If I Was A Vidding Woman......

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Gacked from this week's (hey, it counts if it's still Thursday, right?) fannish5:

What five fannish vids would you make if you could? (Now with bonus musicspam.)

If I was had the time and skill to make awesome vids, these would be the ones that I made:

Dirty Knife by Neko Case

So suddenly the madness came
With its whiskered, wolven, ether pangs
He locked the door
And shut the blinds
He laid down on the floor and he slept like iron
While the dirty knife worked deep
Into his spine
The blood runs crazy
The blood runs crazy [......]

He sang nursery rhymes to paralyze
The wolves that eddy out the corner of his eyes
But they squared him frozen where he stood
In the glow of the furniture piled high for firewood

And the blood runs crazy with giant strides
And the woodsman failed to breech those fangs in time
So they dragged him through the underbrush
Wearing three winter coats and a dirty knife

This would be an angsty Hakkai/Gonou vid, all about losing Kannan and massacring a thousand demons. It would be a bloody vid, with lots of shots of Hakkai staring at blood, covered in blood, and looking psychotic. We'd get some images of Chin Yisu, and breaking up the images of slaughter we'd see Kannan and Gonou when they were happy, and the last shot would be Hakkai right before Goyjo found him.

Please, Please, Please by The Caulfield Sisters.

Good times for a change
See, the luck Ive had
Can make a good woman
Turn bad

So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want
This time

A Faith vid, focusing on her and the various people in her life who she wants to love her but who either a.) don't or b.) leave her in some way. Lots of shots of her with the Mayor bracketed by scenes of her all alone when she gets out of her coma. Ends with an ambiguously positive shot of her in prison.

Thick As Thieves by Natalie Merchant

Remember how it all began
The apple and the fall of man
The price we paid
So the people say [...]

I've come to you in restless sleep
Where all your dreams turned bitter sweet
With voodoo doll philosophies
Day gloy holy trinities
The wicked raft that leaves the shore
Of ferries drunken souls a board
Pilgrims march to compostela
Of visions of their saint in yellow

This would be a more episodic vid, focusing on Sanzo, Goku, the gods and the Sanzo party's gaiden history. This song is perfect for a five minute recap of Sanzo's tragic past, the fall from heaven, etc, and all the mixed up religious imagery would be perfect for Saiyuki. The line about "Voodoo doll philosophies" just screams Sanzo to me.

Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi by Jim White

I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi.
My girlfriend blows a boozy good-bye kiss.
I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata.
Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone.
Still, I'm feeling pretty good about the future.
Yeah, everything is peaches but the cream.
I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi,
where things is always better than they seem.

This would be a vid about the awesomeness/angst of Dean Winchester. We'd see shots of him tied up, shots of him kicking ass, shots of him being goofy- basically this would be an ode to the best Winchester brother, with bonus Impala-love.

Life For Rent by Dido

I haven't ever really found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

Inara and her struggle with what she gives away of herself, her profession, Mal, Serenity, and why she decided to leave. I can just see her walking away from Mal in "Heart of Gold" at "I never stick around quite long enough to make it".

BONUS: A vid that won't be make not because I lack the talent, but because no one has make it into a kickass movie yet:

Exile by Kate Rusby

(It has awesome lyrics but I'm too tired to write them out and google is giving me no love.)

This should be a Cordelia Naismith vid (from the Vorkosigan books) and it would focus on Cordelia, and her struggle between the man she's in love with and her Betan life. I don't think credit was given in the books for how hard it must have been for her to leave her whole life behind; not in the beginning, but for all those years later when she was a stranger in a strange land.