Epic videos

I'm supposed to be studying for my stats midterm, but you know. XD

Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me": linked on this thread of worldserpent's, wherein I gripe pathetically that it was not the albion_fic/slacken_ties generation that got "mainstream" media slash fandom interested in bandslash. XD; Though then I went home** and thought about it some more, and now figure it might have something to do with... wholesomeness? Maybe? Approachability? That's the constant factor, from the original popslash to JE to the MCR-gen bandslash (I don't really draw a line between the Western and Asian variants when I think about them, though they don't seem to intersect on my flist). Libs fandom was always going to be better in theory than in practice, because in practice the Pete'n'Carl saga appealed to uhh segments of the fangirl population unlikely to write with rigour. And indie-ists have a quality of intimidation, like they're two steps ahead of your lit-theory-based self-justifications. Alex Kapranos most certainly is. XD;

(With respect to Patrick Wolf I figured it out mere days after that comment, in accordance with the subreality principle Charmian always invokes. It came to me without warning--

--Neil Gaiman. DESHOU.

*is sporked by helvetius*)

I know someone who used to write fanfic about Blur. It's an odd way of framing things mentally: while reading Phonogram I thought, what if Livejournal had existed in Richey Edwards' time. In Ziggy Stardust's time? Everyone still fresh from the Monkees fandom and everything.

Back to the music - Cis is right, My Chemical Romance's cover of "Umbrella" is definitive, a proper release is urgent+key. That video is a wretched tease btw because the whole point is you are waiting for the guitars to DROP LIKE VICTORIA FALLS. I never believed in "Umbrella" as R&B anyhow. XD Even when I listen to the original I keep expecting massive guitars on the chorus, a la Kelly Clarkson, and I'm not in the habit of hoping songs will sound more like Kelly Clarkson. (Or the Cranberries, because isn't that the "ella, ella, eh, eh" bit when you get down to it?)

EDIT -- I should mention that the Fall Out Boy video contains vampires; not a spoiler I think. TEARS. TEARS IN MY EYES.

New Order - Crystal: famously fulfilled its own prophecy by inspiring The Killers to existence (who promptly turned around and rendered homage with "Somebody Told Me"). The joke only gets funnier as time goes by - I ARE SERIOUS VIDEO delivery and all. To put it into perspective, the "Crystal" single came out in mid-2001. No one'd heard of Franz Ferdinand or Interpol or The Rapture or even The Strokes. Hedi Slimane had just begun designing skinny suits for Dior. "Haircut indie" didn't exist as a concept, which apparently wasn't enough to stop New Order from parodying the future.

(Which sounds like New Order. XD Believably, what with Barney Sumner's ageless voice.)

New Order - Krafty: one of my impossible writing goals is to recreate with prose the effect of the camerawork in this PMV (which IMO is one of the most beautiful extant).

Lucky Star does Initial D: I think this just sold me on the series.


** Metaphorically, I was sitting at the kitchen table.