I did my best, it wasn't much
Jul. 22nd, 2019 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplefringeguys, I...I made another Good Omens vid? A third one? I don't know what has happened, I don't understand anything any more, apparently Good Omens is my whole life now. (Which is good, I guess, because I have well and truly noped out of engaging with the Real World in quite a serious way, so it's nice to have something else to think about.)
This one has...Feelings in it. Many Feelings, which I absolutely did not know I had. But there we are. It's also to a piece of music about which I (along with approx. half the world) have Many Feelings, although I did know about those, because I once wrote a 2,000 word email-essay containing some of them. (it's NOT Queen, I promise)
I think I had a lot more to say, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. Er. Have a vid, I guess.
Thank you to the wonderfulsoupytwist, such_heights & raven, who are lovely and thoughtful (and patient, and long-suffering) betas. If you haven't already, you should watch the Good Omens vids such_heights and raven have made recently, which are both breathtaking in very different ways.
Hallelujah
edited bypurplefringe
fandom: Good Omens
music: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, covered by Pentatonix
summary: there's a blaze of light in every word / it doesn't matter which you heard / the holy or the broken hallelujah. On faith, and falling, and freedom.
content notes: a shot of a snake at 00:18; a brief shot of a nail being driven into someone's wrist at 2:08. (I also have a version without the snake, if anyone would like that one)
ETA: I strongly recommend you go and readelisi's extraordinary Good Omens meta - the first section is a wonderful commentary on Aziraphale's journey as presented through this glorious vid by promethia-tenk, and the second section (about two thirds down the page) is about Crowley, and ties into this vid! YAY, INTER-TEXTUAL FANWORKS \o/
download: 169MB @ mediafire
Also on tumblr and the AO3
stream:
Lyrics
This one has...Feelings in it. Many Feelings, which I absolutely did not know I had. But there we are. It's also to a piece of music about which I (along with approx. half the world) have Many Feelings, although I did know about those, because I once wrote a 2,000 word email-essay containing some of them. (it's NOT Queen, I promise)
I think I had a lot more to say, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. Er. Have a vid, I guess.
Thank you to the wonderful
soupytwist, such_heights & raven, who are lovely and thoughtful (and patient, and long-suffering) betas. If you haven't already, you should watch the Good Omens vids such_heights and raven have made recently, which are both breathtaking in very different ways.Hallelujah
edited by
purplefringefandom: Good Omens
music: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, covered by Pentatonix
summary: there's a blaze of light in every word / it doesn't matter which you heard / the holy or the broken hallelujah. On faith, and falling, and freedom.
content notes: a shot of a snake at 00:18; a brief shot of a nail being driven into someone's wrist at 2:08. (I also have a version without the snake, if anyone would like that one)
ETA: I strongly recommend you go and read
elisi's extraordinary Good Omens meta - the first section is a wonderful commentary on Aziraphale's journey as presented through this glorious vid by promethia-tenk, and the second section (about two thirds down the page) is about Crowley, and ties into this vid! YAY, INTER-TEXTUAL FANWORKS \o/download: 169MB @ mediafire
Also on tumblr and the AO3
stream:
Lyrics
Re: SCREAMING WITH TIME-STAMPS
Date: 2019-07-28 07:31 am (UTC)Oh, I love the song! (I imprinted on the John Cale version way back when, but this particular cover is perfect for what you're doing here.)
But it's got such a huge over-familiarity problem, like it's been coated with layers of varnish. It's like the "To be or not to be" problem -- any actor playing Hamlet has to try to figure out a way to walk out on stage and do that speech and make the audience actually hear the words, as if they'd never heard them before, rather than going "Oh, here's the 'To be or not to be' speech".
Which is what makes it so jaw-droppingly impressive that you managed to do that.