Ah yes, it's time for another "WTF, livejournal" post.

#1 - Please don't cross-post anything I write here to Facebook or twitter. I'm a huge believer that "hey, I made it public, that means anyone on the internet can read it," but there's a difference between "mi casa es su casa" and "INVITE EVERYONE IN THE WORLD TO MY HOUSE!", you know?

#2 - I don't have a Facebook account. I signed up once because I figured, well, yeah, a lot of people I know are on Facebook, and why not, and then a) I never used it, and b) I learned about just what Facebook thinks of its users, and what it does--and can do--with your personal information, and... fuck that noise.

#3 - I loaded the greasemonkey script that removes those idiot ticky-boxes for cross-posting to FB and twitter, and EVERY COMMENT I'VE GOTTEN ON MY LJ SINCE THEN HAS BEEN SCREENED FOR NO REASON, requiring me to reply to unscreen it. Does anyone know WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT? I don't think that I've ever screened comments in my seven years here.

#4 - I'm seriously thinking about going dreamwidth only at this point. And I mean only. That would take an enormous amount of work, and I don't have the time or energy right now, but it is no longer a hm-maybe-someday thought.

#5 - anyone want a dreamwidth invite? I've got LOTS.

ETA: AHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, so I implemented the greasemonkey script last night, and went to bed, and then only read about pingbacks this morning, and immediately went and opted out. It was only comments made between last night (when they apparently re-implemented pingbacks and made them opt-out instead of opt-in) and this morning that were screened, so it has to be some kind of weird feature involved in that.

BUT GET THIS

I followed one of the comments from the pingback bot, telling me my lj had been referenced, to the reference - *and it's from someone I don't know, and it's locked, so I can't read it.*

Oh, livejournal. Is there nothing you can't do badly?

Everybody cut footloose!

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I used to vid. One of the vids I made was a collaboration with killabeez that was nothing but dancing scenes, synced up to the song "Puttin' on the Ritz." Getting every footfall, turn, movement, etc., not to mention pan, tilt, and zoom, to work with the song took crazy-detailed editing down to single-frame time dilation or compression.

And my GOD it's nowhere anything like the brilliance that is this:

If you can't see it, it's on YouTube here.

Hot damn. I am in complete and utter awe.

I think it's time for another viewing of Singin' in the Rain. Perhaps tonight.

*dances around to Footloose*

ETA: List of included movies: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, White Nights, Perfect, Saturday Night Fever, Blue Skies, Pulp Fiction, High Fidelity, Clerks 2, American Pie, Billy Elliot, Footloose, True Lies, Grease, Honey, Phantom of the Opera, Step up, Step up 2, Moonwalker, West Side Story, Moulin Rouge, Mary Poppins, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Strictly Ballroom, Happy Feet, Singin' in the Rain, Fame, Fame 2009, Save the Last Dance, Mamma Mia, Mask of Zorro, Coyote Ugly, Wild Hogs, Get Smart, Austin Powers, Airplane, A Knights Tale

I think he's missing some, though....

Tiny credit where tiny credit's due: Killa and I fixed all the aspect ratios. Not so much here all the time. :D