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. )

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...

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... )

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*

[right click/save as]

Fell On Black Days

Artist: Soundgarden
Fandom: Supernatural
Vidder: ringwench
Length: 3:46
Format: wmv (zipped) (or stream from imeem)
Size: 26 MB
Category: Character study, gen, and it gets into a bit of possible/constructed reality towards the end.
Summary: Sam's struggles with his powers, his destiny, and the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Clips are mainly from season two (spoilers through AHBL2).

Feedback would rock :-)


( Notes )

I'm sure everyone has already heard, but OMGYAY!!!

SUPERNATURAL IS OFFICIALLY RENEWED!!!!!!!!!!

*does happy dance*

Winchesters FTW!!!

(Aaaand I just typed "Winchesters FTP"... Which means I'm officially spending too much time at work!)

Alright, so since there's absolutely NO way I'll be able to post anything about tonight's SPN ep without a terrible abuse of CAPSLOCK ZOMG(!!!), I'm gonna save the commentary until after I've had time to rewatch and/or get my flailing at least semi-under control. Because...DAMN!

I can't WAIT to read all the post-ep fics! *flaps with glee*


Though part of me doesn't want the SPN season to ever end, another part of me just wants all of the episodes RIGHT NOW PLZ.

I need a whole BUNCH of stuff from upcoming episodes for like 4 out of the 5 SPN vids I'm currently working on. *sigh* And now we're getting another hiatus. Lovely.

I also really need the damned "Heroes" season to finish because I have a ton of vid ideas for it but just can't bring myself to make any of them yet because every ep ends with a "To Be Continued"!


So in the meantime, and because I'm quite possibly insane, I signed up to make a vid for Club Vivid (it's going to be the first non-SPN vid I've made in a REALLY long time). So that will, hopefully, keep me occupied while waiting for the TV season to end.


Speaking of vividcon, would any of you planning on attending the con be interested in rooming with iseult_variante and me? We'd like to pick up two more roomies to cut down on hotel costs.


Oh, and I finally got around to getting one of those imeem dealies.


And just a quick random comment re: tonight's ep of "Ugly Betty" -- Eeee! Marc! *clutches*


*giggles at mood icon*