Vid rec
In an attempt to get back into the LJ thing without doing any actual work (because what do you take me for, a productive human being or something?) I'm introducing a weekly, or whenever the hell I feel like it, vid rec post.
The reasons for this are twofold.
1) There are a lot of absolutely brilliant things on youtube that aren't watched enough and are getting way less love than they deserve.
2) I can watch a vid in 3 minutes which is basically the duration of my attention span for anything other than ogling Jensen Ackles' ass. And a weekly Jensen's ass review would get old pretty fast. A year or two, tops.
So my first rec is Love Story, by Lashings of Ginger Beer Time. It's a creative reworking of Taylor Swift's Love Story that actually gives some indication of why the love between the characters is forbidden (it's reimagined as a queer romance), improves immensely on the lyrics (I have no idea what Swift meant by saying she was "the scarlet letter" and that always bugged the hell out of me) and actually made me tear up a bit at the end. As a vid, there's not a lot going on; it's just a good recording of a live performance. But the sound quality is good, the singer is talented, and it's unbelievably heartwarming.
Voila!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQBrhrZpLP8
The reasons for this are twofold.
1) There are a lot of absolutely brilliant things on youtube that aren't watched enough and are getting way less love than they deserve.
2) I can watch a vid in 3 minutes which is basically the duration of my attention span for anything other than ogling Jensen Ackles' ass. And a weekly Jensen's ass review would get old pretty fast. A year or two, tops.
So my first rec is Love Story, by Lashings of Ginger Beer Time. It's a creative reworking of Taylor Swift's Love Story that actually gives some indication of why the love between the characters is forbidden (it's reimagined as a queer romance), improves immensely on the lyrics (I have no idea what Swift meant by saying she was "the scarlet letter" and that always bugged the hell out of me) and actually made me tear up a bit at the end. As a vid, there's not a lot going on; it's just a good recording of a live performance. But the sound quality is good, the singer is talented, and it's unbelievably heartwarming.
Voila!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQBrhrZpLP8