Title: You Can Call Me...
Song: Paul Simon, "You Can Call Me Al"
Fandom: Due South
Spoilers: The whole series
Summary: A man walks down the street
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Lyrics
A man walks down the street
He says Why am I soft in the middle now?
Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says Why am I short of attention?
Got a short little span of attention
And oh my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family?
What if I die here?
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along and along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the third world
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says amen! Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

I have a lot I want to say about this vid, but what I'll say outside of the LJ cut is this: THANK YOU to all of the people who participated in bringing it together, for all the many ways you helped. brynnmck (for support), fan_eunice (for squee), heresluck (for nitpicking), pipsqueaky (for the KEY clip change), renenet (for timing and making me breathe), and sisabet (for the summary). You all were so wonderful with your enthusiasm, too, which meant a lot to me. And huge patience thanks to greensilver, tzikeh, and anyone else I forced to watch this vid in the midst of my glee. This was truly a labor of love, and I appreciate your support during it. :)

I don't even remember how this idea hit me, but it was sometime late last year. It was like a bolt of lightning and I hurriedly wrote down all of the ideas I had for it and then set it aside to do IJVP and life stuff but it wouldn't go away. Then I promised myself I would finish it for Club Vivid and started working on it, and as it fell into place I grew more and more in love with it. I realized I wouldn't be able to sit on it until August, which is why I'm posting it now. Heh.

I have never enjoyed making a video more. There was almost no angst involved, and what there was was easily overcome (well, except the angst at the end but that was exhaustion related). I took to calling it my VoJ - Vid of Joy. It's also, of all the vids I've made (except possibly Moving Right Along), the vid that comes most directly from my heart. I want to talk about this vid more than any vid I've made, which is kind of strange since it's pretty straight-forward, I think. Anyway, it was fashioned out of pure love, and I hope that comes through. It's essentially a love letter to DS.

All feedback, comments, or concrit are welcome, either here or through email (sdwolfpup (at) gmail (dot) com).