everything but the girl

wendywoowho and I were just discussing whether Xanadu is more of a beer movie or a pina colada film, and whether Grease II is more beer-friendly, and I opined that The Pirate Movie calls out for rum-based drinks (and PotC probably does too).

What alcoholic beverages match best with your favorite films?

ETA: This bit from circa 1976 Sesame Street made me very happy tonight.

I'm having a lovely day! Good things happened in the realms of FictionAlley's March challenge (going up tomorrow), Phoenix Rising hotel and event arrangements, Portus 2008 website & email goodies and other shiny things, and I got POlice tickets which are about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost they are in other cities (it's probably cheaper to fly here and see them than it is to see them in NYC, if anyone wants to come down) plus I got my hair colour updated and it's a lovely shade of reddish, squee! Plus, LJ is working again with tweaks on the Update page and things are again loading and I'm considering changing my LJ theme - what would you suggest I switch to? It needs to be something that works well on my handheld, and I'd love to be able to include a tag cloud...

But there are things to post about!

First - does anyone know where I go to change my LJ viewing options regarding seeing things behind a cut when I load my flist?

Second...
fannish5's question of the week is:
What five fannish vids would you make if you could?

These are the videos that live in my brain:
...maybe if the new desktop gets purchased for Hubby's birthday next month, I will finally re-learn vidding (I did it on tapes for years in high school & college) and get to make...



1. A Rose-centric one to the Camera Obscura cover of Modern Girl. It's a folky, plaintive and very toned down cover of the Sheena Easton song and it just *screams* post-Doomsday Rose.
"She's getting by doing what she can. She is free to be what she wants to be..."

2. A Petrelli-focused one to Crowded House's World Where You Live. One of their many songs about space and knowledge and learning about the people in your life and understanding and... "Come on now, there must be something missing. That golden one leads a double life - you'll find out. Tell me, I don't know where you go - do you climb into space to the world where you live?"

3. A Supernatural-focused one to the Finn Brothers' Won't Give In. "Once in a while, I return to the fold, to the people I call my own. Even if time is just a flicker of light and we all have to die alone. What does it mean when you belong to someone, and you're born with a name and you carry it on?"

See a Finn Brothers theme going on here? I've got these fanmixes I've been working on for both Heroes and SPN that are *all* Finn Bros songs because nobody does magic and science and sky and earth and roadtrips and kitchens and families and brotherhood better. Ever, and for all time.

4. A Sirius-centric one to A Boat on the Sea from the Grace of My Heart soundtrack. The song could be, to my mind, partly from harry's perspective and partly from Remus's and it's just heartbreaking but there aren't enough images from canon yet and maybe after OotP?
I remember when I met him
He blew in like the wind
No one was more beautiful
Or dangerous than him
He blew through my soul
Like a tangerine wind
He'll be coming out soon

5. Another Petrelli-one - more Nathan than Peter this time, I think, to The Only Living Boy in New York, as covered by Everything But the Girl, because the beat is just a little more upbeat than the Simon & Garfunkle original (which you can find on the Garden State soundtrack).

Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where,
And we don't know when.
Tom, get your plane right on time.
I know you've been eager to fly now.
Hey let your honesty shine, shine, shine
Paul wrote it for Art when he was about to do a film in Mexico, but the evocation of New York and flying and... It just feels right.

And if there was a sixth, it would be a Jack-centric one incorporating Torchwood and Doctor Who and it would be set to "It's Alright With Me", but I'm hoping for good clips from the next season of Who so I'm not really mentally working this one through yet like I am for the others.

And if anyone wants to gack any of these ideas, PLEASE DO!