JOURNAL: turboneko (Marco & Cristina)

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  • What the hell am I doing? 2001-10-04 00:20:08 I was just watching some videos to make a couple of reviews and I felt suddenly very small, very jerk and very sucker.
    I mean, how can I even try to compete with you guys? I saw the latest works form Kenshin, Big Big Truck, gambitt, ErMaC and a couple of more and all of sudden a thought stroke my brain like lightning: "Why the hell I didn't chose another hobby instead of AMV making?!?"
    I don't know...
    ...maybe cooking.
    Or gardening.
    Or crumbling bread.
    Or whatever else, BUT anime music videos.

    Oh geez, I am in a big depression right now. How can I tell? You can easily recognize that from the very low percentage of bullshits among what I write.
    I would better start a project very soon to demonstrate myself that I am not that big sucker that my videos show up so well.

    I NEED to do something.

    Maybe I can try to nail my right hand to the mouse and my left hand to the keyboard. Use my feet to reset every time Premiere screws and locks up everything, and some sticks to have my eyes always open like in Clockwork Orange.
    And maybe start bumping my head against the table until I come out with a decent idea.

    I fear I'm done.
    I am scared to start a project.
    I don't have ideas.

    Burn me and feed the pigs with my ashes.
    That's all I want.

    - Marco
     
  • SHOTTA! SHOTTA!! 2001-10-03 22:22:51 Yeah, this is the crazy cry of one of the guys which I play soccer together. This guy is the finest person I know, but he turns completely nuts when he plays.
    Yeah, I had a great match today. I had lots of fun and I sucked less than I usually do, even if I missed a couple of very easy goals. But in my whole life I always played as a goalie, so scoring it's not my job :P

    However, I'd better cut it off here. I want to make some reviews this night, and if I start writing bullshits in the journal I won't have the time.
    If you wanna know which video I am going to review (hopefully) take a look at my last post. And, if you read it, remember to not deal with beer and washing machines at the same time.

    Time to crunch some bytes...

    - Marco

    P.S.: hey gambitt, Cristina has posted a comment to your review of her Krauser video. Maybe it doesen't provide an improvement to the storyline, but at least it can explain what the hell is going on.
    Just to let you know ;) 
  • First entry in the morning... yawn 2001-10-03 09:14:21 Good morning everybody!
    Or at least, good morning to all of you that are awake. Yes, because I am still asleep.
    Yesterday I had this nice dinner with the guys which I play soccer on wednesdays and... well... yeah... beer has flown like the Rio Grande river.
    After *some* revelry I eventually returned home around 2:30 AM and... OH SHIT! I forgot to do my laundry!!!
    So, if you never tried, here are a couple of advices for you:

    1) never do a laundry when you are drunk
    2) never do a laundry when you are falling asleep
    3) never try to wash yourself together with your clothes
    4) never leave your hands into the dryer because you feel cold
    4) never sing at 3:00 AM waking up the whole fuc@#&g condo

    Oh my God... I remember only that I tought "laundry or death" or something like that.

    Didn't had that much sleep tonight...

    However, just to write some 'interesting' stuff and not only bullshits, here it is my "video to review" schedule for the next days (for the couple of people interested eh eh):

    1) "Blu Cheese Cake" by Kenshin (sorry for screwing it up, Ken!)
    2) "Numb" by gambitt (if this one is good as I think, I will give up forever AMV making)
    3) "The princess and the warrior" by Frost
    4) "Failed Experiments in Video Editing" by Big Big Truck
    5) "Wind Princess" by I don't remember :P
    6) Whatever stuff I will feel inspired with

    Ok, now let's start working!!

