VID: Velodrome

[aria]

Hahaha I got my hot little hands on Good Omens files and made this vid in literally four days! It's kind of about being mad at God, and it's a lot about finally being able to vid my Good Omens book feelings, because I've never met a book-to-screen source where I don't immediately attempt to vid my book feelings, I guess.

Velodrome
by Aria
fandom: Good Omens
music: Dessa - Velodrome
summary: I don't believe my will's quite free.
content notes: some quick cuts/flashes.
download: 43MB mp4 via dropbox

"(GO) Velodrome - Aria" (Watch on Vimeo)

(GO) Velodrome - Aria from Aria Woods on Vimeo.

I don't believe
My will's quite free
I'm half machine
At least half steam
Aquinas, call on me
How many angels on the head of your pin?
Anybody in stilettos can answer that old thing
It's one for the right foot, one for the left
Half an angel per pin at best
Add wings, add heart, add harp, all set

We lean to turn in the velodrome
All lines are curved in the velodrome
We pitch and roll, wheels flesh and bones
Total control and it's
It's ours alone

It goes gospel, gossip, slander
Harvest, hunger, rain dance
Hand to God, I didn't think it was contagious
Eve leaving Eden in a makeshift dress
With a bell to tell us when we're hungry
There's a bell to tell us when we're tired
A bell that tells us to rise and fight
A bell to rise and die
It's just all bells
Sometimes I ring myself
To see if I might chime

We lean to turn in the velodrome
All lines are curved in the velodrome
We pitch and roll, wheels flesh and bones
Total control and it's
It's ours alone

We spend our days and nights deciding
Where to go and how to ride there
And in the end again
We all vote yes
We all turn left

We lean to turn in the velodrome

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

Oh, this is lovely! The song is new to me and it works so well.

"All lines are curved" is saying something to me about how life on Earth always involves compromise and shades of grey rather than the straight-line, black-or-white decision-making of Heaven or Hell.

I really liked the transition between A&C's section and Anathema's section.

Have watched 3 times already. Great work! :)

[juniperphoenix]

"All lines are curved" is saying...

Alternatively, it's saying YOU CAN'T GET OUT. It tells you something about where I stand on the question of free will that that (in retrospect, obvious) reading did not even occur to me the first several times through. *facepalm*

[aria]

Ahh, thank you so much! I'm pleased to have introduced you to the song, and also I love love love all the various angles you looked at the "all lines are curved" lyric, I think literally all of those interpretations are good.

[harpers_child]

I don't have brain for thinking, but this was good and lovely and I liked the song.

[aria]

Thank you so much!

[starlady]

I thought it was about the book! I am pleased to know that I was right.

[aria]

I mean it is a bit about the show, but yeah, I very much had some book feelings I needed to vid :)

[marina]

This is amazing because I'm not into this fandom and I don't particularly like that song (one of my least favorite ones by Dessa) and yet I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS VID. It's SO GOOD!

[aria]

Oh dang achievement unlocked, thank you :D (It's actually also one of my least favorite Dessa songs! or was, anyway, I definitely made myself like it whilst vidding, but I very much chose it for lyric-appropriateness and not because it was my jam)

[raven]

Absolutely lovely. You capture the rhythm and movement of the song so well and I love what you've done with the show's themes. I'm going to watch it more than once.

[aria]

Ahhh, thank you so much :D

[thingswithwings]

This screened at the WisCon vid party last night and it's just so so so good. I love every little choice you made here (ha!), all the ways you get to show how each character is seeking and using free will. and it's SUCH a good song choice and you make so many amazing lyrics/show matches. It really does feel like a book vid, so book-fandom me from like 2003 is wildly in love with it!

[aria]

Ahhh pal thank you, this is such a lovely comment <3

[resolute]

Holy crap, that is wonderful

[aria]

Thank you so much!!

Wonderful!

[jesse_the_k]

Also here from wiscon_vidparty

I loved how the words echoed the images on screen -- I haven't read the book so you've done a good job of communicating!

Re: Wonderful!

[aria]

Oh excellent, thank you so much! (I love how many people are here from the WisCon vid party, gosh I miss WisCon and it's so nice to have bits of the community turning up like this.)