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athena_crikey educated me about her favourite commercial, Sierra Mist's Holiday Hawk commercial. I had never thought to look for my favourite commercial on YouTube before, but lo! Discovery.com's HELLO METEOR!!!! This has seriously got to be my favourite commercial ever. Just the fact that it came out when I was in middle school and I still remembered it as well as I did proves something, I think! Half of the funny of this commercial is the delivery so I hope my bad summary doesn't ruin the amusement for anyone I summarized it for. XD There is also Hello Mosquito and Hello Mosquito Outtakes and if memory serves there was some other one that I don't remember what it was, but in my humble opinion, Hello Meteor pwns them all. XD
And while we're on the subject of commercials, I feel guilty for having such adoration for this Molson Canadian commercial, but it so much reminds me of my current novel project. I mean, not if you take it as it's meant to be, I have to do a great amount of pretending in order to get it to remind me of my novel, but then it really does. Just because my novel is all about people pretending to be other people and always meeting new people and things like that. Aaaaahaha, I hate talking about my novel because it always sounds so stupid. I don't think it's stupid! I think a lot of books/movies/series sound ridiculous when summarized no matter how awesome they may actually be. Or perhaps I just say that to make myself feel better about my writing projects. :)
And while I'm admitting things that make me feel like a loser, Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" is for serious my novel's female lead in music video form. Aha, it's funny, when that video first came out (in first year I think?), I would always watch it and think, "Hey, this kind of reminds me of Even." But slowly that association has grown and so now whenever I see this video I think, "ZOMG IT'S EVEN!!!" It is actually not that difficult for me to associate songs and music videos and what have you with my writing projects, and for a couple of them I even have lists of songs that make me think of my characters (novel soundtracks, holla XD ). (Hikaru Utada's Exodus album, ahahaha, no joke, very nearly every song on that album I associate with a character. For those who read my NaNo excerpts, "Hotel Lobby" and "Tippy Toe" are Ana and Skyla, respectively. XD ) But the video for "Since U Been Gone" could well be the most perfect match-up I have yet found.
Ayumi Hamasaki's "Ourselves" is one of my most favourite videos ever, and I was totally obsessed with it in early spring 2004, which was around the time I started thinking up this novel of mine, and the feel of that video is still sort of the feel I'm trying to achieve in certain parts of the novel, although who knows if I'll get it or not. Ayu's blonde hair in the video is also where my character Cate gets her hair from. XD;; But the problem I have with being so intensely inspired by this video in the beginning stages of writing this novel is that whenever I picture the main character's car, I always think of the car in the video, which is an older car, isn't it? Not something a nineteen-year-old boy would be likely to be driving in the summer of 2005? So this presents a wee little problem for me, haha. (I know NOTHING about cars, you'll have to excuse me. When I hit the rewriting stage - I hope to eventually! hahaha -, I fully expect to sit down with someone who knows about cars and try to describe the sorts of cars I want and have them throw out some car names that I can use to make myself look all knowledgeable.)
And now if you'll allow me to babble on about my silly novel just a little bit more. XD The scenes I was working on last night were about Even in the aftermath of her mother's death. I so rarely kill off characters. I think I have this fear that if I kill off a character, it will come off as a total plot device, all cheap and lame. I don't know why I think this because I've never thought it about any character death I've seen in someone else's work. The first time I killed off a main character was in the novel I was working on when I was fourteen, and then I felt so bad about it that two days later I brought her back. XD Well, it did end up fitting the story, though perhaps a little ridiculously. I killed off a main character in my NaNo this year, but the only reason I thought to do it was because my inspiration was lagging and I knew I needed to do something drastic or I wouldn't be able to hit 50k. So I killed off a main character and then brought him back in warped dream sequences and spent a few thousand words on the problems of his will. XD And admittedly, killing off Even's mother was what I came up with to help get me back into writing my current novel project after working so intensely on my NaNo. So I don't even know if I'll keep these scenes in the final draft, I don't even know where this is going. I feel like it's weird that I never kill anyone off, hahaha. Is it? I dunno. I think I only have the impression it's so weird because of betaraider, haha, if you are unlucky enough to be one of her characters, you know your life is not going to be a happy one. XD XD XD XD!!
And compared to betaraider and her mad writing speed, it is taking me six hundred billion years to write this novel ... x_x;;;;; I think I have this fear of being really upset when I finish writing this novel, because you have no idea how much I adore these characters. (Sequel? Don't think I haven't already thought about it! Hahaha.) But I asked betaraider if she misses the characters when she finishes a novel and she said no, because the editing process takes so long that even when you're finished writing, you're still not finished the novel for however long it takes you to edit. Ah, I still worry because I am ridiculous like that. XD
(I have a bizarre urge to go watch KoT right now. Because I was scrolling through my YouTube favourites list and saw there the "Stand" Aladdin video? That video does use some excellent KoT clips. Hmm ...)
