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Midnight Corrections
Damn - this actually woke me up.
Bo Duke is wrong. The cows *will* feed themselves. That is the wonderful thing about cows and pasture. They pretty much have a handle on what to do.
Now - yeah - if you have calves en masse that are not weaned and you have then away from mamma - then you have to give them bottles. I loved that when I was a kid, actually. Also - you do sometimes put out hay in the winter - depends. But cows will feed themselves.
And again. This got me out of *bed*
Watch Smallville with my father and he will eventually make a small disapproving noise and say something along the lines of "The farm really just fell apart when Jessie died, didn't it?"
See - this shit is genetic.
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Special Mention must also be given to Lum Where ARE YOU????
And now I go back to bed where I will try to not think about the fact that the Kent's cows change type from episode to episode and really and truly that is not a dairy farm and why would they forget that and try to make it one and omigod I need to vid.
Bo Duke is wrong. The cows *will* feed themselves. That is the wonderful thing about cows and pasture. They pretty much have a handle on what to do.
Now - yeah - if you have calves en masse that are not weaned and you have then away from mamma - then you have to give them bottles. I loved that when I was a kid, actually. Also - you do sometimes put out hay in the winter - depends. But cows will feed themselves.
And again. This got me out of *bed*
Watch Smallville with my father and he will eventually make a small disapproving noise and say something along the lines of "The farm really just fell apart when Jessie died, didn't it?"
See - this shit is genetic.
This post is brought to you by None of My Vid Ideas Working Out.
Also we would like to thank our sponsor: Renenet Help Me cause I am going insane with this song there is too much song oh my god what was I thinking and you have to fix this now.
Special Mention must also be given to Lum Where ARE YOU????
And now I go back to bed where I will try to not think about the fact that the Kent's cows change type from episode to episode and really and truly that is not a dairy farm and why would they forget that and try to make it one and omigod I need to vid.
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I have *never* heard of someone getting out of bed because of *COWS*.
You amaze me everyday sisabet. Everyday.
And... you wanna talk about "too much song", I took on a song bigger than me. It's scary. LOL.
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Actually, it was only that once and I had a fever and watched "Rain King." And I was more worried that they'd fall through the sky and kill me than I was that they wouldn't feed themselves. But still.
Linzee
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*needs sleep*
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*g*
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My
God
And the sad thing about all of this is that I *know* no recreational drugs were harmed in the making of Spike the Mad Mushroom Penguin King. Go to sleep!
Or there may be a death cow with your name on it. Don't look at me - Lauren started all this. I was just commenting on cows. Y'all brought up Besse-With-A-Vengeance.
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Y'all brought up Besse-With-A-Vengeance.
Well really - I would think this is the kind of thing BoDuke has to worry about all the time. I mean, sure on normal farms airborn bovine are not something you have to worry about, but with BoDuke - cuz I mean, if his kid occasionally floats out of his bed and into the sky at night with no warning...can the cattle be far behind?
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I... hehe...
I can't be any more constructive than that.
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LOL!!
You're funny. *g*
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::wishes she could be more helpful, but needs to hear about the insane-making details first::
Note: "renenet Help Me" business hours on AIM in the next couple of days are late Tuesday night (probably not until nearly 9pm Central time) and pretty much anytime Wednesday.
Also? Clearly the Kents have recycled cows. They're an organic farm, right? So they're all into that earth first crap. The cows get recycled as other cows. Easy peasy. Now, sleep, sweet pea, sleep...shhhhhhhhhhh....
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And I haven't had it for a very long time and I am convinced it is gone for good. So I'm trying to find the perfect song because that must be it - I lack idea and song and one of the perfect songs *is* "It Doesn't Have to Be this Way" except I did not clip for that vid. I have 40 gigs of clips for "Tiny Vessels" and I am thinking that the Tiny Vessels clips will work for "All Your Might" except I think I like the live version better than the studio version because Jay seems just a bit more alive in that version and the studio version is very resigned and while I can appreciate that in the song itself - resignation and acceptance are not particularly inspiring visually. I need a bit of anger to make it work - but then there is problems with the fact that it is a live version and also - not everyone is going to like his voice or the music and people will have a hard time understanding part of it and can I really stand to hear people talking shit right now about Jay Farrar?
