I just found this today and since I couldn't make it to Gallifrey One this year, I thought I'd post it. I adore Lindalee and her Doctor Who videos! If you can contain your SQUEE long enough to click "Play," enjoy!
(I would love to meet this little lady - she's going to go far in life!)
Just thought I'd post some random favorite songs for my birthday.
This one's not music, but I'm going to see Star Trek: Into Darkness tonight and ItsJustSomeRandomGuy is always appropriate - for birthdays or otherwise.
And, of course, no birthday playlist would be complete without this tomfoolery -
(I torture other people with that last one year round - it's only fair that I get similar treatment ^_^)
Remember a week or so ago when I wrote up my Librarian in the TARDIS review of "The Rocket Men?" And how a substantial portion of that review was fangirling over and shipping Barbara and Ian? Well, one of the Facebook pages I follow later obliged with this little gem and the serendipity was too wonderful and I had to post it here. I've been grinning like a complete idiot ever since.
As is tradition, I'm decorating with the usual fare of patriotic music and videos. Do enjoy.
First - to get us all in a parade-day mood, here is "Seventy-Six Trombones" from the finale of the 1962 version of "The Music Man" (link to the vocal version - it wouldn't let me embed)
I went searching for "Stars and Stripes Forever" and wound up with - of all things - the Muppets doing their own version. And I thought - why the heck not?
(Here's the instrumental version)
Next, a staple of elementary school programs and one of my personal favorites - "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood
And what 4th of July would be complete with what started it all - the Declaration of Independence (from the HBO miniseries "John Adams")
Just to round things off - a mash-up of "The Patriot" and "John Adams" with the epic score to go with it -
Happy Independence Day, everyone!! (and a BIG happy birthday to my niece, Jaylee, who turns 1 on the 4th)
My MLS Capstone is tomorrow. Two years of the hard slog in grad school comes down to this - putting together a 10 minute presentation showcasing what I learned in those two years and praying that I learned the right things (as far as my professors are concerned, at least). So, in honor of the occasion, I have a couple of theme tunes floating around in my head. The joy of having a blog is that I get to annoy share them with you all.
1. Theme from "Rocky"
2. "My Way" by Frank Sinatra
Dear Sweet Gallifrey, this whole thing is making me loopy.
I'm going to be traveling the next couple of days, so I wanted to get this up before I left - in celebration of the 4th of July, a video of two of my favorite movies about the American Revolution (okay, one's actually an HBO miniseries, but it's awesome and I don't care) -
I love the score for "John Adams," by the way.
Also from "John Adams" - Congress approving the Declaration of Independence and reading it out for the world in epic fashion -
What's this? A non-Doctor Who post? From me? *runs outside to make sure the universe is still intact*
'kay, so I've been posting about Doctor Who a lot lately and that's not about to change much (I don't have any major plans in the works for the summer break other than the odd review of a Classic Who story here and there, but things may develop within fandom or elsewhere that I'll want to address. We'll see). HOWEVER - I've been following along with Mark Watches "Avatar: The Last Airbender," which is something I've meant to see for a long time and I just never had the time (previous to this, I had seen the very beginning and the very end - but nothing in the middle). And I have been enjoying myself immensely with it. One of the comment threads at Mark Watches had this video posted and it was cute and I found myself giggling, so I will now share it with my loyal readership:
Oh, Sokka - your cuteness is only rivaled by tiny!Zuko XD
With all the talk of the Rapture and the end of the world being tomorrow (at least, people on Twitter can't stop talking/joking about it), I thought I'd pull this little piece out for laughs.
If "The Dark Knight" is still showing in a theater somewhere, maybe we ought to be worried?
It's been a while since I've made any videos to post (I have a few ideas still - just have to decide which ones are worth pursuing and how many hours of sleep I can afford to lose to pursue them), but I've revisited my "Save the Day" tribute to the Tenth Doctor. There were a few things I didn't like about the first version when I initially uploaded it, but now I've gone back and tweaked those few things and I like it much more. Enjoy!
