Mmmm, songvids.
May. 23rd, 2004 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosSo those of you who talk to me fairly often probably already know that I collect songvids. (And index them. Because I have obsessive organization problems.) I have 8+ hours of songvids. Really.
I just added some stuff to my comedy-favorites playlist. Good comedy vids are harder to make (or so I understand) than good drama, and a lot of the thing on this playlist are dramatic too -- constructed reality vids, for example, or vids where the song choice is underlying snark at characters or the concept of the show. So subtle funny, which is the best kind. A comic song does not a funny vid make, but sometimes it really works.
Anyway, I thought I'd post the contents of said playlist here in case anyone is interested. This playlist starts with broader humor and heads subtle as it goes -- 22 vids for a total of about an hour and ten minutes. The lj cuts are there for people who might only be interested in a few fandoms; if all them lj-cuts irritate you, you can just click through and read all the way down.
I start off nice and meta with Jackie K.'s "If You Were In My Movie," song by Suzanne Vega. "If You Were In My Movie" is sort of ... a vid about vidding. Or a vid about Jane and Daria vidding. ("If you were in my movie / You could be the gangster / Double-breasted pinstriped / Man with the cigarette.") A billion and a half sources, too. It's also full of zooms through various TVs shown in various movies and TV shows, so that you have images from a movie in the TV Faith's watching when the Mayor talks to her. As I said, fun and meta.
And the I go through a whole bunch of vignette-type vids, which can use one-shot jokes because they only last for fifteen seconds. One Sick Fuck Production's "Cheap Shots" and "Highlander - Cheap Shots" are a bunch of songs cut together, so a bunch of artists. They're fun mostly for a disconnect between the music and the vid clip, like "The Lollipop Guild" for the Four Horsemen and "Puppy Love" for Mulder/Krycek and "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" for the famous Ducan-Methos goodbye scene in ... Rev 6:8? is it? I don't know what the vidders intended, but to me it's rather reductio ad absurdum, taking popular fandom concepts (Mulder and Krycek wuv each other deeply and will get puppies and a house and go curtain shopping) to a ... well, they're already ridiculous, but a more ridiculous point, if that's possible.
The other vignette vid I particularly like is Waldo's "Polka Party," song by Weird Al. Most of the highlights are spoiled if you tell someone, because it's the first moment of disbelief that makes it killer funny. The first fandom, though, is Babylon 5. And Weird Al's doing a song by the Spice Girls -- "so tell me what you want, what you really really want?" With Londo and Morden. Yup. That's brilliant. The rest of the vid wouldn't matter, really, after that. Because that's so brilliant. So it's a plus that the rest of the vid is also hilarious.
Alasen's "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a single-vignette vid, about forty seconds long. It does a deal with the two Rays and Istanbul and Constantinople. Hee. Sadly, despite my indexing, I don't have a current bookmark for this -- if anyone knows one, let me know.
Karoli's Smallville vid to "I Can Change" from the South Park Movie is one of the ultimate comedy vids. The song is a exactly what Lex really does seem to be saying to Jonathan Kent -- except done the South Park way -- and the clips are so perfectly synced to the lyrics, and she does a fabulous job with syncing clips to the words so it really does look like Lex and Jonathan are singing the song. And ... wow. So well done. I'd say that if you only check out one of the vids I mention here, it should be this one, if it weren't for the fact that there's some even more fabulous stuff to come.
The vidder here probably didn't mean this vid to be funny. It's supposed to be a heartfelt mix of song and clips and emotions. But it is so hilarious. Because Phoenix vidded Mulder/Krycek. To Britney Spears. "... Baby One More Time." Yes, really. From Krycek's perspective, of course. I laugh so hard at this vid. It's probably horribly mean. But... soso funny. I mean. "When I'm not with you I lose my mind / give me a sign, hit me baby one more time." Warning: clip quality varies a lot. Her website is here, but I don't know if she still has this vid up -- I downloaded it in... 1999, I think. So a long time ago.
Then a vid where the song choice really makes the vid funny, although this one is intentional. Vyra did a Buffy season six vid to... "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Sample clip pairing: Buffy doing her dance in OMWF to "if life seems jolly rotten / there's something you've forgotten / and that's to laugh and dance and sing." It's so perfect for season six. In a hideously grim, parodic kind of way.
