there was even a Queer as Folk mention..."Queer as Fuck". Hahaha.,
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Beach trip, coping mechanisms, Queer as Folk, Whose Line and why I vid versus fic [Jan. 16th, 2007|02:20 pm]

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Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] laurashapiro and [livejournal.com profile] ringwrench! I hope you both have wonderful days full of joy, fannish goodies and cake :)

Last Tuesday I celebrated the last 80 degrees day here by going down to Long Beach for the first time. It was really nice, I loved the marina and the downtown area was great. Plus I went swimming even though the water was freezing since I've never gotten the chance to do so in the ocean in January. It was a very Veronica Mars moment. Even with the recent cold front which hasn't been that bad considering I can handle 60's and tolerate 50s. Still loving that I have tons of free time and can do whatever I want with it. Also a book rec, Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez. I randomly started reading it in a library in Buffalo after using the internet because it had three cute boys on the cover and I figured I might as well slash them. Turns out I didn't need to (which is easily seen by the title but I didn't notice that) and it was a very good book about three gay teens trying to deal with their lives. I had a lot of fun finding parallels to Queer as Folk as there are a bunch of them. There's Nelson, a combination of Emmett and Michael with the PFLAG mom and crush on his best friend, Kyle. Kyle's a much toned down version of Justin with the coming out issues who has a crush on Jason who is not Brian (sadly) but more like a good version of Chris Hobbes (although his family has some Brian issues). It's a fun read, I really enjoyed it.

New Coping Mechanisms:

Get fully invested in watching the entire Chargers game only to see them lose heartbreakingly so...watch Whose Line. (No more football for me)
Feel down or bored or angry (most recently at a Smallville promo that made me want to throw up...one word: Clana)...watch Whose Line.

Replacing Whose Line with The Office or Gilmore Girls works well to. Laughing really does help a lot. I am loving The Office with Michael just being hilarious with his horrible social skills and bad jokes. Best comedy I've seen since Arrested Development and I love the camera work. Supernatural and Grey's Anatomy are still awesome on Thursday nights, I don't really have much to say that hasn't been already said.

On a Queer as Folk note, my personal awards as I go through the episodes in future vid work:

My favorites under the cut )

More reasons Colin Mochrie is made of awesome: not only are three of his favorite TV shows Buffy, Angel and Firefly (can't get much better than that), his favorites are: The musical episode and "Hush" are my favorite Buffy's. The Angel episode where he turns into a Muppet is fun and all of the Firefly episodes. I would have loved to have been a funny vampire on Buffy. Yay for the musical and all of Firefly, of course :)

Whose Line ramblings under the cut )

Oh and I wrote some fic! Whose Line, Ryan/Colin. I've written some other fics at times but have never finished or published any online. It reminded me though why I stick with vids love is to see is the Colin and Ryan show, all improv between them ALL the time. It'd be pure heaven, loads of slash I'm sure and too funny. I really think they are the best at improv in terms of laughabiliand not fic. For one, I'm just not that interested in writing fic as I don't get a lot of ideas and don't find it really enjoyable. It's nice once in awhile though. My biggest problem, especially with fanfic, is that I find it really hard to write the characters. I always feel like the characters when I write them are one dimensional and almost always OOC. I feel I put too much of myself into fics and it doesn't come out as the unique characters. I also find it hard to express what I see in my head and that really, really frustrates me, being a perfectionist. I read so many other amazing fics and I would love to write like them but realistically, it's just not going to happen. And I know practice makes perfect and all that but I'm not all that interested in doing so. I hate taking an idea that I love so much and writing it and then feeling like it's crap and I did what I imagined an injustice. I'd much rather spend my time vidding, trying to be the best vidder I can be and making vids that I enjoy and am proud of and can parse reasonably well how good they are and ways to get better. I'm much more of an idea person anyways, I like making connections and drawing parallels and juxtapositions in the text instead of making up new things. Which I do enjoy but usually more in a imagination sense, another reason why I enjoy reading fic so much more than writing.

