Vid: Girl Anachronism

[lierdumoa]

Title: Girl Anachronism
Artist: The Dresden Dolls
Fandom: Gia
Summary: Bitch. Tease. Goddess on her knees.
A/N: I want to thank my pinch hitting last minute beta permetaform, who literally came to my room, sat next to me, kept me focused (drill sergeant style), cooked me food and reassured me I wasn't making crap for twelve straight hours while I finished the last 59 seconds of this vid. She rocks like a thing that rocks really hard. I also want to thank my roommate goluxexmachina for being a giant ego boost and listening to my ramble. This vid premiered at VividCon 2005.
Extras: Making Of; vividcon

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Lyrics

One (one)
Two (two)
One two THREE FOUR

You can tell
From the scars on my arms
And cracks in my hips
And the dents in my car
And the blisters on my lips
That I'm not the carefullest of girls

You can tell
By the glass on the floor
And the strings that're breaking
And I keep on breaking more
And it looks like I am shaking
But it's just the temperature
But then again
If it were any colder I could disengage
If I were any older I could act my age
But I dont think that you'd believe me
It's
Not
The
Way
I'm
Meant
To
Be
It's just the way the operation made me

And you can tell
From the state of my room
That they let me out too soon
And the pills that I ate
Came a couple years too late
And I've got some issues to work through
There I go again
Pretending to be you
Make-believing
That I have a soul beneath the surface
Trying to convince you
It was accidentally on purpose

I am not so serious
This passion is a plagiarism
I might join your century
But only on a rare occasion
I was taken out
Before the labor pains set in and now
Behold the world's worst accident
I am the girl anachronism

And you can tell
From the red in my eyes
And the bruises on my thighs
And the knots in my hair
And the bathtub full of flies
That I'm not alright at all
There I go again
Pretending that I'll fall
Don't call the doctors
Cause they've seen it all before
They'll say just
Let
Her
Crash
And
Burn
She'll learn
The attention just encourages her

And you can tell
From the full-body cast
That I'm sorry that I asked
Though you did everything you could
(like any decent person would)
But I might be catching so don't touch
You'll start believeing you're immune to gravity and stuff
Don't get me wet
Because the bandages will all come off

Then you can tell
From the blood on your legs
That the current state is critical
Well it is the little things, for instance:
In the time it takes to break it she can make up ten excuses:
Please excuse her for the day, its just the way the medication makes her

I don't necessarily believe there is a cure for this
So I might join your century but only as a doubtful guest
I was too precarious removed as a caesarian
Behold the world's worst accident
I am the girl anachronism
(girl anachronism)
I am the girl anachronism
(I am the girl anachronism)
I am the girl
(I am the girl)
I am the girl
(I am the girl)
I am the girl
(I am the girl)
I am the girl anachronism

Comments

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Woman! Did you hear that applause?

SO. FUCKING. COOL.

This vid is exquisite. You should be proud.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

=D

I was so nervous about it. It's my favorite vid that I've ever done, but I kept worrying it would be completely opaque to people who didn't know the fandom / too stylistically outrageous.

I'm really happy, and kind of shellshocked it got the reaction it did.

[emungere.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've never seen the movie, but now I want to. That was amazing.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaay! I'm so glad you liked it! It's the one vid I'm happiest with at the moment.

The movie is alright, but Angelina Jolie's acting is brilliant, so you should check it out just for that.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! So happy you liked it! The way you were so excited about it, I was horribly worried I'd given it too much hype and you were going to be dreadfully dissappointed.

::waits impatiently for more detailed comments like the feedback whore she is::

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!!!

[andtheafterglow.livejournal.com]

asdfkl

you and permetaform are spoiling us tonight!

*downloading*

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

That was *amazing.* I'm sorry, I wish I could give more coherent feedback, but man. I have no familiarity with the source material whatsoever, and that *still* knocked me on my ass. The cutting techniques were so freaking cool, especially in the intro, and it just got better, and *flail*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

W00t!!!

I was really hoping it would be effective to people who hadn't seen the movie, since I knew probably the majority of people watching it wouldn't have seen the source before. I played around a lot with this vid. So glad you liked it!

=D

[wolfling]

Don't know the source material at all and the song is probably not one I'd listen to on my own but this vid just drew me in. Amazing editing and clip choices and very accessible even with no knowledge of Gia at all.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

One of my biggest concerns was having the story makes sense since 1) I was cutting so fast and 2) the lyrics were mostly incomprehensible. I'm really glad the vid was accessible to you.

Yay! Thanks for the feedback!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

The cutting in my vid doesn't feel particularly fast to me either, but then, I slowed it down as much as I could force myself to because I know I can parse much faster than the average viewer. I also chose shots with a lot less internal motion than I usually go for. There are other vids on the DVD, you'll notice, that are cut slower than mine, but feel faster because they have more internal motion.

Here I'm thinking speed as relative to content. You can cut faster if the viewer knows the context. You can cut faster if you're telling a simpler story. With this vid I was expecting that no one would know the context, and yet I still wanted everyone to be able to absorb the eight or so stages of Gia's adult life that my vid covered.

In Tsumibito No Kashou (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=39018), for example -- I can see every image in this vid, but they're all going by way to fast for me to draw any sort of connection between one image and the next. This vid is completely opaque to anyone not intimately familiar with the anime.

[rydra_wong]

Oh wow wow wow wow wow.

Um, that's as coherent a response as I can manage right now.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

=D=D=D=D=D

Glad you liked it.

[tuatha-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Gia but I decided to watch it anyway and I'm so glad I did. It's brilliant. I was blown away watching it.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, great! I made this vid expecting that nobody would have seen the movie, so I tried to make it as accessible to people who were unfamiliar with it as possible. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[isilya]

Oh my god, wow. Just wow. I've watched it five times and I have goosebumps like mad and it's just *stunning*.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome!

