It's as simple as can be. Loved the song, thought it was interesting that there weren't many 3 syllable names with the emphasis on the 2nd syllable and thought of Jemima. Being on this diet singlehandedly wrote the lyrics and there you go. Of course a quick YouTube search will show that it's far from an original idea. For some reason however, that didn't stop me. I'm usually so turned off if I'm repeating anything anyone's done before... but it actually brought out the fighter in me.

And believe it or not - it took a day. Wrote the lyrics, recorded the song early morning on the 2nd (thank GOD for an instrumental version floating around, I never could've played that convincingly), then got up early and shot it by myself while the sun was out, then spent 10 hours editing it and finished late last night around the same time I finished recording the song the day before. What a killer 24 hours.

Let me also once again sing the praises of the Canon HV20. I linked the picture to the right to the actual still from the camera (it's 1920x1080, you'll be hard pressed to see it 100% on your monitor). It's the cheapest (under $1000), out-of-the-box (if you select 24p and put the refresh at 60) HD cam out there and the images are stunning. I probably could've gone even further with all tweaks to make it look more filmlike in post, but I wanted to get this thing done at some point. The color correction alone killed my processor.

In terms of editing, I initially did every single cut exactly like the original. In fact even now, if you were to put them on a timeline together, 95% is dead-on. However, for certain lyrics you needed to see my face, and certain shots just didn't work with the original video edits so I moved things forward or back a couple seconds. For all intents and purposes it is a shot for shot rendition. Of course since I did the camerawork as well, I couldn't really immitate everything but hey - this whole thing cost me $4. And goddamn, why is syrup $4 on sale? It was the little bottle too.

As far as the competition goes...obviously I was underwhelmed or I never would've made this. No one really took the time to make a good video and only a couple people could actually sing. And also, from a guy who clearly doesn't shy from the sexual, a lot of them are just too sexual. It was interesting to have written my lryics before I knew about the other ones to see the similarities everyone touched on, but come on - that biracial/white-maple verse... that's just goddamn comedy golden brown right there. :-) Very proud of that.

Adam, don't be that guy. Don't be the "I'm losing weight, so here I am naked" guy.