kiki_miserychic

I choose to live in a happy world where I pretend that everyone loves me. So I love the Fanvid Love Meme!

I'm gearing up to do my holiday cards, so drop me your address.

I'm in the process of graduating with my Bachelor's degree. Officially, I'm done the 12th. Pending that I have a job lined up too. It's not 100% because I haven't signed any papers, but it's looking good.

I read Vampire Politics by: Lisa Nakamura / University of Illinois, Laurie Beth Clark / University of Wisconsin, and Michael Peterson / University of Wisconsin, which was a very interesting analysis for True Blood.

I watched Geoff McFetridge's Do Lecture last night. Basically, take what he said, apply it to vidding, and you have some of my current thoughts.

I've been LOL-ing and enjoying UCB's Noteworthy performing Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"


The Office's Creed Bratton's "Rubber Tree"

If you've ever wanted to know what it's like for me to work in a grocery store (because you're all dying to know what working in a deli/bakery feels like), this is the brillant short film (Cashback) that comes the closest.

( Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night? )

Flist, if you do me one favor, I'd greatly appreciate it if you would treat deli clerks like human beings and not your servants. As a deli clerk, I am not there to do what YOU want me to, I'm there to do my job. If hot foods closes at 7:30, I cannot give you a bucket of chicken at 7:45, no matter how much you complain. If the deli closes at 8, you're a dick for coming in at 7:55 and DEMANDING freshly sliced ham. Certainly don't then tell another patron to go to the deli and ask for fresh sliced. Not cool. Seriously. This lady came to the counter at 7:55 and asked for a pound of ham. We have a display case with about 4 pounds that I had sliced right before I cleaned my last slicer, so I reached in and bagged a pound because THAT'S WHAT IT'S THERE FOR. She said, "No, freshly sliced, that's been in there all day." It hadn't, so I said, "I sliced it 20 minutes ago before I cleaned my slicer," trying to subtly hint that all my stuff is clean. She replied, "no, I have to see you slice it," so I had to plaster on a smile and go open up a brand new ham. I started opening it up and she said, "wait, that's not the one I want, that's not the right brand, I want the real one." I explained that we switched brands, but she asked me to go in the back and look for the other one anyways, despite my saying there was nothing in the back for me to even look at. She insisted, so I walked in the back opened the door, looked at a bunch of empty shelves, came back, and told her the same thing I had said a minute before. By this time, it's passed 8, the store is closed, and I've amassed a line of 4 groups (one couple, a family, and 2 individuals). I'm sorry, but what the frak were they doing all day that they decided they need lunch meat at 5 minutes until the store closes. The woman final gave in and said, "fine, just give me a pound of that off brand, but hurry up because the store is closing soon." I was pissed, so I put on a fake smile and said, "no, the store's already closed," and then dirtied up my slicer for her. I bagged and tagged it, gave it her, and she had the gaul to say, "now, was that so hard?" WTF?!?!? The next guy said, and I quote, "what a bitch... I was in line before 8, you have to wait on me. Gimme 3 pounds of chip chopped ham." The couple wanted the stuff int he case. The family got a bunch of salads, so I had to dirty up spoons. Then I had to do an hour work of work in about 20 minutes. Usually the manager closes everything up and leaves at 8:30 on Sundays, but I wasn't done until 8:45, so she had to stand and around and wait because she doesn't know how to do anything in my department. I don't feel bad that she couldn't leave because the other managers do a much better job of making sure people are out of the store by 5 after at the latest. I was still waiting on people at 8:20 because the deli manager makes a big deal about us never turning away people no matter what time it is. And it takes me 5 minutes longer to clean the slicer because I won't turn it on to clean the blade. After almost losing my finger I won't clean it the way I was trained because it breaks safety codes. I have to scrub the blade while everyone else turns the slicer on and holds a rag up to it. I can't even think about it without wanting to puke. I was so tired that I could have fallen asleep in the shower. So yeah, don't be dicks to your deli clerks.

There's a woman at work who won't do her job, so I have to, which makes it look like I'm not doing mine. I have no idea what to do. She gets on my nerves, won't do her job, makes me look bad, and she does this to everyone. I just don't know how to approach my manager to say something. I'm going to have to because my manager said something to another employee about me not doing what I'm supposed to do.

