Once more, I share my valuable insights with the world.
Took me slightly more than an hour to do the vid, including primary recording and editing. That seems like a reasonable amount of my day to sink into making them.
I am still wrestling with the issue of adornment. My flamboyant side still wants to add all kinds of fancy stuff to my videos, even though I know that is not the style now.
The style these days is to accompany your spoken word with relevant video clips and/or pictures, and I know I could do that, but holy crap is that a lot of work.
So perhaps I will work my way up to that.
As will no doubtedly be the case going forward, the editing is the real work. I can record the original video in like five minutes because I don’t need a script or notes.
In a weird way, it’s as if I already have a script in my head, or at least, the idea that will eventually form one.
But then going through and editing out all the ums and stammers and odd pauses takes a fair bit of effort. And I have had to regain my tolerance for hearing myself say the same things over and over as I edit.
What I really want is a modern AI miracle site or app that will do all that for me. I am sure it must be possible. I have seen sites that almost do that.
The missing ingredient is that those sites that I have seen so far do not have an option for you to use your own audio. They all want to use an AI voice so that all you need to do is submit your script, which is frigging amazing, but not what I want.
I want it all to be me, me, me! 🙂
Which brings me to another issue, because I genuinely think that my oratory skills are amazing and a big part of that is how I present myself as I speak. How I emote and gesticulate and the look in my eyes.
And you can’t see those if there’s pictures in the way.
So it couldn’t be wall-to-wall pictures (so to speak) like the videos from some of my favorite YouTubers like John Michael Gautier. I would have to somehow leave room for cutting back to myself from time to time.
These are the issues with which I struggle.
I’d like to think that I am such a hypnotic and powerful orator that I don’t need anything except for my little old self in my videos, but I um, wouldn’t count on that.
After all, I don’t know anyone on YouTube like that. Even my beloved Refashioned Hippie has pictures she’s reacting to in her extremely witty way.
Which brings us to the subject of comedy.
I have learned from awesome folks like the guy behind the Jokes from Al channel (presumably named Al) that it is entirely possible to do entire skits by yourself and have it work out fine.
A lot of the time he doesn’t even change clothes for his various characters, he just shoots them under different lighting conditions.
And I could do that. And I know I’m a very funny guy. For that matter, I could just do stand-up in my videos.
But I am just not feeling it right now. So that idea can wait.
I suppose I could riff off the news like Colbert or Daily Show. Would be relatively simple to mix that with my political commentary.
What I really want is for someone else to do the hard parts so all I have to do is record myself saying things.
But I have no idea where to find someone who would do such work for free.
So it’s got to be lil ol me.
More after the break.
The K to the F of the C
Enjoying a nice KFC meal right now.
Including onion rings. Dang they’re good. I got the onion rings instead of the fries this time because I knew that if I got my usual Mega Fries, I’d want gravy, and they now charge like $3.59 or so for a SMALL frigging gravy.
A large gravy is 10 freaking bucks!
I remember when a small gravy was 59 cents. And sometimes in the summer, they would give it to you for free because for a while in the 70’s and early 80’s the KFC in my home town did MAD business because that’s where people went in order to get the food they needed for a picnic.
That’s why KFC has always had those great big family meals. You could pull up in the station wagon, make one order, and roll off with a whole feast and then go to one of PEI’s many parks and beaches, find a picnic table, and dig in.
Not that my family ever did that. My mother did not care for picnics.
We had a few but she was scowling pretty much the whole time.
She came by it honest, though, because her father, my Pepe, didn’t like eating outside either. His opinion was that humanity had worked hard to provide shelter and modern conveniences for ourselves, so why eat outside?
He felt the same way about barbequing.
Eccentricity runs wild in my family.
Tonight I believe I’ve birthed a new habit. On a whim, I took all the components of my meal – chicken strips, popcorn chicken, and onion rings – and dumped them back into the box the meal came in, and found that I quite enjoyed having a box full of delicious crusty fried brown things by my side.
Kind of a portrait in cholesterol, but what the hell.
Reminds me of when I used to go to this Chinese buffet place near Granville and Commercial and felt a little guilty about the fact that I always immediately made a beeline for the egg rolls and fried wontons, which were easily the least healthy things in the whole place.
It made me feel conspicuously non-Asian.
But having lived in Richmond for 27 years, I’m quite used to that now.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.