The thing is, I get into a show when I love the source. For all my fandoms, I love the characters and the relationships and the storylines and I want to show why I love it so much. That's why I love vidding so much, to visually show why I love it and usually the specific parts I really enjoy. A lot of times my favorite ideas and vids to watch are explorations of a character through a relationship since that's one of my favorite things about shows. My favorite fics are often the same thing and the more interesting takes on characters and meta on the show are usually where my interest lies. But a key difference in why I read fic is because I want to see something that was never shown on screen and often not possible to show. That's why I most read slash when I read fic, because I see a lot of het onscreen (and in RL) that I don't need to see as much of it unless a pairing really grabs me and leaves me wanting more.

This is why even though I LOVE Brian/Justin from Queer as Folk, I barely read any fic for them because I don't feel a need to. I got so much of what I wanted onscreen, so much romance and love portrayed in so many ways that I don't really need the fic. But because I got so much onscreen, it makes me want to vid it a LOT because there's so much to show especially in terms of the ever interesting Brian Kinney. Contrast that with Whose Line which, because of the nature of the show, gets almost no dramatic storylines at all which I love. So I'm shipping a slash pairing that I see so many of the classic romantic, sexual, friendship signs from, even getting kisses along the way, but yet I never see any classic plots. It leaves me always wanting more, of the ship and of the *real* story of them, the dramatics and angst and romance. Everything. And because it doesn't look like there'll ever be a happy ending (for what I want), my need will never be satisfied which always drives me wanting more fic of any kind. It's a much harder show to vid for that very same reason, so many of the things I wish I could vid happened offscreen so I must make do with what I have and through fic.

In conclusion, Dean yay, vidding! (I swear I'll have a new one out this week),
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New Vid! Queer as Folk - Brian/Justin: "Was It Worth It?" [Jan. 3rd, 2007|06:11 pm]

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Here's the vid I made [livejournal.com profile] stephmck for the [livejournal.com profile] qaf_giftxchnge:

Title: Was It Worth It?
Music: The Pet Shop Boys
Source: Queer As Folk US S1-5
Ship: Brian/Justin
Summary: Love is forever worth it.

Links: Was It Worth It? (34 MB, Divx avi)
Streaming

All feedback is much appreciated.

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Trip(s) [Jul. 1st, 2006|04:38 pm]

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Going to Pittsburgh today, to spend some time with the relatives until next Wednesday. Should be alright although my hopes aren't set too high. The good news is I'll have my laptop with me along with my DVDs so I'll have stuff to watch/listen to and I can always read/vid/write. Hopefully I'll be able to find some places with wireless internet that I can hook up to so I won't be too behind with LJ/email. Also, how sad is it that when I think of Pittsburgh now, all I can think of is Queer as Folk? If only they had filmed there...

The trip I'm really looking forward to is Vividcon and I'm all set to go! :D I've waited two years and now that it's almost here, I'm getting more and more excited. It'll be like vidding paradise with the great vidders, vid panels (meta!) and shows and of course, the general focus on fandoms. First convention ever for me and I'm glad its one of my favorite subject materials with people I really admire. I really want to watch/buy some of the vids that arent online and I'm bringing my laptop to burn stuff on so that should be good. All i know is this is the highlight of my summer vacation and there's (almost) nothing that will stop me from going. Is it August 11th yet?

Oh also, I've officially graduated from my detested high school. Yay :) And only 1 month and 3 weeks til I go to California...
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Vidding Links [Jan. 30th, 2006|01:31 am]

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Just have to post a rec here first to one of the best vids you'll ever see, New Frontier made by [livejournal.com profile] heres_luck. It's a Serenity vid and its just amazing. Great song choice, cool movement and very interesting. It wows the mind too much to even comment. Go here: http://heres-luck.livejournal.com/183746.html to download and make sure to feedback!

