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[lotesse]

hi festividding buddy-person! yay vids! yay our clearly awesome shared tastes!

I like a really wide range of music. I'm more accepting of risk with female vocalists than male. I'm into tracks with complex underlying soundscapes or backing drones.

I don't mind long slow takes. I like aha/revelation moments, clever lyric matches, intertextual references, and intense builds.

Janelle Monae music videos

gimme the Electric Lady's hero's journey. gimme the archandroid's coming-of-age story.

The Colbert Report [TV]

emo Stephen vid exploring the character's damage, plz? Could be either sympathetic!ott or played straight. some bits of The Report that might be relevant are Formidable Opponent and the interview with the Gorillaz that the character made Steve Col-bert do; there's also an old Daily Show segment with Stephen as an emo soap opera character that's super dramz.

The Color Purple [Movie]

while I don't always love Spielberg's direction, this movie has some wonderful performances by actresses of color. I especially love Oprah's Sophia, her beauty and her power and her sexuality and her rage and her endurance.

Hook [Movie]

wow more Spielberg how did that happen. I guess he makes a lot of things that I love in part more than in whole. The performance that I love in this one is Maggie Smith's Wendy; she's so beautiful and wise and sad, the keeper of the old secrets. It would be cool if you could focus more on the Edwardian aesthetics in the film, like the hook-shaped great glass windows and the benefit party and the book and the flashback sequences, and less on the 90s PlayPlace primary-colored stuff with the next generation of Lost Boys. More like Barrie, less like E.T.

Twelfth Night (1996) [Movie]

Olivia is a gorgeous sarcastic clever independent frosty bitter bitch who knows what she wants (Cesario) and knows who she doesn't - step off, Orsino! I have been ~passionately~ in love with HBC's performance for most of my life. She's just so perfect. Ya'll better bow down.

Slings and Arrows [TV]

The stagecraft on display in this series ranges from the appalling (the funeral set, the bleating prop goats, everything Darren Nichols touches) to the sublime (Geoffrey's changing and wrong-footing Macbeth set, the basic effects work of the final Lear performance). Explore the comedy, the pathos, or both!