    Peace & Love for everybody

    - Marco

     
  • AARGH! Lightning strike me! I have got the AMV maker crisis 2001-10-02 23:26:42 More and more people seem to read this bullsh.... ehm "stuff" that I write. This makes me happy, and means that the more I write, the better is for me to don't show around too much, hehe.
    Returning to this post title, it wasn't enough for me to be stuck for 6 months without doing AMVs: now I have also the hyper-rejection phase for all my videos.
    I basically turned on the computer with the intention of writing some reviews (just a couple) and I ended up in seeing another times my videos (yeah, I am very narcisist sometimes: I love to see my work).

    WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP!

    OMG! I have seen more flaws than I haven't seen in my whole life!!
    I hope it's only my brain that has get disconnected from the body and took a vacation (loooong vacation... fuck@#g Excel!), beacuse if this is the level at which I am, I would better resign from making AMVs!
    And if I continue making posts like this, I would better resing from human race.... who the hell can be interested in reading this crap?
    But I don't care... this is my journal and I am too tired to write something that has sense (pretty selfish, uh? :P)

    At this point it's better for me if I don't make any review... with the mood in which I am now, I am going to dislike even Kevin Caldwell. Not that all of KC's videos are that good... oh yeah, I just feel the flames of 3/4 of this AMV community :P
    Yes, you have understood well: I like KC's videos, but not all of them are masterpieces, in my opinion.
    Sure, this may raise an interesting question: who the hell am I to judge his videos if I'm not at his level?

    But this raises a maybe much more interesting question: do I have to be equal or superior to another person to be able to judge him?

    But the final question is: why the hell should I judge another person, and don't just live my life?

    Why I am seeking for feedback? I want only to glorify myself? Want to hear how much I am good, how much other people envys me for my skills? Or I just make AMVs for the pleasure of making them... for my pleasure?
    I think that it's both: I really like to make videos, and it's quite a relaxing and creative hobby. But human being has been created to interact with his fellows in my believe, so making something just for the sake of yourself is usually rather selfish in my opinion. So I like to have feedback to know how to improve myself and yes, even to have a form of self satisfaction (unless I get someone that tells me that my videos suck, but that's another story :P).

    Oh boy, I feel I've gone too far this time. Maybe I shouldn't have eat that gigantic burger this evening. And all those fries.... oh geeez! My poor stomach!

    ...Marco ...is ...OFF

    P.S.: hey gambitt, thanks for replying to my stupid post on yesterday. I really appreciated your feedback!
     
  • Thoughts of a silly AMV maker 2001-10-02 11:14:07 Since someone seems to read this crap that I am constantly posting, I want to speak some more about AMV making (sounds incredible but I've got 50 hits!! 50 more people thinking I'm an idiot so...)

    I don't know why, but lately I am really sick about everything. I can't even think to start a project even if I would really like to.
    That's because I've changed my mind, I suppose. In these times I like only unusual settled AMVs... strange musics, very particular stories. Take for example the current AWA Winner: please don't flame me LostBoy, but even if I think that your video is good it really doesn't impress me.

    Oh geeeez... why the hell I have to be so critic?

    In all of this time in which I have stopped AMV making (almost six months right now) I had the opportunity of thinking and watching many videos.
    Some of my conclusions are reported in my last post. Some more are here:

    1) Short videos (less than 3 minutes) are far better than long ones
    2) Unusual music works better for me
    3) Experiments are more than welcome
    4) I am sick of super-random-special-effects-video (flames on my Spice Senshi video!)

    I am still crunching this stuff while I am writing these lines. And probably nothing will come out unless I will find out an idea to blend them all together. This probably means that I'll not make videos anymore for quite a *long* time, or I'll be just busy in remaking some of my old videos.
    I know that I can't come out with a super masterpiece anytime I would like to, but I really want to make a video with some "artistical" content. Something more than just an arrangement of clips above a music track, something which can have meaning to me.

    Well... that's all. Just another couple more of senseless statements.
    If I hurted someone's feelings in any way, please feel free to hang up me with the cord of my mouse.

    Hey, hey, HEY! Not that fast..... ^_^'


    - Marco 
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