athena_crikey educated me about her favourite commercial, Sierra Mist's Holiday Hawk commercial. I had never thought to look for my favourite commercial on YouTube before, but lo! Discovery.com's HELLO METEOR!!!! This has seriously got to be my favourite commercial ever. Just the fact that it came out when I was in middle school and I still remembered it as well as I did proves something, I think! Half of the funny of this commercial is the delivery so I hope my bad summary doesn't ruin the amusement for anyone I summarized it for. XD There is also Hello Mosquito and Hello Mosquito Outtakes and if memory serves there was some other one that I don't remember what it was, but in my humble opinion, Hello Meteor pwns them all. XDAnd while we're on the subject of commercials, I feel guilty for having such adoration for this Molson Canadian commercial, but it so much reminds me of my current novel project. I mean, not if you take it as it's meant to be, I have to do a great amount of pretending in order to get it to remind me of my novel, but then it really does. Just because my novel is all about people pretending to be other people and always meeting new people and things like that. Aaaaahaha, I hate talking about my novel because it always sounds so stupid. I don't think it's stupid! I think a lot of books/movies/series sound ridiculous when summarized no matter how awesome they may actually be. Or perhaps I just say that to make myself feel better about my writing projects. :)
And while I'm admitting things that make me feel like a loser, Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" is for serious my novel's female lead in music video form. Aha, it's funny, when that video first came out (in first year I think?), I would always watch it and think, "Hey, this kind of reminds me of Even." But slowly that association has grown and so now whenever I see this video I think, "ZOMG IT'S EVEN!!!" It is actually not that difficult for me to associate songs and music videos and what have you with my writing projects, and for a couple of them I even have lists of songs that make me think of my characters (novel soundtracks, holla XD ). (Hikaru Utada's Exodus album, ahahaha, no joke, very nearly every song on that album I associate with a character. For those who read my NaNo excerpts, "Hotel Lobby" and "Tippy Toe" are Ana and Skyla, respectively. XD ) But the video for "Since U Been Gone" could well be the most perfect match-up I have yet found.
Ayumi Hamasaki's "Ourselves" is one of my most favourite videos ever, and I was totally obsessed with it in early spring 2004, which was around the time I started thinking up this novel of mine, and the feel of that video is still sort of the feel I'm trying to achieve in certain parts of the novel, although who knows if I'll get it or not. Ayu's blonde hair in the video is also where my character Cate gets her hair from. XD;; But the problem I have with being so intensely inspired by this video in the beginning stages of writing this novel is that whenever I picture the main character's car, I always think of the car in the video, which is an older car, isn't it? Not something a nineteen-year-old boy would be likely to be driving in the summer of 2005? So this presents a wee little problem for me, haha. (I know NOTHING about cars, you'll have to excuse me. When I hit the rewriting stage - I hope to eventually! hahaha -, I fully expect to sit down with someone who knows about cars and try to describe the sorts of cars I want and have them throw out some car names that I can use to make myself look all knowledgeable.)
And now if you'll allow me to babble on about my silly novel just a little bit more. XD The scenes I was working on last night were about Even in the aftermath of her mother's death. I so rarely kill off characters. I think I have this fear that if I kill off a character, it will come off as a total plot device, all cheap and lame. I don't know why I think this because I've never thought it about any character death I've seen in someone else's work. The first time I killed off a main character was in the novel I was working on when I was fourteen, and then I felt so bad about it that two days later I brought her back. XD Well, it did end up fitting the story, though perhaps a little ridiculously. I killed off a main character in my NaNo this year, but the only reason I thought to do it was because my inspiration was lagging and I knew I needed to do something drastic or I wouldn't be able to hit 50k. So I killed off a main character and then brought him back in warped dream sequences and spent a few thousand words on the problems of his will. XD And admittedly, killing off Even's mother was what I came up with to help get me back into writing my current novel project after working so intensely on my NaNo. So I don't even know if I'll keep these scenes in the final draft, I don't even know where this is going. I feel like it's weird that I never kill anyone off, hahaha. Is it? I dunno. I think I only have the impression it's so weird because of betaraider, haha, if you are unlucky enough to be one of her characters, you know your life is not going to be a happy one. XD XD XD XD!!
And compared to betaraider and her mad writing speed, it is taking me six hundred billion years to write this novel ... x_x;;;;; I think I have this fear of being really upset when I finish writing this novel, because you have no idea how much I adore these characters. (Sequel? Don't think I haven't already thought about it! Hahaha.) But I asked betaraider if she misses the characters when she finishes a novel and she said no, because the editing process takes so long that even when you're finished writing, you're still not finished the novel for however long it takes you to edit. Ah, I still worry because I am ridiculous like that. XD
(I have a bizarre urge to go watch KoT right now. Because I was scrolling through my YouTube favourites list and saw there the "Stand" Aladdin video? That video does use some excellent KoT clips. Hmm ...)
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Novel Novel Novel
Date: 2006-12-26 09:59 pm (UTC)Your admission about Kelly Clarkson hurts me inside. The grammar of that song frustrates me endlessly! First of all, and most obviously, her use of "U" to replace "you" does not make up for the fact that the title SHOULD be "Since You've Been Gone." Furthermore, "since" implies a stretch of time, whereas "for the first time" indicates an exact moment in time - her phrase doesn't make temporal sense! ARGH! Kelly Clarkson, not only can you not spell and not form sentences, but your thought patterns are confused. The only thing that makes me feel better about this is that at least you're not identifying your MC with Lindsay Lohan.
"I so rarely kill off characters."
I want you and betaraider to try and write a novel together one day. XD
betaraider: We have to kill Kale!
arisha: No, no, we don't. He can be redeemed!
betaraider: *kills Kale by means of sex and drugs* I'm sorry, what did you say?
arisha: ... Fine, but I'm turning Vala into a princess.
Re: Novel Novel Novel
Date: 2006-12-26 11:43 pm (UTC)at least you're not identifying your MC with Lindsay Lohan.
Let's not talk about my NaNo 2004, then. XD;;; (It's just cause I really like that "take this for just what it is" line from "Rumours," honest!! ^^; )
And I heart the scenario you came up with there. That is EXACTLY WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE.