So yeah, last night's SPN REALLY needs a rewatch before I can post about it.

I herniated a disc in my back (for the second time in 6 months - the original injury hadn't even fully healed yet) so I am on some serious medication at the moment to attempt to quell the excruciating sciatic pain that it's been causing. So I'm currently mildly stoned and very sleepy.

I wish I could say I hurt it doing something cool, but alas, the actual reason is full of lame-itude: I have a cold, I coughed too hard and the disc reherniated. Go me! Gettin' down with my spaz self!

So yeah, I've been in a state of perma-loopiness for the past few days and was dozing off (despite my best efforts to remain conscious!) while watching last night's ep :-( I did enjoy the parts I actually remember, but I'm a tad hazy on the details. LOL.

I refuse to let this get me down though! I have an uber-cracky J2 humor vid I've been half-assedly working on lately and I intend to throw my whole ass into it this weekend, pain or no pain, and get it done in time to submit it for WinCon. Here's hoping I can pull it off *crosses fingers*.

I have a plan, I have the clips, and I also have good drugs and a heating pad! I will prevail!

Besides, I figure being whacked out on pain pills can only HELP when churning out the crack, right?

tweyelite and I were bored one day a couple of months ago and I really wanted an excuse to dust off Sony Vegas, so we decided to each make a vidlets using the same song but different source (hers is here and the source is TSCC). We had intended to do a bunch of these (and maybe we still will at some point cause it was really fun) but got lazy and only did the one ;-)

It barely counts as a vid because it's only 15 seconds long and I threw it together in about an hour (so I guess it's kinda like a vid drabble?), but I figured I'd post it here anyway just for the heck of it:

It's Meg-centric and set to "Fall Behind Me" by The Donnas.

( Youtube player under cut )

Wow.

Just. WOW!

( This episode blew me away. )

Dammit! Guitar Hero III comes out today and it looks BEYOND awesome. I'm so annoyed that I can't spare the money to buy it right now. I wanted to rent it, but Blockbuster has already rented it out, and with their new no late fees thing, it probably won't be back for a month.

*woe*

OMG, I almost forgot to tell you guys about my crazy Supernatural dream I had last night! Seriously, y'all, it was BANANAS...

( Cut for length and ridiculousness... )

So I must confess, I've only watched ep 3x04 once so far (I know!), and I haven't read a lot of fan reaction yet (as I'm like 4 days behind on my flist so I'm currently skimming through it at breakneck speed as I am determined, DETERMINED I tell you, not to get so behind on LJ that I stop checking my flist at all because it's too overwhelming), but here are ( a few quick thoughts on SPN 3x04 and a bit of non-spoilery speculation... )

In RL news, the reason why I'm behind on the flist is that I got a temp job through the placement agency I'm working with (as a receptionist/office assistant), it was only supposed to be for 2 days but they really liked me and decided to stretch it out to 5, which means: a) I'll now have enough money to pay rent! and, b) this makes me look REALLY good to the placement agency, considering this was my first assignment, so I should have a much easier time getting something more permanent in the future.

Surprisingly, I'm really enjoying working at this office and I wish I could stay there for more than 5 days. Even though most of my day consists of doing all of the filing, photocopying, letter stuffing, hole punching, and faxing that the other employees don't have the time or desire to do (along with answering the phones and greeting people who come in, but thankfully, it's not a very busy office so I'm only fielding about 3 calls an hour, and most of those just need to be transferred to someone else in the office), it's actually kinda fun. And even though I'm doing more work than I did at the call center (and a lot of jobs I've never really done before), it's so much less stressful than my old job. It's amazing how much more relaxed I am when I'm not being screamed at by idiots all day :-)

I have SPN paused, waiting for pumpkin_dude to get home, so I thought I'd take a few minutes to squee about ( tonight's ep of Ugly Betty... )

Seriously, how is this show so awesome!?

It's making me abuse exclamation points all over the place but I don't care!

!!!

And Brodie is home now so it's time for SPN! Woot!

I have several actual vids on the go right now, in various stages of completion (and dammit, I'm going to finish one soon, for reals) but back in August, after getting home from Vividcon, I made a bunch of mashups of some of my older vids and figured you guys might get a kick out of a couple of them. For those of you who don't know (because, sadly, I didn't know what they were until I went to the mashup party at VVC), a mashup is when you take an existing vid and swap out the audio with a completely different song, hopefully with hilarious results.

I linked to the original vids as well (because you may want to watch them first for comparison if you haven't seen them already), and please excuse the lame titles (yeesh), but anyway, here they are...

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Mashup the First:

Fell On Bohemian Polka

Original Vid: Fell On Black Days (Sam-centric)
New Song: "Bohemian Polka" by Weird Al Yankovic
Notes: This one is definitely the best of the many mashups I played around with. It worked out FRIGHTENINGLY well in pretty much every single aspect, the lyrics, the beats, everything. Seriously, it's ridonk.

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Mashup the Second:

Get Out of My Dreams, Wake Up In My Car

Original Vid: I Woke Up In A Car (Sam-centric)
New Song: "Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean
Notes: This one also turned out pretty hilariously with a ton of serendipitous lyrical matches. Though, I suppose it's not too surprising because both songs do involve sleeping/dreaming and being in cars...

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Mashup the Third:

Reptilia Shaketramp

Original Vid: Reptilia (Episodic of 1x01)
New Song: "Shaketramp" by Marianas Trench
Notes: This turned my little gen vid about the pilot episode into something that's really quite 'cesty and suggests that Dean and Sam may be into BDSM... LOL!

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Oh, and in case any of you are interested, I've also re-rendered all of my older SPN vids (everything made before Born to Kill -- because I was a complete knob when it came to rendering before I got Sony Vegas) so they now actually fill the screen (if you have a widescreen monitor), plus the audio quality is greatly improved.

They can all be found under my SPN vids tag.