Total eclipse of the heart

[gwyn]

All this yammering about baseball, when there was a spectacular total lunar eclipse last night complete with blood moon. And the rarest of rarities, a cloudless night in Seattle when we could watch the whole thing, which I did, bundled up and my arms aching from holding the binoculars most of the night. Who cares about baseball? Feh. Priorities, people! There won't be another one of these for three years, and even then, limited visibility!

On a totally different note, the vid digitizing project from hell is complete at last. I think. I hope. mlyn made me some lovely main menu art, and I've fixed some of the vids that had problems, and I think it's ready now. Not that I actually expect there to be many folks who want one, but they are at least preserved now on a less fragile format. The vids are all for La Femme Nikita or the X-Files except for There's No Way Out of Here, which is a Buffy/Scully/Nikita multimedia. Some of them I made by myself, many I made with sherrold, and some with gattagrigia. The newer all-digital LFN vids are still online at Morgan Dawns's site or on the newer Bride of Don't Fight in the Snow disc that feochadn and I are doing.

These aren't digitally remastered, just put into the computer, cleaned up a bit, and then onto a DVD. Some of the vids have some trace effects of the master tape damage in spots where I had to do multiple inserts, getting very close to damaging the tape. It does that kind of jumbo pixelization thing, where you get big chunks of squares from two separate frames in one frame. It's kind of interesting in a surreal sort of way, but not so cool in the long run in that I want to have these preserved better, and now they'll have this in perpetuity because I got overwhelmed trying to fix them all. I fixed the worst cases, but it's such a laborious process that in the end, I just decided to leave a few like that. There's not really enough of an audience for it to matter. So, this is available, as all my song vid DVDs are, for just a postage-paid, self-addressed envelope.*

The vids are:
La Femme Nikita
She Cries Your Name; Beth Orton
I Am a Rock; Simon & Garfunkel
Writing Notes; Jen Trynin
Live to Tell; Madonna
Smooth Operator; Sade
We Could Leave Right Now; OysterBand
Come Around; Kim Richey
There's No Way Out of Here; David Gilmour

X-Files
Only Happy When it Rains; Garbage
As Girls Go; Suzanne Vega
Fall in the Light; Lori Carson
Trust; The Cure
Nobody Takes Me Seriously; Split Enz
Where Is My Soul; Finn Bros.
Heart in Hand; Vertical Horizon
Human; Pretenders
There's No Way Out of Here; David Gilmour

*
It's actually easy to do a self-addressed, stamped envelope: 1) Get a small padded envelope or CD mailer. 2) Write YOUR OWN address on the front of the envelope. 3) Add stamps for postage: .83 cents for one disc, $1.06 for two. 4) Put envelope inside another envelope, and address the outside envelope TO ME. You should only need .60 cents max on the outside envelope to mail.
OR
1) Address small padded empty envelope TO ME. 2) Put .60 cents for postage on. 3) Get an address label, address it TO YOURSELF, and stick that and postage as described above inside envelope. Seal. 4) Send in mail; I will slap your label on, fill the envelope with discs, put the postage on, and turn it around to you.

I'd rather not put my address on the 'net, so email to gwynethr@gmail.com and I'll give you the address; if you live in a country outside the US, drop me a line and we'll work something out.

I don't ask for payment for the discs, but if you wish to drop a buck or two in your envelope to defray media costs, I will not object, and will make blessings in your honor.

And if you live in the greater Seattle area and want one? Buy me a chai when we meet at a Starbucks, and it's yours.

Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

There won't be another one of these for three years, and even then, limited visibility!

Hee! But the Red Sox hadn't won in EIGHTY-SIX years ;) I couldn't see the moon from where I was, actually - but I'm pretty sure that's because it was already in eclipse!

[jidabug.livejournal.com]

Hey! Some of us were glued to the Red Sox game and still managed to check out the moon during inning breaks. There are priorities, and there are *priorities*. ;^)

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

I actually watched the eclipse and the baseball game last night; the moon was perfectly framed just off my balcony for most of the time. I stood outside for a bit, thenj decided I was too cold and could watch it through the sliding glass door. I just turned on the tv now and then for score updates.

And I'll buy you a Chai (or Thai, as the case may be)sometime in the near future. I have all of these vids on various tapes, I know, but I'd really like to have them all on DVD, too. *g*

[alexfandra.livejournal.com]

I was in the middle of writing my post about the lunar eclipse when your post appeared! Rats, you eclipsed me!

It was spectacular over Lake Washington (I drove in to class along Sandpoint Way, very slowly...). Perfect view from our classroom, too (3rd floor of the music building). We turned out the lights and listened to slow moody bagpipe music. Couldn't have been better.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

No no no -- post anyway! I want to read more about the eclipse and all anyone's talking about is baseball. It sounds really lovely. Bagpipes and blood moons -- so very Brigadoon.