Another great vidding discussion is located here: http://community.livejournal.com/vidding/493124.html where [livejournal.com profile] absolut3destiny posts feedback about a vid but more importantly goes over some interesting points about narrative, authorial intent and show/vid context. It's incredibly fascinating to think about and gives some tips on making videos better. Things I learned:

1) Look at the clip before and after each clip you put down and think about how it relates. Try to find a connection between clips. I think this works narratively and in terms of the visuals like movement, color, positions, etc.
2) The beginning is hugely important in setting up your vid so don't be random there.
3) Look at the context of the clip from what it suggests to a viewer who's never seen the show and someone who has.
4) Know what you're saying and find a narrative that illustrates that. Go from one place to another, make it a journey.
5) Make sure your song can carry your theme and only choose one. Don't have aspects conflict with each other to the detriment of the vid.
6) Focus on motion, pacing and the flow of the vid. Don't chop up sections using black/white fades unless you want to separate them.
7) Use dissolves to relect a passing of time and one thing turning into another but don't overuse.

On a personal vidding note, how come I keep coming up with video ideas that are mostly about Brian Kinney? I have 4 of them at the moment (3 B/J and 1 ensemble) and even though there are other things I want to vid, I can't seem to come up with songs for them. At the moment I need to actually start vidding although Premiere is giving me trouble so I'll need to figure that out. Technology can just be so annoying.
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Sophomore Slump [Jan. 29th, 2006|02:52 am]

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So I guess the sophomore slump phenomenen really is true. It seems that most of the shows I've watched have been struck with it in one way or another. A recap:

Thoughts on Seasons 1-2 in shows of Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Queer as Folk, The OC, Smallville under the cut )

So my conclusion for why the sophomore slump occurs? I think the writers develop a great setup in the beginning and plan that out for the season and then are left out of ideas for the next. They carry the first season too much into the second and cause the second season to lack its own focus. As ideas are used up, the storylines become a bit too much like the old ones. Less time is taken for friendly character interaction and as characters get on the wrong sides of each other, it becomes harder for good feelings to prevail. Characters change to the point that we start losing the love we had for who they were in the first place. New characters can keep the original ones apart and take away the core of the show instead of adding freshness.

I find it ironic that people overlook things about the first season for the reason that the show is finding its legs but yet the first season is often better than the first. And the third season can go either way, good or bad. Here's hoping that my shows will turn out on the good side. Or else new better pilot shows will rise to take their place.
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[Dec. 31st, 2005|12:51 pm]

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So I saw the fandom meme going around and decided to just fill it in myself for a bunch of my fandoms. Always fun to think about.

Firefly
1. The character I first fell in love with: Mal. Obviously. Was in love with him from the beginning and was oh so happy to find a Joss character that I was hopelessly in love with.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: That'd be Zoe. Watching the series again, I'm liking her more and more whereas at first she seemed a bit one dimensional to me.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: River. I enjoy her funny lines but am meh about the crazy girl stuff. She did get better in the movie but I still don't get the love.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Um...do people hate characters in this fandom?
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Well I still have a bit of love left but I'm liking Simon less than I did before. I got caught up in the hotness before but he can be a bit of an idiot although it is perfect to make fun of. Although he's great in Ariel.
6. The character I would shag anytime: Mal. Guhh. He is to die for.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Mal definitely. I'm a lot like Kaylee but it'd be fun to be more like her as well. Also it'd be cool to be like Zoe.
8. The character I'd slap: Probably Simon for being so easy to fool. But in a good way.
9. A pairing that I love: Anything with Mal except Book and River ie Mal/Simon, Mal/Jayne, Mal/Kaylee, Mal/Zoe, Mal/Inara, etc. Also I like Jayne/Simon and Jayne/Kaylee.
10. A pairing that I despise: There's none that I really hate, just don't get a few. Not into River so anything with her, I'm not into. Didn't use to like Wash/Zoe but I'm warming up to them.

More (Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Queer as Folk, Highlander, Nip/Tuck) under the cut )
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