almost time to go home

[hermionesviolin]

Prompted by conversation with musesfool about remixredux:

[Poll #701226]

Also: Nicole and I are going out for happy hour (followed by dinner) tomorrow [Friday! Huzzah!] after work. So clearly I'm going to spend my commercial breaks tonight flipping through my bartending book to remind me of what options exist and what's actually in assorted girly drinks. Sidenote: Mary Alice and I were discussing Scotch at lunch today. Good times.

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

You know, I think what this conversation is showing is that people went into this exercise with a whole lot of different ideas about what a remix is and that affects both how we write and how we read. Probably we're all reading assuming that people approached remix the same way that we did -- as I mentioned in the other thread, I was seeing it as a "retelling" or "adaptation" -- in which case, reading the original can be interesting and enlightening, but isn't necessary to enjoy the derivative work.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Probably we're all reading assuming that people approached remix the same way that we did

Yup. (And it's valuable to learn that this assumption is inaccurate.)

I was seeing it as a "retelling" or "adaptation" -- in which case, reading the original can be interesting and enlightening, but isn't necessary to enjoy the derivative work.

I agree that a lot of the best remixes stand on their own (though often one can't get the full resonance without reading the original).

I said to another commenter on this post that:

Part of my insistence on reading the original fic first is my knowledge that I become very attached to the first way I experience a text, so if I read a remix first it would in some ways feel like the "definitive" take on the events that it and the original were tackling, and that feels wrong to me.

I tend to think that the best remixes can stand beside the original as an alternative point-of-view on the same events, or an alternative way that events could have played out or whatever.