All the vids! I kind of put this off because most of my vids are just available at Youtube, but that's not 100% true anymore. So here we are!


2008 

Wonder Boy - Angel (Angel & Spike) [Technically made in 2004, but remastered and redone in 2008]
Just Another Day - Doctor Who (Donna Noble)
Female Friend - Doctor Who (The Doctor/Companions) 
Ever the Same - Universal Monsters
The Master and the Bad Horse Chorus - Doctor Who (The Master) [Dr. Who-rrible Project]
Brand New Day - Doctor Who (Hand!Doctor) [Dr. Who-rrible Project]
The Doctor's Freeze Ray - Doctor Who (The Doctor/Reinette) [Dr. Who-rrible Project]
The Master and the Bad Horse Reprise - Doctor Who (The Master) [Dr. Who-rrible Project]
Slipping - Doctor Who (Davros) [Dr. Who-rrible Project]

2009

Mom's Movie Memories - Multi [Made for Mom's 50th birthday, so post is friends-only]
More Than One Way to Celebrity Skin a Pussycat - Josie and the Pussycats [Vividcon 2009]
Don't Stop Me Now - Hammer Frankenstein [Vividcon 2009]
Frontier Psychiatrist - Boris Karloff

2010

50 Years of the Psycho Shower Scene - Psycho, et al.
Dancin' with Myself - Gene Kelly [Vividcon 2010]
Club Foot - Roger Corman's Poe Cycle 
Love Shack of the Evil Dead - Evil Dead series
Black Mirror - Waldemar Daninsky series

2011

Invincible - Tank Girl [available only on the Apocalypse West 2011 DVD]
Invincible - James Bond [Vividcon 2011]
The Gremlin Show - Gremlins [Vividcon 2011]
A Sophisticated Song - Classic Hollywood (Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn) [Vividcon 2011]

2012

Eye of the Tiger - A Knight's Tale [Festivids 2011, for Jaidanwolf]
Home - Jigoku [Festivids 2011, for AbsoluteDestiny]
Mean Woman Blues - Once a Thief (Mac/Director) [Festivids 2011, for fan_eunice]
TiK ToK - Cemetery Man [Festivids 2011, for Third Mouse]

Mark McKissick, junior high English teacher, passed away earlier this week.

To say that I had a difficult time in school vastly understates the issue. The worst of it was junior high for a variety of reasons. Mainly? It was junior high, that purgatory of all school tiers. You have a lot of kids from a bunch of different schools, some who know each other, some who don't, all pushed together for the first time after spending 6-7 years with the same bunch of faces year after year. Throw into that cauldron that most, but not all of these kids are just starting puberty and their bodies are in turmoil, their brains overtaken by hormones. As the natural narcissism of children slips away and leaves behind only questions and self-doubt, social groups from grade school get broken, refactored, and reformed as belligerent cliques of adolescents trying to belong to something just a bit bigger than themselves. They're just self-conscious enough to know that they need to put up walls and define boundaries, but not self-aware enough to know that it's because they're terrified -- of not knowing who they are, what to do, where to go, why any of it matters.

And in this never-ending flood of hormones, fear and pain, there are those who must try to teach.

Most of them hold back the waters just long enough to get from one bell to the next. You can't honestly expect much more of them, poor bastards.

One in particular, however, tried to teach us how to swim.

Mr. McKissick taught English at Washington Junior High in Rock Island, IL. He started as the 7th Grade English teacher and moved up to the 8th Grade with my class, a bit of good luck which I am eternally grateful for. He helped make me the human being I am today.

He had his work cut out for him. I was awkward. Everyone is in junior high, but I felt like I was the most awkward. I was completely lacking in self-awareness and basically did everything wrong that you can do in junior high, socially. I frequently kept my hands above waist-level. When I spoke, my voice would get extremely high when I was excited, and I always said what I was thinking and feeling. I wore whatever I owned that didn't smell. I would speed walk from class to class, taking pleasure in getting seated before anyone else even entered the room. I loved being called on and knowing the answer. I was convinced I was the smartest and the funniest, but I almost never did homework and I couldn't take a joke, good-natured or mean-spirited.

Basically, on the junior high totem pole, I was below the dirt.*

My parents didn't understand. They were unhappy about my grades. They didn't understand how I wasn't making friends. They suggested things like "Pay attention to what the other kids are doing and wearing." They pushed books on body language so that I could present myself better and maybe the other kids would stop calling me gay.** Like most of my teachers, they were holding back the waters*** and again, that's about as much as anyone can expect. Junior high kids don't know what they're going through or why they're going through it. How the hell are parents supposed to know?

Mr. McKissick knew. I suspect he'd been where I am, the lonely scared kid different from everybody else but not really sure why. Or maybe not. He seemed too cool to have ever been scared or lonely.

He gave a crap. I mean, most everyone did, but they were so overwhelmed. He had a way of talking to you like your concerns were the only ones on his mind at the time. He wanted to know how you were doing, what was going on. He kept me back after class a couple times because he saw I was hurt about something and he wanted to make sure I was all right. I always brushed it off and said it was nothing, but it meant a lot that he noticed. I, king of the unsporty, ended up joining the tennis team because he coached it and I managed the girl's tennis team in 8th Grade as well.

I was a voracious reader and he would occasionally let me borrow books from him, books normally not allowed outside the classroom. His class was the first time I ever really wrote at any great length about literature critically, which I think eventually segued into me writing about film critically. When it came to homework, I didn't want to disappoint him (even though I did, repeatedly, because I had ADHD and didn't know it).

He didn't let me get away with my usual crap, either. My ever-present litany of excuses were always met with alternatives -- not pushy, but just snarky enough to say, "I know what you're doing, I understand, but you have to stop."

I can still hear his voice in my head, measured but with the kind of twinkle you usually ascribe to eyes.

I'm not the only one with stories like this. He inspired other classmates in other ways. I stopped by to visit him at Washington right before I graduated high school and saw him work with another kid who was like me at that same age -- lonely and scared.

He was a good man and a great teacher. At a time when I felt like I was drowning, he reached his hand out to pull me above water. I didn't always take it, but it was always appreciated.


* Yes, I just went from a water metaphor to a totem pole metaphor. Deal with it.
** I want to emphasize that it was because being called "gay" was said to hurt me. I know that if I was gay, my parents would have been amazing about it.
*** Back to water again.

Reading Paper Towns by John Green right now. Nearing the end and wishing I'd had this book when I was in high school. I think it would have helped me with my own Margo Roth Spiegelman type person.

Also, any young adult novel that uses a Walt Whitman poem as a narrative and thematic backbone is a-okay in my book.

ALL THE SQUEE. So amazing. So mighty. So awesome. Joss for all the sequels. Had some issues with it here and there, but nothing I want to get into right now.

Spoilers likely in comments. Tread carefully.

I think I have my Club Vivid vid locked. I think. I'm gonna have the roomies give one more going over (and there's always the potential that I'll get notes from jmtorres still).

So only a few days short of deadline! Yay!

ETA: Just double-checked the Vividcon website, vids due tomorrow while I'm at work. So... I guess I'm uploading tonight!

I am removing anyone from my LJ friends list that I already follow on Dreamwidth. So if you have friend-removal notifications turned on and you get a notice, don't worry, I still totally heart you.

If you're on Dreamwidth and posting there regularly, please let me know and I will start following you over there. I'm getting a little sick of the LJ downtimes, especially when I want to catch up with my friends' lives.

If you are working on a vid you are really excited about, then put it away for a while to work on another vid with a more pressing deadline, you will return to the original vid, watch what you have, and wonder what on EARTH you thought you were doing.

And maybe feel a little depressed that the vid you remembered working on is barely on the timeline at all.

I just put the final touches on my first draft of my Club Vivid vid and it needs beta-ing. Any takers? 

The fandom is Godzilla, if that helps.

I will pay you in overwhelming gratitude and hugs at Vividcon (if you're going to Vividcon -- virtual hugs are on offer for non-attendees).

When reading through a list of someone's fanworks (or fanvids, in my case), do you prefer that it's organized chronologically, by fandom, or other? 

Also, finally got around to updating my profile.

I had a dream last night that I was convinced, while I was having it, that it would make a fantastic Community spec script. I thought it was totally brilliant. I even had a follow-up dream where I pitched it to Dan Harmon and he thought it was great and told me to write it.

Unfortunately, after I woke up, I couldn't recall most of the funny bits, just the basic premise and some of the key dramatic moments. Sadly, those key dramatic moments hinged on the presence of Community characters that only existed in my dream -- me, Captain America, and franzeska . Although there was one funny exchange with Dean Pelton and Abed that I can still remember and like a lot.

The dream episode centered around a Greendale soccer and/or ice hockey game (it didn't switch back and forth in the dream -- rather, I had the dream once and went back and made a revision and had it again. It played very differently -- when I was forward playing soccer, we lost, but when I wasn't playing ice hockey and Captain America was forward (or whatever) we won, but disaster struck. Jeff Winger was goalie in both versions. Half the episode took place in the bleacher with various interpersonal subplots that I can't actually recall (just that at one point I realized that I'd totally neglected to put Pierce in and Andre was jealous because he thought Shirley was flirting with another man, but really she was just being friendly with a preacher because she was thinking of switching to his church).

