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Kim ([personal profile] grammarwoman) wrote2013-10-14 01:37 pm

Dear Festividder!

Dear Festividder,

If you matched on one or more of my requests, I think we would be fantastic friends, because you clearly have amazing taste and a generosity of spirit. :) Thank you so much for indulging me by making a vid.

It was so hard this year to pare down my list, but I guarantee that you will make me squeefully happy with any of these fandoms. You may have noticed it's kind of heavy on the nostalgia; I am what I am, that being a child of the 80s who spent way too much watching movies on cable and the cheesiest of sci-fi/fantasy.

When it comes to music to go along with these requests, I am wide open. Anything from opera to Broadway musical soundtracks to bluegrass to techno to industrial to whatever song your delightful brain hits upon, I will love. Feel free to ignore any suggestions I may make below if you find something that better tickles your fancy.

Vidding-wise, things that I love include character movement to the beat, literal (or liberal) interpretation of the lyrics, people with expressive faces, awesome women doing awesome things, characters who take and express joy in being around each other, and people who are phenomenally good at what they do, whatever that might be.

If you want a further feel for what floats my vidding boat, have a look at some of my vids here.

I can't wait to see whatever you make, vidder! It's going to be an utter delight.

Here's my sign-up info. (Please forgive me for recycling some past descriptions.)


American Gothic

The disturbing and unsettling tone of this show still stays with me, almost two decades later. I'd love a vid that encapsulates the tension and dread of "Someone's at the door." Sure, the show didn't always make sense, but it left me with the shivers. And the visuals! So ominously gorgeous! The actors, so pretty! (And a ton of "Hey, it's that guy/gal!") Ah, show. This one goes on the list of series killed by my TV curse - shows that I really enjoyed that got axed in two seasons or less, usually much less.

I would be thrilled with music that brings the creepy, from nursery rhymes to instrumental to gothic (heh) choirs.


Animaniacs Pinky & The Brain

This is a source that I associate with happy times, gathering with my friends in college to catch the show and laughing our asses off, seeing who could do the best impressions or quote the most. I adore the Brain's complicated schemes and Pinky's enthusiasm, and their friendship that endures. Anything would be a welcome gift.

Trust me, any kind of music would do. You could even just string together their dialogue and I will love it.


Anne of Green Gables series

Did you ever have a series of books that you loved and read over and over? Did you ever want to see that world and be a part of it? Did you then have the utter delight of having your series turned into an amazing movie that you couldn't have casted any better? For me, that was "Anne of Green Gables" and its sequels. I adored Megan Follows and her brilliant portrayal of Anne, and all the rest of the characters around her. My fangirl heart nearly exploded with the courtship between Anne and Gilbert. I yearned to have a bosom friend like Diana and live in such a gorgeous environment as Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Give me any of that, or anything else that strikes your fancy, and I will swoon.

I wish I could give you some guidance for music, but all I can think of is something that sets a happy and uplifting mood.


Eureka

I miss this show! It started out as a goofy entertainment, and worked its way up to AMAZING CRAPBALLS OF JOY. Women were allowed to be awesome villains and heroes, men were allowed to fail and succeed, and geeks all over the place Got Some. Every single account of the behind-the-scenes of this show led me to believe that it was one of the best places to work. If I had millions to throw at a show (and bringing back Farscape was impossible), I would sponsor this to go on forever.

If you could give me something about the hijinks, good and bad, of living in a town of geniuses with no limits, I would be incandescently happy.

I've always had a hankering for a Eureka vid set to the Jams song "A Town Called Malice". You'd be saving me so much effort! ;) But if that doesn't suit your vision, go for what does.


Footloose

No lie, I was obsessed with this movie and watched it over 40 times back in the 80s. It struck some chord deep in my tweenish soul, with the dancing, and the Kevin Bacon, and the sassy preacher's daughter, and strict parents who made mine look good by comparison, and conserative book-burning assholes getting their rightful comeuppance (I never knew people actual banned or *GASP* burned books before this, bless my sheltered little heart). So go ahead with an over-the-top angstfest, or dance routines all in row. Just please, for the sake of that hormonal girl glued to the TV set, don't make fun of it, or if you do, be kind.

A vid for this would seem to cry out for some 80s pop masterpiece, but I am completely open to other interpretations.


Heathers

Just as my "Footloose" feels were dying down, along came "Heathers" in all its sarcastic and over-the-top glory. I had a mad crush on Christian Slater and this movie. It felt real in its devastating portrayal of high school, even as it reveled in its outrageousness. The vivid, color-saturated outfits; the snark; the teenage lust (oh, the strip croquet scene!); the black humor: I don't know that any teen movie ever captured for me the same feelings. Condensing that in a vid would be righteous.

It came from the 80s! At least the movie did - if you could find music from that decade to match, that would suit me just fine.


The Pirate Movie

My parents love musicals. They thought nothing of blasting "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in the background as I was growing up. This may explain my weakness for bawdy, cheesy, love-will-save-the-day stories set to a musical background. Make no mistake: this parody/homage of "The Pirates of Penzance" was BAD. But it knew that, and embraced that with as much campy vigor as the Pirate King chasing nubile virgins. I haven't seen it in a while, so it's probably aged really badly, but my memories of it are a happy place.

Can you condense the essence of this merry romp into a vid? Please try, because I would love you for it. The music is completely up to you.


Wolf Lake

Along with a fondness for musicals, dancing, and 80s teen movies, I have another weakness: cheesy supernatural TV, lite on the horror. I am so easy for it, I should have shame, especially because I adamantly will not watch actual horror movies. Maybe it's because horror movies seem to be about the scare and the gross-out (and nowadays the torture porn), and less about feelings and romance and characters with ongoing problems and secrets.

So yes, this was one of the cheesiest of the cheesy werewolf shows. Everyone was so pretty and earnest. Teen Wolf is totally the bastard child of this short-lived series: werewolf politics, human-werewolf love stories, betrayal and intrigue...Oh, show. It's completely ridiculous, and so am I for requesting it. Challenge accepted, vidder?

I can't even begin to offer a suggestion for music. The show is about werewolves. Run with it. (Heh.)


Thank you again, dear vidder, for fulfilling any of these wishes. To those about to create, I salute you!

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