I put so many fancy effects in this thing and had so much fancy cutting I was worried it was going to end up a shiny ball of WTF and that it wasn't going to be accessible to non-vidders. I'm really, really glad it worked for you.

=D

[danielleleigh.livejournal.com]

I caught some 20 minutes of the film one day but this vid has convinced me I should sit down and watch the whole thing.

The song was wonderfully apt for the film and I loved what you did with it. So far this is my favorite vid to be released from the con and if it weren't for some of the more difficult emotional scenes in the vid, I could watch it again and again.

Thanks so much for sharing!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes. Glad I could spread the Gia love.

So far this is my favorite vid to be released from the con and if it weren't for some of the more difficult emotional scenes in the vid, I could watch it again and again.

Eeeee! ::blushes::

I'm glad I got across the cringeworthy intensity of those scenes. By the time I got around to vidding them I had seen them so many times I couldn't remember how affecting they'd been the first time I'd seen them.

Thanks so much for commenting!

[vampyredrusilla.livejournal.com]

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee this movie thanks so much for the vid thanks

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Thanks for the feedback!

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I like how you caught both the glamour of Gia's life and the tragedy when it falls apart (although I found your vid considerably less depressing than I find the movie). The frenetic pace of the editing matched the whirlwind of success she experiences, in all its decadence, very nicely.

Thank you for sharing this! :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the movie ends on a much more depressing note than my vid, and that's the impression the viewer leaves with. I'm really glad the style worked for you.

Thankyou for commenting! I really appreciate the feedback!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_absinthedreams/]

that was beautiful

<333 The dresden dolls

:) sorry for me being a idiot but was the movie gia.. or yea... what movie was it?

<333Cassie

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yes, the movie was Gia. I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting!

[keewick.livejournal.com]

I suck at giving vid feedback...I never know what to say or how to say it, but I'll give it a go nevertheless.

This was my favorite Premiere at VVC...I've never seen the movie, Gia, but by the closing sequence of this vid I felt like I knew the character all the same. The vid vibrated with energy and color and was just so fucking alive and bold and in your face that it bowled me over. The use of magenta/fuscia/whatever you want to call it was perfectly glam, and the use of black/white was similarly effective in accenting diff sequences and bringing a certain sense of seriousness to the reality of what we're seeing beyond the dazzle.

I have nothing left to say except that I just absolutely *loved* this. I am so in awe; it's not even funny. :D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

You do not suck at giving feedback! Thank you so much! I'm incredibly flattered. I'm really glad the style worked for you. I was kind of like, "where the hell did that come from?" the whole time I was making it. And yes! I'm so glad the story made sense and that I got Gia's in your face-ness across.

=D

[http://users.livejournal.com/naty_/]

I've only caught parts on this movie on tv, but the video really gave me a complete sense of the character. This really is an amazing and beautiful vid.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thankyou! I really wanted to give a complete sense of Gia. Yay for successes! I'm so glad you commented.

:)

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck. I just watched this because the link to yhlee's commentary on vidding reminded me. It was amazing, but *squicksquicksquick* I wish you'd put a warning or something for some of that content. It was still amazing, but I'm kind of shaking now.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry about the squicking. I guess I'm used to vidding in fandoms where most of the people commenting are already familiar with the source material. Next time I'll be sure to add in the movie rating et. al. I'm glad you liked it!

Perversely, I'm glad I got across the intensity and ugliness of those scenes because that was an important part of the character I was trying to convey, though I'm sorry if it bothered you *too* much.

Thanks so much for commenting and telling me what you thought!

[shati.livejournal.com]

yhlee linked to this from her journal, and I'm so glad she did. Gorgeous.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thankyou! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Never seen the movie before, but wow, this vid was so cool :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

::catching up on comment backlog::

Yay! Glad you liked! I'd hoped when I'd made this that it would be accessible to people who didn't know the source, since it's not a very well known movie.

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

I am so very, very behind the times in just now watching this vid -- but I'm so glad I did because it's fabulous. The jump cuts are what immediately caught my attention...they are so frenetic, and perfect for both the song and the source...her frenzied, out-of-control life. This vid is kind of kaleidoscopic because it's constantly in motion and shifting and showing so many aspects of her character. And it does that excellently. Thank you for sharing this!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for commenting! This is probably the best vid I've made, though I keep hoping one day I'll top it. I was so sleep deprived when I made most of it that it was, actually, like being on drugs. I think that really shows through.

::cough::

I've been following you slavishly since you posted your Prayer vid to vidding (which I may have failed to comment on because I'm horrible like that, and I'll tell all my friends about an awesome vid before I'll actually tell the vidder), so trust me when I say I am extremely flattered that you like it.

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

Here via the_reel.

Wow. You did amazing justice to this movie. Everything from Gia's manic energy to her pain to her tragedy. Not only did you completely nail all of her moods, but you painted this frantic, beautiful, frightening portrait with your editing skills. I'm in awe.

I've been a fan of this movie since it premiered on HBO way back when, have always loved it and you made me look at it in a new way.

Well done!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I saw it when it premiered on HBO. I was way too young to have been watching HBO at the time, which I realized halfway through the sex scene. I think I was seven or eight at the time. I wept buckets at the end.

Then years later I heard the song, remembered the movie, and ordered it off Amazon. Upon rewatching I proceeded to weep buckets all over again. Luckily I managed to get it together for the actual making of the vid.

I'm so glad you liked it!

[lapillus]

They just played the song on the radio and I had to go back and rewatched your vid. It's as great as ever.