Breaking things with passion

So I've put my big toe in to the vidding waters again. I have a copy of Sony Vegas editing software, and I thought I'd give it a twirl. I just wanted to load some stuff in to get a feel for the program when I ran into my first problem. The software dislikes xvid divx avis even though it's supposed to support avi files. It'll load the audio, but not the video even though I have all the right codecs. So either I have to figure out some way to make it recognize the video, or I have to convert everything. I thought, well, I'm just playing around at this point, I'll just convert one of my Supernatural eps and then play a bit to figure out how the program works. So I have a video converter and I change the avi to a wmv file...which takes about 5 hours. *sigh* So either I've got to figure out how to get Vegas to accept the codecs I know I have, or I have to find a better way to convert things...or I'll just have to stop using avis all together and only vid stuff I can rip myself to whatever format I like. So much for progress.

In other news, I still haven't watched the new SGA. I won't get to watch the new Supernatural until who knows when since I have to wait for the download since I'm working tonight and I have class and work all day/night tomorrow. I skipped class yesterday because I just didn't feel like going and the fact that I slept in until 30min after the class had started probably didn't help.

Someone shoot me now.

Also, listening to SIRIUS' 80's station today, I heard the perfect SGA vid song. It's Sting's Fortress Around Your Heart. (Dude, I'd forgotten all about that song. I love that station.)

I'd do it myself, but A) I don't have the song (feel free to rectify that if you can, I love Sting), and B) I don't have my SGA stashed on this computer.... and C) I'm lazy.

Anyway, lyrics:

"Fortress Around Your Heart"

Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns had been pounding all through the night
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the field's I'd known
I recognized the walls that I once made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
While the armies are all sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we'd made
I had to stop in my track for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the fields where I'd once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

Tell me that wasn't made for Atlantis with subtle McShep thrown in for fun?