We've got stamina

[dolorosa_12]

Just a short post with two videos to start off the weekend.

Via a recent roundup of fanworks on ladybusiness, I came across this fanvid from a couple of years ago by runawaynun. It's called 'Stamina' and is a compilation of different women competing in different sports across the ages.

Watch it here.

As a former gymnast, all of the gymnasts in the video were familiar to me (although I would really quibble with including Kerri Strug's vault which won the US women's team the gold medal in Atlanta in a compilation of triumphant moments in women's sport; my opinion of that situation is basically, fuck the Károlyis), and the whole thing is just really well put together, and made me quite weepy.

The last concert I was able to attend was a fantastic weird little gig in a former metalworks turned goth club in Islington, in December last year. It was very much to my taste: just me, Matthias, and a handful of aging goths being screamed at by a tiny Swedish woman dressed in sunglasses and pleather. One of the songs she played has now been released as a single, and I have been playing it a lot today.

Watch on YouTube

Courage, courage, courage.

Comments

[kore]

That vid is FANTASTIC, I just watched it like 3 x in a row (and left a comment!).

[dolorosa_12]

Isn't it just staggeringly good? I think my only quibble would be that it's missing Cathy Freeman, but my impression is that the vid creator is an American, so may not have been aware of the symbolic significance of an Indigenous Australian woman winning the 400m race at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 (the last Olympics of her career and her last chance to win an elusive gold medal; I still remember watching the event on TV as a fifteen-year-old and getting genuine chills down my spine when she stepped out onto the track, the green, gold and white of her full-body hooded lycra running suit in contrast to the night sky, and the calm way she moved through the air as the race progressed).

I should leave a comment too. I always feel weird about doing so on old posts.