VID REC: Buffy -- Tough to Have a Crush

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Vidder: linzee
Musical artist: OK Go
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Vidder on LJ: linzeems
Vidder's website: l i n z e e STYLE
Why this vid kicks ass:

In the vidder's words:

Remember back when you were in kidnergarten, and the boy behind you used to pull your pigtails and scare you with worms until you went home to your mother ready to bitch-slap him across the street? Remember how your mother told you those dreaded words, "it just means he likes you, sweety?" Take that and apply it to Xander and Spike.

Rather than jump cutting too quickly from scene to scene, linzee works with the style of the funny and simple OK Go song. She shows us well-matched canon clips demonstrating the inordinate amount of interest Spike and Xander seem to have in teasing each other, pushing each other around, getting into fights, and always appearing ready to say "But he's the one who started it!" Her editing and clip choices serve to highlight the subtext and silliness that the show used to build the on-screen relationship between Spike and Xander, and persuasively represent Buffy's response to Xander's list of Spike's attributes in s5 "Intervention": "I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be."

Visit to download: Tough to Have a Crush

E.T.A. As of 5/23/06, the link to the vid no longer works. I've contacted the vidder, and if I find another location for this vid, I will edit the post to point interested people in the right direction.