Also I have no Community icons. This is sad.

Okay, the fact that I'm using an icon based on the poster of a movie that has a title that translates to "Hell" is not telling. I just really love that movie.

Lotta stuff going on.

-- Classic-Horror.com has been nominated for a Rondo Award for Best Website! If you like horror, you can vote here: http://rondoaward.com/rondo/rondos.html (voting ends April 1st at Midnight EST). For reasons, they only accept copy and pasted email ballots, so it's a bit of a slog to vote.

-- Working on my playlist for the Vividcon horror vidshow. I, uh, didn't realize how much work this would be, but I'm having fun discovering vids that I did not know existed before! If you know of any horror-related vids that you think would be awesome additions, please send them my way. I'm specifically having trouble finding vids made from older (pre-1980) and non-English (Eurohorror/Asian horror) sources. I also want to include at least one television vid that uses the source for creepy/scary purposes and maybe a multifandom vid.

-- On a related note, I am also looking for Premieres for my horror vidshow, because having more horror-related vids in this world cannot be a bad thing. Contact me at nate AT monkeyswithjetpacks.com.

-- I have a lot (a lot) of reviews to edit lately. Just a lot. Many. Need to work on those.

-- Talked with mresundance extensively today. He is made of awesomeness.

-- Finally watched Sherlock 2x01. AWESOME. Need to see the rest, clearly, although Tumblr has spoiled me to some extent.

-- FUS DO RAH!

-- Ugh, need to do more clipping for my Club Vivid vid. Getting sick of the source already and I haven't even laid anything down in Final Cut. This cannot be a good sign.

That moment when you realize the thing you love about all of your favorite movie/TV couples -- the awesome, snarky banter -- is also a key feature of your marriage.

*warm fuzzies*

*warm sarcastic fuzzies*

Just about 15 minutes left to get your last bids in for fandom_helps

Get in those nerve-wracking last bids, folks. You get a fic/vid/podfic/fanart/etc and Planned Parenthood gets your awesome donation. 

Who can I expect to see at Escapade this year?

ETA: Also! There are less than 24 hours left to bid at fandom_helps ! Wait, more exclamation points: !!!!!! There we go. Bid on a creative fandom type for the benefit of Planned Parenthood.

My offer, for those interested.

Guys, I had so much fun at the Gallifrey One convention. A little crowded for my taste, but... wow. So many cool attendees, such great guests, plus some classic Doctor Who episodes I'd never seen. Thanks timjr  for an amazing Christmas/birthday present.

I stood behind Paul McGann at the bar while he ordered a drink. That's how cool my weekend was.

Now I'm gonna go collapse, because it was also an exhausting weekend.

Which means that I have about 366 days to do all those things I always said I'd do in my 20s.

*waits for a second*

Yeah, done already I think. I'm not one for lists. Actually, that's a lie. I'm totally one for lists. I just don't think that far ahead.

Next year this will be a longer post, I think.

Bids are still open over at fandom_helps for a vid from me. All funds go to Planned Parenthood. Have an old movie or a horror film/series that you want a vid of? I can provide. Or bid on any of the illustrious other fandom luminaries offering their services for a good cause. 

Bidding is open on fandom_helps! All sorts of creators gathered together for the good cause that is Planned Parenthood.

Bid here for my vidding!

Apropos of nothing, my birthday is on Wednesday. If you were in the market for a present, there's one that would be giving Planned Parenthood money, my ego a bit of a boost, and my creative energies a focus. Just sayin'. 

Going to Gallifrey One this weekend for the first time! Yay. Bad news is that my car's not really an option (the registration is expired and I still haven't renewed it because I am a terrible human being) and taking the bus back and forth each day is going to be super-extra inconvenient. Is there anybody going who'd be willing to let me crash on their hotel room floor? I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks!

I've put my vidding skills up for auction on fandom_helps. My offer -- mostly old movies and some television. I would love to make you a vid about old horror or classic cinema. Bidding starts February 14th, proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood.

Join me! If you're not a vidder, you can offer fanfic, podfic, fanart, handmade goods, or other stuff! More information at  fandom_helps.

Again, bidding for my vidding (rhymes!) starts February 14th. I will try to post a reminder then.

One of the great things about Reveals is that I finally get to thank the makers of my two AMAZING vids by name. So, thank you thank you thank you to my vidding braintwin sol_se for the gorgeous Martin vid  and azarsuerte for the adorable Eureka vid. You two rock and I will be rewatching both vids incessantly for years to come.

