YouTube Vids Update

Well, I did something bold and unlike me and disputed all the copyright issues with YouTube for my vids they've blocked and muted and as of tonight, all 12 of my vids are back on YouTube. Walk 500 Miles even has audio. Sweet!

If you like to watch there, fill yer boots!! Of course if we discuss them in a scholarly way, it falls under the fair use clause!

So think of something scholarly to say!! The link to my YouTube channel is here.
Thanks for watching!

A “My Life” Present from Magra

Magra was working on some banner designs for her YouTube channel.... and look what she did!!! She made my day!!!!

You can visit Magra's YouTube channel here. She's been on a bit of hiatus from Criminal Intent (gasp!).

Season 8 just can't come soon enough......

Criminal Intent - My Life

or the Suck Vid as it's become affectionately known.

Whoa, cute warning with shipper overtones!!!! Yep. Well, really, what do you do with a song like this? lol!

This was a request from hargiteam42 and I liked the song so much, I couldn't resist. It’s been such a nice change from the Perfect daddy-issues and the Sober Frank-issues. Let’s enjoy the best side of Robert Goren’s life! I hope you like it!
My Life



This vid includes some of the standard great clips from Criminal Intent hopefully put together in an interesting way. I busted my backside to get the actions in sync with the music. Hope it works for you.

If you need to know where a certain clip is from, just ask in the comments and let me know the time stamp on the vid for the clip in question. I know you won’t be the only one asking!

There are clips from 32 episodes here. I managed one btsoh (black t-shirt of hotness) and one tiny btsoh (if you fancy Eames). (That’s from one of those vid-makers lists that we keep….)
There are also 2 fine eye-rolling clips! I also particularly like when he gives her a clap on the back. It’s a wonder he didn’t whack her across the street! Lol!
“Darling” is from Anti-Thesis and
“Honey” is from…. Come on! Where’s it from???? Con-Text
“Bobby” is from In The Wee Small Hours Part 2 (after she’s been busted on the witness stand – I guess she learned about coming clean with her partner before he did….)
“Alex” is from – the only time he says it when he isn’t introducing her – Amends.
(We have vid-maker’s “name calling” lists, too – it just cracked us up when we added Honey and Darling.)

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Watch in High Quality if you have a fast internet connection. Depending on the size of your monitor, it may stand up to full screen viewing.

A huge thank you to Susan for her technical assistance!!
and Magra, of course, for listening to my technical and creative woes when I have them.

Enjoy!

I own nothing except the lettering at the end of the intro and end of the song.

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Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You Lyrics

Guess this means you're sorry
You're standing at my door
Guess this means you take back
All you said before
Like how much you wanted
Anyone but me
Said you'd never come back
But here you are again

Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life would suck without you

Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye
Maybe I was wrong for trying to pick a fight
I know that I've got issues
But you're pretty messed up too
Either way, I found out I'm nothing without you

Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

Being with you is so dysfunctional
I really shouldn't miss you, but I can't let you go
Oh yeah

Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

After All Update

Well, I'm in shock!
I just disputed a copyright claim on YouTube and, for now, I have After All back on YouTube! Watch it in high quality!

Although it says Audio Muted - I can hear it. There is no question, YouTube is the video host of choice.... darn.

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Valentine..... sigh!

Here's to all us lovers of Robert Goren.....

The sad truth....

(don't you think the bandaid is a nice touch?)

sorry Eames, you just get the Your Heart blog entry..... But we love you, too!!!

Criminal Intent – Sober (video)

It’s all about Frank – and everyone whose world will collide with his.

I loved this song the first time I first heard it and knew I could make a vid with it! But uh-oh. It’s all about addiction…. Hmmmm. Make a vid about Frank? Hmmmm, again. He’s only in 4 episodes. You think that would make it easy. It was anything but.

The first time we meet Frank, Eames' face says it all.

The more I watch the conversation on the street between the brothers, often without sound, the more I get the feeling Frank is testing Bobby. In those few short minutes, Frank manages to get a huge range of emotions from Bobby; shock, confusion, pity, worry, happiness, sadness and embarrassment. It’s fascinating to watch.

This vid shows how quickly and easily Frank sucked Bobby AND Alex to do his bidding. Both Goren and Eames share a tender-hearted willingness to do anything for family.

It’s interesting how this song is written from the point of view of the addict, but a lot of the words apply to Bobby, too. Many of the words seem to echo back and forth applying to both the addict and the innocent victims. The word "perfection" takes on many meanings.

You’ll find the “Your heart” clip in this vid for those who like to know that sort of thing….

No copyright infringement intended. Just sharing fun. I own nothing except the lettering at the end of the introduction.

