New vid! "I Am The Lion" (BSG)
Title: I Am The Lion
Song: Neil Diamond, "I Am The Lion"
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Spoilers: Entire show
Summary: Meow.
Download: DivX AVI (40 MB) (right click, save target as to download)
Warnings: None, I think, except poor taste.
Streaming at YouTube here. Embed
Lyrics
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
Bapaladingdong
Hey hey
Hey hey
Bapaladingdong
Hey
There was a flood
and many poor men were killed.
And that is why
our house is built on the top of a hill.
The plains are like a friend,
why can't we live on them?
And if a flood should come,
why can't we run?
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion,
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
We had a cow,
I left it alone to graze.
And walked to the stream
and when I returned, it was stolen away.
But now the cow is gone
and we don't need a farm.
We have not one thing they
would steal away.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am
Hey hey
Hey hey
the lion.
Okay so. Thanks first, and then some comments. First and foremost, thank you to jarrow who not only provided last-minute technical beta, but rooted for this vid from the beginning AND provided me with the source I needed to get it done AND he watched Puplet for an evening so I could work on it. He has been invaluable in the course of this vid and I am extremely grateful! Also much love to mrs-laugh-track and zabira for watching an earlier draft of this and being uber-helpful in response; and to renenet for watching multiple early drafts and (endings!) and being her amazingly smart self, as per usual.
Don't keep reading until you've seen the vid/unless you want to have author-knowledge-influence.
The reason I needed so many early draft watchers was because I realized about halfway through I had no idea what I was doing. When I started this vid, it was a pure crack idea mixed in a bitterness cocktail. I had the end shot in mind, and the beginning, and knew Hera was the 'cow' (and oh man do I have REALLY mixed feelings about THAT except I tried a couple of other things and she fit there best both literally and symbolically in terms of what else was happening in the vid), and knew I wanted to lambaste Adama, but the rest was very vague and, I trusted, would work itself out while being hilarious and appropriately ridiculous. Then I started making the vid and I realized a couple of truths:
1. No matter how ridiculous it seems in your head, making fun of an apocalypse is hard and always comes out at least a little somber.
2. My feelings for Bill Adama are EXTREMELY COMPLICATED.
So I was going along, laying footage, not really paying attention to the overall whole as I put together the details of the message and then stopped and stood back to see how things were and realized this isn't the vid I thought I was making. I panicked! I flailed! I immediately ran to my friends and asked for help! And help they provided - made me aware of messages I hadn't been aware I was sending, which allowed me to either accept (and hopefully refine) them or excise them entirely. Renenet especially had a gorgeous reading of the vid, and reassured me that some of what I HAD intended (the balance of being humorous and dark) was working. I actually wanted to be meaner to Adama (I...I have a lot of rage still), but couldn't. That's not what was really going on here. If anything, this vid pities him. Well, and there is mocking, I admit that.
It's weird for me to have expended fannish energy on something negative. But honestly, it was cathartic for me to throw these things out of myself and finally be rid of them. And I actually feel a little better about Adama than I have in ages; I adjusted the last section of the vid because of those feelings.
My bitterness is not entirely gone, though, as evidenced by the post icon and the alternate summaries I considered: "Adama ruins everything" (said by me to Jarrow in a beta discussion email) and, courtesy of Renenet, "this is why we can't have nice things." Still, it was a really interesting exercise to make this vid, and I will be very curious to see what y'all think.
All feedback, comments, or concrit are welcome, either here or through email (sdwolfpup (at) gmail (dot) com).
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)
Song: Neil Diamond, "I Am The Lion"
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Spoilers: Entire show
Summary: Meow.
Download: DivX AVI (40 MB) (right click, save target as to download)
Warnings: None, I think, except poor taste.
Streaming at YouTube here. Embed
Click to viewLyrics
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
Bapaladingdong
Hey hey
Hey hey
Bapaladingdong
Hey
There was a flood
and many poor men were killed.
And that is why
our house is built on the top of a hill.
The plains are like a friend,
why can't we live on them?
And if a flood should come,
why can't we run?
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion,
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
We had a cow,
I left it alone to graze.
And walked to the stream
and when I returned, it was stolen away.
But now the cow is gone
and we don't need a farm.
We have not one thing they
would steal away.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am the lion
Hey hey
Hey hey
bellowing out at the night.
Hey hey
Hey hey
Hey hey
I am
Hey hey
Hey hey
the lion.
Okay so. Thanks first, and then some comments. First and foremost, thank you to jarrow who not only provided last-minute technical beta, but rooted for this vid from the beginning AND provided me with the source I needed to get it done AND he watched Puplet for an evening so I could work on it. He has been invaluable in the course of this vid and I am extremely grateful! Also much love to mrs-laugh-track and zabira for watching an earlier draft of this and being uber-helpful in response; and to renenet for watching multiple early drafts and (endings!) and being her amazingly smart self, as per usual.
Don't keep reading until you've seen the vid/unless you want to have author-knowledge-influence.
The reason I needed so many early draft watchers was because I realized about halfway through I had no idea what I was doing. When I started this vid, it was a pure crack idea mixed in a bitterness cocktail. I had the end shot in mind, and the beginning, and knew Hera was the 'cow' (and oh man do I have REALLY mixed feelings about THAT except I tried a couple of other things and she fit there best both literally and symbolically in terms of what else was happening in the vid), and knew I wanted to lambaste Adama, but the rest was very vague and, I trusted, would work itself out while being hilarious and appropriately ridiculous. Then I started making the vid and I realized a couple of truths:
1. No matter how ridiculous it seems in your head, making fun of an apocalypse is hard and always comes out at least a little somber.
2. My feelings for Bill Adama are EXTREMELY COMPLICATED.
So I was going along, laying footage, not really paying attention to the overall whole as I put together the details of the message and then stopped and stood back to see how things were and realized this isn't the vid I thought I was making. I panicked! I flailed! I immediately ran to my friends and asked for help! And help they provided - made me aware of messages I hadn't been aware I was sending, which allowed me to either accept (and hopefully refine) them or excise them entirely. Renenet especially had a gorgeous reading of the vid, and reassured me that some of what I HAD intended (the balance of being humorous and dark) was working. I actually wanted to be meaner to Adama (I...I have a lot of rage still), but couldn't. That's not what was really going on here. If anything, this vid pities him. Well, and there is mocking, I admit that.
It's weird for me to have expended fannish energy on something negative. But honestly, it was cathartic for me to throw these things out of myself and finally be rid of them. And I actually feel a little better about Adama than I have in ages; I adjusted the last section of the vid because of those feelings.
My bitterness is not entirely gone, though, as evidenced by the post icon and the alternate summaries I considered: "Adama ruins everything" (said by me to Jarrow in a beta discussion email) and, courtesy of Renenet, "this is why we can't have nice things." Still, it was a really interesting exercise to make this vid, and I will be very curious to see what y'all think.
All feedback, comments, or concrit are welcome, either here or through email (sdwolfpup (at) gmail (dot) com).
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)