New vid! "A Bad Dream" (Hard Core Logo)
Title: A Bad Dream
Song: Keane, "A Bad Dream"
Fandom: Hard Core Logo
Spoilers: For the movie.
Summary: John. John. John Oxenberger. John the bass player.
Download: DivX AVI (57 MB) (right click, save target as to download)
Warnings: Some fast cuts, alternating between bright and dark scenes; strong imagery of canonical uncontrolled/unmedicated mental illness (if I've worded that offensively, please let me know? I've tried not to!)
Streaming at YouTube here.
Lyrics
Why do I have to fly
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
Where do we go?
I don't even know
My strange old face
And I'm thinking about those days
And I'm thinking about those days
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
OMG y'all I MADE A VID. A vid that is approximately 1000x better thanks to the excellent and astute beta of china-shop and elynross. They both provided some of the best beta feedback I've ever gotten and I genuinely cannot express how much stronger of a vid it is because of both of them. All my thanks, you two. Extra shoutout to jarrow for our lunch of vid talk/motivation that got me to just throw all my clips on the timeline and build a David out of the marble. *g* That lunch discussion coupled with the magic of Vividcon is what got me rolling on this vid when it had lingered for MONTHS.
I'm as much a Joe/Billy fan as the next HCL fangirl, but this movie has always been about John to me, and I was so glad when I stumbled on a song that would let me show why. It's fascinating to me (and not something I consciously realized until I was making the vid) that everyone in the movie spends it silencing John, and yet he provides the narration for the film. I also love how the movie's visuals play so strongly into the decay of the band and can be used to symbolize various emotions and feelings. This was really fun source to work with because it was so pretty and so rich in symbolism and meaning. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend it!
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: Keane, "A Bad Dream"
Fandom: Hard Core Logo
Spoilers: For the movie.
Summary: John. John. John Oxenberger. John the bass player.
Download: DivX AVI (57 MB) (right click, save target as to download)
Warnings: Some fast cuts, alternating between bright and dark scenes; strong imagery of canonical uncontrolled/unmedicated mental illness (if I've worded that offensively, please let me know? I've tried not to!)
Streaming at YouTube here.
Click to viewLyrics
Why do I have to fly
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
Where do we go?
I don't even know
My strange old face
And I'm thinking about those days
And I'm thinking about those days
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now
OMG y'all I MADE A VID. A vid that is approximately 1000x better thanks to the excellent and astute beta of china-shop and elynross. They both provided some of the best beta feedback I've ever gotten and I genuinely cannot express how much stronger of a vid it is because of both of them. All my thanks, you two. Extra shoutout to jarrow for our lunch of vid talk/motivation that got me to just throw all my clips on the timeline and build a David out of the marble. *g* That lunch discussion coupled with the magic of Vividcon is what got me rolling on this vid when it had lingered for MONTHS.
I'm as much a Joe/Billy fan as the next HCL fangirl, but this movie has always been about John to me, and I was so glad when I stumbled on a song that would let me show why. It's fascinating to me (and not something I consciously realized until I was making the vid) that everyone in the movie spends it silencing John, and yet he provides the narration for the film. I also love how the movie's visuals play so strongly into the decay of the band and can be used to symbolize various emotions and feelings. This was really fun source to work with because it was so pretty and so rich in symbolism and meaning. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend it!
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)