Songs without lyrics are often difficult to vid to, but Fangirl pulls it off with a Firefly vid to "Go Go Cactusman," the Cowboy Bebop theme. The theme is such a cliche of the Western theme song genre, with twangs and everything, and Firefly did the whole Space Western thing, so it works really well. And it's really the song choice here that makes the vid funny, again -- the Firefly team going in with guns blazing to such a stereotype of the Western last stand song. Rating: one giggle and a snort.
Wendy came up with a perfect, perfect song choice for a vid about the Mayor: "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile." The match of his personality and the song is so well done that I forgive the fact that the vid extends the joke a little too long -- the ending clips are wonderful, but I find my attention wandering during the clips just before that.
Lithium Doll did a vid about the Firefly crew pulling their stunts to "Good Ol' Boys," the Dukes of Hazard theme. With Serenity in the place of the car. Yes. Exactly. (This means that both of my comic FF vids are to theme songs. Hmmmm.)
Then a multi-fandom vid by Diana Williams to "RESPECT" by Pink. This is also probably not supposed to be a comedy vid. I have a few moments of vague discomfort with the song and the concept of women, but sometimes I find it really funny. Like when the Lone Gunmen run down the street to "when me and all my girls / go walking down the street." Or the moment that really makes the vid for me: Kirk primping in the mirror to "mirror mirror on the wall / damn I sure look fine" and the following shot of Kirk and evil!Kirk to "I would make me mine." I find Diana Williams' insistence on putting every one of her fandoms in a vid a little tedious -- I mean, sometimes Shanghai Noon just does not match. Just saying. And the end of the vid is shaky. But the Kirk bits!
Sisabet's "Cowboy," to the Kid Rock song, is both a serious character study and a good comic vid at the same time. Beautifully done, and one of my absolute favorite vids. Angel goes out west because he wants to be a cowboy, baby. "Riding at night cause I sleep all day." "Start an escort service for all the right reasons." Most of the Angel sex scenes appear in this vid. And so do the scenes with jumping onto buses and horses. If it were me, I would have vidded the version of the song without the words "radio edit" and with the words "suck my dick." Because radio edited songs are always a little startling when things don't rhyme. (While you're at Head Tilt videos, check out every vid Sisabet has ever done. Really. She kicks serious vidding ass.)
Crazygrrl did an excellent Angel/Buffy vid to Prozzak's "Strange Disease." And I don't like Angel/Buffy, or find it that interesting, so this must be a good vid. And it is. Any vid that starts with an Angel and Buffy romantic kiss to slow romantic music and immediately shift to Buffy kicking Angel in the crotch to "a little sexual frustration" ... well. Again, it's a funny vid, but it's also a character vid. It looks at Angel and Buffy, and interestingly puts Buffy in the position of leaving Angel, and Angel in the position of having a "strange disease" -- loving Buffy as a soulless vampire.
Then I do two constructed reality vids. Constructed realities aren't always funny -- Killa and T. Jonesy's "Closer" is the best constructed reality vid I've ever seen and isn't funny at all. Wrenching and horrible and really wonderfully done. /tangent.
The first is Soappocrates' "If I Were a Drinker," song by Travis Tritt. Yup, a country song. Where Whitney and Clark and are in a relationship, and Clark leaves Whitney for Lex. For the money. *giggles* Intentional satire in a constructed reality vid, and so wonderful.
Killa and Carol S. did a Highlander constructed reality to "Opportunities," song by the Pet Shop Boys. (As far as I'm concerned, Killa and her co-vidders, including Carol S. and T. Jonesy, are the queens of the masterful clip timing. It says something that out of the last six vids here, which are my favorite humorous vids, three are by Killa and compatriots.) The vid begins with the text "Meanwhile ... in an alternate universe ... not so different from our own ... our heroes turn to a life of crime." Yes. Methos and Duncan and Amanda are a team of criminals. What better way to use the multitudes of robbery clips from the show? And the lyrics include "I've got the brains / you've got the looks / let's make lots of money / you've got the brawn / I've got the brains / let's make lots of money" as a chorus. Mostly with clips of Methos looking persuasive. It's so perfectly done that the comedy is just from the constructed reality -- the vid clips are so perfect that if that really WERE the Highlander universe, it would be a character vid. Heck, it's already a character vid. I personally wouldn't have used the bit with the movie clapper in the middle; I think it's distracting. But otherwise, it's fabulous.
