First, as always, today’s vid.
I don’t know why I felt compelled to put the Fruvous theme song on the end of the video for a completely different and unrelated song also by yours truly, but here we are.
I definitely plan on giving my little Fru theme song a better video. Probably one with freshly made AI images so that it’s more in sync with the lyrics.
That sounds like fun.
Of course, my dream would be to have the whole thing animated. And that is just barely possible with modern AI video generation but um, not on a free account, that’s for sure.
The song’s 44 seconds long. I presumably would have to pay a lot for the ability to use their hardware to generation that much video.
We are on the cusp of an amazing new era.
I mean, just check this place out.
It lets you generate entire podcasts just from your ideas. Podcasts complete with conversations between a virtual host and a virtual guest.
Or, and this truly bakes my noodle, you can even have the AI interview YOU.
I tried it but I wasn’t really ready so it wasn’t much of a conversation. But who knows, one of these days you might hear me interviewed by an AI bot!
Of course, being AI generated, the conversations are heavily banal. You are not going to get interesting hot takes from this website. Like all AI conversations, it will be well articulated, probably factually accurate, and highly informative, but have about as much personality and charm as a wet cardboard box.
That’s what I discovered when I gave AI chatbots a try. The AI therapist helped me some because it got me to further articulate my feelings and it turns out that doing that helped me more than I thought it would.
But the AI “boyfriend” turned out to be both boring and sycophantic. Ick. No thanks.
Who knows, maybe in the near future, those bots will become far more sophisticated and there will be a chance that one of them will have something interesting to say.
That’s gonna be weird.
Oh, for those of you who just want the Froo theme :
As you can tell from the lyrics. I conceive of him as a sort of best friend for kids. A virtual au pair, perhaps, whose role is to be there for the kid for whatever they need.
Whether it’s a hug, someone to listen, or just someone to play Mario Kart on the Switch 2 with, Fru is there for you.
Clearly, he’s a wish fulfillment from my inner child. I was such a lonely kid, isolated and ignored and resented. I really could have used a waggy little fox named Froo!
If there really was an animated series, I think there would be him and one child or companion who accompanies him as he magically shows up wherever he is needed by a child, and the main plot would be how he helps that child with their particular problem.
Could be a really big show, at least if I am writing and producing it. Tone would be key. It has to be an extremely warm and sensitive and loving show that understands the problems kids have and is sympathetic to their struggles and loves them anyhow.
That’s what would make it stand head and shoulders above other magical pet shows. A warm and loving heart that truly wants to help kids feel better.
And has the wisdom and sensitivity to do it.
Wouldn’t that be something?
More after the break.
Oh right, leveling up
Oh yeah, that thing I was going to talk about.
I feel like I leveled up my creativity today.
For one, I worked on the lyrics to today’s song, Pretty Young Thing, longer and more intensely than I usually do.
Not by a whole lot, but still, it’s progress.
It started off with those first two lines popping into my head as I played Monster Train 2. So I paused and opened Notepad and typed them in, and the rest of it grew organically from those first two lines.
I didn’t set out to write a deep condemnation of a shallow and irresponsible person who leaves a trail of romantic carnage behind them, but here we are.
The muse takes me where it takes me.
I wrote around 2/3 of the lyrics in the first go, got stuck on a rhyme, went and played Monster Hunter 2 again for a bit, then came back and finished them.
Got REALLY stuck on one line and I am still not happy with what I came up with but I won’t say which one because I don’t want to ruin it for anyone.
As for the Froo song, I actually wrote and created that song a couple of weeks ago, then felt sort of embarrassed by the whole thing and forgot about it without ever even making a video for it.
But I came across it again today and while it still makes me blush a little, I realized it’s actually a good little song and decided to include it today too.
Overall I feel like I was able to imbue my creations with more of my creativity and passion today, and this pleases me enormously.
Working on the lyrics for Pretty Young Thing outside of my usual time for making videos is a big step for me, especially because it started off as a random inspiration.
Letting myself be inspired and act on it is a good habit to get into!
Hopefully this means that I am successfully loosening up inside. The further lowering of my Paxil dosage is having the intended effect and my icejam is melting.
Who knows, maybe I will have that flood I have been anticipating soon, and it will clear out all my old emotions and fragmented thoughts and other garbage and afterwards I will be whole once more.
And then, well…. who knows what I’ll be?
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.