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• Member: RottenJesus
• Title: Living on the C-List
• Premiered: 2010-09-11
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Fun
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Frank Turner I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
• Anime:
  • BECK, Mongolian Chop Squad
• Participation:
  • Nan Desu Kan 2010, Nan Desu Kan 2010 (2010-09-11)
  • Anime Weekend Atlanta 16, Anime Weekend Atlanta 16 Expo Contest (2010-09-17)
• Comments: **Won Best Nostalgia at AWA Expo**
  
  After several attempts of making a video for over 5 years, I decided to make a video for the exclusive AMV-Contest on the Connichi (in Germany). It didn't win any prices there though.
  
  On this project, I decided to make a serious attempt to complete the video, after I abandoned several projects over the years due to lack of motivation or WoW :/ I wanted to focus on storytelling here, which is why the lyrics are pretty important for the video (I'll post them here too). My aim was to visualize the great story Frank Turner is telling here with Beck, so I took a lot of time selecting the best scenes, and I think I managed to stay really close to the lyrics. I didn't use digital effects (at least those that can be seen) as I still have to gain experience in using those.
  
  
  Enjoy watching, comments and feedback are always appreciated!
  
  LYRICS:
  Let's begin at the beginning
  We're lovers and we're losers
  We're heroes and we're pioneers
  We're beggars and we're choosers
  Skirting around the edges of the ideal demographic
  We're almost on the guest list
  But we're always stuck in traffic
  We've watched our close associates
  Often play their parts
  Chatting up the "it" girls
  And they're tearing up the charts
  While we were paying with coppers to get our rounds in at the bar
  We're the C team, we're the almost famous old friends of the stars
  
  Justin is the last of the great romantic poets
  He's the only one among us who is ever gonna make it
  We planned a revolution from a cheap Southampton bistro
  I don't remember details, but there were English boys with Banjos
  Jay is our St George and he's standing on a wooden chair
  And he sings songs and he slays dragons and he's losing all his hair
  And Adam is the resurrected spirit of Gram Parsons
  In plaid instead of Rhinestone and living in South London
  And no one's really clear about Tommy's job description
  But it's pretty clear he's vital to the whole damn operation
  Dave Danger smiles at strangers, Tree's the safest girl I know
  And sullen hearts will scamper off to victory in the city we call home
  We won't change our ways
  We will proud remain, when the glory fades, when the glory fades
  
  Yeah I am sick and tired of people who are living on the B-list
  Yeah they're waiting to be famous, and they're wondering why they do this
  And I know I'm not the one who is habitually optimistic
  But I'm the one who's got the microphone here so just remember this
  Yeah, well life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings
  About fire in our bellies and about furtive little feelings
  And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering
  And they help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is live
  Yea, the only thing that's left to do is live
  After all the loving and the losing, the heroes and the pioneers
  The only thing that's left to do is get another round in at the bar