Festivids reveals are today! Now it can be told! I made four Festivids this year. Links to their individual posts below:

Eye of the Tiger (A Knight's Tale for Jaidanwolf)

Home (Jigoku for AbsoluteDestiny)

TiK ToK (Cemetery Man for Third Mouse)

Mean Woman Blues (Once a Thief for fan_eunice)

I loved making all of these vids and I'm really excited about all of them.

Vid Title: Eye of the Tiger
Length: 2:16
Song: Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Source: A Knight's Tale
Warnings: None that I can think of
Made for: Jaidanwolf, Festivids 2011

Summary: A Knight's Tale is both 20 years too late and nearly 700 years too early to be a 1980s sports movie. That doesn't stop it from trying.

Password: ulrich


Notes: Thanks to echan, butterflykiki, lizbetann, and diannelamerc for your beta fu. Thanks to Jaidanwolf for the prompt and the suggestion of We Will Rock You for the song which put me into a sports-movie frame of mind. Thanks to whoever randomly posted Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now to Facebook for helping me narrow that frame of mind until I had a song.

Vid title: TiK ToK
Length: 1:59
Song: Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Fandom: Cemetary Man, aka Dellamorte Dellamore
Warnings: Violence, muzzle flash, gore
Made for: thirdblindmouse , Festivids 2011 (Treat)

Summary: For the caretaker of a small-town cemetery in Italy, the party don't stop... ever.

Password: dellamorte


Notes: Everybody has to do a TiK ToK vid eventually, might as well do it for a film you love. And I do love Cemetery Man, which is why I was so excited to see someone request it and why I was so excited to fill that request. Rupert Everett + zombies + existentialist purgatory = AWESOME.

Many thanks to echan, without whose encouragement I might not have completed this.

Vid Title: Mean Woman Blues
Length: 0:58
Song: Roy Orbison - Mean Woman Blues
Source: Once a Thief (TV)
Warnings: Gunfire with muzzle flash, some strobing lights in the background of one shot.
Made for: fan_eunice, Festivids 2011 (Treat)

Summary: It's "Director" with a capital "D" and "Mac" with a lowercase "s".

Password: director


Notes: fan_eunice  brought me into the world of Once a Thief and I am eternally grateful. I knew she would be requesting it for Festivids, so I kept my ears open for a song. It found me in an album of Roy Orbison's greatest hits. I heard this song and said to myself, "Yeah, that's the Director. That's the song!" I've done very few shippy vids, so there were some new muscles to test out in that regard. I also tried very hard to make this vid like fan_eunice  might have made it had she made it for herself -- I'm not sure how successful I was in that regard.

Much love to my betas, echan, diannelamerc, and lizbetann for encouragement and notes.

Vid Title: Home
Length: 2:26
Song: Miles Fisher - This Must Be the Place
Source: Jigoku (1960)
Summary: "Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there."
Warnings: Gore, body trauma, some stuttery cuts, trippy imagery.
Made for: absolutedestiny , Festivids 2011 (Treat).

Password:  tamura


Notes: This vid was as much a gift from absolutedestiny  as it was a gift for him. I'd long wanted to do a vid for Jigoku set to this song and I even had some of it laid down in Final Cut, but I knew it would be very difficult and I wasn't sure there would be an audience for it, so I put it aside. Then absolutedestiny  posted his Dear Festividder letter. At that point, I was damn near convinced that I was going to get assigned him, given that I'd offered so many of the fandoms he requested, so I started in on the Jigoku vid again.

I ended up getting assigned someone else (as you do), but I still did the Jigoku vid as a treat because it might be the only time I ever had to make it and because I was so damned delighted that there was someone else out there who even knew the film existed. The vid... well, it morphed into a different vid than I had originally set out to make. Partially because I was trying to match some of the request, but also because I was a different vidder than I was back when I started contemplating this vid. Honestly, I think it's better for it.

I first ran into Jigoku in 2007 when I bought it on DVD on a whim, completely unaware of what it was. I watched it and my mind was blown. Sure, it was the first film with concentrated amounts of gore in it, but that was beside the point. It was also a fascinating, trippy descent into Hell with more layers than parfait. It took me a year to properly review it on Classic-Horror.com and that review remains my longest to date.

I kind of love trippy films about damnation. Just get me going on Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil sometime.

Is there a point to this? Yes. You really need to go see Jigoku. It's on DVD from the Criterion Collection and it's awesome, if not for the squeamish.

