1. Further on the meat thermometer injury: when told about it the next morning, my 5-year-old son asked, “were you hot?” thus making the same joke his father had right after I stabbed myself. Nice to know the bloodline is running true, I guess.

2. Who else is watching Tower Prep? After last night’s episode, enjoyment has graduated into love. Former XF staff = cool visuals (though evident risk of incoherence in mythology already pending); I was genuinely creeped out. Also, gotta respect a show that’s willing to base an episode on the Odyssey.

3. I am, right now, incredibly infatuated with M.I.A.’s XXXO. It’s something about the surprise of going from “you want me” to the turnaround of “you want me [to] be somebody who I’m really not,” delivered in a way more aggressive than sad about that. I even like the director reference—“I could be the actress, you’d be Tarantino”—because even though the “actress” is generic, it’s pretty much the opposite of, say, a Hitchcock reference, given what Tarantino’s leading ladies are like.

4. The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense: I loved it!

5. Make a vid, if you want, for Akon’s No Labels theme song: I am not a supporter of the organization, but I can’t help wanting to see what a vidder would do anyway.

( Appropriation art, getting copyright permission, and a bad GRRM book )

Imaginary vids: The Antlers, Two, is a Scully arc vid in my head.

A long time ago, I wrote, “Today I did a very good job at something where the extent to which I did a good job doesn’t matter and should.” Turns out it did matter! Go me!

Just after I got a great demons vid, proofpudding made me a beautiful Dean vid, it has no heart (Bright Eyes, No One Would Riot for Less).  Lovely coloring and just dreamy and heartrending.

rhoboat made me a Dean vid for Marit Bergman's Carry Me Home.  It is, as she said, a rollercoaster!  Dean's life: if you don't laugh, you have to cry.  I love the timing especially, and the way she captures the determined joy of the song despite all the terrible stuff beneath.

I will probably do a couple of belated halfamoon fics as well as I sit in the airport/on the train (depending on whether I can fly back home tonight).  I'm scheduled to teach a makeup class tomorrow, so it's six and a half to eight hours on the train for me if I can't get my flight because of bad weather.  I'm over this winter!

I decided to write up a list of vids I never get tired of, trying to limit myself to one per fandom except SPN, which means a large number got excluded. It’s also interesting to see which from my old recs post have become “rewatch a lot” vids. I’m definitely trending to faster cuts, but I still love my emo porn.

( Angel, BSG, Chuck, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Farscape, Firefly, Heroes, Highlander, Iron Man, Legend of the Seeker, Multi, QAFUS, RPV, Smallville, Star Trek TOS, SGA, Supernatural, X-Files  )

I actually made most of this vid, um, before I had children.  I finished it because it seemed silly not to do so and because it matched the "worst-case scenario" cliche bingo prompt.  Also, it is ridiculously large for a 3:42 vid (81 M); clearly I'm exporting improperly. 

End of the World News: Clark POV: I'm not the one wasting my time.

1. It makes me sad that among Wolfram Alpha's easter eggs is not "how old Cary Grant?" Google, by contrast, gets the answer right off.

2. Rewatching Serenity, I noticed three instances where extradiegetic titles turned into diegetic images--the Universal logo/Earth-that-Was, the movie title/the side of Serenity, and Haven/the entrance to Haven. I'm used to extradiegetic music moving into (or out of) the diegesis, but is it common for images to do this? This made me think about the extent to which, as one of the articles I recently read argues, the fact that we can now treat film pretty much the way we treat sound in terms of mixing, manipulation, etc. is affecting editors' and directors' sense of possibility for images.

3. Fellow parents! You know how in Dora the Explorer there’s always that creepy moment where Dora turns to the screen and waits unblinkingly for the audience to answer her question “What did you like best?” (My kids never answer; does anyone?) Z. suggests it would be engagingly disturbing to edit together ten or twelve of those moments, and I heartily agree. Maybe with the following quotes integrated in:
( In Dora's case )

I’ve been watching two adorable I’m on a Boat ST:Reboot vids. Some thoughts: ( very vague movie spoilers )

(2) I really love seeing two or more artists take the same strictures and play with them! The vidders here sometimes use the same shots, but in different places, and they use ( more vague movie spoilers )

; and they use “If you're on the shore,/then you're sure not me-oh” quite distinctly, with one humorous and one kind of painful. It’s a little more repetitive than the three Body vids in three different fandoms, or the three Handlebars vids, but still neat to watch.