Heh, I gush about her psychotically, and then her newest video comes out a few hours later. It's serendipity! This is "Oh No!," one of the best pop songs I've heard in forever.
The behind the scenes vid promised a bright, shiny, pseudo-'90s, neon explosion, AND THEY WEREN'T LYING. In terms of standing out and making its case in barely three minutes time, just like the song, it's very much a success, and surprisingly relevant TO the song itself! You can tell it could conceivably be what Marina was visualizing while writing it. Even, hopefully, things like this (OMG):
I mean, it's a bit more genius than I can handle right now, and I adore it immensely right off the bat (note: I'm probably biased and pre-judging). Does the video for "Hollywood" pale in comparison to this? A little bit, yeah. But again, BIASED OVER THE FACT THE SONG IS BRILLIANT. She's so beautiful, too... not that it's a difficult feat for her. Gah, I love her so much. Just in case I haven't made that clear enough! ♥
Since I started blogging in 2006, I've done it in certain specific waves, with varying degrees of success. I've had different blogs, different outlets, different forms of HTML capability, been part of different communities; but one thing remained constant: I was an adorable little fucking weirdo. I'm 17 now, though, and there's not a lot of time left for me to be an adorable little fucking weirdo before I just become a pathetic, immature shell of a disturbed young man. As a result of this dawning, I'm essentially in an identity crisis. What kind of person am I? Who do I want to become? Who WILL I be, despite what I want? etc.
I'm not very READY for all the major changes one goes through at such a sensitive age; some people know the reasons why, but I'm not getting into them now. I am a very, very fragile person with many weaknesses, and I always have and I always will be. This I AM SURE of. My neuroses are as much 'J.D.' as anything physical, probably more so. Frankly, I love them, but they really are my greatest asset and most spectacular downfall in the making. They make me, ME, and also make me, me, you know?
ANYWAY. All that esteem shit directly affects my output, as you can plainly see (and as I usually assert every time I remember I have a blog). I TRY, I really do, to write, well, anything. Films reviews never end well because they're always a paragraph long stream-of-consciousness brain leak that has zero validity and just makes me look like a moron. I can only orgasm about music, never deconstruct it down to reviewing it, because I don't actually know enough about music (which, I will admit, is not a problem for film). So all I end up posting about is random shit, YouTube vids and ME ME ME. I AM ENTIRELY AWARE ABOUT HOW MUCH I USE THE WORD 'I' WHEN WRITING, AND, YES, I KNOW IT'S A BAD TRAIT. And I (ack) know my vernacular is mostly too juvenile and 'precious' to ever be taken seriously. But I (ack) can't help it; it's just the way I (ack) write! Do you see why I (ack) don't do it all that often?
I want to be MORE THAN THAT. I want to be more than just the caricature I've become. My blogging standing has deteriorated SO much that there's almost no point, though, is there? I average 200-300 hits a week, which is utterly depressing for a blog that ONCE could do 1000 per week and have it stick. Once, very long ago... *sighs*
Vaguely rifting into "Rootless"-esque territory, with a tiny dash of "Numb."
I'm changing that. All of it. I am gonna post more if it kills me, and YOU ARE GONNA READ IT IF IT MAKES YOUR EYES EXPLODE. I know I fucking do this every time I make a post anymore, but GODDAMN IT, I am going to MAKE IT PERMANENT this time. I want to retread "Are You Satisfied?," for fuck's sake! I WANT TO RE-START THE ALBUM! And hopefully this time I won't freak out because "Oh No!"'s indictment of my life, and run back to the emo tracks. I am going to take CHARGE of my life, and my blogging, and GUESS WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
I forgot my point.
This was an intensely personal endorsement of Marina & the Diamonds, brought to you by my lack of sleep and addiction to her awesomeness. Dictated, not read. Thank you.
TODAY, Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010, is Valley Dreamin's second birthday!
Why the emphasis on 'today'? Because I thought the date I made my first post here was the 1st, and announced it as such on someplaces; it's also that I kinda slacked working on this post, big time. Or at least I FORMERLY did. If I HAD published it yesterday, IT WOULD'VE BEEN EARLY! SUCK IT, FATE. Anyway...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VD!!!!!!!!
I'm frankly very, very proud, and maybe a little confounded, that this special lil' thing is still actually alive. I neglect him so much, but yet, here he is! He's like a crack baby. MY crack baby. AND I LOVE HIM SO DEARLY.
Okay, enough with the creepy similes.
On this momentous occassion, I think it would be good to formally announce something a handful of you already know about: my expansion of The Valley Record. TVR, if you don't know, is my archive blog, hosting basically every film I've ever seen by year with my personal ratings for them. I've always known I could expand it, and obviously that's what I've done; so what HAVE I? OSCAR PAGES. Yes, HIGHLY STATISTIC, PATHETICALLY NERDY POSTS WITH EVERY SINGLE OSCAR NOMINEE I'VE SEEN IN A GIVEN CATEGORY'S HISTORY. Isn't that FANTASTIC? I've only done the majors and a couple randoms so far, but here they are:
Go through 'em! BASK in the warm, comforting glow of my paralyzing adolescent OCD! *waits for you to return*
ETA: I tried to make this post as quickly as I could, so I forgot to mention WHY I actually did them; that goes straight to Nick of Nick's Flick Picks and his IMMENSE Best Actress completist project. HE HAS FOUR LEFT. FOUR. Needless to say, I got jealous. Of a lot of things. BLERG.
Sooooo, what do you think? Should I continue on like I hope to do in the future? Is this all just time-wasting nonsense which ironically prevents me from completing any of the goals I imply with these pages? Is this all essentially useless anyway, because the Mayans are gonna come back in 2012 with their death-ray spaceships and blow up the earth or whatever the hell will happen? Am I just an arrogant twit?
This is getting loopy. Let's just have some cake!!?
(OMFG I really want this cake, btw. SOMEONE GET IT FOR ME.)
Lol, but SERIOUSLY (for a second), I really am surprised VD has kept even as afloat as it is, though sometimes it might as well be drowning. I know I have my permanent friends and fans who would support me no matter what, and I couldn't be more happy and grateful to have them around me (just like it'd take a lot for this to get even sappier than it is now). I love you all, no matter how much you love me. MAZEL TOV. ♥
(P.S. I just don't know why I did Art Direction over any other tech. I know you're wondering that. I kinda still am!)
It would be very wise to buy this on iTunes today. $1.29 isn't that much. If you need proof of its brilliance, please view the music video. You will not regret either action, but it's best for them to be in unison.
I mean, it's a bit more genius than I can handle right now, and I adore it immensely right off the bat (note: I'm probably biased and pre-judging). Does the video for "Hollywood" pale in comparison to this? A little bit, yeah. But again, BIASED OVER THE FACT THE SONG IS BRILLIANT. She's so beautiful, too... not that it's a difficult feat for her. Gah, I love her so much. Just in case I haven't made that clear enough! ♥
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