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Last Updated: 12/11/2009

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Status: Single
City: Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa
State: Auckland
Country: NZ
Signup Date: 3/14/2007

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 

Current mood:  blustery
I need to make another music video. I hate making music videos. I know nothing about the video/film format. I can't seem to control how long it takes or what it looks like. Thankfully I have thus far had good results from the excellent people who made them for me (laboured over them, slaved over them long after the pitiful budget was gone- though may I mention here that the budget for this video will be adequate, maybe more than adequate depending on what you're used to and what your idea is and other factors), but every time I have to do it again I have no idea where to start. Who to call. How to express the great idea I had without it sounding like it won't be great at all, will actually be quite shit when caught on camera. How to press the importance of it being delivered in a timely fashion without sounding like an asshole business guy. Someone must know. One of you must know who I should call. Maybe you are the person! Maybe you have a great idea! Maybe you have a friend of a friend who made a music video once for their other friend who you don't actually know but they did it for $200 and it wasn't too bad, actually!

If so, please share. Maybe nothing will come of this. Maybe no one even looks at myspace bulletins anymore. Maybe this "bulletin" would be better off as a "blog", style-wise I mean. I think I'll copy and paste it into a blog also. Yes. I will. If you have a good idea for a video for a song called "Never Change" about emotioinal/mental instability due to peer-influenced self-oppression and probably other things as well (whatever you want!), send a message. Why not! Who cares man? Be free! Your idea is probably really good, even if it doesn't get used. I bet it's better than my ones! I am not a film-type. I am not an actor (I really, really am not). I need you. Not in a desperate, needy way but in a "you potentially have a quality that I lack" way.

Let's see how it goes anyway. Cast the net wide and all that.

Currently reading:
What Is the What (Vintage)
By Dave Eggers
Release date: 2007-10-09
Claire

 
I never realised how sad this song was, until I listened to it thinking about your problem -- it's a bit of lyrical dissonance, but that makes it all the more interesting. I have to admit it hadn't been one of the songs on the album that stuck in my head, but...yeah!



I'm not much for music videos myself, but while I was listening to the song on loop for a bit I kept thinking of Highgate -- have you ever been to London? Highgate is a set of two cemeteries there, both quite famous for the fact they're more like overgrown parks than cemeteries.
The West Cemetery is the coolest part, it has things like this (http://img. photobucket. com/albums/v146/dollwithnoheart/DSC07200. jpg) all through it. But that's what the song reminded me of, because I hear it as the girl telling the guy to never change while she'll change everything for him, and she's putting him up on a pedestal...and I just see her wandering through this great overgrown cemetery filled with stone angels who never change up on their pedestals in a place that is as beautiful and remarkable as it is sad and melancholy. Which is kind of the impression I get about the voice of the song. Of course this doesn't work well as a video idea because the budget of going to Highgate is impossible, but still.
I thought I'd let you know what images the song evoked in me, just so you know someone's listening! xxx
 
Posted by Claire on Friday, March 13, 2009 - 9:02 AM
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Rebel Peasant

 
hey that's actually the first myspace blog i've ever read!
 
Posted by Rebel Peasant on Friday, March 13, 2009 - 9:02 AM
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Anna Coddington

 
You people are all great. So bursting with ideas. It's nice. To Mr Rebel Peasant- I hope enjoyed your blog-reading (I wish someone had called it something other than "blog"- such an ugly word). To Ms Claire (and actually everyone)- this song is not about myself. It sounds like it is because I used the words "me" and "you", but it's about anybody. Everybody. Probably someone you know or yourself at times. It is sometimes about me but not usually because I'm too stubborn. Anyway, nice cemetery pick. If that's an appropriate adjective.

 
Posted by Anna Coddington on Friday, March 13, 2009 - 9:12 AM
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Claire

 
Oh, no, I didn't assume it was about you specifically, but when you're singing it you are the character who is speaking, which makes you a better actress than you give yourself credit for! But the cemetery thing, I'm sure, comes from the fact I find the music so lovely and lilting but the lyrics are so sad. I had the same thing at Highgate; it's like a park, beautiful and silent and wonderful in this huge city...but it's a *cemetery*. So, yeah, that's sort of where that came from.
Good luck with your video! xxx
 
Posted by Claire on Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 11:16 AM
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Annie
Anne Horgan

 
Best of luck... and New Zealand has some wonderful old cemeteries of it's own if you are considering Claire's idea!
 
Posted by Annie on Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 11:16 AM
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Mikki Dee

 






yo was listening to the album last night but was too drunk to think about a vid concept(useless information????)


but before i was drunk i thought why not do a karate video?
 
Posted by Mikki Dee on Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 9:47 PM
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Solomon Grundy's grave is empty
Paul Hollingsworth

 
wow yeah! a video is indeed scary work. hard to get from concept to screen and keep the idea in tact.
your so talented though i can't wait to see what comes of this! i have to agree with mikki dee, a karate video would be both original and fresh! maybe like a kata in gi at a location not usually associated with the martial arts like a market?! filmed in time with the music! best wishes!
 
 
Posted by Solomon Grundy's grave is empty on Monday, April 20, 2009 - 12:26 AM
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