Spoiler Warning - for all of David Tennant's era of "Doctor Who."
This is what fanvids are all about - taking two (or more) very different things and mixing them together in a way that just works. Here we've got Doctor Who put to "Movin' Right Along" from The Muppet Movie and it is brilliant! (seriously - how can you go wrong with the Muppets?) Definitely one of the best multi-Doctor videos I've see.
I don't have a whole lot of time to post over Christmas, but I've located some fun Christmas videos, including some with songs from my favorite Christmas movie of all time - "A Muppet Christmas Carol" And the music is great too) Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas!
Dear World: Michael Caine as Scrooge = AWESOME! Thank you for your time.
And if I didn't include this song, it wouldn't be Christmas:
Oh, and this is one I made as my gift to the internet:
Just to "dress up" my blog for Christmas (and because I like putting off-topic videos on my posts), here are Matt, Karen and Arthur with a fun little Christmas performance just for you all ^_^
Ever since Thursday Night Football started, my pick schedule's been all messed up. So, I'm just going to skip that game and make picks for the rest of the week (but some quick commentary - I thought that the Niners would at least make an effort against the Chargers. Good grief...)
New Orleans @ Baltimore - Saints
Arizona @ Carolina - Arizona (not because I like them, but because anyone who picks Carolina to win anything this year is an idiot)
Cleveland @ Cincinnati - Cleveland
Washington @ Dallas - I really don't know about this... I mean, McNabb's not exactly the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Rex Grossman is... well, Rex Grossman. Well... I guess I'll go with Washington anyway (stranger things have happened)
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis - Okay, I'm crossing my little fangirl fingers here... a win can only help Indy, so please, please, please, PLEASE football gods let the Colts win!
Buffalo @ Miami - Miami
Philadelphia @ NY Giants - Giants (please???)
Kansas City @ St. Louis - Kansas City
Detroit @ Tampa Bay - Tampa Bay
Houston @ Tennessee - murgh... oh fine - Houston
Atlanta @ Seattle - Atlanta
Denver @ Oakland - I want to say Oakland, but I think Denver is going to be all about paying back for that 59-14 loss back in October... but then I see that Oakland actually has a better record than Denver... but then I remember that it's not about records at all... but then I remember I have a nickel in my pocket and I can flip for my pick! *flips coin* Tails - Oakland
NY Jets @ Pittsburgh - If anything, this past year has proven that the Jets are the new Cincinnati Divalicious weirdo team and it's coming back to bite them in the butt *cackles evilly* Pittsburgh
Green Bay @ New England - Dear heaven above - PACKERS!
I really have nothing to say about this - I just think it's unreal and deserves to be shared far and wide.
It's like The Greater Cosmos(tm) saying: "Just when you thought the NFL season couldn't get any weirder - here's a stadium roof collapsing! And make sure you catch it on camera!"
(Just for the record - it was nice and sunny out here in Utah. I didn't even need my coat today. Neener, neener).
The weirdest thing is last night I had a dream I was on the Titanic while it was sinking (it's a dream - just go with me, here) and it was making that same noise (I also remember floating underwater and thinking that James Cameron's CGI work was a bunch of crap. Oh, how I love my subconscious).
This video's been sitting on my hard drive half-finished for about a month now. It took a three-day weekend with nothing pressing to deal with to get me to sit down and finish it. It took me a while to get it just right, but I finished it last night and it's here for all to enjoy!
Obligatory disclaimers: Spoilers for "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances." I don't own "Doctor Who" nor am I affiliated with OneRepublic. Read the whole summary at the YouTube page.
I seriously love my MLS Cohort peeps! One of them sent out this video and I have watched it three times since coming home from church and just laughed and laughed. I think librarians have an affinity for quirkiness, which makes me feel like I'm in the right profession.
