Sweeeeeeeeeet.
Another excuse to put off the YouTube
entry.
After
emailing back and forth sans interpreter
I was finally able to find an upload
of the video blog piece they did in the
Philippines. It's been done for weeks but
the woman who did it didn't even know
where it was. She kept telling me to
search for these key words on the
strangest sites. Feel free to watch the
entire,
insane
piece,
on this Filipino website but for the love
of fuck don't CLICK anything. It's
like one giant barrage of ads and you feel
"icky" when you're there. It's like
going to a brothel without a condom.
You're better off just walkin' in, lookin'
around and walkin' right back out. Or you
could just click my version to the right.
:-) Nicely edited, not 11 minutes long,
and you don't have to go
anywhere...
So
first and foremost... goddamn. All that
work for 30 seconds. LOL. It took me the
entirety of 2 full days to answer all
their questions, videotape it, upload it
and link them to several other clips.
Looking at the whole piece it's very clear
they were doing a more local focus on
video blogging and just included me as the
guy who started it all. So once the shock
over how quick it was ended...
HOLY SHIT WASN'T THAT COOL?!?!?!!?
DAHHHHHHHHHH. THANK YOU!
I wish
I had taped my reaction 'cause I'm
sure my head was just shaking back and
forth trying to follow the insanity of it.
I felt like the Far Side dog cartoon
on speed. "Blah AD-DOME CONE-TRASS! Blah
Blah Blah THE JOURNEY Blah OHIO Blah
CALEE-FORNIEAH".
And
man, the hairs on the back of my neck
stood up when they started with the Entry
#1 video. I adore that J-Dog is part
of internet history, and that Marty Moose
shot it and Jessica is in it. That's
exactly how it should be. :-)
And I
love the randomness of clips they chose to
use. Like, if you're gonna show The Price
is Right you clearly use the wheel, or
contestant's row... but since they
probably don't know the show - Cameron
falling is just as good. And then right
into "Independent Actions" which I never
would've thought of... but looked really
cool. The entire 30 seconds is just as
surreal as anything I've ever
experienced.
More
please. That was like shooting heroin. I'd
like a little more of that.
And of
course the big "Flip4Mac" question.
Inevitably when trying to convert a file
you find some free software that puts a
watermark over the footage and you're
like: "Damn, guess I'll try
something else." Not at GMA in the
Philippines. LOL. None of the other clips
have it and they were all the same format
so your guess is as good as mine as to why
they left that in there.
And
great, the only time I've said 'God' in
the entire Journey and it gets broadcast
across the world. Of course. Oh, hey - I'm
wearing that same outfit right now.
Spooky. And yes, it's "Godsend". Be
nice.
Anyway, guess what
is going into a new demo ASAP? Little by little from
wikipedia to this... it's all adding credibility to
everything I've done... retrospectively. Strange huh?
A newcomer now assumes The Journey lead to everything
else when in fact The Journey just chronicled the
other stuff. It isn't until the last year or so that
any real light has come on this video blog and people
just assume that the success in my life had to do with
it. In retrospect the past 9 years seems nice and
succinct.
And damnit,
I knew it. I even said it in these entries
during the lean times in 2002, 2003 that at some point
in the future - all of this would make sense. Times
when I swear only a dozen people ever kept up
'cause it was sooooooooo depressing. I knew it was all
for something later. Surely I was just a bit
delusional, but when you're doing something that no
one else is doing, and several people tell you point
blank: "why the fuck are you doing that?", you
have no choice but to isolate yourself a bit, be
delusional, and have faith. Just hard to believe
I did it for so long without any recognition.
It's a testament to just how therapeutic it all is.
This ends with a book deal people. I can feel it. I
already have the title, and I'm sure as hell not
posting it here.
:-)
Alright, well -
thanks life, that was fun. YouTube entry will be up
tomorrow followed by 3 very special releases on
Thursday, Friday & Saturday.
