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1) As I haven't said this anywhere outside of comments and IMs yet: Although nothing can be promised, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iulia and I firmly intend to propose and volunteer to VJ a Lord King Bad Vid show for VividCon 2011. We can't make it happen without new and new-ish vids, so if you are a vidder reading this consider this your notice that any LKBVs you choose to make in the next ten months could well find a home there! Hypothetically! Maybe!
And if the vid show thing doesn't work out, well. Who doesn't want to see more Lord King Bad Vids? There are whole fandoms that missed out on the last round due to not really existing yet. I feel like Merlin, for example, just cries out for Lord King Bad Vidding.
2) When you are feeling physically wretched for an assortment of not-very-good reasons, there is nothing like seven episodes of Mythbusters in twenty-four hours to make you feel better. Although the sleep, drugs, and pizza probably helped.
3) So last summer, maybe you remember this, I got kind of hooked on the Varg Veum movies, which are from Norway. So, also sometime last summer, I think, I became a fan of Varg Veum on Facebook. It's really entertaining to see occasional posts on my Facebook newsfeed entirely in Norsk. I'm pretty sure that the first of the six new movies is premiering, possibly at some sort of film festival, on Thursday the 26th, and from the set photos posted a week or two ago, I'd guess they're hard at work making more movies.
Now I just have to wait for the movie(s) to make it to DVD, get subtitled in English, and cross the Atlantic. No sweat. In the meantime, I should chase down another of the novels in translation....
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5) Speaking of Amy Pond and my undying love for her, Neil Gaiman shares a scene cut from the episode he wrote, which is about to go to table-reading.
This year I may be looking forward to the Amy and Her Boys Christmas Special (which, to be clear, is not the episode mentioned above, but still, AMY AND HER BOYS) more than Yuletide.
6) Also speaking of Amy Pond, I was following David Hewlett for a while on Twitter (because Joe Flanigan got on Twitter and I was following him and it seemed obvious) but then I had to un-follow him for his egregious failure to appreciate Amy Pond. :(
The Flan continues to be pretty entertaining, though.
7) I should write something. Speaking of Amy Pond...
The red-haired girl was easily as tall as Cordelia but a generation younger; she came to an instant, wide-eyed halt when she saw Aral and the men flanking him, and Aral watched as her eyes darted around, no doubt taking in the rest of his inner perimeter and the street which was empty but for his own vehicle.
Aral limited his own gaze to a quick survey. She was dressed Betan-style, for hot weather and loose standards, in a shirt that covered her arms to the wrist but a skirt that left her legs bare halfway up her thigh. Her hair fell down around her shoulders in soft waves
She stood framed in the doorway of the blue box like a deer poised for flight. In an accent Aral could have sworn was straight out of the hillcountry, her voice high and strained, she called out, "Doctor!"
A man stuck his head out of the door just behind her. He had long untidy hair, mousy brown, and his eyes swept smoothly over the scene outside the box.
"Would you look at that," he said, seeming entirely unsurprised. "Pond, you've stopped traffic."
iulia and I firmly intend to propose and volunteer to VJ a Lord King Bad Vid show for VividCon 2011. We can't make it happen without new and new-ish vids, so if you are a vidder reading this consider this your notice that any LKBVs you choose to make in the next ten months could well find a home there! Hypothetically! Maybe!And if the vid show thing doesn't work out, well. Who doesn't want to see more Lord King Bad Vids? There are whole fandoms that missed out on the last round due to not really existing yet. I feel like Merlin, for example, just cries out for Lord King Bad Vidding.
2) When you are feeling physically wretched for an assortment of not-very-good reasons, there is nothing like seven episodes of Mythbusters in twenty-four hours to make you feel better. Although the sleep, drugs, and pizza probably helped.
3) So last summer, maybe you remember this, I got kind of hooked on the Varg Veum movies, which are from Norway. So, also sometime last summer, I think, I became a fan of Varg Veum on Facebook. It's really entertaining to see occasional posts on my Facebook newsfeed entirely in Norsk. I'm pretty sure that the first of the six new movies is premiering, possibly at some sort of film festival, on Thursday the 26th, and from the set photos posted a week or two ago, I'd guess they're hard at work making more movies.
Now I just have to wait for the movie(s) to make it to DVD, get subtitled in English, and cross the Atlantic. No sweat. In the meantime, I should chase down another of the novels in translation....
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skybound2Open to all fandoms and ships-or-absences-thereof! Signups now, posting October 1-7.
