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Everything remains the same/ No one really knows my name...
2002-10-01 13:22:48
The title is a lyric from Farewell to Solitude, a song by The Second Child (yes, that is the same as Secondchild here on AMV.org.)
I decided to kill An Exercise in Pointless Action. I hate the video. I hate the concept, and I hate the way it is turning out. Maybe I'll keep the idea in mind for later, but I seriously doubt it.
I've decided to begin planning out my Arshes Nei video. I have a song that fits what I am going for perfectly. I am trying to come up with a way, however, to show why Arshes Nei is fighting Dark Schneider. I think it would be a mistake to show why she is fighting him without giving some reason. Possibly, I can invent my own backstory, kind of like I did in Course of Action (I love what I did in that video, despite my rantings earlier, which I now sorely regret).
Although, I don't think voice-overs would really work in this one. Possibly, text-integration to show why she is fighting him... (I recently discovered, thanks to Brittney at SPC-TV, the Titles in Premiere, which would be better and more space-efficient than my old way of doing it, creating a jpeg in Premiere and matteing out the blue. Although, I need to find a way to put a black border on the text, so they can be discerned from the background effectively).
I am going to work on the Arshes Nei video now, since I still have the Bastard VOB's on my hard drive from Pointless Action. However, I have a second idea for an experimental Lain video that I'll have to really work on. The song I want to use for that is very minimilistic, but very powerful, and I just feel Lain in every chord of the song. The trick will be maintaining viewer interest with such a minimilist song. Little opportunities for tight sync, and it's instrumental, so there are no lyric sync opportunities. Still, I think it'll be a fun challenge, but I'm going to wait on it and plan it out while I work on the Arshei video.
Nope, I'm not quitting. I'm still going strong. Who knows, one day, I may attain my goal of having the talent William Milberry has in his pinkynail.
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2002-09-30 19:23:03
Oh My Goddess vol. 1 came in today. Well, technically, it came in on Friday, but I couldn't pick it up all weekend. And now, I am so busy I can't watch it yet. AAAAAAGH!!
Well, it's actually my own fault for bullshitting all weekend. Saturday's 8-Bit Theater made me want to play Final Fantasy Tactics again (I love that game), plus I went out to do some shooting for a part I have in a campus TV show (only one episode. It's a twilight Zone-style show. Very interesting script for the episode I'm doing). Throw in that I went out to a movie with Adam and Kristi on Friday (Sweet Home Alabama. Cheesy, predictable, had some funny moments, not bad to kill an hour and a half with, pretty standard actually. I think $5.50 may have been a bit much to pay for it, but it was enjoyable if you aren't looking for something innovative and fresh. On the plus side, I like how they revealed Mel's background), and we went to Walmart to get a few items and ended up BSing around the movies and toys (They had Jin-Roh and Metropolis for about $19.95 each, which is about comparable to Best Prices when you figure shipping, but I didn't get them because I've spent a bunch on anime already this past week-and-a-half [End of Evangelion, Oh My Goddess 1 and 2, and Dragon Half, which is frikken hilarious, but ends too soon. I want more!!]), and I didn't SHIT done this weekend. Currently, I have to work on two projects for screenwriting that are due tomorrow (I am currently taking a bitch break), and study for two exams tomorrow in Speech and Ethics. At least I am done failing my Media in Society exam. I HATE that class. It's absolutely useless and means absolutely nothing to me. Damn these required courses...
And this ends my bitch break. I need to get back to work.
Sometimes, I like to tell myself that once I get out of school all-together, and there are no more exams or homework, and I can focus entirely on doing whatever the hell I want to do, life'll be less stressful and much more enjoyable.
Then I laugh at my own idiocy and get back to work. -
2002-09-28 01:09:54
THE END OF EVANGELION DVD IS MINE!! FUCK YES!!
Although, it pissed me off to read the back, where they said the EoE is intended to replace eps 25 and 26.
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My theory, based off what I have seen in my own research, and in my opinions I have formed on the series on my own, is that EoE is NOT a replacement. It's simply the narrative elements that Anno was forced to cut from eps 25 and 26 due to budget problems. What he left in the series ending is what he was getting at all along. He only made EoE because people kept bitching about the unfinished narrative elements, since they apparently didn't get what he was going for with the original series ending.
