VIDS




A Fire Is Burning

by the Media Cannibals (Alex, Gwyneth, and Sandy)

(song by Oysterband)


Original c. 1994-1995 (premiered at Virgule 2); digitally remastered in 2005 (premiered at Vividcon 2005)
"re-remastered" from the newly-released Pros DVDs in 2006



avi (xvid) format (35Mb)

(Click on link to download zipped vid file to your computer)



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VIDDER'S NOTE [From Sandy's original liner notes for the Media Cannibals 2 vid tape]:

Alex found this great song, and we nearly broke two editing decks making the short cuts that the song required. I think of this vid as being a roller coaster ride, a little like B & D's lives.





Additional note from Gwyneth, July 2006: Justacat and I were working on remastering many of the MCs Pros vids, and since Sandy, Alex, and I had remastered this one last year for the Vividcon Hi-Def show, this was the one we started with first, both so that I could make a DVD copy available, and so that we could fix some compression and credits problems that had come up when we first remastered it. We used the new Professionals DVDs that came out recently with color correction and some cleanup of the film, and so this vid looks pretty spiffy, even in web compression.

Really, I'm not usually one to brag, but I still think that our original vid is one of the best vids ever made. It was way ahead of its time in the fast cutting, etc., and told a great story. Of course there are things we'd change if we could -- I remember one big thing was that all the musical parts use clips chosen from the order the eps aired, so we let some run too long because we didn't think we'd have enough, but then it turned out that we ran out of time in late third season or early fourth! -- but even with that, I never get tired of watching this vid. Sometimes I can't believe I was privileged enough to have participated in it.

So download! Enjoy all this sweat and toil everyone's put into it! It's shiny and new and sparkly and big!



A Fire Is Burning
by Oysterband

We were young together
We were on the ball
We did not believe in the writing on the wall
We did our best work in the dark
We did our thinking on the run
We would hang together
Or they'd hang us one by one

Names would come like footprints
Whisper on the wind
Lover was a comrade was a stranger was a friend
When we slept our eyes were open
And this thumping in our chest
Said there is no, there is no, there is no rest

Because a fire is burning in our house
A fire burning up the house of man
A fire raging in our house
Burning up the house of man

We are not beginners
We will not be fooled
The times have been our teachers and they teach an iron rule
We do our best work in the dark
We do our thinking on the run
We will hang together
'Til the longest day is done

Because a fire is burning in our house
A fire burning up the house of man
A fire raging in our house
Burning up the house of man

A fire is burning in our house
A fire burning up the house of man
A fire raging in our house
Burning up the house of man



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