5) Speaking of Amy Pond and my undying love for her, Neil Gaiman shares a scene cut from the episode he wrote, which is about to go to table-reading.
This year I may be looking forward to the Amy and Her Boys Christmas Special (which, to be clear, is not the episode mentioned above, but still, AMY AND HER BOYS) more than Yuletide.
6) Also speaking of Amy Pond, I was following David Hewlett for a while on Twitter (because Joe Flanigan got on Twitter and I was following him and it seemed obvious) but then I had to un-follow him for his egregious failure to appreciate Amy Pond. :(
The Flan continues to be pretty entertaining, though.
7) I should write something. Speaking of Amy Pond...
The red-haired girl was easily as tall as Cordelia but a generation younger; she came to an instant, wide-eyed halt when she saw Aral and the men flanking him, and Aral watched as her eyes darted around, no doubt taking in the rest of his inner perimeter and the street which was empty but for his own vehicle.
Aral limited his own gaze to a quick survey. She was dressed Betan-style, for hot weather and loose standards, in a shirt that covered her arms to the wrist but a skirt that left her legs bare halfway up her thigh. Her hair fell down around her shoulders in soft waves
She stood framed in the doorway of the blue box like a deer poised for flight. In an accent Aral could have sworn was straight out of the hillcountry, her voice high and strained, she called out, "Doctor!"
A man stuck his head out of the door just behind her. He had long untidy hair, mousy brown, and his eyes swept smoothly over the scene outside the box.
"Would you look at that," he said, seeming entirely unsurprised. "Pond, you've stopped traffic."
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"Would you look at that," he said, seeming entirely unsurprised. "Pond, you've stopped traffic."
::hearts::
That's just darling! And YAY Vorkosiverse crossover!
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Um. I still have that Varg Veum book from the library. I still haven't scanned it. My supposed down time never appeared.
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Posted online would be fine for the show--if it happens it'll be just like any other themed vidshow at VVC, so previously-released vids from wherever will be fine. The main issue with LKBV unlike any other theme is that it's really for the most part not one that the VJ can assign to a vid without the vidder applying that label, you know? So we kind of have to have purpose-made vids for that genre.
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Oh, delightful!
I like the look of that ficathon, too - thank you for bringing it to my attention!
(dropping by via network)
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I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW :)
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(And Amy and the Doctor remember him just this way, and what can be remembered can be brought back. Ahem.)
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Since Tuesday I have watched/re-watched all of seasons 8, 1, and 2.
*hands*
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that is all.
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Soon, soon I am going to have to write the bit where Aral explains to Cordelia that he's sending her some off-world guests...
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
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Check out the site for a delicious trailer. And what I noticed today: the little tabs across the top list the next six films titles, and the month/year of their release...which it looks like means ALL of them are going to theater first, so we'll have to wait FOREVER for DVDs. At this rate I might as well move there to watch them in a timely fashion. (I was just fantasizing about attending a premiere in Oslo or at the Amandas and shrieking Trond's name while holding a photo for him to sign. XD)
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I do love that the trailer has subtitles ... in Norwegian. That's excessively helpful. *g*
If they're all getting theatrical releases maybe each one will get its own separate DVD release? That would speed things up a bit. Alternately, time to stow away on a transatlantic freighter...
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Notice it's only for certain people. I saw that in the Seks Som Oss disks, and it was for a Swede. Apparently that guy is harder to understand than the others. :D
Yeah sure, each having their own DVD would mean a series of releases, but I think the first set was all released immediately after the first film went into theaters. Six at once is better than one at a time slowly, y'know?
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But either way, I recognized one of the movie titles from the books, so I think they're following something. It was I Mørket er Alle Ulver Grå, which translates to In Darkness All Wolves Are Gray. The films have taken liberties with the novel names, too, like Begravde Hunder—that should be Begravde Hunder Biter Ikke.
/nerd :D
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(I had to sit and flail for a minute before I could even type that. This is DELIGHTFUL and the tone is perfect and oh my GOD.)
Also I concur entirely with your opinions on David Hewlett and his wrong opinions. *raspberries to him*
... no but seriously oh my goddddddd. AMY. ARAL. THE DOCTOR. ♥ ♥ ♥
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I have PLANS for Amy and Aral and the Doctor, just as soon as I figure out all the POVs I need. THERE IS ALMOST A PLOT.
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...not gonna lie, I kept flashing back to the comment you made above about them remembering Aral like this and then flailing anew. Your brain is delightful and I am so very fucking glad to have its acquaintance. <333
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