[alexfandra.livejournal.com]

I did post (though it starts off with other stuff) about the eclipse, and included a link to the very nice photos over at Seattle Times. Enjoy!

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

'Twas raining in my town last night, so we couldn't see the moon. ::pouts::

I e-mailed you about the DVD thing long, long ago. Can I presume your address hasn't changed in the past few months?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Gah! See, this is why I make people send me envelopes -- my brain is like a seive and I never remember anything. I am hopeless, I tell you. Yes, my address is still the same. At least that's one thing I can remember...

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Ha, come down to san jose and I'll buy you a chai.. just because.

must remember to get a copy for myself and Gayle.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

lierdumoa: heh -- you know, I finally figured out the pov in Valentine Heart
lierdumoa: it was all Wesley
lierdumoa: and it was confusing me because Lilah tended to be doing more in the shots
lierdumoa: and like, her emotions were more written on her face than Wesley
permetaform: ahh
lierdumoa: and now I feel kind of slow because *obviously* it was Wesley all the way through now that I look at it
lierdumoa: also confusing cause female voice and you don't expect it to be male pov
permetaform: er, I wasn't sure either?
permetaform: yeah
permetaform: I was thinking that too
lierdumoa: and like that scene where he's imagining talking to Lilah while he's preparing himself to cut the head off her corpse so she won't come back as a vampire
lierdumoa: "I'll come back and see you again"
lierdumoa: and she's the one talking in the scene and it's like she came back to see him after she died
lierdumoa: when really now that I think about it he was imagining her and it was him wanting to see her after she died
lierdumoa: and "the people round here would be pleased at my words on this"
lierdumoa: Lilah is talking, so I thought Lilah pov
permetaform: ohh
lierdumoa: but then looked back and the rest of the angel crew turned to look at wesley, who just turned away and said nothing
lierdumoa: and it was like -- omg that scene is so much cooler now that I get it
permetaform: ahhh
lierdumoa: I love how this vid just gets better the more I watch it
lierdumoa: <3
permetaform: heee
permetaform: I don't know the source
permetaform: I think it's context heavy
lierdumoa: it's *very* context heavy
lierdumoa: and, like, "it's nothing to you but it keeps me alive"
lierdumoa: and Lilah is on top of Wesley leaning down to kiss him
lierdumoa: and it wasn't till I figured out it was Wesley pov did I notice that he had his hand in her hair holding her down, cause she was about to leave
permetaform: ahh
lierdumoa: and then stares after her
lierdumoa: like, thinking it was Lilah pov I was just watching Lilah
lierdumoa: and that worked for some of the vid, but not all of it
lierdumoa: and now I'm like -- watching a whole different vid
lierdumoa: v. v. cool
permetaform: hee! it's two vids in one!
lierdumoa: also "would you take me back to your house which is sainted with lust"
lierdumoa: Wesley takes Lilah back to his house
lierdumoa: *confusion*
lierdumoa: but then, Lilah is the one initiating the sexual encounter, so she's really taking him back
lierdumoa: *epiphany*
permetaform: heeee
permetaform: maybe she really is vidding two things at once?
lierdumoa: and to think even only half getting it this vid still amost made me cry
permetaform: that's very neat
permetaform: both of that =)
lierdumoa: =D
lierdumoa: I should totally leave her a comment with this IM
lierdumoa: just so she knows I fangirl about her vid continuously even to people who can't really relate to it

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

This is just... so cool, I mean, it's really just... wow. I don't think I've ever had people discuss something I've done like this and it makes me all squee-y to think that someone was taking time to actually chat about my vid. I can't thank you enough for telling me; this is honestly the first time anyone has ever said anything like this!

I did realize that that POV thing and the context would be problematical. I knew going in that if you didn't know the source, it would be meaningless, but enough people did that I felt it was worth sending to the con. Last year I knew no one knew Miracles, but they got the vid fine, so I always feel like it's worth letting the audience see it. But the POV thing -- it's interesting that we don't often have dissonance when a man is singing for a woman, but do the other way around. I was having a discussion with an academic a while ago wh studies popular music in the Buffyverse about this. And I was kind of counterpointing lyric lines with the "wrong" characters in some early spots, partly because of the way I wanted the images to flow, and partly because I liked it being a little disjunctive. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I'd figured people would get that initial "If I was a Londoner rich with complaint" for Wes, and then see Lilah on the "you take me back" part, but it did cause more than a few people trouble, so you're not alone!

And sometimes you just get stuck, whch I'm sure you know -- Like, as far as I could find, they never had hot sex at her place! damn them. It's interesting that they were almost always at his place, and the only time they were at hers was when he was mad at her.

Anyways, thank you for this. What a cool surprise!!!