Then another Killa vid, this time with T. Jonesy and Hafital: a Captain Kirk character study to "Razzle Dazzle," performed by Richard Gere. From the first two clips, you know that this is a good vid -- two different clips with gestures perfectly synced to the percussion. Wow. And then it's a vid about Kirk being distracting and, well, razzle dazzling people on the Enterprise. And that's such a perfect song for Kirk, and yet funny at the same time, since that Kirk is inherently funny. So perfect.
Then a Highlander vid by Luminosity to "Not a Virgin Anymore," song by Poe. This is actually an issue vid, and issue vids and stories are rarely pertinent or interesting for long. But this is funny, pertinent, and beautifully done, since the issue in question is ... authors portraying Duncan as a virgin when he first gets together with Methos. "I'm not a virgin anymore / I just thought you should know / yah I've been round." So beautiful! It's all Duncan in bed with people, kissing men, rolling around on the floor, drunk at parties, and three or four perfect clips of Methos looking amused at being told Duncan's not a virgin anymore. There are two or three awkward cuts -- effects that really didn't need to be there -- but otherwise it's so. much. fun. And that clip of Cory Raines doing the wrist? Yup. That's in there. And so is Duncan in drag. And ... so perfect.
Pamela J. Smith did a wonderful SG-1 vid to "Dead" by TMBG. Everybody dies on SG-1, after all. Sometimes several times. They just keep coming back. Over and over again. Why get emotional about death, man? Just shrug it off! (Pam's summary: "Daniel is dead... again. Death is rather like the common cold for him.")
And look, it's another Killa vid, this time with Melina. Amanda-themed to Rockapella's "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" It's so funny because it's so true, because Killa and Melina do wonderful clip choice for the Amanda moments for the various countries, because they pick facial expressions for Amanda so well that her narrative matches the narrative of the song and you fall in love with Amanda again, because they do wonderful chase clips for the second half of the song. The first time I saw it I watched it ... I think four times in a row, looking for the subtleties. And it didn't bore me. It's that good. And it's a capella! A vid this good to a capella! How can you beat it?
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sineala's wonderful, wonderful "Sorry," an X-Files vid to the Nerf Herder song. I'm not just saying that because she's a friend of mine either. It's snarky and horrible in such a good way and it's got punching synced to the music and Krycek really is a loser and it's got clips that are just a moment out of time and it's wonderful and go download it now. Yes. Now. I can't say enough good things about it. The first verse looks almost like a standard M/K love each other vid, and then ... it goes satire. Lovely satire. So. Perfect.
And that's it, finally. Those of you who were wondering if I was ever going to post about fandom again are probably very sorry now. *g*
I just added some stuff to my comedy-favorites playlist. Good comedy vids are harder to make (or so I understand) than good drama, and a lot of the thing on this playlist are dramatic too -- constructed reality vids, for example, or vids where the song choice is underlying snark at characters or the concept of the show. So subtle funny, which is the best kind. A comic song does not a funny vid make, but sometimes it really works.
Anyway, I thought I'd post the contents of said playlist here in case anyone is interested. This playlist starts with broader humor and heads subtle as it goes -- 22 vids for a total of about an hour and ten minutes. The lj cuts are there for people who might only be interested in a few fandoms; if all them lj-cuts irritate you, you can just click through and read all the way down.
I start off nice and meta with Jackie K.'s "If You Were In My Movie," song by Suzanne Vega. "If You Were In My Movie" is sort of ... a vid about vidding. Or a vid about Jane and Daria vidding. ("If you were in my movie / You could be the gangster / Double-breasted pinstriped / Man with the cigarette.") A billion and a half sources, too. It's also full of zooms through various TVs shown in various movies and TV shows, so that you have images from a movie in the TV Faith's watching when the Mayor talks to her. As I said, fun and meta.
And the I go through a whole bunch of vignette-type vids, which can use one-shot jokes because they only last for fifteen seconds. One Sick Fuck Production's "Cheap Shots" and "Highlander - Cheap Shots" are a bunch of songs cut together, so a bunch of artists. They're fun mostly for a disconnect between the music and the vid clip, like "The Lollipop Guild" for the Four Horsemen and "Puppy Love" for Mulder/Krycek and "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" for the famous Ducan-Methos goodbye scene in ... Rev 6:8? is it? I don't know what the vidders intended, but to me it's rather reductio ad absurdum, taking popular fandom concepts (Mulder and Krycek wuv each other deeply and will get puppies and a house and go curtain shopping) to a ... well, they're already ridiculous, but a more ridiculous point, if that's possible.
