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So if you happened to wake up this morning and think to yourself, "Gee whiz, all I really want out of life right now is a fanvid that was made in less than a week that takes a seventy-year-old movie with more issues than a magazine archive and combines it with a modern pop song whose lyrics are so vague it could really be combined with any movie out there," then have I got a surprise for you!!

Gone With the Wind - "Stuck"

And if you want all of the above but don't actually have time to sit down and watch an entire video, then I've got you covered, too!!

Gone With the Wind - "Fighter" (incomplete)

And, in case that does not satisfy you, here are two Gone With the Wind fanvids that were not made by me but which I have watched an embarrassing number of times: "Girlfriend" and "In the End" which has unfortunately had its audio torn asunder but you guys all know the song anyway, don't deny it!

And with that, I declare my Gone With the Wind obsession to be over ... for now. >xD My only regret is it petered out before I got around to writing my entry on how desperate I am for a remake of the movie. I know, this is BLASPHEMY, but it would be soooo interesting you guys omggggg ...

haha okay so I've had this uploaded for two days now so I guess I better finally link to it. xD; Even more of a hack video than my "Chain" video, may I present to you ...

Pirates of the Caribbean - "Dance of Curse"

(I say it is even hackier than the other one because can you find where I stopped making edits? xD; )

With my "Chain" video, I definitely prefer the original music in that scene. But with this one? MAN! I vote "Dance of Curse" makes everything more awesome than it already is. xD; I especially like how it fits at the end of my hacky video, where the "There's no boats" line is made all exciting and stuff. xD; But as I told athena_crikey, I ran out of song before I ran out of battle scene, and while I considered redoing it or making a sequel, I have since decided against it. Making hacky videos is fun but only to a point. xD;

And with that, even though my love for Pirates continues to border on the ridiculous, I think I shall pull my next fanvid from a totally different movie. (Exciting!!) Well, first, a little ramble about ( my 'Broken Hearted Soul' video. )

So I don't know if any of you are even interested in watching this, but here is a video I made while frustrated with the other video I am making x) :

Pirates of the Caribbean - "Chain"

Escaflowne BGM + the end of AWE + minimal (but still kinda obvious) editing = YouTubey goodness?

And just so this entry isn't totally useless, I shall link you to a charming French music video I stumbled upon yesterday (there's a subtitled version for those of you who don't pretend to be Francophones x) ). Well I only call it "charming" for lack of a better word; I think I often underestimate the power of the short subject but man, the ending of this thing gives me shivers. xD;

So for those of you who are man enough to take it, I made an OPV! xD

Morning Musume - "Potential Breakup Song"

(Hahahaha, all my favourite songs are break-up songs, I swear. xD )

This video isn't perfect (and YouTube made it all ugly :( ), but I am so proud of it and I had a ridiculous amount of fun making it. A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT. And so I'm actually really sad it only took me like a week to make, and am secretly secretly hoping that someone will comment on this entry begging me to make another video out of clips from MoMusu PVs. xDD (Suggest a song and I might just do it! xD;; )

I only used clips from "The Manpower!!!" on, because I wanted the focus to be the current line-up of MoMusu. This didn't exactly work, haha; there's definitely a lot of Miki and Yossie and Konkon in this video and not enough Aika or Junjun or Linlin ... but so long as the video gives off a vibe of "Current MoMusu is awesome!!" and not a vibe of "Golden Age MoMusu is awesome!!," then I'm happy. xD;

OKAY I SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW. xDD; But let me know what you think! :D

Current novel project word count is 54,360 and a little bit over. I have approximately three thousand words I haven't yet typed up. It's going pretty well. I'm in a weird sort of stage. Usually I work on one story arc for a couple of weeks at a time, and jump between them like that, but now I'm sort of writing miscellaneous stuff, and a character who originally wasn't even going to make an appearance is now fighting her way into every scene I write. But I love writing Liz and Sloan together, hahaha. XD

In two hours my friend Athena will be touching down in Japan, but as for me, I'm going to bed. Well, probably that's a lie, I want to write more first. XD Work in twelve hours. I hate it more when I'm not there than when I am there, much like everything else I have ever done in my whole entire life. I really gotta get over this, or at least learn not to think about it, or something. Man.

Sunday is my brother's birthday and Monday is the birthday of another of my friends. I AM STILL WAITING TO USE MY HUMAN FUND JOKE. I was going to use it for my brother but then I ruined it. FIE!

Also on Monday I get the date for when I can register for second year. Woohoo! I hate the waiting. I wonder if I could get away with scheduling off work that day? Worth a shot, right? XD~! I only work four hours at a time, too. Look how lazy I am.

I will finish off this entry with more inane dialogue (who am I kidding, all of my dialogue is inane) from my adorable current novel project (which I should probably stop posting stuff from, but I can't help it!!):
"My guess is he said no."
"Yeah."
"Yeah? He said yeah?"
"Yeah, he said no."

Edit: Oh ... it is now so late that tomorrow is my brother's birthday. CRAZY.

A note from Achilles' best friend:
"A poem about my death, please send."
So I whipped up this baby
Describing how maybe
Heel-man should no more armour lend.

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In other news, someone needs to proofread the Clean Sweep web site. For example: "Any mail with personal information like Social Security numbers or bank info should be shredded before being tossed or properly filed where it can't be used against you." Well of course I always shred papers before I properly file them! How else would you do it??

The first chapter of Half in Shadow is 2,042 words. It's not the best writing I've ever done. I think I'm having the same trouble as I did last year, where it was hard to get into the narration style until about the third chapter. That's okay then. I'll just deal. :)

So far this is my favourite part, mostly because I love Asharan. *^_^*

     "It's too bad you might miss it this year."
     "Miss it?" I asked. "What are you talking about?"
     "Because you'll be--" His face fell suddenly, as though he'd just realized a mistake he'd made. "Oh. Uhm. Nothing. Never mind."
     "Burning black skies, Ash! What is it?"
     "See, this is why I can never remember all your fancy sayings," Ash said. "Because sometimes it's 'sky,' and sometimes it's 'skies,' and I never know what's going on."

And, um, SFF isn't quite finished yet. This week was very hard for me in a bunch of ways and a novel I had failed to finish was not something I was eager to think about. I think I'm better now. Gotta learn how to relax, is all. It'll be done soon. I feel it in my bones. ;)

Also I am enjoying working on my huge Elizabethan Theatre presentation, even if it is a teeny bit overwhelming to think about half an hour in front of thirty seventeen-year-olds talking about something only about half of them will be even vaguely interested in. That's okay. I'm trying to make it interesting. I'm having fun with it. I hope I can finish it in time, is all! Especially as she hasn't even me an exact due date yet. Well then. ^^; *crosses fingers*