Also, thanks to my betas, echan , diannelamerc , and  lizbetann for encouragement and notes. And thanks so, so much to absolutedestiny, without whom this vid would never have been completed.

I just ran my first Dungeons & Dragons encounter as DM. It was awesome. My players had characters and perspectives and did interesting things... I dig it.

You know, I try my hardest to attribute quotes and information, but I've gained an all-new appreciation for it since I started finding people pulling quotes from Classic-Horror.com without providing their source.

This post inspired by an awesome Wil Wheaton quote that popped up on my Tumblr feed that seemed really familiar. And then I remembered that I'd heard it with my own two ears when interviewing him years ago. 

 If it weren't for Festivids, my life would be total crap right now. Work stuff. Just, argh. Every time things seem to be getting better, something else goes completely wrong.

So, thank you Festividders. Thank you all!

I had to limit myself to 25 or I'd rec everything. Even then, I cheated a little. If there were two vids that worked nicely in tandem in the same fandom, I counted them as one. So slightly more than 25! Vids marked *sniffle* made me choke up or cry.

Edit: Now with attribution.

Long Night's Journey into Day (28 Days Later by bironic)
a message for you (Big Fish by kaydeefalls) *sniffle*
Inside Out (Can’t Hardly Wait by Greensilver)
Little Bad Girl (Cry-Baby by boom_queen)
Sexy Back (Die Hard series by Talumin)
Awake My Soul (Doctor Who - 1963-1989 by such heights) *sniffle*
Doomsday (by AbsoluteDestiny) and 4th of July (by bironic) (Independence Day) *sniffle* for the second one
Children’s Work (Life by LithiumDoll)
Find Your Way (Love Me If You Dare by Kitty) *sniffle*
Outside the Box (by Shati) and Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag (by AbsoluteDestiny) (Maru the Cat)
Rockabilly Kenpoh (MASH by cosmic-llin)
Walking on Sunshine (Miranda by Charmax)
Bloom in Adversity (Mulan by Dogstar) *sniffle*
Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me (Mythbusters by fan_eunice)
Better Smeg Than Dead (Red Dwarf by Little Heaven)
Blow (Revenge by elipie)
I Can't Hold Back (by Franzeksa) and Livin' On A Prayer (by AbsoluteDestiny) (Rocky series)
Tom Cruise Crazy (Singin' in the Rain by Third Mouse)
Lotus Flower (Solaris - 1972 by obsessive24)
Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full of Promise (Stand By Me by fan_eunice) *sniffle*
Jailbreak (Star Wars Original Trilogy by AbsoluteDestiny)
Shine (Thelma & Louise by fan_eunice)
Sabotage (The Unusuals by condnsdmlk)
OMG (Warehouse 13 by shinealightonme)
Firework (Whip It by Dogstar) *sniffle*

As always, I can't rec the vids I received enough: Devils Haircut (Martin) and (Fargo) for the First Time (Eureka).

I'm still taking guesses on which vids I made here (or here for LJ). Deadline is next Friday. Next Saturday, Reveals happen and any guesses at that point are pretty much cheating.

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.

About two years ago, nearly three now, I made an epic vid nearly 7 minutes long covering the history of horror. I think I showed it to, like, five people, but never released it. At the time, I had some pretty high-minded ideas of what I wanted to do with my vidding and what I made didn't live up to those expectations. I eventually decided to switch songs and approaches, but I never really tackled either of those. 

I ran across the vid in a folder today, randomly, and watched it. And it... really kind of works. It could stand to be tighter and better focused, but it does some things I've not really managed in other vids and it flows pretty well. 

So I'll probably be releasing it in the next few months, to coincide with something I can't talk about just yet that's related to my website. I need to clean it up a bit -- there's interlacing out the wazoo and a few clips have weird watermarks on them, so I need to find better source. I only hope I had the foresight not to delete my Final Cut files.

So look for that in the coming months.

Also, thanks to bradcpu who told me *all* of this almost exactly two years ago and I didn't listen to him.

Edit: I managed to locate the Final Cut project and it's completely intact, clips and all. WIN! I was worried I was going to have to reconstruct some of this.

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*.

 

Yes, I should be working on my Festivid. Shush.

This year's vids:

1. Invincible - Tank Girl (with echan )  [available only on the Apocalypse West 2011 DVD]
   
2. Invincible - James Bond [Vividcon 2011]
   
3. The Gremlin Show - Gremlins [Vividcon 2011]
   
4. A Sophisticated Song - Classic Hollywood (Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn) [Vividcon 2011]

Wow, I only made four? What is that? *checks vidding history* Oh, I guess that's about average for years that aren't 2008.

( Meme answers behind the cut )

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.