the rambling fanatic

I'm going to try this again but much shorter this time around. It serves me right for not finishing the meme and posting at the end of the year.

Vids I made this year

January
February

March
Burn [Forever Knight, Divia, LaCroix]
La familia [Forever Knight, LaCroix, Nick, Janette]

April
May
June
July

August
Vampire [Forever Knight, Nick Knight, vampire thoughout series]
Nick Knight 20th anniversary vid [Nick Knight TV movie]

September
October
November
December

Total vids: Four vids in oneish fandoms


( 2009 Vidding Meme )

2008 Vidding Meme

Hey all!

I finished the first draft of my festivids entry.

::pumps fist in air::

I'm sure my entire household is probably sick of its song, but anyhoo. All this means my self-imposed removal from almost all things fandom (I'm doing Forever Knight recs over at crack_van ) is over.

Posting will commence soon. Oh, and Happy New Year!

weeeeeeeeeeee!

According to the Forever Knight wiki Nick Knight (the original backdoor pilot) first aired on CBS on August 20, 1989. It was a Sunday. Twenty years huh.

There's still a few days to go but I do want to do something to mark the occasion. After all, without Nick Knight there would be no Forever Knight.

I'm working on a short celebratory/movie recap vid. If I didn't already love this version of Alyce Hunter I would after working on this vid. Her awesomeness doesn't really come through in the vid, as of now, which is a shame but she cracks me up.

Feeling a bit icky this morning so I called in sick. However now I'm feeling better (medicine finally kicked in) so I'll be heading in after lunch.

24 was all kinds of awesome last night, especially the second hour. It's been a great season but last night really upped the stakes. Can't wait for the next episode.

"Infamous" still were finally released and they are gorgeous. They're up at K-site. This one is my favorite. I'm so getting an icon once the episode passes. I don't want in inadvertedly spoil someone. The sunlight streaming in behind Clark is amazing.
( Cut for spoilerly SV pic )

Drive by vid rec for kiki_miserychic's SGA vid Fiddle and the Drum. Stunning doesn't even begin to describe it..the song selection, the editing, the clips used. I don't even watch SGA but this vid is just so captivating that I want to know more. It's a John Shepherd character vid. Breathtaking.

So after watching that vid I'm even more tempted to set my Nick/Nat vid aside yet again in favor of a Nick vid. Not the Moby song vid but perhaps Johnny Cash or even the Mirah song but I won't. After the intenseness of Burn I need happiness and fun and that's Nick/Nat not Nick contemplating his "beast" or all the people he lost. That's a major downer.

Therefore I'm spending the rest of my morning clipping season 2 Nick/Nat cuteness. Then it's off to work.

I've got a Forever Knight fic for the galpalficathon in the works called "Rogue Vampire". The deadline is this Sunday so I'm really going to have to hop into overdrive so that it's somewhat presentable by then. I do like the progress I've made so it should be ready.

My Forever Knight oldschoolfic Cohen story "Twenty Five Minutes" still needs to be tweaked before it makes an appearance at fkfic-l. I have looked at since it was first posted at the ficathon but not as seriously as I should. It works as it is but I do feel like its missing something that's identifiable as FK.  The problem lies in that Cohen could easily be replaced by some random named individual and it really wouldn't make much difference.

I've also committed myself to absolutely finishing my Tracy POV Forever Knight fic. It needs to be up by the end of the year. It's a self-imposed deadline.

I've been laying down some early exchanges for a Forever Knight/The Border crossover that I first thought about earlier in the year. It's really more of a Border story but the presence of Forever Knight's elements should be felt. I'm working mostly through Maggie's thought processes since it is through her POV but I do need to think about the character of Moose and his history as former Toronto PD.

I've got an AU X-Files fic called "An Affair Together" based on a prompt from the xf_pornbattle  in the works. I don't know when it'll see the light of day but right now it's one of the fics that gets worked on regularly.

I just heard a lovely song by A Fine Frenzy called "Almost Lover" that's giving me some Tracy/Vachon vibes. I need to listen to it about twenty thousand more times but I think the first verse, which is just over 1:30, could really lend itself to a post-"Ashes to Ashes" vidlet in which Tracy believes that Vachon skipped town.

