To round the day off with a less grumpy post, here's things that make me happy:

1) Life on Mars fandom! You guys are all awesome, and the fandom is awesome multiplied, and I'm really happy to have found y'all.

2) The fact that my first "proper" LoM fic (read: fic with actual plot to go with the porn) is now 7000 words and still growing. I did hit a couple of snags, but with the help of awesome fangirl friends and AIM I was able to navigate around them. I know where I'm going with the fic, and I'm determined to finish. Yay :).

3) DOCTOR WHO! With Donna! I cannot wait to see them together again. There will be lols.

4) Collators' Den will be going live very soon. That's shiny, because we put a whole lot of work into that archive and it's always great to see projects finishing up.

5) Sony Vegas is reading my compressed rips. Not happily, but it's doing it, and that makes me happy, because I'd been ready to give up on that prog due to limited disk space.

6) Dvorak's symphony "From the New World". Believe me when I say I am so not a classical music person, but this one is really shiny. I dug up my one classical music CD earlier and put it on, and this piece of music makes me happy.

Right. Now I'm off to bed. Doctor Who when I wake up! :D

This is probably old news for this fandom, but since I'm a latecomer, I hadn't seen it yet.

Whatever happened to Fay Wray the Cortina?

Eeh. Do want. Lol. The guy does look very accomplished.

I think I'm giving up on Sony Vegas. All the converting drives me batshit. Trying Adobe Premiere now. All vidders on my f-list, any prog recommendations? I don't mind complicated, I just want to be able to do whatever I want to with my videos.

Other than that, no real news. Sister came home today and brought some bad news with her (concerning her personal life), and it got me down a little. Not at all her fault, the emo just spread a bit, like emo tends to do. Feel free to link to lulz in the comments, if you have any handy ;).

So I hear that House Bigbang is now online and everything. It makes me sort of sad that I feel so little excitement about this, but eh. I'll probably crave House fic at some point in the future, and when that time comes around, I'll have loads to read :D.

I rewrote my homepage, because the javascript setup with the 6 different skins was getting completely unmanagable.

Rosetta Stoned

There's still javascript in there, but a LOT LESS than before.

In other news, I have a vid bunny for an angsty Gene POV Sam/Gene plus unrequited Gene/Alex post-LoM A2A character death vid. Lol, try saying that three times fast. The song is Badge by Cream (Eric Clapton's band in the 60ies), and it's the most awesome song ever, except that the youTube vid has really crappy quality and you probably won't hear much.

I'd love to start vidding RIGHT NOW, because it's all there in my head, but I haven't ripped all LoM episodes yet, and I think my A2A episodes have a different resolution than my LoM ones. Fail. Also, I'll have to convert everything a second time to make Sony Vegas play it. Oh, how I hate hate hate all these vidding inconveniences. Why can't they make a vid prog that does all the things I want, and not only everything except this one tiny but really important one?

In conclusion, woe is me.

I finished the evil vid of death. I feel very accomplished.

I'm posting it right now without having someone beta-watch it (beta-watch the complete version - it's been beta'ed by many people in earlier stages) because there's no way in hell that I'm touching this vid ever again. Rejoice, people with whom I talk regularly on AIM! I won't be whining about this vid anymore.

Posting a vid is so much fucking work! You need the layout for the entry, then you need to upload it to ten different places on the intarwebz which takes hours on end, and then you have to find comms where you can post it - okay, that only applies if you're like me and vid only one vid in every fandom. Seriously, I've edited 6 vids in 5 different fandoms. What's with that?

Anyway. MY POINT IS that posting fic is way easier. AND WHY IS IMEEM SO SLOW? COME ON, I WANT TO POST!

ETA: Giving up. It's 7am, and Imeem still isn't giving me the link. Seems like I'll have to wait till after I've slept to post after all. *sigh* (I bet if I refresh my Imeem profile now, it'll be there).

Why is it that hardware firms still sell hard drives that are formatted in FAT32? I mean, yeah, Linux doesn't like NTFS, but it's reasonable to assume that people who are using Linux know how to reformat their hard drive so they can use it.

My external is formatted in FAT32, which means I can't save files bigger than 4GB on it. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that I have to go see my parents and can't take the desktop computer with me to work on my vid. I'd be perfectly willing to save my video source file on my external and work on my laptop, except that the source file is 12GB, and, yeah. Exactly. The hard drive is formatted in FAT32.

I'd reformat, but there are 200GB of TV shows on my external that I have no storage place for, not even temporary.

In conclusion, my life = frustrating!

On the bright side, Sony Vegas finally decided to give me back my scrollbars.

ETA: OMG, ICHC CHANGED THEIR LAYOUT! WHY OH WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!

So I managed to add 23 seconds to my vid, which totally counts not as fail, because a) I actually vidded 20 more than that, only that those 20 were crap and had to be deleted, and b) I vidded 8 more than required yesterday.

This seconds counting is sort of ridiculous. Ah well. Whatever gets the vid done.

This nowrimo thing has an interesting side effect - I find lots and lots of interesting things on the intarwebz while desperately trying to procrastinate. I checked fandom_wank, and this wank brings the lulz so hard. I quote:

Despite barely surviving a narrow brush with a lawnmower back in 2006, Harry Potter theorist Anise has continued theorizing the stuffing out of Harry Potter. Her theory is that Harry Potter is all about Calvinism and Gnosticism, and she holds forth in threads like "Debate: Did Harry Potter Have a Good Moral Message?" No it didn't. It had a Calvinist message.

