Today is historic. My white ginger bloomed for the first time since I got it, which was about three years ago. I started it as a bulb and now it's huge. Of course, now I have to cut it down and bring it inside! BLAST. Anyway, it smells lovely. Kind of like honeysuckle (which I have in abundance,) but just more gingery. ( Pretty, isn't it? )

Also, I unchecked all the codec compatability things in MovieMaker and it started working a little better. It's still sporadic and it still randomly shuts down, but I was finally able to finish my Dirge of Cerberus video. What a pain it was to make, because sometimes the music would shut down, and most of the time the program would shut down when I moved the cursor over the clips. No warning, no locking or freezing, just totally shutting down.

Download it off Yousendit.

Or, hey, ( watch it here: )

Either way, it was SUCH a pain in the butt to make. Please watch it!

And in the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I give you Le Jared ...

and the things that attractive people can afford to do. :D

Oh, all right, so anyway I promised myself--well not promised, really, just sort of considered it--that I would not make any more music videos from Advent Children or FFVII, because really, how much more can you do? The same scenes get sort of old after a while. And after I did "It's Raining Men" I figured I'd just about out-done myself with AC and couldn't do anything more with it.

But then the perfect--PERFECT--song came along for Advent Children, and I couldn't not make the video.

I mean, really, the song is perfect. Every line goes. The song is a tear-jerker and you'll hear why. I'm not much for emotional manipulation, and I really try to avoid it, not to mention that I didn't want to trivialize the song (which is very likely about a real person) by using it in a video about fictional people, but then I said, you know, the song is art, and the movie is art. What's it going to hurt to stick them together?

If It Be Your Will, 22MB. Really kind of a small file, comparatively, and kind of a short song.

Oh, hell with it. It's Raining Men -- Advent Children. 24.5 MB.

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave, used for a Sephiroth tribute. 37 MB.


If you do download any of these to watch them, please don't hesitate to let me know if you liked them, or if not, where I could improve. I do know that the editing is jerky sometimes, most especially in Red Right Hand. It wasn't until It's Raining Men that I started to really get a grip on doing AMVs. (I just stopped myself from writing, "That meant something, damnit!") But if you download, lemme know! And feel more than free to pass them around. That's what AMVs are for, right?

If you only want to download one (understandable,) then do If It Be Your Will if you're in the mood for a melancholy, saccharine one. Do It's Raining Men if you want a giggle (I have to say, I really do amuse myself,) and do Red Right Hand for the campy badassity of Sephiroth. That one, by the way, was made before Advent Children was out.

And that's it for now.

/cheeseball