The sheer stupidity of the people in my religion class never fails to astound me. If his tests weren't from the notes, I'd stop going. This one woman continually passes judgement on the religions and talks about how they're wrong and Christianity is right. She does not stop being stupid 24 hours a day. She also thinks that the people that wrote the Bible were "psychics like Sylvia Brown." I kid you not, she thinks Sylvia Brown is a real psychic and that the disciples could foresee the future.

I walked by a full length mirror in one of the upstairs bathrooms on campus and I realized that I was wearing mom pants. When did this happen? When did I start wearing mom pants and no one told me? Whenever I run into people from high school on campus I look like a hobo. Yesterday I wasn't wearing make up and I was in a sweatshirt, so I saw three people I graduated with.

Non-spoilery tv talk:
I've now realized where my love of Californication comes from. It's from the arrogant and childish man in my brain having a midlife crisis. The show reminds me of the days when I thought I could have been a writer. I had this grand illusion that I would write the novel that would speak for my generation. What the crap? Every aspiring writer thinks they are the voice of their meandering generation. In Californication the main character screws everyone and screws everything up while still being charming and geniuine. It's a trophe of television as of late, but it's one that David Duchvony looks good portraying.

I've never fell in love with a tv show because of fruit, but Life is the first. He eats fruit anytime he can because it's nearly impossible to get fresh fruit in prison, but they never come right out and explain why. And that small little detail is what hooked me.

I really wanted to like Big Shots because the cast is made of men I adored in other shows, but the show falls flat for me. It's Desperate Housewives with penises.

VID RECS:
AlcoholicPixie's Sacrifice Yourself (Supernatural) - Prepare to be enthralled by great effects, coloring, and a detailed AU with everything fitting like it was meant to be.
Beth CG Phoenix's The Good Soldier (Heroes) - Great off-kilter editing style, use of lyrics, thought, and musicality
dayln03's Keep This a Secret (Supernatural) - Beautiful effects, coloring, texture work with an AU storyline that's duct taped and superglued together from a thousand different pieces to create a new world.
saltwatergirl's Strip My Mind (The Dreamers) - A great work of light beams, stock footage, parallels, and movement.
Trey's Clockwork Mango (Lost) - Very cool and interesting editing.

For the past two weeks I've been working nearly 40 hours a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and student teaching 7:30am to 4:30pm Tuesday and Thursday, then going to class 4:30pm to 6:30pm is slowly sinking me into a coma. If you don't hear from me for a few days, it's because I'm sleeping.

BLITEOTW: It's the weirdest thing... Yesterday there were zombies all over town, so I stayed in and watched movies while they scratched at my door. This morning when I woke up, they were all gone. It's very weird, especially considering they danced ( like )

VID REC:
newkidfan's The Tree (Stargate: Atlantis) - A prettiful (yes, it's so good I needed to make up a new word) vid that will have you wide-eyed... and teary-eyed.

First, ( wherein I bitch about not being able to get a transcript ).

Second, ( now I squee over last night’s Heroes giving me exactly what I needed for my Sylar vid ).

Third, ( I complain about work ).

Fourth, I’m so in love with Floyd the Flower Guy on 30 Rock. He’s from the Cleve! He may even be higher on my tv boyfriend list then Jim from The Office.

I just worked an obscenely long time yesterday and I hate the world.

Bob Barker is leaving The Price is Right and I’m not sure, but I think that’s one of the signs of the apocalypse.

Movie Rec:
Banlieue 13 (District B13) - Amazing stylized action movie set in the near future in France. Absolutely and ridiculously great stunt work. It's like a shot of adrenaline in your chest. Not to mention the slashtastic main characters.

Vid Recs:
zoetrope’s Absolutely Cuckoo A Stargate: Atlantis Sheppard/McKay video animation that is freaking Amazingly skillful and adorably cuckoo.
obsessive24’s Map of the Problematique A Rules of Attraction vid that’s more about the book than the movie. It has motion that makes you want to dance oddly on your bed in your underwear even though it’s not a very danceable song, fabulous effects that blend with the source, on-beat perfection, amazing use of split screen in the source, and great “paralleling”.
bradcpu’s I Feel You A Desperado/Once Upon A Time In Mexico vid with great time toggling, use of beats, back and forth movement, and transitioning. It’s full of emotion and awesome.
lidi’s This is Your Life A Lost Sawyer vid with excellent. Fight Club music and Lost’s Sawyer belong together.