I haven't been posting on Smallville but it's been all kinds of awesome. All the characters are really working wonderfully. Yeah Clark's entrance into the Daily Planet is kinda wonky but I love what the new showrunners are doing. You can see the show and the characters transitioning nicely into Superman.  And Lois...what's there to say about Lois that hasn't been said. Amazing barely captures her and what Erica Durance is doing.

Friday Night Lights is so utterly perfect that it's crazy. For me it's almost surpassing the brilliance of the first season which is pretty damn amazing in and of itself. I watch an episode and I feel like no time has gone by. The credits roll and I'm thinking, "What already?" and sure enough 45 minutes have gone by and I didn't even feel them. I'm that enthralled in the storytelling of this show. It's absolute brilliance.

( And on the real life side... )

I finished the first draft of my Forever Knight Schanke vid. Yay me! It clocks in at 3 minutes and 20 seconds although I see it fluctuating 10-15 seconds in either direction. I cut the song down from 5 minutes 56 seconds and while I'm OK with the way the song ends I'm gonna see if I can try splicing it so that I can incorporate the song's original ending. I really don't think it'll go well but I'll give it the ol' college try.



I've almost finished my second go at the Forever Knight Nick/Nat fic from oxoniensis' porn battle back in January. Hopefully this time I don't leave my betas scratching their heads like I did back in February. And hey, the July porn battle is almost among us.


I was going through the print outs of all my in-the-works fic and surprise of surprises, it turns out that I wrote out a good chunk of my Journalism! Clark Smallville story but never included the additions to my computer file of the fic. What a pleasant surprise. Maybe there's hope for that fic yet.


Spoilers for season 8 of Smallville sound very promising, especially on the Clark front


Aren't they awesome? The promo comes courtesy of philater



This isn't really fandom but apparently an almost complete version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has been found in an archive in Buenos Aires. With the exception of one scene the film is in its entirety. That's absolutely amazing and a wonderful discovery for all cinephiles.

The DVD release date for Life has been set for September 2. This sucker is totally priced to own with a SRP of $29.98 so I'm figuring a store price of around $25. Perhaps the price per episode comes out a bit high but if I enjoy this show as much as I'm anticipating who cares. Hopefully all the music remains intact but with its low SRP I have my doubts.  Hopefully they're unfounded because one of the biggest selling points for me about Life is its killer soundtrack.


The DVD release date for Smallville season 7 has been set for the following week on September 9th. I'm both excited and scared for that release. There are certain episodes that I'm very excited to see but I'm really not looking forward to the Lois/Grant story arc that pretty much went no where and has given Lois naysayers yet another reason to trash her. I understand what it's purpose was for but from what I gather from other fans the execution was quite lacking.


The season 2 DVDs of Torchwood have also been announced for September 16. Nice cover but way out of my price range. It's the same reason why I haven't even thought about purchasing the 1st season, which I've yet to watch. I've enjoyed the show but not enough to pay that much for 13 episodes.

I just gotta say that I am having so much fun working on my first ever fanvid. It's probably going to be a total trainwreck but right now I really don't care. I'm not even half way done in clipping but for fun I threw down some of the miniclips I extracted from the larger clips onto the sceneline of Premiere Elements. I'm still a wet behind the ears newbie so I mostly wanted to tinker around with it and get a feel for it before I get done clipping but I seriously laughed out loud. Oh Schanke!

I went into this thing thinking "OK a Schanke vid and it has to be fun," but that was basically it. Now in watching what clips I do have I'm starting to get an idea of what I want the theme of the vid to be. I'm either gonna call it "Don Schanke: International Man of Mystery" or "The Ego and the Id" which is the title I'm mostly leaning towards. Oh and it's to the tune of the remixed version of Fatboy Slim's "Rockafella Skank". Since it's like 6 minutes long I have cut it down to somewhere between 2 1/2 and 3 minutes but that's no big deal.

I just like how it's shaping up and I've only clipped about 10 of the 26 episodes I've earmarked. There are plenty of nuggets still awaiting like "Partners of the Month" but right now "Hunters" and "Dead Issue" are huge sources of amusement as is "For I Have Sinned". Schanke in the Raven is definitely the Id portion of the vid.

Heck I even got Nick in there doing his  quasi celebratory dance at from the tag in "Dead Issue" at the precinct picnic. "Schanke's Scorchers"

Once I actually get into editing for effectiveness and trimming the clips even more I'll probably be pounding my head against the wall but hey that's part of the fun isn't it.