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The DC-Slash Con 2022 vid show, held last night (July 30, 2022), was truly a well-assembled collection of high-quality vids: kudos for Aaron for the terrific selection! SO many great vids, including several that made me want to start watching the show they were based on right now.

I had some favorites I'd like to mention--I'll write up something more comprehensive later, but I want to get some first impressions down now.

N.B. AARGH, I am going through the list and in order to keep this post reasonably doable tonight, I am skipping SO MANY EXCELLENT vids!!! These are not necessarily the best--they're the ones that made a big impression on me.

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And there were many more wonderful vids that I hope to cover in a longer report someday soon!!!

I watched Starsky & Hutch casually in the 1970's, but I never got bitten by the fannish bug for it. Still, since I know the main characters and a few of the plotlines, I generally enjoy S&H fanvids--and wow, this year's SHareCon, which ran from October 15-17, 2021, had some great ones!

There were actually three vid shows: the premiering vids, the dance party, and the historical vids. I took notes on the Premiering Vid Show, which was very impressive. And fun to watch!

A couple of notes: A. The vids were pretty much all slash, and B. There are probably subtleties in these vids that I didn't catch, and if anyone wants to share their knowledge to clarify things I missed or misinterpreted--I would love to have learningz!!!

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Here's a link to watch all the vids online - you can watch them all in a row, or click on individual vids to watch them separately: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8017846

The short version: I thoroughly enjoyed this vid show! I can't give the vidders the feedback they deserve on all of the vids, since I didn't know all the fandoms. But I was tickled that I did recognize more of the fandoms than usual, and the vids were great!

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I beta'd a vid for a friend of mine, who very kindly made it a gift to me on AO3. The vid is based on a video game, Red Dead Redeemed 2, but I found that I didn't have to have played the game to enjoy the vid. It's set to a melancholy, thought-provoking folk song, with a backbeat that fits well with the cowboy flavor of the game, and I absolutely love how the clips flow to the music. My favorite verse is the one beginning, "Miller take me, miller grind me, scatter my bones on the wild green tide," but they're all well-done. Take a look!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23562055

Story title: On the Ice
Author: Amedia
Rating: R
Characters: Fraser, Kowalski
Ships: Fraser/Kowalski
Summary: Canada is cold. RayK is crabby. Benton sings.
Word Count: 907
Author's note: Prompt fill for

ride_4ever, who requested the fandom due South, pairing Fraser/Kowalski, with the prompts: aurora borealis, ice-road trucker, pemmican.
Fangirl squee note:This is my first original due South fic! I did a remix once of a Tin Man/due South story.
Notes on the music mentioned in the fic: The Stan Rogers song that Fraser begins with is "White Squall". I quite like Stan Rogers, but I find it depressing to listen to too many of his songs in a row."Joy of my Heart" is not by Stan Rogers, but his brother Garnet Rogers recorded a lovely version of it along with Archie Fisher.

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Nineteen vids! A wealth of enjoyment! ( Read more... )

I took notes during this year's vid contest so I could write up a report. ( Here it is, while it's fresh in my mind! )

I know I've seen this before (many years ago), but we watched it tonight, and I have comments! ( Read more... )

We've been recording Almost Human for a while and just got around to watching it. Just saw the third episode, the one with the hostage crisis. THERE'S A SHOUTOUT TO ELTON JOHN THAT MADE ME SQUEE UNCONTROLLABLY!!!!! *dances happily and throws confetti madly*

So we're watching Mohabbatein, which was recommended to us, and also stars a couple of our favorite actors--TODS is an admirer of Amitabh Bachchan, and we both like Sharukh Khan. ( weird trivia tidbit--no spoilers! )

There were only sixteen songvids at REVELcon this year, but there were a lot of really good ones!
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So, I have to thank

eldritchhobbit for suggesting Person of Interest - we've been watching it from the beginning and thoroughly enjoy it. TODS says that Finch is his favorite character on TV these days, and I can certainly see why.

( Various thinkings: ficlet rec, inanppropriate songvid idea, omg fanservice )

I was a bit concerned when we got The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother in the mail from Netflix last December. I loved it to itty bitty pieces when it came out, at which point I was 13 or 14 years old. At the same time, I also adored a short-lived television series entitled Fantastic Journey, which died a sadly-deserved death after just a few episodes. I watched it again as an adult (back when SciFi was doing reruns of short-run shows) and was horrified by how really really, atrociously bad it was. I was afraid the same would be the case of my beloved movie.

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There was an exciting news story a little while ago about the finding of the HMS Investigator, the ship that was sent out in the mid-1850's to try to find what became of Franklin, who was looking for the Northwest Passage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/28/hms-investigator-ship-los_n_662813.html

In honor of this event, a song!

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Free from Jaman.

Blame it on Fidel: Meh.
Love Songs: The French title (Paroles et Musique, Words and Music) was better; the Jaman description made it sound like it was chiefly about the affair between the characters played by Catherine Deneuve and Christopher Lambert, but that was only part of it; it was really about two rock performers (one who writes words, one who writes music) and their various relationships with others and each other. It was Canadian; the French bits were subtitled in English and vice-versa. Not bad.

Holy crap! *points to subject line*

TODS is napping to the friendly noise of some game or other while I dink around on the computer, and I suddenly heard this familiar melody and began picturing the battered old formerly-yellow brick road, with "scene selection" and "setup" floating under it.

I don't mean that ESPN was playing it - like how you sometimes hear the Brisco County theme as a sporting event theme song - rather, it was being played by one of the college bands in the background as one of their random music-during-the-game moments. They've since switched back to the Imperial March (Darth Vader's theme) from Star Wars.

This week's free song from iTunes can be found here - the link automatically takes you to the iTunes store if you already have iTunes and you can download the song for free.

I meant to post it earlier - new songs come out on Tuesday and the link is only good for a week. It still seems to be working today, though.

The song isn't about the miniseries, but it does use some Oz imagery and it's pretty.