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

[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.