On reading this intro, it might not sound all too exciting, but the comments involve people looking for internet lawyers to get them a fandom divorce, and a side show that brings more stupid. Also, a highly interesting theory is established, in which Dumbledore is Simon Magnus as well as Mrs. Granger's seekrit lover, which makes him Hermione's daddy what gave her all her smarts.

Oh, and then there's this icon, which would have made me spit coffee all over my keyboard if I'd been drinking any.

And these are the Chili Peppers in their socks on cocks stage dress. Many of you might know this vid, but even if you do, it's worth a rewatch ;).

And I have to talk some more about the Gaiman book (Anansi Boys) I'm reading. I've been trying to finish it for the last couple of days, but fandom keeps distracting me. I will make a more elaborate post about the book once I've finished it (which might well be tonight, it's only like 20 more pages or something). For now, I just wanted to quote a couple of paragraphs.

( Tiny spoilers and a lot of wonderful writing under the cut )

I adore his style. Sends me into giggle-fits.

Oh, and look at the awesome icon I found today :D. Credits are on my icon page.

In the last 4 hours, I have edited the same 10 seconds of my Ten/Donna vid 3 times over, and it simply refuses to work out! I can't get it right! It's driving me fucking insane crazy batshit!

Never mind me. I'm yelling at LJ for lack of RL people I could yell at.

I has lists.

These are fannish things I need to do/finish. The list is getting longer every day D:.

• write drunk!Fraser and sick!House for my commentfic meme.
• finish my DW/House x-over.
• finish my RHCP Ten vid.
• make that Ten/Martha vid my brain insist it wants me to make.
• make that Gwen/Rhys vid my brain insist it wants me to make (yeah, I know. Gwen/Rhys? Wtf, brain?).
• write my Jack/Ten fic.
• re-read the House fic I've written with wihluta.
• watch the First Doctor eps that I just acquired (yay \o/).
• go see The Golden Compass.

These are real life things I need to do.

• write my UCAS personal statement (ugh).
• tell the people at my uni that I won't be attending courses anymore.
• look for a place where I can do a training period in the film business.

In other words, I should stop procrastinating, huh? xD

( Have a daemon meme )

I've been playing with the idea of making a vid - yeah. Again. I know. ;P - and of course, the very first clip I want to use is one that I cannot for the life of me remember where I saw it.

I'm not sure whether it's even in one of the episodes, or whether it's a deleted scene, or an outtake.

It's Ten, in the TARDIS, hopping around the control console like a madman. I don't know if he's singing, but he might just as well be ;). Does this ring a bell with anyone? I remember having seen it somewhere, but only very dimly. There is a very slight chance my mind is making it up.

ETA: Mystery has been solved by the awesome eponymous_rose. Thank you!

( And here's the fast forwarded part of Ten's recorded message to Martha in Human Nature/Family of Blood )

I figured out a way around my vidding problem!!

I downloaded Sony Vegas Movie Studio v.6, and it did the same annoying thing as Sony Vegas the big prog did - it wouldn't read my Xvid-encoded episodes. Now, I de-installed the Xvid codec, and what do you know, IT'S WORKING!

I'm not trying to understand this. All I'll do is try if this works with Sony Vegas the big prog too, and then I'm off making vids. I'll have to constantly install/deinstall Xvid, but it beats having to convert all episodes to unencoded avi!!

I'm making a vid! Playing with ideas anyway. One idea. The one I had you playing with waaaay back in April in this post! That bunny didn't die, no-no. It's just that my vid bunnies are more vid turtles - they take a looooong long time to mature *gg*.

I need a proper prog to do vidding, though! I've been using Sony Vegas, but it does this annoying thing about not wanting any encoded avi's, and I really can't be bothered to run all my eps through WMM first to decode them. Pinnacle is weird in some way, too, I've heard, about the frames thing. And WMM, well, hardeharhar.

Any ideas?

ETA 4 hours later: I spent the last four hours trying to find a vid program that would do what I wanted. Tried Pinnacle, ULead and WMM, and finally dloaded Adobe Premiere. In none of these four progs did I manage to get even only the first clip into the timeline.

...

WTF?

Hi, dear flist!

I would like to ask for your assistance. No, don't run and hide! Come back! It's nothing really complicated... ;)

I want to make a vid. A House vid, about drugs. 'Cause if you think about it, aren't they constantly getting high? Not only House. Think of Wilson's pot (no way he didn't sneak some of that for himself! Rainbows!), and Cameron getting high on the gay guy's XTC, and Cuddy all pepped up on fertility drugs all the time.

But since my memory's terrible when it comes to remembering which scene I saw in which epsiode in which season, it would be such a great help if you could point out which scenes you remember. I need the pot scene, the XTC scene, the scene with House and Cuddy when he gives her her shot, and as many House-popping-Vicodin scenes as I can get.

Please don't go looking for clips! Just, if you remember from the top of your head, oh, that shot was in the second half of that episode, it would be really helpful. Thanks! :)