Vid that has taken over my brain
Okay, seriously people. I know I pimped liptonrm's latest vid, Ruination Day yesterday, but I can't stop thinking about it, and I am flabbergasted that the entire world isn't flapping with me. I'm afraid I must insist that everyone else join me in the compulsive behavior.
Here's what this vid has done to me...
1. Yesterday morning I realized that I don't have the actual song on my iPod. Broke acronym.org's rules about streaming video at work so that I could listen to it over and over.
2. Looked up April 14 in Wikipedia and discovered that, in fact, a lot of bad shit went down on that day. The Okey line is about one of the biggest dust storms in the Dust Bowl. Then there's the obvious Lincoln assassination line. Then the Titanic. Planned research to see whether Casey Jones is someone associated with the Titanic, is another historical figure, or is someone fictional (or real, but just not famous).
3. Got home last night, searched home computer. No joy. Downloaded song. Listened compulsively.
4. Went to sleep. Dreamed that I spent my day wandering around singing the song so much that Marc and various other people I encountered started singing it, too. Woke up vaguely concerned that that I'd been singing in my sleep, though Marc says he didn't hear me.
5. Watched the vid four more times while Marc was getting ready.
6. Had this "WHOAOMG!!!" moment when I realized that the fire that killed Birdie's father in "Mockingbird" was in mid-April and HOMG I want there to be a movie of my story just so liptonrm can make a companion vid for it to this song, and then rushed off to search the story to check the date. Was crushed to discover it was April 15, not April 14.
7. Spent way too long considering editing my 3-year-old story to change that date by one day, trying to remember how I determined it originally and whether one day would make a difference in the canon tie-in or elsewhere. Decided that it's cheating and fundamentally unawesome to retcon a date like that to make it mesh with a super-awesome vid that has nothing whatever to do with my little universe, just so I can pretend that it would be possible to make a similar vid for my old story.
8. Begin to worry about my sanity.
9. Found the song's chords online and started trying to learn it for the ukulele. Actually, all I could find were the chords to the other version of the song (discovered while downloading from iTunes that there's one called "April 14th, Part I", and then there's the version in question, "Ruination Day, Part II") so I'm having to make some of it up, which is challenging because I don't really know what I'm doing. Made plans to spend Sunday working it out. (And, on a different note, what is it with me only playing sad/creepy songs on my uke?)
10. Plugged in my iPod and typed up all this stuff about how obsessed I am with this song.
Go. Watch. Praise.
Here's what this vid has done to me...
1. Yesterday morning I realized that I don't have the actual song on my iPod. Broke acronym.org's rules about streaming video at work so that I could listen to it over and over.
2. Looked up April 14 in Wikipedia and discovered that, in fact, a lot of bad shit went down on that day. The Okey line is about one of the biggest dust storms in the Dust Bowl. Then there's the obvious Lincoln assassination line. Then the Titanic. Planned research to see whether Casey Jones is someone associated with the Titanic, is another historical figure, or is someone fictional (or real, but just not famous).
3. Got home last night, searched home computer. No joy. Downloaded song. Listened compulsively.
4. Went to sleep. Dreamed that I spent my day wandering around singing the song so much that Marc and various other people I encountered started singing it, too. Woke up vaguely concerned that that I'd been singing in my sleep, though Marc says he didn't hear me.
5. Watched the vid four more times while Marc was getting ready.
6. Had this "WHOAOMG!!!" moment when I realized that the fire that killed Birdie's father in "Mockingbird" was in mid-April and HOMG I want there to be a movie of my story just so liptonrm can make a companion vid for it to this song, and then rushed off to search the story to check the date. Was crushed to discover it was April 15, not April 14.
7. Spent way too long considering editing my 3-year-old story to change that date by one day, trying to remember how I determined it originally and whether one day would make a difference in the canon tie-in or elsewhere. Decided that it's cheating and fundamentally unawesome to retcon a date like that to make it mesh with a super-awesome vid that has nothing whatever to do with my little universe, just so I can pretend that it would be possible to make a similar vid for my old story.
8. Begin to worry about my sanity.
9. Found the song's chords online and started trying to learn it for the ukulele. Actually, all I could find were the chords to the other version of the song (discovered while downloading from iTunes that there's one called "April 14th, Part I", and then there's the version in question, "Ruination Day, Part II") so I'm having to make some of it up, which is challenging because I don't really know what I'm doing. Made plans to spend Sunday working it out. (And, on a different note, what is it with me only playing sad/creepy songs on my uke?)
10. Plugged in my iPod and typed up all this stuff about how obsessed I am with this song.
Go. Watch. Praise.