("Doctor Who" reference at the beginning is love! I seriously want that quote on a t-shirt)
Silly me - I keep forgetting I have two blogs (one for attempting to be an anonymous fangirl weirdo - LiveJournal - and one for family and friends to look up and seeing really what kind of a fangirl weirdo I really am - which is this one. You're welcome).
I posted on my LiveJournal, saying something along the lines of having been inducted into the vast world of geekdom by making and posting a "Doctor Who" music video on YouTube. Then, seeing as how I can't live without my iPod for any stretch of time, I got yet another idea for a video and made that one. While I promoted my creations on LiveJournal and Facebook, I neglected to say anything here. So - that's what this post is for.
***SPOILER WARNING*** This post contains spoilers for "Doctor Who" up through series 4, but before the 2009 specials. If that's an issue for you, then I suggest you go find those episodes and watch them and not read this post.
Video #1 - "Ordinary"
This video is a result of watching the series 3 two-parter "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood." When I very first saw this story, I hated it. Not because it was badly written or anything technical like that - it's actually quite brilliant. But I HATED seeing the Doctor be this total and completely helpless character. It was doubly tough to watch the montage that showed what his life could be if he stayed as John Smith and married Nurse Joan, had their happy little family and grew old and died. And maybe that desire is a part of his subconscious, but you can't ignore the fact that the Doctor is not human, nor will he ever be truly human (even the human John Smith didn't have a proper memory of his childhood - it was all just facts and figures of the place he'd purported to have grown up). The Doctor is never going to have an ordinary human life because he just isn't ordinary - and that's what makes him the Doctor. People are always going to need the Doctor and, quite frankly, the Doctor is always going to need to be the Doctor (wow - that was deep).
Just as an aside, I grew to love this story and it's become one of my favorites. I think that's why I love this series so much - there are fictional stories that I read/watch that are just "meh..." but "Doctor Who" is really an emotional ride for me. I find myself so fully invested in the story and the characters that I just can't put it down (I bawled my eyes out over the end of series 2). When something keeps me up until all hours of the night because I have to just get through one more chapter/episode, that's when I know it's something amazing. The same thing happened with me and "Harry Potter" (what it is with stories from Britain that just sucks me in? Maybe I'll know someday).
Video #2 - "Take Me Back in Time"
Initially, I suspected that putting this song with "Doctor Who" was probably not the most original idea in the Whoniverse, so I decided to throw my own little twist into it and take the idea of "Back in Time" literally. I would only use clips from episodes where the action took place in the past. When I was coming up with ideas to go along with the lyrics, I hadn't seen Series 5 (with Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor), and I wanted things to be a little more lighthearted, so I stuck with the Tenth Doctor for this project (David Tennant remains my favorite Doctor, which I don't know if that's really saying anything since I haven't seen any Classic Who yet).
The biggest challenge for this video was finding clips that matched the lyrics. I didn't want this to be all "Oh, just cobble together a string of clips and set it to music - perfect!" I've seen good and bad fan videos and, while I'm not a professional video-maker by any stretch of the imagination, I do strive for quality. And depend on a little bit of luck, as it turns out. Sometimes I'd throw a clip on there just to see what it would look like next to another one and the music would hit a certain beat right as something happened in the clip that no amount of planning on my part could have produced.
The ending stretch was a pain because A) I was getting bored of just putting clips up and wanted to be done and B) the music fades at the end and I was finding it difficult to find something that matched the lesser intensity. In the end, I figured that a scene with the Doctor and his companion going back to the TARDIS would work since the opening featured scenes where they came out into certain time periods. And the end of "The Shakespeare Code" with the Doctor and Martha running away from the Royal Guard worked out perfectly - complete with an arrow in the door of the TARDIS. I also hadn't planned on including the "Back to the Future" speech, but that was a long stretch of instrumental without anything to break it up a bit.
I have ideas for future videos (including one to a Barenaked Ladies song - won't say which one so I can surprise people), so watch this space for further updates! Or friend me on YouTube. I figure I have the account - might as well use it.