Watch it in high quality - it will stand up to most full screen viewings (although not as well as the original!! Sorry!)

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Pink – Sober lyrics
I don't wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest
Or the girl who never wants to be alone
I don't wanna be that call at 4 o'clock in the morning
'Cause I'm the only one you know in the world that won't be home

Ahhhh-Ahhh, sun is blinding
I stayed up again
Oh, I'm finding
That's not the way I want my story to end

I'm safe up high,
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside
You're my protection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I don't wanna be the girl that has to fill the silence..
The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth
Please don't tell me that we had that conversation (I know we did)
I won't remember, save your breath 'cause what's the use?

Ahhhh-Ahhh, the night is calling
And it whispers to me softly, "come and play"
But I, I am falling
And if I let myself go, I'm the only one to blame

I'm safe up high,
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside
You're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

Comin' down, comin' down, comin' down,
Spinnin' round, spinnin' round, spinnin' round
I’m looking for myself,
Sober
Comin' down, comin' down, comin' down,
Spinnin' round, spinnin' round, spinnin' round
Looking for myself,
Sober

When it's good, then it's good
It's so good 'till it goes bad
'Till you're trying to find the you that you once had
I have heard myself cry, never again!
Broken down in agony
And just trying to find a friend

Oh Oh

I'm safe up high,
Nothing can touch me (Nothing can touch me)
But why do I feel this party's over? (why do I feel this party's over?)
No pain (no) inside (no)
You're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober? (how do I feel this good sober?)

I'm safe up high, nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside, you're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?
How do I feel this good sober?

The Bump/Touch list

Well, as a vid maker, I'm always looking for clips. Because I have less-than-a-steel-trap mind, I make lists and one list that Magra and I started many months ago is the Goren/Eames Bump/Touch list. We had so much fun making this list! It's a work in progress, but we haven't added anything in some time (although I think I have some post-it notes around here somewhere....) If you know of another that we've missed, post it in the comments! We *need* to know.

Interesting how careful she is to avoid touching him.... And after Pas de Deux, he hardly touches her again, but that is when she starts touching! (if you want to call it that...)
How proper. How boring!

Suzanne and Magra’s Bump/Touch List

He touches her
on purpose:
 Smothered - as they leave the mother’s building and he wants to talk to the doorman
 Yesterday – on the street - after they finish talking to Ricky’s old landlord and before they talk to his wife in the fur coat – he almost whacks her on the back!!!!
 Maledictus – when they’re in Toronto doing an interview
 Legion – out on the street in the snow
 Blink – when he realizes they need to go see his father’s friend at the bar (they’re standing in the hallway) He reaches out and almost pulls her!!
 Undaunted Mettle – in the architect’s office
 Seizure – when he want her to look back and see Dr. Dwyer straightening the mess he’s made!
 Pas de Deux – when he almost dances with her!
 Pas de Deux – after she almost shoots Donny
 Pas de Deux – in the observation room at 34:49 minutes. Carver & Deakins are there. Wow, he really missed her – he has to keep touching her to make sure she’s really back! It’s so fast, I wasn’t really sure he touched her until it was in Vegas and I could move frame by frame!
 Mis-labelled – after they leave the room
 Gone – as they leave the Maritime lawyer’s office – just before they talk to the secretary
 Self Made

by mistake:

 he bumped her in Amends as he goes into Ross’s office – right after he and Copa have their yelling match and just before the CoD’s reams him out. On my version, it’s at 15 minutes & 7 seconds!
 In Blink – when they’re in the observation room at the end with Ken – just as Goren moves toward Ken to poke him in the chest. It’s very slight.
 in Vacancy when they’re walking down the hall and she is telling him about her drunk aunt.
 in Siren Call – their fingers touch as he drops the keys in her hand
 in On Fire – as they’re leaving the home of Regina and her husband, Eames stops and notices the face mask.
 in Vanishing Act – their fingers touch as she hands him coffee


She touches him:
on purpose:
 Pas de Deux: When she want the bomb squad
 Want: As she goes behind him as he searches in the freezer in the bodega
 Amends: Touches his arm close to 20:35.
 Betrayed when they’re sitting together on the desk and she reads the report someone hands her. She touches the back of her hand to his chest while she’s reading. (she does this in another episode, but I'm not sure which.....)

by mistake:
 The Enemy Within - she bumps his binder as they walk down the street with Carver


and we have other lists.... vbg....

I managed to get a few of the touches in in Too Pretty. (for some reason the volume on this vid was very low. Sorry! And it was the first vid I made with Sony Vegas. It was a steep learning curve.)

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