The other vignette vid I particularly like is Waldo's "Polka Party," song by Weird Al. Most of the highlights are spoiled if you tell someone, because it's the first moment of disbelief that makes it killer funny. The first fandom, though, is Babylon 5. And Weird Al's doing a song by the Spice Girls -- "so tell me what you want, what you really really want?" With Londo and Morden. Yup. That's brilliant. The rest of the vid wouldn't matter, really, after that. Because that's so brilliant. So it's a plus that the rest of the vid is also hilarious.
Alasen's "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a single-vignette vid, about forty seconds long. It does a deal with the two Rays and Istanbul and Constantinople. Hee. Sadly, despite my indexing, I don't have a current bookmark for this -- if anyone knows one, let me know.
Karoli's Smallville vid to "I Can Change" from the South Park Movie is one of the ultimate comedy vids. The song is a exactly what Lex really does seem to be saying to Jonathan Kent -- except done the South Park way -- and the clips are so perfectly synced to the lyrics, and she does a fabulous job with syncing clips to the words so it really does look like Lex and Jonathan are singing the song. And ... wow. So well done. I'd say that if you only check out one of the vids I mention here, it should be this one, if it weren't for the fact that there's some even more fabulous stuff to come.
The vidder here probably didn't mean this vid to be funny. It's supposed to be a heartfelt mix of song and clips and emotions. But it is so hilarious. Because Phoenix vidded Mulder/Krycek. To Britney Spears. "... Baby One More Time." Yes, really. From Krycek's perspective, of course. I laugh so hard at this vid. It's probably horribly mean. But... soso funny. I mean. "When I'm not with you I lose my mind / give me a sign, hit me baby one more time." Warning: clip quality varies a lot. Her website is here, but I don't know if she still has this vid up -- I downloaded it in... 1999, I think. So a long time ago.
Then a vid where the song choice really makes the vid funny, although this one is intentional. Vyra did a Buffy season six vid to... "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Sample clip pairing: Buffy doing her dance in OMWF to "if life seems jolly rotten / there's something you've forgotten / and that's to laugh and dance and sing." It's so perfect for season six. In a hideously grim, parodic kind of way.
Songs without lyrics are often difficult to vid to, but Fangirl pulls it off with a Firefly vid to "Go Go Cactusman," the Cowboy Bebop theme. The theme is such a cliche of the Western theme song genre, with twangs and everything, and Firefly did the whole Space Western thing, so it works really well. And it's really the song choice here that makes the vid funny, again -- the Firefly team going in with guns blazing to such a stereotype of the Western last stand song. Rating: one giggle and a snort.
Wendy came up with a perfect, perfect song choice for a vid about the Mayor: "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile." The match of his personality and the song is so well done that I forgive the fact that the vid extends the joke a little too long -- the ending clips are wonderful, but I find my attention wandering during the clips just before that.
Lithium Doll did a vid about the Firefly crew pulling their stunts to "Good Ol' Boys," the Dukes of Hazard theme. With Serenity in the place of the car. Yes. Exactly. (This means that both of my comic FF vids are to theme songs. Hmmmm.)
Then a multi-fandom vid by Diana Williams to "RESPECT" by Pink. This is also probably not supposed to be a comedy vid. I have a few moments of vague discomfort with the song and the concept of women, but sometimes I find it really funny. Like when the Lone Gunmen run down the street to "when me and all my girls / go walking down the street." Or the moment that really makes the vid for me: Kirk primping in the mirror to "mirror mirror on the wall / damn I sure look fine" and the following shot of Kirk and evil!Kirk to "I would make me mine." I find Diana Williams' insistence on putting every one of her fandoms in a vid a little tedious -- I mean, sometimes Shanghai Noon just does not match. Just saying. And the end of the vid is shaky. But the Kirk bits!
Sisabet's "Cowboy," to the Kid Rock song, is both a serious character study and a good comic vid at the same time. Beautifully done, and one of my absolute favorite vids. Angel goes out west because he wants to be a cowboy, baby. "Riding at night cause I sleep all day." "Start an escort service for all the right reasons." Most of the Angel sex scenes appear in this vid. And so do the scenes with jumping onto buses and horses. If it were me, I would have vidded the version of the song without the words "radio edit" and with the words "suck my dick." Because radio edited songs are always a little startling when things don't rhyme. (While you're at Head Tilt videos, check out every vid Sisabet has ever done. Really. She kicks serious vidding ass.)
