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Can I get back to where I've come from?
2003-09-07 00:10:44
Oh, well heck. I think my vid in progress is ineligible for Yaoicon anyway.
In the opening "scene" one of the leading boys hugs a dying girl, there's flashbacks of their friendship/possible courtship (he gives her a flower, she smiles, they slow-dance), and then he expresses regret/sadness at having to shoot her like a rabid dog to put her out of her misery. [Yes, this vid is insanely depressing. Two people die in the first 35 seconds. I don't know what my problem is, either.]
Anyway, all of that would qualify as heterosexual content, I bet. Which sucks a bit, since it renders the whole work unshowable at just about any con solely for reasons of content, let alone execution.
Oh well. I'll *pretend* it's eligible to get myself to work on it more, as IF I were meeting a deadline. :P
It's probably 75% done right now anyway, unless I decide to get more ambitious with the drum riffs - which I probably should. But it's coming along. It's not what I first intended it to be, which is probably bad. But it's coming along.
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2003-09-05 22:34:15
Somebody has to make a dance video to Rusted Root's "Martyr." It has such great energy. The words are unintelligible, but it's got awesome drumming and great energy.
The "somebody" won't be me, as I don't have the anime collection necessary for a dance vid... maybe someday. ^_^
I'm looking over my Random Songs That Might Make Neat AMVs list. It's kind of fun. Cheers me up. -
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2003-09-05 09:57:49
Only jumped on for a few minutes before my late start to work today, and found that:
1) Flint is taking off. :/ I never got much of a chance to talk to him, but he seemed cool.
2) Apparently the reason everybody has such gifreakinggantic anime collections is that they make money hand over fist in nifty tech jobs. Now I feel like such a fucking moron kvetching over how I have to save up to buy one lousy stinking DVD. And I was proud that I could still manage to keep up a rather costly hobby or two and still cover all my bills and expenses on my own. I was PROUD of my slimy little life and how I lived it.
I make as much in a year as most people make in three months. And here I was chatting away not knowing.
I'm such a waste.
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I'm sick and I have to work through the weekend, and that makes me cranky, so this upsets me right now. I'll get over it.
1) is still sad, though. -
Crossing that bridge with lessons I've learned
2003-09-03 22:21:37
[BTW, #8b doesn't use "Prayer for the Dying," but it's similar in tone. That song is kind of an extra inspiration for the vid.]
#8b is coming together so nicely today. Timeline's probably 75% filled, nearly all timed as I want it (because I'm trying not to be a lazyass as usual, plunking things down and tweaking later). Some things still need to be filled in, but I'd say the project overall is about 60% done.
It still annoys me that I don't have the right ending shot, since I always like to pay attention to the last impression a piece makes - but I still have a few more eps to scan through. Something will work; I have a backup that will be okay if I don't find something better.
But it's coming along very nicely, and I like how it's turning out. Yay.
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You know, while scanning through this series I really have to chuckle at...well, people, our culture, the anime fandom, something. Before I watched this series (Descendants of Darkness/Yami no Matsuei), just about all I knew was that it was one of *thoooose* series, a shounen-ai series. But, actually, there's not much action, and more ... action. Everyone knows about the pervy part, but nobody saw fit to mention the buckets of death and blood and monsters and demons and more death and blood.
It's like 50% death, near dismemberment, attempted suicide and stabby murder combined with 25% violation of personal space and 25% oddly incongruous moments of humor, courtesy of Our Hero and a couple of chicken gods.
Let's check the score card.
Kisses: 0.8
People coughing up blood after being stabbed/gored/nearly ripped in half: 3
Yeah. Needless to say it's a bit of a shift from my last milieu, which was bizarre, but had considerably fewer pointless and deeply depressing grisly deaths. Like 1 to 25.
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2003-09-02 20:27:29
A lame golf story that my dad told me this weekend actually reminded me of this stuff.
My dad picked up golfing recently, six months ago or so. While rambling about the game this past weekend, he said that when he first started golfing, it was fun just to go golfing, just to play. Then after he got a little bit better he started getting irritated when a shot didn't go right where he wanted it to go, and it wasn't much fun anymore.
After a phase of throwing his clubs around he had to remind himself that the game *used* to be fun, and so retrained himself to enjoy golf.
Now, some of the story isn't relevant - part of the "reminding" process was to look up the statistic that even pros don't hit the fairway 100% of the time, which certainly doesn't apply to AMVs - but the idea of the newbie phase and the frustration phase made a lot of sense to me. I think it applies to a lot of things.
I didn't say it at the time, but it's the first time in ages that my dad has actually said something thought-provoking. :P
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