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.

Oh SAMMY!

( ROTFLMFAO!!! )

I meant to type this up on Friday but then I went to tweyelite's house and wound up staying there for a good chunk of the weekend, then, you know, life and such, but anyway, ( here's what I thought of SPN 3x02... )

And I'll try to stop spamming your flists now...

Went to see the Matt Good concert last night and it was absolutely incredible! pumpkin_dude and I got there nice and early so we managed to get great seats in the second row *happy flail*!

The awesomeness started even before Matt's set did. The opening act was a folk duo from Toronto called Dala. I hadn't heard of them before but they were freaking amazing! I was hooked about 10 seconds into the first song they played. Their voices are gorgeous and their harmonies gave me goosebumps. You guys should check them out, here's a streaming link to their first video:

"Anywhere Under the Moon" by Dala (if you guys like it and want me to upload some of their songs, let me know and I will)

They were in the lobby signing autographs during the intermission and were super-cute and sweet. They complimented me on my "Allow Me to Explain Through Interpretive Dance" T-shirt, which made me happy. So yeah, they were pretty awesome.

After intermission, it was finally time for Matt's set to start. The concert was acoustic, which was cool (despite the fact that MG's muti-layered instrumentals are one of the things I like best about his music), so we got to hear a lot of familiar songs with a different sound. He played a bunch of my favorite songs, like "Champions of Nothing", "Strange Days", "Apparitions", "Born Losers", "Avalanche", and a ton of other stuff. He played for nearly 2 hours, which rocked. And when he came out for the encore he did another 4 songs, which kicked ass.

It was such an incredible and moving experience for me. Being so close to the stage just listening to his amazing voice singing all of these songs that have meant so much to me for so long made me actually made me tear up a couple of times. *hearts Matt liek whoa*

He was super entertaining in between songs too. He's surprisingly hilarious and had the whole crowd laughing out loud. He had a cold (but still sounded great) so he decided that he needed to drink wine on stage, which was pretty funny (and led to him telling us how you can apparently open wine bottles with a scimitar -- LOL!), he kept bugging one of the roadies for loading him up on a bunch of weird homeopathic remedies and for buying him cheap wine that made his teeth hurt.

Near the end of the set, Matt brought out his camera and took a picture of the crowd, (which he does at every concert), he put it on his Flickr page today, and pumpkin_dude and I are in the photo! Check it out (we're in the second row on the far left)! LOL!

So all in all, it was a great concert. And I have to say, as much as I love and adore American TV shows and movies, sometimes it's really nice to take in a night of actual Canadian culture. *waves flag*

Don't Feel Like Dancin'

Artist: Scissor Sisters
Fandom: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Length: 3:20
Format: wmv (zipped)
Size: 36 MB
Category: fluff, comedy
Summary: If you're unfamiliar with the movie, it features drag queens on a bus in Australia. There's no real story to the vid, just PQotD set to a fun song.

Notes: ( I realize I probably shouldn't be actively trying to turn people off from watching this vid, but I figure you should be given fair warning...  )

So, it goes without saying that I've missed out on a RIDONK amount of stuff in the past few months. I'm going to try to catch up as much as I can by going through spnnewsletter and reading as many journals as I can, but it'll be damn near impossible to catch up on everything I've missed.

So I'm asking, nay, BEGGING for recs so I don't miss anything particularly awesome. Supernatural vids from the past few months, Firefly vids from whenever (because I've FINALLY watched the complete series and the movie and I love it so much ZOMG!), cool vids from any other fandom (because IMHO, a good vid is a good vid), good SPN icons, good SPN fics (gen, Wincest, J-squared, it's all good), interesting meta posts, and anything else noteworthy. Self-recs are totally cool.

I'm going to post a (long overdue) big giant vid rec post really really soon, and I'm going to upload the new Matt Good album in the next couple of days (you guys totally need to hear it, it's awesome).

I'm also absolutely freaking determined to, in the next week or two, finish and post at least ONE of the many vids I've been working on lately.

Oh, and winners are posted and the new round is open over at Villainous Imagination Awards, so you can go check out the awesome vids that won and/or submit a vid, if you are so inclined.

And, it's really really late now, so I'll have to post about last night's SPN ep tomorrow :-(

Round One Winners have been announced at Villainous Imagination Awards and Round Two is now open for submissions.



