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Quinara ([personal profile] quinara) wrote2010-09-11 12:14 am
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Darla Vid: Too Hot for Drumstep

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!
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[personal profile] evilawyer 2010-09-10 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't usually watch vids (my attention span isn't long enough or something), but this was a great pairing of clips to the music. It fit Darla perfectly!
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[personal profile] stultiloquentia 2010-09-13 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2010-09-13 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's not the story I see at all!

And thank heavens for that! Darla was always too interesting for that. I liked the song choice for this, too.
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[personal profile] srevans 2010-09-14 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
What a perfect song. I haven't thought about Darla's s2 character arc much, but now that I do, wow she got a raw deal.
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[personal profile] laeria 2011-01-18 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Darla. Brilliant music choice, brilliant narration. I don't get Darla, except in pieces, but I love the statements I think you made about her self-image: that it's a consciously-build deeply cynical tool that works (not like Spike and Dru's hearty hipsterness, nor Angel's clueless clinging to being Broody) which has little to do with expressing herself except in the sense that she's drawn to beauty and understands its power and makes herself beautiful so she could be more powerful. So, you pegged that. Also, the hilariously horrible tendency of men to use her as a tugging-rope, a mirror, trophy, whatever - something she's mildly irked by, I think - but I'm not sure. How do you think she relates to the fact?

So. I really love that this shows the pragmatic self-building side of her but also the temporically-dislocated (damn, your music choice rocks) "who even am I?" side. Probably more sides, but these are the ones I could grasp. Definitely an awesome vid I'll be revisiting as I make my way through Angel S3.
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