Dear Festividder 2013

2013-10-10T22:06:21Z

Once again, incredibly early, but I love Festivids and I get very excited.

Dear Festividder,

Here we are again. This is my third year in Festivids. This could be your first, your fourth, or somewhere in between. If it is your first time, I hope my requests do not terrify you in their verbosity. If you've been doing this for a while... I hope my requests do not terrify you in their verbosity. In any case, thank you for being awesome and adding to the Festivids experience!

Festivids is probably my favorite time of year, because vidders get to share the things they love with each other!

I hope that you have fun making whatever vid you make and that you love the end result. Festivids is about sharing love and squee and feelings and I will be happy with whatever you make for any of these seven fandoms, especially if you love them even one-tenth as much as I do.

Music-wise, I am easy-going. The right song is the right song for a vid. I do have a bulletproof musical kink for Celtic-infused folk and/or rock music, but in general, my tastes are cast far and wide -- rock, pop, folk, bluegrass, dance, alternative (whatever that means), singer-songwriter, rap, metal, emo, punk, New Wave, etc. I've found that genres I don't care for become amazing when they are the right choice for a vid, so there's nothing you should really avoid, as long as it's appropriate to whatever you're making.

The shortlist:
Almost Famous (2000) [safety]
The Body Snatcher (1945) [safety]
Gravity Falls (2012)
The Howling (1981) [safety]
Raumpatrouille / Space Patrol Orion (1966)
The Thin Man series
Vertigo (1958) [safety]

( Almost Famous (2000) )

( The Body Snatcher (1945) )

( Gravity Falls )

( The Howling (1981) )

( Raumpatrouille / Space Patrol Orion (1966) )

( The Thin Man series )

( Vertigo (1958) )

Thank you so much for taking part in this amazing time of year. I just know that you're going to come up with something great!

Hugs and squee,
Jetpack Monkey

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New Happy Place

2013-08-26T20:44:16Z

I've found a new happy place, guys, and it's called Gravity Falls. absolutedestiny recommended it to me specifically at Club Vivid this year, so I set-up the DVR (luckily, Disney Channel re-runs stuff a lot).

The first episode I caught (copy machine clones) was cute and clever and more than once, I found myself going, "Wow, I am really happy they did not go the way I expected with that."

The second episode (Boss Mabel) was okay -- still funny, but more routinely Saturday Morning Cartoon.

The third episode won me over completely when an old man in a fez started punching a pterodactyl in the face while quoting "Moby Dick." Said old man also had a pig strapped to him at the time. As you do.

Since then, every episode I've caught has been amazing and hilarious and sometimes I smile so much it aches.

Basically, it's like an unholy mix of Twin Peaks and Eureka, but for kids! Mabel and Dipper are twins who go to stay with their great-uncle (grunkle) Stan, who runs a tourist trap with a bunch of fake exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. However, the surrounding woods are filled with actual oddities from the mystical to the cryptozoological to the just plain weird. It's coursing with a bizarre sense of humor and doesn't mind tossing in a few jokes for the adults in the audience here and there.

It is really, truly amazing. I should totally vid this show. I just need a good song.

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Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Dear Festividder 2013

New Happy Place