Darla Vid: Too Hot for Drumstep

[quinara]

I love Darla and I love AtS S2 - though sometimes I fear not for the reasons that were intended. (Anyone who has the (mis?)fortune to watch Redefinition with me can attest to the hysterics I descend into when watching Angel chat about how he 'isn't ready' and do his silly little pull ups...) There are, however, certain things that irk me - the end of The Trial for one, when Darla might as well be playing Angel's wank fantasy of a saved maiden. That's not the story I see at all!

And so I mixed it up a bit.

Too Hot for Drumstep.

Warnings for quick flashing images and pushing Angel's 15 rating quite hard - sex, violence and combinations of the two; issues of suicide.

"I thought, if I could save you, I'd somehow save myself."

Fuck that.

[AtS + Wondawulf (vs. Ella Fitzgerald) 'Too Hot for Drumstep']
[Hi-Def Stream and download link - see it shinier!]

Wondawulf, BTW, is a DJ/producer from Budapest, who is fab - check him out on Soundcloud!

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Oh, yeah! Get out of my story, asshole. Go be your own protagonist.

I love your whipcracky, staccato clipping. And the business from ~0:47 to 1:02, with Darla slowly turning and going, "waitafuckin'minute." And Darla's entrance.

What a brilliant song! So-much-cooler-than-you'll-ever-be '50s jazz mashed with hyper-modern, uh, mashing. Perfect for Darla, the collision of eras. I've been thinking a little bit, lately, about how much I enjoy remixes as vid soundtracks. They please me for meta-viddish reasons.

You know what else I really love? Your little italicized summaries. They're awesome.

[quinara]

Go be your own protagonist.

Exactly! There's plenty of story for everyone!

Thank you! I thought maybe the shorter-and-shorter clips thing was a bit obvious for that passage, but then I didn't see any reason to go against the grain and I ended up quite liking it.

And I think I agree with you about remixes - it's always great when a song can say more than one thing, and if there's a conflict then that's even better. (It probably goes without saying that I loooove this song...)

And hee! Thanks also. The summaries are fun (and I love that abstractness works so much better with vids than with fics, not that I'm going to give up trying).

[stultiloquentia]

A propos of nothing, I found a person for you: fulselden. She's been nattering about epics vs. romances as mappable onto contemporary t.v -- Avatar, mostly, but I brought up Buffy in the comments. I read and immediately squealed, "I have to drag Quin over here!" And then she went and wrote a ficcish meditation on Victorian vibrators, inspired by Marie de France's "The Nightingale" (!), and a villanelle based on Disney's The Little Mermaid. Srsly, Quin, srsly.

[quinara]

Ooh, yay! I got the notification that she'd added me to her circle, thought 'hmm, random', checked out her page and thought with all the Avatar stuff that she probably had something to do with you, then shrugged it off - but now, having seen this:

And then she went and wrote a ficcish meditation on Victorian vibrators, inspired by Marie de France's "The Nightingale" (!), and a villanelle based on Disney's The Little Mermaid. Srsly, Quin, srsly.

I AM COMING AND I AM BRINGING CAKE. *sets phasers to Make New Friend*