When life gets you down, it's important to have a zen place. YouTube is a good place to find some zen. And some things that make you twitch, but try to avoid those ones. The surprised kitten video? Zen. Fan made trailer with photoshopped actors in a Thundercats movie? Zen.
A little known fact about me is that I'm a total vidding nerd. Like, I spent four years making Buffy, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X-2, and Veronica Mars vids. I even remember the old buffyvids.com site and used to find and download them all the time. But the one embedded above is lovely--mad, mad skillz.
I couldn't embed the video here 'cause it messed up my layout, so head here: http://blip.tv/file/2261825/ to see the brilliant video of Twilight remixed with Buffy.
Just for the record, I *would* watch Twilight if Buffy was in it. Otherwise, please don't tell me I need to see it because I like vampires. Yes, I like vampire stories, but not when the vamps fucking sparkle, and not when they attempt to normalize misogyny and dysfunctional relationships for teenagers. And before you bring it up, yes, I write some pretty fucking dysfunctional relationships, but a) my target market isn't teen girls whose brains aren't fully formed yet and are influenced by this shit, b) I never pretend they're NOT dysfunctional and messed up, and c) my heroines don't throw themselves off of cliffs because their boyfriends don't like them anymore. Please go read the Cracked article on the subject and stop talking to me about fucking Twilight.