Meaningless YouTube Rec:
Tom Wilson (Biff in Back to the Future) is kinda funny

( What American Accent I Have Quiz )

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
kiki_miserychic goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Veronica Mars.
anno_superstar tricks you! You get a rock.
bartle_by gives you 15 teal raspberry-flavoured pieces of taffy.
bradcpu gives you 2 tan lemon-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
butterfly gives you 3 light blue watermelon-flavoured pieces of taffy.
charmax tricks you! You lose 14 pieces of candy!
dualbunny gives you 14 brown peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
elizabethrae86 tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
halfdutch gives you 7 white apple-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
kimya_dawson_ gives you 4 yellow banana-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
obsessive24 gives you 4 light blue evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
kiki_miserychic ends up with 31 pieces of candy, and a rock.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

I’m feeling much better now and I’m back to just feel tired and crappy like regular now, as opposed to sick, tired, and crappy. While I was sick I mainlined the first season of Doctor Who. I love it and it makes me love season two even more. I finally understand everyone’s love of Captain Jack. I really have nothing else to say because I haven’t really processed it having watched 13 episodes in 2 days. I’m contemplating a season one Doctor Who vid to Kate Havnevik’s Unlike Me (Acapella), but I really, really shouldn’t because I have three vids started right now, which is bad enough.

YouTube links:
~Wendybird - A seven minute short film by Ellen von Unwerth filmed for Erin Fetherstone’s Autumn/Winter 2006 with Kirsten Dunst, Alex Allen, Lolly, and Jennifer.
~Canceled Tour Photoshoot - A nine minute Ellen con Unwerth film of Christina Aguilera.
~Nobody’s Watching pilot Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - Totally cute and funny unpicked up pilot made for the former WB with Billy from Battlestar Galactica and Kellerman from Prison Break.
~Promo for The Office’s Dwight and Angela, which tetters between sweet, creepy, weird, and awesome.
~I may very well have to start loving Keith Olbermann.

Speaking of politics, I watched Sherrod Brown and Mike DeWine on Meet the Press and I’m ashamed to be from Ohio. They fought with each other like 12-year-old girls. I’m surprised there was no hair pulling and screams of, “ohmygod, you broke my nail.” I’m leaning toward Sherrod Brown only because I don’t want to vote for Mike DeWine. It’s sad when I’m not so much voting for someone as much as I’m voting against someone.

Onto more shallower things that make me happy, ( Grey’s Anatomy Cast Spoiler )

For the Damaged Coda got Best Mood Piece Runner Up at Tolerable Cruelty Awards. Wee. It’s the first vidding award I’ve ever gotten (mostly because it’s the first vidding award thingy I ever entered)… so wee:

I’d like to thank my mom and dad for putting aside their hate for each other for 15 seconds to conceive me… Just kidding. Thank you to this months TCA judges (Nicky and Brad). And now I have bunches of new, lovely vids to watch and feedback. :)

I’d completely forgotten about putting in for a ljmindmap thingy:

( Click here to see! )

I'm going to the House of Blues tonight to see Chris Isaak and Tristan Prettyman.

Life has been so hectic lately. I worked 3 9 hour days in a row and I'm really not used to working that much. I had an allergic reaction to the new gloves they got at work, so I guess I'm allergic to cornstarch too. While at work I got my pants caught on the metal edge of one of the tray carts and ripped my pants. Thank god for my long uniform shirt and apron. I was closing that night and so many things for closing require bending down. OMG. It was only for an hour, so it wasn't too bad, but hello embarrassing if someone had noticed.

I always thought it was vidcon, but it's actually vividcon. How did I miss two whole letters? Whatever, they're are now shiny new vids to watch.

( This is where I ramble on for a bit about my own vidding... )

OMG, I'm sorry, but I can't stop watching Justin Timberlake's SexyBack video. It was bad enough when I played the song on repeat, but now there's a video to go with it and I want to make sweet, sweet love to it.

Is being an adult waking up in the morning and thinking, "agg, I don't wanna go to work, I wanna quit", then going to work anyways? Because if so, being an adult blows.

VID REC: charmax's Bloody Mother - Great use of the beats without being overpowering. For me, the lyrics are the central point. If you've never watched Deadwood, you can still enjoy it because the emotions of the scenes come across well. And if you do watch Deadwood, it's a beautiful and inciteful look at Trixie and how far she'd come because as with the show itself, there's so much meaning behind it all. The vid itself has a glowing warmth.