I'm a YouTube Whore And I Share*
Nov. 5th, 2011 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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In the fine tradition of people who have things to do wasting time on teh internets, I give you some YouTube videos that I have thoroughly enjoyed. They are music and dance type videos, not fanvids.
First: Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man) by ApprenticeA
This one is an epic tribute to both Star Wars, and to John Williams, the amazing composer for numerous excellent movies. It's a Star Wars-themed, four-part a cappella musical tribute set to cinematic themes from John Williams' scores. This one makes me laugh, and go AWWWWWW. Plus, Corey Vidal (the singer in the video) is amazing himself.
Next: Miau Miau Miau (Duetto buffo di due gatti - G. A> Rossini
Someone posted this video to the McShepSlash2 Yahoo group. (Name withheld because I don't know if they would want me posting it publicly) They proposed the idea of watching it as a John/Rodney choir boy AU. I'll let you watch before I comment.
I am thoroughly impressed with the skill of these two boys. I'm not a singer at all, but I can tell the song must be difficult, and they have beautiful voices. Plus, boy's choirs are always nice to listen to. I started watching without reading the title or anything, so after a few seconds I was going "...are they meowing? WTH?" What a gloriously cheeky song presented in a solemn setting, and the brown-haired boy really made me giggle. I can really see him as John. This one was just pure fun.
Then: Discovery Channel - I Love The Whole World
I don't care that this is a Discovery Channel commercial. The world is amazing, and I love it. This video is squee-inducing. I love that it contains astronauts and space shuttle blastoffs, Steven Hawking, Mythbusters, explosions and pyramids and Transformers. I love this video.
And then there is the XKCD version, also squee-inducing:
Then: Alessandra Ferri and Sting
I love the song Sting plays here, 'Prelude' from "Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach. I heard it years ago and never knew the name until I heard it again in this video. Alessandra is a beautiful dancer.
Last: Vampire Ballet
I'll just finish this off with some slashy vampire ballet sexiness set to Nirvana:
Actually, Vampire Ballet was going to be the last, but the links lead to Bleeding Love - The Vampire Visual (Moto Blanco Edit), and I had to post it
It's sort of a gay porn fanvid. It's probably not the best gay porn ever (though I don't have much experience in that department), but I think it suggests that the gay audience is just as interested in the vampire and dub-con tropes as fandom is. Interesting.
(Also, Lexus is advertising on YouTube. WTF. That just seems... odd to me)
cards_slash's tags, because it makes me laugh)In the fine tradition of people who have things to do wasting time on teh internets, I give you some YouTube videos that I have thoroughly enjoyed. They are music and dance type videos, not fanvids.
First: Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man) by ApprenticeA
This one is an epic tribute to both Star Wars, and to John Williams, the amazing composer for numerous excellent movies. It's a Star Wars-themed, four-part a cappella musical tribute set to cinematic themes from John Williams' scores. This one makes me laugh, and go AWWWWWW. Plus, Corey Vidal (the singer in the video) is amazing himself.
Next: Miau Miau Miau (Duetto buffo di due gatti - G. A> Rossini
Someone posted this video to the McShepSlash2 Yahoo group. (Name withheld because I don't know if they would want me posting it publicly) They proposed the idea of watching it as a John/Rodney choir boy AU. I'll let you watch before I comment.
I am thoroughly impressed with the skill of these two boys. I'm not a singer at all, but I can tell the song must be difficult, and they have beautiful voices. Plus, boy's choirs are always nice to listen to. I started watching without reading the title or anything, so after a few seconds I was going "...are they meowing? WTH?" What a gloriously cheeky song presented in a solemn setting, and the brown-haired boy really made me giggle. I can really see him as John. This one was just pure fun.
Then: Discovery Channel - I Love The Whole World
I don't care that this is a Discovery Channel commercial. The world is amazing, and I love it. This video is squee-inducing. I love that it contains astronauts and space shuttle blastoffs, Steven Hawking, Mythbusters, explosions and pyramids and Transformers. I love this video.
And then there is the XKCD version, also squee-inducing:
Then: Alessandra Ferri and Sting
I love the song Sting plays here, 'Prelude' from "Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach. I heard it years ago and never knew the name until I heard it again in this video. Alessandra is a beautiful dancer.
Last: Vampire Ballet
I'll just finish this off with some slashy vampire ballet sexiness set to Nirvana:
Actually, Vampire Ballet was going to be the last, but the links lead to Bleeding Love - The Vampire Visual (Moto Blanco Edit), and I had to post it
It's sort of a gay porn fanvid. It's probably not the best gay porn ever (though I don't have much experience in that department), but I think it suggests that the gay audience is just as interested in the vampire and dub-con tropes as fandom is. Interesting.
(Also, Lexus is advertising on YouTube. WTF. That just seems... odd to me)
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Date: Saturday, November 5th, 2011 10:13 pm (UTC)Starwars song with Dutch subtitles...made for me.
one of my favorite cello suites in combi with Ms. Ferri's jealousy inducing arches...perfect.
And finishing off with bleeidng love....one of my guilty pleasure songs :D
Also vampires!!!
How are you?
I'm like 48 hours away from finishing the thing that shall not be named after which I will have a life again :D
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Date: Sunday, November 6th, 2011 02:38 am (UTC)I had no idea it had Dutch subtitles, but then I've not messed with the subtitles at all. Interesting! (Quick aside, I think that the AO3 supports fic in Dutch, though I'm not 100% positive because I don't know how 'Dutch' is spelled in Dutch.) Also, I didn't know you were/spoke Dutch? (Please smack me if that's something we've spoken about and I totally forgot! My memory can be spotty at times)
Also, I just have to say that I LOVE the Jurassic Park part. It seriously makes me all squishy inside.
I've loved that cello suite since high school. The combination of the music with the beautiful dance was too much to pass up.
Bleeding Love's a song that I love too! I'll admit to loving pop music, and that one always makes me sing along. Though I hadn't thought to apply it to a vampire theme, that's an inspired choice indeed. I particularly liked the guy lying on the red satin kissing and licking with all the blood. (The Vampire Diaries has... maybe given me a bit of a blood kink. Or, accentuated the one I already had)
I'm good! I've got a new job, and while it's had a bit of stress it's going pretty well. I've started volunteering for the AO3, so that's kind of a big fannish project. Though after I figure out what I'm supposed to be doing, the amount of time I spend can be flexible. My writing is... inching along, at best. *sigh*
And you? Does that mean you're 48 hours from finishing your thesis?!? \0/ That's AMAZING!! I'm so excited for you! Here's to getting it done and having free time again! *clinks glasses*