Whew! My work here is done

Finally, all the vids from Vividcon are now up at my site :

Through Your Hands
John Hiatt
24.4MB QT file
Firefly (Simon and River) Done for the Challenge show: luck

Streets on Fire
Porno for Pyros featuring Kurupt
24.4MB QT
Robbery Homicide Division

Valentine Heart
Tanita Tikaram
20.3MB WT
Angel (Wes and Lilah relationship study of doom)

Anyways, password protected, use the e-mail link, I'll try to respond tonight, blah blah, same as before if you already have it...

I swear, I'm already maxed out even with the extra space I bought and can't really afford. I'm going to try to get the file sizes down on these and repost them later, but I'm not even sure if this program will install, let alone how I can make it work (me=stupid), but I'd also like to see if I can brighten it a bit since Angel especially is so dark. I hate how much beautiful detail the Firefly vid loses online (so contact me for DVDs!), but alas, this is how people seem to be happy with things (the philistines) these days.

And no one will care about any detail lost on Streets on Fire since that went over like a lead balloon, but that's okay. It was a learning experience -- show no one knows that has supernatural or sci-fi elements? Good. Show no one knows that is a cop or spy show, or even worse, a western? Bad. Apparently. I had no idea people were so dead set against cop shows, though I did know, from past, very bitter experience, how so much of fandom closes its mind instantly to westerns. But it made me sad how many people just shut off killabeez's exceptional, beautiful, and highly accessible Deadwood vid at the show just because ew, western. I guess I can handle the ew-shutdown reaction better on my own than for my friends! But I am now older and wiser.

Just a word since this seemed to confuse people: L'Abattoir is me and Jo -- feochadn. She was disappointed by the fact that I have a long name with lots of consonants and she has "jo." I thought about what people think about our vids individually and together -- blood, guts, misery, and violence -- and knowing her tastes as well as I do, suggested l'abattoir because it seemed to sum things up pretty well. (We like violence on film -- sue us -- and pain and misery.) Of course she loved it, and so many people have collaboration names and we thought we needed one too. We did put our individual names on the end of the vid, but... people seemed to be really cranky that they didn't know who this vidder was. So that's it: We're the ones to blame for Streets on Fire, and that name will appear on our new disc in progress as well as any future vids we do together.

(Though our strange symbiotic relationship may be forever dashed! I told her last night that I already kind of knew what I wanted to shoot for on a vid for next year's premiere show, and told her the song. And she got this pained expression and said, "I've been dicking around with an anime vid for that already." We really are joined at the hip when it comes to vids! But of course now I feel awful -- it could be funny that we both want to do the same song, or not so funny. Now we both have pain.)

As always, feedback of any stripe is welcome -- I can take kisses and hits equally well, and am always curious about constructive crit.

It occurs to me

... rather belatedly, of course, that people who've put my sister in their prayers and thoughts might want an update on her. She has had some setbacks, but overall is progressing pretty well. She had a very bad day on Monday, when things got a little scary with the pic line (sp?) and some uncontrolled bleeding, but when I spoke with her yesterday she sounded almost normal, so that was very hopeful. She's walking for little tours around the room, but they still won't let her go home until Friday afternoon or Sat. morning because of bowel things. She said "I never thought my whole life would revolve around my ability to fart."

Her workplace has secured a housekeeper to come clean house for a couple months, and her friends have organized a gardening service to come by, as well. For some reason, this touched me tremendously. One of her best friends is flying down today to spend the next few days with her as she settles in back home, if they let her go. I'm still frustrated by not getting the details about the cancer and the way the doctor won't get back to me, but they are going to do a genetic test on her to find out whether I will probably get this type of cancer as well -- apparently, it has to be done on her, not on me. Believe me, this is no casual piece of information, and I'm going to be looking into this! Anyway, I chalk her successful surgery and recovery so far up to all of my friends, and thank you for your kind thoughts.