Cause maybe I can't, cause I stayed at home this morning instead of going to work and read this book Dawn gave me "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and the author really pissed me off on the chapter about Alt-Country not because he called Lucinda Williams irrelevant or because he described Farrar as depressed - but because he is listening to a little bit of what other pretentious critic type people have to say and not to what is actually going on and that really raised my hackles and this was from another Uncle Tupelo fan so maybe I am toooooooo sensitive about this right now to even consider vidding anything to anything cause at this moment Jay is the new Richard Ashcroft in my head and Richard Ashcroft was the new Boo Radleys were the new Jay Farrar and it is just this great big circular thing and I'm only going by what moves me but maybe it all is irrelevant?
Cause I don't think Lucinda is irrelevant - but maybe that is because I am?
And dammit Lex just kind of stands there and doesn't do anything and I don't remember this ever being a problem with WYIN because I knew what to do to make him do something and I think I forgot how. And the musical notes are just there and go on and on and I don't have that much to say. Or at least say well in any compelling way and I am totally freaking out becauese in theory and in my head this idea should work, but then so did Angry Boy, and I can't make anything work in a not bad way.
Also - I am highly stressed at work.
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Well, this stopped me in my tracks. You're forgetting one of the unspoken rules of vidding: The vid will fill the music space available, and then some. The secret is the judicious use of your clips. Every single time I start a vid with a song that's over 3:08, I think that it's going to be too long and I'll have to edit, and every single time I edit, I end up realizing that I have too much vid for the music. Editing "World Turning?" Nearly freakin' *killed* me. I have storyboarded all 4:32 of that song in my head.
How's the HD or is that "it that shall not be mentioned?"
I'm sort of here. sort of. I'll be around this evening if you will.
[hugs and kisses and stuff]
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Well, this stopped me in my tracks. You're forgetting one of the unspoken rules of vidding: The vid will fill the music space available, and then some. The secret is the judicious use of your clips.
Well yes - I know this. I've just forgotten how to do it. I'm staring at the timeline and NOTHING IS HAPPENING and it is starting to freak me out cause I should not be staring at a timeline and it should not be freaking me out and this is not my beautiful house and this is not my beautiful wife.
Yeah - what is supposed to happen is I look at an expanse on the timeline and go "Oh dear - I have 24 seconds after this lyric before the music changes and I do X" and then I briefly think that 24 seconds is a long time BUT then I forget that it is 24 seconds because I am vidding and 4 hours later I look up and I have something great there but I need 6 more seconds before the change to really get my point across.
This is not happening. This is when I start panicking. I have forgotten how to vid. I can't make anything look right and what does look right is only there for a second and nothing is happening and everything is static and it is the worst feeling in the world. Well not the worst - but it is a really terrible feeling to have while you are doing something you are supposed to enjoy. I am staring at a timeline and it is looking back to me and I swear its soul is EMPTY.
The less we talk about the HD the better - I'm replacing stuff I can right now and the other stuff I will just deal with as it comes up. The most pain is clips and project files that disappeared. But it could have been worse.
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Okay, you know how to get past this. You haven't forgotten how to vid. You've forgotten how to fuck around with vidding, and that's where the fun is! It's not a project! It's fucking around time! Yay!! [channels Ferris: You're not dying! You just can't think of anything good to do.] I'm actually opening Premiere today (some time today) and fooling around with video effects. Maybe levels and key-framed track matting. I mean, I sort of already know how to do these things, but I want them to become second nature. And stuff.
Okay, I know you had a vidding drive, but was your *documents and settings folder* on that drive? Your default one that says stuff like 'Administrator,' etc.? Usually docsandseethings are on the C drive. Look in there and find the Adobe folder. I guarantee you that it's there. EVERY project will have at least a couple of archived ppj's. EVERY ONE.
Is there anything I can help you to replace? I have lots of stuff, not a little that came from you!
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This is why I chose you to minion for.
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You are right. This is supposed to be fun.
I've replaced all the Smallville that I knew was deleted already - I might have missed stuff. I lost *a lot* of clips in various project files and that will be a pain...or time for a new start... I'll have to think about that.
I have not looked and accessed the damage done to Angel. I just keep thinking that eventually S5 will be on DVD and I can relax.
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cows
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Were you able to recover most of your files?
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