EoE is interesting to me, not because I think it is a "true" ending to the series (you combine the narrative elements of EoE with the mood, tone, and message of the series ending, and I believe that THAT is what Anno originaly wanted before budget problems intervened), but because it is a look into the mind of a person who became very pissed off by people who did not get what he wanted to convey. People kept bitching for the narrative, which was really unimportant anyway, to be finished. So, he gave them what they all wanted, except in his anger, he intentionally perverted it into a psychological nightmare of depressing, confusing imagry that leaves you feeling alone and violated at the end.
UncleMilo said it first, and I agree. EoE is essentially a big FUCK YOU ALL to the people who complained about how he ended his series. But, at least to me, it is interesting exactly BECAUSE of why he made it, not because it fills out the series. All of the important elements were left in the series. What Anno left out, what mutated into EoE, were the less-important narrative elements that were sacrificed out of necessity because they were not as important as his message.
It kills me how people can say that EoE should be watched instead of the original last two episodes. As long as you take EoE with a grain of salt and understand why Anno made it (this, again, is according to my own research/opinions), then the two complement each other. EoE is so horrifically caustic and depressing, and it just doesn't mesh as an ending to the series in and of itself, not from the tone and message of it, anyway. Going from ep 24 to EoE makes sense from a narrative standpoint, sure, but the abrupt shift in tone, mood, and message is just jarring.
But that's my view, anyway. -
Well, that was interesting.
2002-09-27 19:08:51
I just finished my first commercial video editting project (no, I didn't get paid for it... I wish).
Since I know something about video editting, I volunteered to work as an editor at the campus TV station where I am volunteering. I just finished the training program about 45 minutes ago as I type this (Normally, they brief people on the basics of Premiere and have them edit a short promo. Since I already do video editting with Premiere, all she really had to show me was how their capture/dubbing system works).
I did a station promo using a couple of their shows, but I had to rush it near the end because I started to run out of time. I eventually decided to edit down the song so I could get it done in time.
It came out ok, except the audio edits are, at least to me, horridly obvious and not very smooth. I'd change it if I could, but it's done now.
My sincerest apologies, Tsuneo Imahori.
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THE ORG IS BACK!!! FUCKING HELL YES!!!
2002-09-25 23:35:40
Yea!! The org is back online!! You rule Phade, thanks for giving so much of your time to the org.
Lessee... what's been going on in my little life lately?
Well, there's a girl I think I like, and my roomate's girlfriend says that she thinks she likes me, but I don't think so (she keeps bringing up other guys, such as "That guy at McDonalds is cute" or "God, the lead singer of Adema is so hot." (I'm making her sound like a valley girl, but she isn't). I dunno, though, she keeps stopping by to hang out and chat. I asked her if she wanted to see a movie, and she said yes. I guess I'm just concerned that I am doing what I always seem to do: confuse friendship with something more than what it is. I'm always thinking this or that girl likes me as more than just a friend, basically just because she tolerates my prescence.
Kristie (my roomate Adam's girlfriend) thinks that Angel may be afraid to admit that she likes me since I'm white and she's black. I dunno, we always seem to click really well whenever we hang out together. But, then again, I'm probably just confusing friendship for romantic interest (or whatever term applies).
Bleah.
In other news, I had something fairly interesting happen today. I turned in a logo idea for my residence halls T-Shirt contest, and Kristie and Lindsay (Lindsay is a girl who is in several of my classes, and along with Kristi is part of our hall council) stopped in to ask if I had turned it in. Apparently, my entry didn't turn up (damn roomate... [the president's, not mine]), but they decided to extend the deadline to see if anyone elkse turned in any ideas, so they asked me to print out another copy of my entry, which I did gladly.
Along with that, Lindsay happened to mention that our current president, Bran Dea, resigned and the position is open. They said I should go for it. Kristie seems to think I'd make a good hall president since I'm a good listener or something like that.
I dunno. It sounds interesting/tempting. Maybe I'll think abouyt it...
God, I'm more socially active in two months of my sophomore year of college then I was throughout my entire four years of high school!!
I fucking love college. High School sucked, College fucking rox. I'm meeting all kinds of interesting people, and I am learning something interesting (filmmaking, I can't freaking wait to actually get to the real directing aspect of it). To all you high schooler's out there, hang in there. It only gets better!!!
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