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One hundred fifty sixth entry - A new trend?
2006-07-16 15:58:31
Time - 2:46, Noise - The Art of Silent Hill - "Fukuro"
Yeah... that's a messed up song - as is the video that goes with it. It's like... 70s pornography... with monsters.
Anywho, I think I'm going to start a new trend. Every so often (meaning, whenever I find a new one), I'll feature a good Advent Children AMV in my forum signature. I'll try to make sure to post the video in my journal, too. I mean, there are so many AC videos out there, and most of them just get looked over without a second thought. It seems I have a nearly endless tolerance for Final Fantasy, so I don't mind sifting through the hundreds of FF videos out there just to find the diamonds.
Well, today's AC video is this one:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?vid_id=122294
Music: Remy Zero - "Prophecy"
Editor: LLore
Title: Find Yourself Home Again
I'm planning on leaving an opinion on that one later.
In other news, I haven't edited anything. At all. It's depressing, really. v_v However, I did rip the footage for my next video. Sure, that only leaves me with nine gigs of hard drive space, but that'll work just fine for now.
And with that... I need to take a shower.
See you, folks.
- Jen -
One hundred fifty fifth entry - finally...
2006-07-15 00:04:30
Time - 10:16, Noise - Filter - "Take a Picture (live)"
Well, I finally get some good news: I have the internet back on my computer now. Now I can catch up to all of the things I've let simmer for the last two months.
Of course, this will probably result in me editing far less frequently again. Oh well. If I truly want a video done, I know I'll find or make the time to do it. Speaking of AMVs, I started trying to make effects. It's having less-than-desired results with a huge workload. I put down eight hundred still images in a row to simulate movement in a ten second span. Needless to say, Magix was bogging down, crashing, and begging me for mercy a few times.
Okay... got distracted there. Like, "forty five minutes later..." kind of distracted. I should be doing something. I mean, I feel so lazy just sitting here chatting in IRC. No, I AM lazy.
With that, I'm out of here. Now my self-esteem is feeling anti-gravity forces. : /
- Jen -
One hundred fifty fourth entry - blergh...
2006-07-07 18:42:42
Time - 5:22, Noise - the TV... (King of the Hill, that is...)
Okay... so the finances are even worse than I thought. My mother didn't owe four thousand dollars. She didn't even owe ten thousand dollars. No, of course not. It is, in fact, sixteen thousand dollars in medical bills. So, my mom did the only thing she could do at this point: she went into her retirement money to pay the bill - but that's not even the saddest part. The really pathetic thing about all of this is that the eighteen thousand she pulled out is HALF of her fund. It's depressing to think that my mother will probably never be able to retire.
Another day, another topic of life I'd rather not face. : /
Haven't worked on my video at all in the last few days. It's not that I've lost interest. I've just been more into making music. I think I finally have a song (or rather, a remix) that's working. I'm meshing together music from two different games (both by the same composer). I can already tell that it's a fairly simple piece, but I'm just starting out. After attempting more than a dozen remixes, I would just like to FINISH something. I don't think I'm cut out for composing the faster techno pieces. I think I'm more the type to make the slower, more unique ones.
So I finished reading the Saikano manga. It's... really good, actually. Yeah, it's a little overly depressing like the anime, but it also has a lot of humor to offset it. And in its own rough way, it really does have gorgeous illustrations. I'm not going to go into any more detail, but let's just put it this way: Saikano would make an amazing manga music video.
I'm... hungry. I ate a really tasty - and really dense - bread dumpling a while ago, but it's not sticking with me. So, I'm off - presumably to go eat.
See you, folks.
- Jen -
One hundred fifty third entry - it's a work in progress...
2006-07-03 16:51:26
Time - 3:25, Noise - the TV... ("What Not to Wear," that is...)
So, I've been working on my video, and I'm doing decent, I guess. The song seems too dramatic for the game, but it's the best I could do. I'm surprised to find myself with doubts about this one, though. I've seriously questioned whether or not I want to release it when I'm done. I don't know. Maybe I'll just avoid announcing it in the forums. Well, who knows? Maybe it'll come out better than I think.
Haven't been playing much in the way of games, lately. I did another Parasite Eve file, just because a club-only game amuses me. Other than that, I've been scarce on the PS2 as of late. I have stuff I should be playing, like Viewtiful Joe and Clock Tower 3, as well as finishing games like Onimusha 2, and Nightmare Mode of Fatal Frame III.
In other news, things have somehow managed to get even worse yet again. My mom's hospital bill isn't $4000 like we thought - it's $10000. I mean, Jesus, my mother doesn't even make that much in a year anymore. I wonder how doctors get off charging that much. Taking care of someone for three days is not worth an entire year's salary. I just wish I could go back to college. For fuck's sake, I feel guilty even asking my mother for FOOD anymore - and it's not like I'm asking her for junk food. I only really eat two meals a day: cereal for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. Things just aren't good anymore. I want to go back to college and lighten her financial burden, at least a little bit.
Gah... I think I'm going crazy. I really hope I'm able to get a job soon - even though I know damn good and well that every penny of my paycheck would go straight to my mom. *sigh* I think it's time to evade reality for a while. With that, I'm going to read the last volume of Saikano now.
See ya, folks.
- Jen -
One hundred fifty second entry - found it...
2006-06-29 21:21:29
Time - 7:53, Noise - TV stuff...
Well, I found a song for my Parasite Eve video. It comes from a soundtrack that I had sworn I would never use music from, simply because I knew that it was destined to become overused, but... well, it occured to me that I didn't care, really. It's the only song I've found that really tripped my trigger - and I happen to have it on CD already. As usual, no, I don't intend to say what the song is. That always jinxes me somehow. I have the first twenty seconds done of the video, and I think it'll go pretty well. It's not even three minutes quite, so I hope I can get everything in within that time frame.
For my next video... I want to finish something I started a while ago. I had done half of an Elfen Lied video with Windows Movie Maker II, but the project file crashed and became corrupt somehow. So, I basically lost the video. Thankfully, I frequently render low quality copies of my videos in progress, so I still have a version of the video to refer to when I try to remake it. Maybe it was for the better, though. The original video used downloaded footage and a program that didn't do what I had planned. Now that I've taken some time off and learned things, maybe I can attack that Elfen Lied video with some renewed interest and better skills.
On a high note, I might just have the internet back on my computer by tomorrow. My brother's girlfriend finally has a working vehicle at her disposal. I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would certainly be nice if after over a month of being home from college that I finally get hooked up online again.
So I finished showing my mother Kingdom Hearts II today. She didn't make much of a comment - she never does - but I could tell that she at least enjoyed it. She adores Winnie the Pooh, so that was her favorite part of the game, I know. I like Timeless River. I don't know why; I just do. She asked me if I had a favorite character (besides Sora), but I said that I didn't really. I like a lot of them, and I love quite a few, but I don't have any one definitive favorite.
Well, I'm rambling, as always, so I'm going to head out now. I think I'm going to work on my video for a while.
See ya, folks.
- Jen
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