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[cherry]

I just watched the 1931 Dracula movie for the first time, and it was a somewhat surreal experience, in that it's ingrained enough in pop culture -- that I've seen enough sendups and homages and parodies -- that I really felt as if I'd already seen it, most of the way through.*

I've been trying to catch up on a lot of ~classic~ type stuff that I've managed to avoid seeing -- I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey a little while ago, and that's the type of science fiction I can get behind. (It also had strange moments of pop culture synthesis.) I know I say that I don't do too much sci-fi, but if anyone wants to recommend me something along the lines of 2001/Moon/Firefly/Donnie Darko, I totally promise to check it out. I... do not love Star Trek? (I know, I know, bad fangirl).

VVC happened, and it was awesome! I never feel right about writing up a con report because my short term recall and concentration are for shit, and I am terrified I would miss mentioning someone/something awesome, and ~slight~ then. Because everyone is so super awesome. And it was super awesome to get to see them! Even if my current hair colour apparently gave me camouflage powers. I am, however, super grateful that my school waited until Monday morning to give me the phone call of (further) bullshit, as that would have kind of ruined VVC, if they'd called on Friday.

I will say though that rhoboatwas kidnapped into doing a panel with me that rhoboat and I did a panel/vidshow on instrumental vidding, and it was pretty awesome. And people should totally vid more instrumentals, because instrumentals are awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. I think I've finally depleted the power of the word!

* Furthermore, I have ALL THE WORST IDEAS, and I'm not convinced that there should be a YA novel/series of novels where the ~twist~ (or premise) is that the kick-butt (but conflicted) protagonist is actually Lucy Westen/Westenra. In no way am I considering outlining this. In no way.

* At the request of deathisyourart, other horrible ideas I have: vidding the works of Georges Melies to video game inspired music; vidding 130s-1960s b-movies to techno; Korra to a "Paradise City" mashup; an Avatar/Korra bending battle to "Party Rock Anthem"; Futurama to polka; caper/heist movies to "Can't Touch This"; that fic where Tony Stark is part Veela.

Then again, that list should probably include vidding Iron Man to a mashup of Rihanna and Papa Roach, because literally every single person I had listen to that song didn't think it was going to work -- though some were more political about it than others. MADE IT WORK. \o/

Also, there is now a fantastic Adele cover in the comments called "Rolling in the Higgs" and it is ALSO AWESOME.

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[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Well, at your request, some more of those have been edited into the post. They mostly include things that are a real head scratcher, like vidding the works of Georges Melies to video game inspired music; vidding 130s-1960s b-movies to techno; Korra to a "Paradise City" mashup; an Avatar/Korra bending battle to "Party Rock Anthem"; Futurama to polka; caper/heist movies to "Can't Touch This"; that fic where Tony Stark is part Veela.

But, hey, no one thought that the mashup I chose for my Iron Man vid was going to work, and I MADE IT WORK. \o/ \o/

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA I kind of adore your brain! Also, and this is just my own observation, but I think it is good to tell people that their ideas won't work every now and then; makes them work harder to prove people wrong, and the results are often very good.

I showed GATTACA to my mom recently, and was thinking that I had not seen a movie recently that handled sci-fi as elegantly. So I'll be checking back here to see what people suggest to you.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you've come around on my Iron Man mashup then, hrrrmmmmm?

I haven't seen Gattaca! You'd recommend it, then?

(Please tell me that the title is pulled from guanine/adenine/thymine/cytosine.)

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched all the VVC vids yet, I've been in a weird headspace lately and the vids deserve a fair viewing. In a week or two I'll be able to give you a proper answer.

I WOULD RECOMMEND GATTACA VERY STRONGLY!!! Understated, low budget Sci-Fi from the 90's that should be in EVERYONE'S collection!

(Please tell me that the title is pulled from guanine/adenine/thymine/cytosine.)
IT IS!!!!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Awww, I was just bugging you. I don't actually expect you to have watched ALL the vids. Nor to necessarily come around on it!

(Please tell me that the title is pulled from guanine/adenine/thymine/cytosine.)
IT IS!!!!

SOLD.

BY THE WAY. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS:

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

I have seen it now. It is cute, but he should have asked a friend to sing it; the high notes were kind of painful. LOL!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it was AWESOME. :p

(We could have had a model!)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

So, pursuant to our conversation last night, jetpack_monkey is kind of a horror movie guru and he gave me some werewolf movie recs here (http://cherryice.livejournal.com/276627.html?thread=2089363#t2089363).

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

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I studied it in year 12!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Gattaca or genetics? :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Gattaca.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Hopefully you studied genetics as well! :p

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Nope! I went all arts and humanities.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Really? I... I was just making a joke, but now I'm a little aghast. You're allowed to do that? We weren't in Canada. You could drop some stuff, but you still had serious senior science requirements.

I wasn't aware that there were school systems that didn't have any!

Note that I would also feel the same way if I were to hear about a program that didn't require, say, English. Or History.

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

There are a few Art focuses schools and schools for people returning to finish highschool after dropping out, that have minimal math and science requirements. We have one here in Montreal called FACE and a couple of my friends from my undergrad went to one just north of Toronto that had extremely minimal science requirements.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I guess I really shouldn't speak for all of Canada (big country!) but there are still some math and science requirements. You could pare down your maths and sciences at my high school, but you still required a certain number to graduate.

I guess I just feel that even though not even could/should/wants to be a scientist, a very basic level of scientific literacy is as important as basic level of regular literacy.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

plz to be making A:tLA and Korra vids, and to be having me beta plz! <3 (I think they sound AWESOME). Also the caper/heist movie and b-movies and WOO.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL first to be defending my thesis, I think.

Except vidding would be a great distraction...

(My brain is the most ridiculous place, seriously.)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

ALSO. It is possible that the mid century b-movies should be to sugary pop music.

Or Ke$ha.

OH MY GOD. With all the monsters up in here, this place is about to blow. (They're taking over.)