Jetpack Monkey

Festivids are up (and have been for a few days, yes yes). There's a recs post coming later, but first let's talk about two awesome and currently anonymous people who made me VIDS! FOR ME! VIDS FOR ME!

The first is a Martin (1977 George Romero vampire(?) movie) vid, Devils Haircut, set to the Beck song of the same name. Holy crap, this mother is stylish. It's a movie I'd never expect a vid for, even when requesting it. And it's there. And it's amazing. It completely captures that loving ambiguity that is the main character, who is either a fucked up teenage serial killer or a fucked up immortal vampire. The movie toys with the ambiguity, this vid becomes it. It totally centers you in the mind of sad, forlorn world of Martin and uses the black and white sequences that Romero inserts throughout (are they flashbacks? delusions?) to great effect. Whoever made this vid just *gets* this movie and they used some pretty amazing editing --  especially cross-cutting -- to bring that understanding across in vid form. They make me gleeful. This is such a wonderful, underrated movie and such a lovely, thoughtful present.

The second is a Eureka vid centered around Fargo, (Fargo) for the First Time set to the Barenaked Ladies' "Falling for the First Time." I requested the epic dorkiness of Fargo and I got it... more than I could have possibly hoped for. I mean, he's just such a lovable dork! Sure, you know, he nearly causes the destruction of his friends, the town, the world on occasion, but he's just eager! And still somehow not fired. I cut my teeth on humorous lyrical matches but whoever made this vid just schooled me in how it's done. So many of the clips take on additional meaning in tandem with the lyrics and knowledge of canon. Oh and the framing device is done in such a way that the entire vid could actually be a canon occurrence. As far as I'm concerned, it is (even if many of the events in the vid take place after the framing device in canon -- this is Eureka, it could totally be pulling memories from the future accidentally). Also, bonus points for use of Warehouse 13 footage! And the moments of unexpected sadness! 

I myself made four vids for Festivids. If you can guess two of them, I'll make you a little something something, details to be worked out upon the winning. I say two because I feel like there's probably one that's completely obvious. My roommates and anyone else who already knows are disqualified for obvious reasons.

Reccing this like a mofo:

I'll Be OK by leanwellback 

I keep watching this vid like my personal sense of well-being depends on it and I can't seem to stop. No, I don't want to stop. It basically encapsulates everything I love about Community that's beneath the wackiness (although the vid has wackiness as well): it's about slightly (or entirely) broken people coming together and figuring out their lives.

I need to get the hell through the rest of Season 1 and then watch Season 2 and 3 so I can appreciate this vid *more*.

 

Apparently, being excessive caffeinated is key to vidding [fandom]. After weeks of plodding along a clip at a time, I'm fueled by two Monsters and blazing along. Wheeee.

You guys, I'm ten episodes away from the end. The END. Why does this show have to end? It's so awesome.

You can find me at jpmonkey  . JetpackMonkey was already taken.

I started following so many Tumblrs that I figured it'd be easier just to aggregate them.

ETA: Per airawyn 's suggestion, I have changed to monkeyswithjetpacks.tumblr.com

Look at you, Festividder. In the last week or two, you said to yourself, "Hey, I want to make something awesome for somebody (possibly a total stranger) who shares my interests!" Alternately, you said, "Hey, I want to try to challenge myself to make a vid to spec, thus broadening my horizons and/or forcing me to vid when I might not otherwise."

In both of the above scenarios, I salute you. You just plain rock and I'm so delighted that you're making something for me! Since you've probably matched on something that you're interested in vidding, you're probably also making something that you'll enjoy, which will make it all the better.

My general tastes run to dorky fun vids, bouncy dance-able vids, and contemplations of genre. Seriously, I'm obsessed with genre, its tropes, boundaries, and the way we use genre as a shorthand, sometimes to tell very unexpected stories.  My requests mostly focus on the first two types of vids, but if you could sneak in type 3 (contemplations of genre), I would be in awe of you.

I didn't make a lot of specific music requests, because picking music is probably the hardest part of vidding for me. That said, my musical tastes are all over the place -- punk, New Wave, 80s rap (Public Enemy, Run-DMC, etc), rock, folk, folk-rock, post-apocalyptic folk-punk (Stuart Davis fans, where are you?), showtunes, comedy (Tom Lehrer, Jonathan Coulton), geek rock, metal (not black metal), 90s pop, 60s pop, bluegrass (not country), mashups, ska. 

That said, I discover most new music and artists through vids, so feel free to open my eyes to something!

Now, onto my requests! I have a good mix of the old and the new. All of the additional details are so completely optional -- if you make a vid in any of these fandoms, you will make me a very happy monkey-with-a-jetpack.

( This is behind a cut, because I can get verbose! )

There we go. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

So this stupid little vid I decided to throw together is being actually stupid (it makes no sense) and frustrating (the clips won't play along with the song as much as I'd like them to).

I'm halfway through (well, nearly). GRARGH. Do what I tell you, vid!

I'd like to get this done before Festivids assignments go out so that I'm not fiddling with it while working on whatever it is I end up working on.

Just need it to behave. Behave!

Just had the worst day at work. I'm still unmedicated for ADD (fixing that soon... have a doctor's appointment to get a referral to a psych, but the appointment's not until November). I can actually still do my job quite well provided there aren't any major interruptions to my workflow.

There were five major interruptions to my workflow today. One of which lasted nearly a half-hour. All of which prevented me from doing any work whatsoever while they were happening.

So I basically got very distracted and kept being distracted when work was back on.

So that sucked.

So I just saw the episode called "The Director File".

From the title, I was expecting a fascinating look at more of how the Shadowy Government Agency (which, as far as I am concerned, is the actual name of said shadowy government agency) works. I did get that. Sort of.

Then the first five minutes happened and I'm like, "Oh, it's kind of an X-Files reference. Huh."

No. NO. NO.

This is not kind of an X-Files reference. The whole episode is an X-Files reference. The whole. damn. thing.

This show is on so many, many different varieties of crack.

Only four episodes left. This kind of makes me sad.

Yeah, I should be talking about Doctor Who right now, but there wasn't nearly enough Rory.

( Once a Thief stuff )

ETA: I take my greivances back. In the first 39 seconds of the new episode, I get OT3 pointing guns at high octane nightmare fuel. LOVE.