everything but the girl

So, what have I been doing since I watched the final David Tennant episode of Doctor Who?

Vidding. And weeping a bit while rewatching.

TITLE: Farewell to Ten, the Doctor Who Remix

MUSIC: Blame it on the Pop, the 2009 Remix by DJ Earworm - all songs included in the remix are listed below

RATING: PG

GENRE: Mash-up.

NOTES: In December of 2009, DJ Earworm released a remix of the top 25 songs in the US from 2009. I heard it the day before the last episode of Doctor Who starring David Tennant was set to air, and I knew from the first notes that I needed to do a vid about the Tenth Doctor set to this amazing mix of songs. It's my homage to Ten, his companions, his rivals and enemies.

So many thanks to longtimegone for sitting with me through the editing process - you are invaluable! And thanks to wendy for sharing the song last week! I wouldn't have heard it otherwise, so I couldn't have done this without her!

( There's a wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey mash-up under the cut... )

Download a dvd-quality version here or download an ipod-friendly version here.

( The song list )

Also - I am not sure which DW coms I should post this to. Suggestions?

January: Happy New Year! am far tipsier than typing indicates.
I think I need a food icon that's more than just cupcakes, or Jensen With Popcorn, because while I don't have gourmet meals all that often, when I do I want to write about them.

February: Out, out, damned gallbladder! But not today.

March: Have I really been more or less off LJ for a week? I'm basically better, post-surgery, and busy with RL work (yay, new clients!) and with a massive project editing a video for my parents' 40th Anniversary, which is this weekend. (Wow, March 5! That was late for a first post of the month!)

April: Show! I would probably quote everything everyone else has said. Except I should go to sleep, so this is mostly a placeholder so I can come back and OMGOMG about the meta and the laundry and the fandom shout-outs and the slash and OMG was this the first time the concept has been mentioned in a network (well, a small network) tv show?

May:
There is something very nifty and karmic about picking the Star Wars-inspired [info]spn_j2_bigbang prompt on 5/4 since, of course, there's two nifty things about today's date:
1. Add the month and day to get the year; and
2. MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

June: In the last two weeks I have learned [skip Azkatraz prologue] 1. When taking kids to a kids-camp thing on a cruise ship put their names on their shoes - they might get taken by another kid who's about the same size late on the first night but you'll have an easier time claiming they're yours the next day at the pool.

July: I haven't made an actual post since about five minutes before they confirmed that Michael Jackson had died! Which means I haven't joked about Sarah Palin - and I'd recently been wondering if I shouldn't get rid of my "We Have a Problem With Her" icon and now the answer is absolutely no, never.

August: Text stolen from kerryblaze: There really is never any easy way to say this. Sometime during the night, simons_flower passed away. tqpannie has more information here.

September: I get in[to Atlanta] on Thursday, either at 11:30 or 2:30, depending on which flight I am on. Anyone getting in at either of those times, please make sure I have your cell in case we can share a cab to the hotel.

October: SHOW! First, a question re last week's episode. I've asked before but it was behind a cut so maybe it was missed? But I am very, very desperate for an icon (ideally animated) from SPN 5.03 of Dean saying, 'Dayenu!' I know Passover is still about six months away, but I believe in planning ahead.

November: Anyone else doing NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month)? I realized a few weeks back that I've been tweeting more than actually posting, and I want to try and rectify that.

December: How is it December already? Seriously, how?

Now the Year End meme:
( How is it 2010 already? Seriously, how? )
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
It's not from a song - but it's from a song intro.

We have chosen a selection of songs that speaks to the nation as a whole during these troubling times filled with economic uncertainty and unbridled social woe, because if there's two things America needs right now that is sunshine and optimism and..... Also angels!

Stay safe, everyone, into 2010 and beyond.

Long day driving up and back to West Palm to see my BFF from college, her husband and kids, and her parents, and her brother. Lovely afternoon - we saw a mama manatee and her baby! - although one kid tried to do a Pollyanna on the edge of the lawn where it drops off to rocks and water, one kid got both a fishhook in his hand and a splinter in his foot, and one kid said, "Rock Band sucks!" in front of friend's mom and 3 year old son. OOPS!

Finishing my spn_j2_xmas giftie tonight and tomorrow, and generally pleased with it. Finished a slew of document reviews for a client who wanted to close on something today - and they did! Finished my last two trademark apps for the year for a fun client. Finished making a massive batch of ginger cookies, which I usually try to do before Christmas, but at least I can give them around as a New Year's treat; I think I need to see what happens if I put dark chocolate chips into the mix.

Sent flowers with my co-panlists from 2008 and 2009 - as well as one of the expected 2010 panelists - to the memorial service for Eric Bowling that will be held in San Diego on Sunday. Anyone who wants the address, let me know.

And then I came home and read this morning's NY Times and they had an article about Good Riddance Day. Tonic.com wrote this:

Times Square Alliance — the same group that plans the big New Year's Eve bash — helped people officially shed what sucked about this past year.