Crazygrrl did an excellent Angel/Buffy vid to Prozzak's "Strange Disease." And I don't like Angel/Buffy, or find it that interesting, so this must be a good vid. And it is. Any vid that starts with an Angel and Buffy romantic kiss to slow romantic music and immediately shift to Buffy kicking Angel in the crotch to "a little sexual frustration" ... well. Again, it's a funny vid, but it's also a character vid. It looks at Angel and Buffy, and interestingly puts Buffy in the position of leaving Angel, and Angel in the position of having a "strange disease" -- loving Buffy as a soulless vampire.
Then I do two constructed reality vids. Constructed realities aren't always funny -- Killa and T. Jonesy's "Closer" is the best constructed reality vid I've ever seen and isn't funny at all. Wrenching and horrible and really wonderfully done. /tangent.
The first is Soappocrates' "If I Were a Drinker," song by Travis Tritt. Yup, a country song. Where Whitney and Clark and are in a relationship, and Clark leaves Whitney for Lex. For the money. *giggles* Intentional satire in a constructed reality vid, and so wonderful.
Killa and Carol S. did a Highlander constructed reality to "Opportunities," song by the Pet Shop Boys. (As far as I'm concerned, Killa and her co-vidders, including Carol S. and T. Jonesy, are the queens of the masterful clip timing. It says something that out of the last six vids here, which are my favorite humorous vids, three are by Killa and compatriots.) The vid begins with the text "Meanwhile ... in an alternate universe ... not so different from our own ... our heroes turn to a life of crime." Yes. Methos and Duncan and Amanda are a team of criminals. What better way to use the multitudes of robbery clips from the show? And the lyrics include "I've got the brains / you've got the looks / let's make lots of money / you've got the brawn / I've got the brains / let's make lots of money" as a chorus. Mostly with clips of Methos looking persuasive. It's so perfectly done that the comedy is just from the constructed reality -- the vid clips are so perfect that if that really WERE the Highlander universe, it would be a character vid. Heck, it's already a character vid. I personally wouldn't have used the bit with the movie clapper in the middle; I think it's distracting. But otherwise, it's fabulous.
Then another Killa vid, this time with T. Jonesy and Hafital: a Captain Kirk character study to "Razzle Dazzle," performed by Richard Gere. From the first two clips, you know that this is a good vid -- two different clips with gestures perfectly synced to the percussion. Wow. And then it's a vid about Kirk being distracting and, well, razzle dazzling people on the Enterprise. And that's such a perfect song for Kirk, and yet funny at the same time, since that Kirk is inherently funny. So perfect.
Then a Highlander vid by Luminosity to "Not a Virgin Anymore," song by Poe. This is actually an issue vid, and issue vids and stories are rarely pertinent or interesting for long. But this is funny, pertinent, and beautifully done, since the issue in question is ... authors portraying Duncan as a virgin when he first gets together with Methos. "I'm not a virgin anymore / I just thought you should know / yah I've been round." So beautiful! It's all Duncan in bed with people, kissing men, rolling around on the floor, drunk at parties, and three or four perfect clips of Methos looking amused at being told Duncan's not a virgin anymore. There are two or three awkward cuts -- effects that really didn't need to be there -- but otherwise it's so. much. fun. And that clip of Cory Raines doing the wrist? Yup. That's in there. And so is Duncan in drag. And ... so perfect.
Pamela J. Smith did a wonderful SG-1 vid to "Dead" by TMBG. Everybody dies on SG-1, after all. Sometimes several times. They just keep coming back. Over and over again. Why get emotional about death, man? Just shrug it off! (Pam's summary: "Daniel is dead... again. Death is rather like the common cold for him.")
And look, it's another Killa vid, this time with Melina. Amanda-themed to Rockapella's "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" It's so funny because it's so true, because Killa and Melina do wonderful clip choice for the Amanda moments for the various countries, because they pick facial expressions for Amanda so well that her narrative matches the narrative of the song and you fall in love with Amanda again, because they do wonderful chase clips for the second half of the song. The first time I saw it I watched it ... I think four times in a row, looking for the subtleties. And it didn't bore me. It's that good. And it's a capella! A vid this good to a capella! How can you beat it?
