I could have stayed up all night for the rest of the vid party with the same results.

[owlectomy]

So, it turns out, if you watch the "Handlebars" music video from Doctor Who and the "Women's Work" video from Supernatural (I'm going to link these later when I have more time) you just might not get to sleep until 4 a.m.

They are both absolutely devastating videos, "Handlebars" specifically about the 10th Doctor and -- power, joy and insouciance and the self-confidence that you can resolve every problem devolving into the love of power, the abuse of power, being able to do terrible things with power and not caring. It is an astonishing and disturbing video; I will be thinking about it for a long time and will download it when I feel up to seeing it again. (Someone linked me to it several months ago and I closed out of it, partly because I didn't want to spoil myself too much and partly because it was scaring me.) "Women's Work" about the link between sexuality and violence in Supernatural -- the song "Violet" by Hole, the refrain "They get what they want and they never want it again." I don't even watch Supernatural but I know enough of the metacommentary to know that the women all end up dead. And they often end up having sex and then dying.

And both of these are earwormable songs. So I'm lying in bed trying to get to sleep and these videos still flying through my brain.

So, by the way, the vid party was awesome! That I'm made squidgy and anxious and weird by those videos is a good thing. And hopefully maybe I will actually sleep more than three hours tonight.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Oh man, generally I have zero interest in vids for shows I haven't seen (& don't want to see, like SPN), but I didn't know that vid was to "Violet." I've been on a Hole kick lately. Hm.