Vid Rec: Sleepwalker

[butterfly]

Sleepwalker
sung by The Wallflowers
vid by Wendy (kitkatbyte)


"Cupid, don't draw back your bow."

Bittersweet (mostly bittersad, really) Buffy/Xander vid. This vid has a lot of artist cuts and repeats that really go with the sound of the song. And there's a sadness that just... resonates. There's a sense of loving and knowing that it's hopeless and wishing that you could stop but... you can't. Some many places where the motion is perfectly on beat.

It has a driven, yet dream-like feel to it that works perfectly with the way that Wendy chose to edit it -- doubling some actions, folding over certain places. It has a hard-edged longing to it, one that makes clear how much more Xander might wish to have and will never get, because love doesn't work that way. Loving someone romantically is no guarantee that they will feel the same, nor should it be.

Anyway, it makes me want to cry, so I'm rec'ing it.

I have this vid on the 2003 VividCon dvd set, but that's no longer available to order, I believe (the 2004 set also sold out). The vid was on nummytreat.net and is now at Kitze Productions.


Quote from Conversations with God (pg 115):
And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others.

For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Ack! No, that's the site I found it at, too. Pooh.

(I like this vid too. Because I love Xander.)

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

kitkatbyte's vid's are up at http://www.kitzeproductions.net/, as are f1renze's vids.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Wendy = kitkatbyte, in case that wan't clear.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! _par_avion just posted that kitkatbyte's (Wendy) vids are up at http://www.kitzeproductions.net.

(Xander is very cool and I love him much.)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's wonderful to know.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Thank you!