Well, you can beat it with
sineala's wonderful, wonderful "Sorry," an X-Files vid to the Nerf Herder song. I'm not just saying that because she's a friend of mine either. It's snarky and horrible in such a good way and it's got punching synced to the music and Krycek really is a loser and it's got clips that are just a moment out of time and it's wonderful and go download it now. Yes. Now. I can't say enough good things about it. The first verse looks almost like a standard M/K love each other vid, and then ... it goes satire. Lovely satire. So. Perfect. And that's it, finally. Those of you who were wondering if I was ever going to post about fandom again are probably very sorry now. *g*
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Date: 2004-05-23 09:03 pm (UTC)I want to learn how to make these things. I suspect my uberpowerful G4 PowerBook laptop has the capability, her pilot just doesn't know what the heck she's doing.
Emily's super-hot CPU of Love: Drivers Wanted. ;)
So any tips on where a sweet, peppy 20-something in rural Japan might look to find tips on the vidness?
Vidding Resources
Date: 2004-05-24 05:07 am (UTC)Another excellent place is the Vidder mailing list through yahoo. Just look for vidder. Once you join, the files section has a ton of excellent info. Do be sure to read through the archives though before asking basic questions, as sometimes the response to a basic, oft asked question will be "Read the archives!" Still, most of the list is quite friendly, there are some fantastic vidders onlist and generally folks are quite helpful. Great place to learn about new vids that worth checking out too.
There's also a LJ vidding community - called vidding - but it's mostly a place where folks announce new vids. It doesn't really deal with basics of vidding.
Good luck.
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Date: 2004-05-24 11:36 am (UTC)All my experience is with vidding on PCs, so I can't give you Mac program advice, sorry. I hear iMovie works decently. I am hoping to be the owner of a PowerBook G4 or similar, so if anybody does give you vidding advice, I'd like to know too. :)
I will mention that the AMV guides to vidding, I found rather personally discouraging, because they all seemed to be about things like having Super Spiffy Lossless Codecs so your files will be six gazillion gigs in size and be the bestest computer files they can be -- I felt like a horrible traitor for using DivX files and exporting as RealPlayer. AMVs seem to be much much more about technical spiffiness, which I am not so good at, but I like to think I can make a decent vid anyway. So if the AMV guides make it sound like your vids must have the best Adobe Premiere effects ever, do not despair, because you can still make a vid with a good story.
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Date: 2004-05-24 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-24 11:46 am (UTC)Vid rec: The "Teenage Dirtbag" SW vid. Luke whining! The symbolism! The lightsabers! I am twelve. I know you have probably seen this one already, but you didn't mention it, so I thought I would.
I am also honored to make your vid playlist -- though I think Sorry is less comedic than, say, Polka Party, I'd like to think it does okay in the satire and irony category. Thank you very much for the rec. *passes you $20 under the table* :)
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Date: 2004-05-24 01:06 pm (UTC)I've seen "Teenage Dirtbag." I still have it. But ... I just don't find it that funny or ironic or satirical. I don't know why this is, but I always get distracted in the middle. Lots and lots and lots of people think it's the funniest vid ever, but it just doesn't do anything for me.
And it occurred to me after I posted that I really should have said "comedy and satire" or "and irony" or something, because really, a lot of those vids aren't comical. They're dark and bitter and also really, really funny.
And your vid is on my playlist, so no bribe necessary. Though I'll never turn down a $20. *g*
You should totally check out the ones you haven't seen. Because some of them are Fabulous. (Out of curiosity, which ones HAVEN'T you seen?)
This post is actually the preface to me trying to do a weekly vid commentary. We'll see if that actually happens.
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Date: 2004-05-31 11:48 am (UTC)Strange Disease is probably one of the funniest vids I've ever seen. I'm not much of a shipper, so it's my fav B/A vid. A similarly snarky and a little bit meta vid is from http://www.any-time-soon.com/ -- "I Touch Myself"
You may know about it already, it's just the only humorous (in my book) vid I could think of that you didn't list. Thanks again!
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Date: 2004-06-01 06:38 pm (UTC)Actually, I hadn't seen "I Touch Myself" -- I was kinda Buffy/Spike'd out for a while. In all genres -- comedy, romance, angst, it all was overdone. So I only watched what was rec'd, and that wasn't. It's a lot of fun. I like the random stats best (champagne cork, IHOP). Whee!
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:55 pm (UTC)