You guys should all go check out the winning vids, they're freaking fantastic, and made the round really tough to judge (but still TONS of fun). The awards turned out pretty good and I'm really happy with the new Matt Good themed layout (I also changed my LJ layout a few weeks ago as the old one had been up for awhile -- plus Jared = love).

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I'm nominated in the Best of the Best Round at the Art of Vidding Awards, so...




...if you are so inclined ;-)

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I've been frantically trying to get my Sweet Charity vid done in time, but my muse refused to co-operate until like a week ago. Luckily candygramme is very understanding and is OK with waiting a little bit longer.

Once I'm done that, I'm going to start working on a Dexter vid as I've found the PERFECT song! I'm just itching to get my hands on the DVDs so I can just get it made already!

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I know I haven't been around much (again, some more), but I'm planning my return to LJ and fandom in general for mid-August, after I get back from vividcon (*flappy hands* Less than two weeks away!!!).

And now, a little poll, so I know who I can look forward to seeing in Chicago next week:

Poll #1030531
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

Are you going to Vividcon this year?

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I got the new Matt Good album and it is fan-freaking-tastic (I'll likely be sharing it with you guys when I get the chance to upload it)! Also, I just bought tickets to see his acoustic show in October! Eeeeeee!

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I finished Book 7 of Harry Potter a few days ago (was able to read it at work because being on chats thankfully requires very little actual work) and freaking LOVED it to bits and pieces!

Also went to see Order of the Phoenix last week and really enjoyed it (though the fact that I was watching it in Imax probably helped me to ignore all of the discarded plot points), the 3-D at the end was freaking cool! I just hope they don't keep that effect in when the DVD comes out, otherwise the entire climax of the movie will be pretty much useless for vidding purposes.

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I know I should probably comment on the SPN season 3 spoilers at some point, but I don't really have the energy. I'll just say thank GOD Kripke finally cleared some things up so fandom can stop imploding already.

Trust in Teh Kripke, people.

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( RL has been really stupid lately... )

*delurks momentarily*


Here are 3 of the 6 videos I just can't get enough of lately:


"Omaha" by halcyon_shift - Heroes, Bennet character study.

"Steady As She Goes" by obsessive24 - Ugly Betty, Mark character study.

"Ramalama (Bang Bang)" by kiki_miserychic - Dexter, Dexter character study.


The other 3 vids I'm going crazy over are submissions to VI Awards so they will be recced later once the round is over ;-)
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Also? OMFG the new Matthew Good single is AMAZING!

"Born Losers" - Matthew Good

Waiting a month for the album to come out is going to be torturous!

So... I decided to open up a new video awards site:



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*bites fist nervously*

ARGH!!! I fucking HATE OC Transpo!!!

( Pointless ranting, feel free to skip... )


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Speaking of homicide, OMFG why didn't any of you tell me how mind-blowingly awesome "Dexter" is?!?

I mean seriously. It's absolutely incredible!

I checked out this vid by xandra_ptv (which is GORGEOUS and amazing but if you haven't watched the show you might want to hold off on the vid until after you've watched the show, because it is pretty damned spoilery) and was so intrigued I looked for the show online and was watching the pilot within minutes.

Wow. I've never been as INSTANTLY hooked on a show before as I was with this. I watched all 12 episodes within 48 hours. SO good! Seriously, if you haven't seen it yet, check it out ASAP, you won't be disappointed (but you might want to stay away if you are bothered by the sight of blood, because it can get pretty heavy on the gore at times).

ETA: Aaaand of course, even though my LJ hadn't been loading for like 3 FRIGGING HOURS, 5 minutes after I make a post to complain about it it's miraculously fixed. *grumbles*



I just overhauled my icons, and noticed that I now have more icons of Sam (25) and Jared (9) than I do of Dean (22) or Jensen (3) (in addition to the whole bunch of icons featuring both boys together, of course).

You know, I think I may have become a Samgirl without even realizing it...

Heh.

Now that's not to say that I like Dean any less than I always have, because OMG I love Dean like burning! I mean, come on, he's DEAN!

I think I've just gone from liking both brothers relatively equally with Dean having a slight advantage to still liking both boys almost the same but now Sam has the edge.

*squishes Sammich liek whoa*


Argh, how is it 5:30 already?

Fuck... *goes to bed*