VID REC: Starsky & Hutch - How Can I Tell You

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Vidder: Mary Van Deusen
Musical artist: Cat Stevens
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Vidder on LJ:maidavids
Vidder's website: Starsky and Hutch Literary Song Videos
Why this vid kicks ass:

This vid led me into Starsky & Hutch fandom, and ultimately into becoming a vidder myself. I'd watched reruns of the show when I was around twelve years old, pretty much the year after the series ended, during the boring summer of 1980. I had a very, very hard crush on Starsky, and who was this Hutch guy? Still, their interactions made me love them - they were tough men who had no problems with touching and comforting each other. My little romantic heart was truly filled.

Flash forward to fall, 2006. I'd seen a few vids at a couple of cons and was curious about them, so added vidding to my flist, and maidavids had been posting up many of her old vcr-to-vcr vids in several fandoms as she had made them available online for downloading. Out of pure nostalgia, I clicked on one of the S&H ones, probably Oh Very Young, and was hooked, but it was this vid that reminded me of the love between those two guys and made me want more of the S&H fandom.

Mary is one of the early, classic vidders, and her style is of course representative of the vcr-to-vcr vidding days, so if you're looking for flash and effects, you won't find it here, but you will find a sweet, solid vid about how much these two fellas truly love each other.

How Can I Tell You (download only)