On Monday, the group sponsored Good Riddance Day, which allowed people to literally shed their bitter memories and failures from the past 365 days or so. The way it worked was simple: folks lined up near the discount theater ticket booth and tossed their bad memories into an industrial-sized shredder. A big Dumpster and a sledgehammer were available for items that couldn't be easily shredded.

I'm going to suggest this locally for next year, but this year, I want to do it virtually - so I'm hosting this poll about the best of 2009, and I also want to know what you'd put into the Good Riddance shredder, or take a sledgehammer to. I'm the only one who'll see the text responses, but if it's ok for me to share what you write, just indicate that somehow - a * can mean it's ok for me to share it without your name, for example. Poll is public so anyone with an LJ account can answer - or OpenID, I think? - so feel free to share the URL around.

[Poll #1505341]

This, btw, is what I put onto the Wishing Wall:
Safe travels and joyous days for my family, friends, and all the friends I haven't met yet.

Gacked variously but most recently from lostt1

Day 01 -- Your favorite song: For working out? Halo/Walking On Sunshine from GLEE. Of the last year? Whadaya Want from Me from Adam Lambert, written by Pink. By my favorite band? Can't Carry On by Crowded House. Of all time? Swing Out Sister's Breakout. And I'll share all of them when I get back home.

Day 02 -- Your favorite movie: Of the last year? Up. By my favorite actor? Serendipity (John Cusack, although I won't see 2012). Of all time? Either High Society or Star Wars. And my favorite Harry Potter film is still and always PoA.

Day 03 -- Your favorite television program: Of the last year? Glee. Of the decade? Supernatural or the Donna season of DW. Of all time? Probably Friends, simply because I met so many wonderful people because of it, and it has the best collection of lines of any sitcom. It was the show of my exact generation, in so many ways.

Coming later this month( ... )

Now featuring unicorns! ( Behind the cut )

Am working like crazy on (a) RL work, (b) New Project Beginning on Tuesday, (c) Family Trip to Disney, (d) replying to emails and (e) belated vids, but I had to pop on for a second to link to Mad Magazine's thoughts on the first 100 minutes of the Obama presidency. I personally like minute # 84.

You may have already seen this, but from Valleywag at Gawker:

[LiveJournal's] product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

CNET sounds slightly less panicky. But better to be safe than sorry! I am not going anywhere, but I am in various other places in case LJ does go somewhere.

I am backed up on InsaneJournal at 8heidi8 and I have an account that I really should move everything over to on JournalFen at heidi - yes, this means that I am not 'heidi8' on other blog-sites.

I'm also on facebook if you know my real name, and on Twitter at travelingheidi.

Why do I feel like the "sort your flist by date" thing last month was the last hurrah of something wonderful from LJ?

I have been here for seven years, as of this month. I don't have a seven year itch. I don't want LJ to go away. I can't recreate this community, not anywhere else.

About six weeks ago when there was a hacking concern, I asked about ways to back up my LJ, and got some recommendations here. I ended up using both LJArchive and LJBook, but I haven't gone through and re-uploaded my LJ posts anywhere else. For me, the comments and polls are as important as the content of my own posts, though, and that's not even including all the icons and photos I've stored here on LJ over the last seven years.

There has to be a way to at least keep LJ online as a hosting location because right now, I am terrified that we are going to lose that.

And that would be awful.

( And I don't wanna shout, but while we were talking, I saw you running out! )

Can you tell I only finally saw the DW Xmas episode yesterday? You know, I used to have a Jo-from-little-women doll with that exact dress (minus the apron). Loved the style for 30+ years. Oh, to wear something like that for comic con....

For my first time participating, this turned out to be a fascinating, phenomenal experience. I wrote Heroes RPF for the first time, as a gift for karaokegal, who requested Adrian Pasdar/Jack Coleman, and said, "You will be my friend forever if you can put together the hotness of Pasdar and Coleman. Mention of sig others and angst are no problem. (By all means throw Natalie in there.) I'm not a big Adrian/Milo shipper, but if it's part of your fanon, I can live with it as long as I get the Jack/Adrian smut."

I've never written smut, but I got somewhat close with Loose Tongue (title from a Neil Finn song), wherein Milo is jumping on the bandwagon and making a few anti-Prop-8 short films, and one's going to feature Adrian and Jack. It's rated R and you can read it here.

So many thanks to roguebitch, gwendolyngrace and ali_wildgoose for beta and mijan and jlh for sensationally inspirational cheerleading.

Definitely participating again next year.

One of the nifty things about this year is that it brought me back in touch with tptigger, who I first met probably ten-plus years ago on the Tomorrow People mailing list - she wrote the adorable Panic In the Disco tomorrow people fic for me. And thanks, as well, to vampedvixen for the wonderful Adrian/Milo fic, The Subtext Is Rapidly Becoming Text. It was adorable and spot-on.

Happy New Year!

am far tipsier than typing indicates.