SHEN: you know what i haven't done so far? a fucking rant vlog. and i'm not gonna because that's lame to just say "today i'm going to do a rant vlog." instead of just picking up a camera from feeling the burn. i don't consider what i do movies or documentaries. just little things i guess. for full clarity, this is gonna be more random than normal because my plan was to have a friend over, but she's sick. so uhhh. my whole day is free.
SHEN: i just fell the fuck asleep and had some wild dreams. the first one, a character, i don't think it was me was trying to go somewhere. this lasted a bit, but the only part i remember is them finding my cute little silver booty shorts in a pile of clothes. i think they were looking for me. eventually the dream transitions to me or them idk, i assume me, in a big classroom and this bitch teacher give the main character an f in the class for not talking to people. i bitch her out and then try to use my rewind powers to not get kicked out and they don't work. then this feeling of dread sets in. we hear these noises like plains, i realize what's happening. then we hear an explosion and the other students are looking outside and then i wake up. i rolled back asleep and dreamed again. this time, my brother and dad went to this large activity center for five year old’s but we're all our current ages now. i remember i'm sitting in this lobby hall thing, and i'm like "you guys took me here when i was five." and my dad is like "meh." anyway, they told me to wait and i get bored so i find this giant white room with a slide leading to a ball pit, more of the size of a water slide. there's a white dragon in there named "seth" and i think i say something to him, but he rips one of my titties off. and i'm like what? then i wake up. you know, i bitch about not having interesting dreams, but be careful whatcha wish for i guess.
SHEN: there used to be this trend on the web i was supposed to grow up on called "a day in my life". not to be confused with draw my life. but it's a vlog, like i do, that just well... you're not fucking stupid or just don't know english, right? i guess these are still around with them being short videos, but half of the time the people making them look depressed. now i'm depressed because i'm gonna let myself go on a side tangent.
SHEN: i'm gonna film this right here to denote the difference in topic. i'm a genius, yes. anyway. it'll be like those ‘a day in my life.’ videos. for future people they go like this: “i wake up at 6:30 in the morning, eat some oatmeal. my husband goes to work. i contemplate if we're compatible. our sun signs are, but out dick and pussy size isn't. has god smited me? is this past life karma? around ten i go for a walk, i saw dog. then i go home, shower, and do some chores alone. after that i made some cute knitting stuff while reading through emails. then i made dinner. my husband came home and we ate and i got some more work done. now i go to bed." the reason why these are so boring isn't because women. oh no, another side tangent incoming. but it's because most people's lives are boring. if i was to show you a whole day in my life it was: have shitty dream, wake up, take a piss i think, go back to bed, wake up from another stupid dream, watch videos, write, scroll on social media, decide to work on this vlog. it's only noon, and i got a late start, but like, BORING. especially if the narration is depressed. if you're life is sad, people are gonna feel sad. maybe some of us don't have to worry about the compatibility of ourselves and our partners organs, but like we all cook to some degree. we clean at some point. when people used to do these things it's "look at me i'm rich and my life is better than yours!!" even the nicest ones, that's why they were showing off their life!!! they "made it". i know some are gonna ask "shen, are you an ARG. you can-" fuck you, normie. i ain't telling you shit. speculate."
SHEN: filming this just in case i cut the first side tangent. tho based, i'm worried that it'll be too agney for the rest of this specific vlog. i did mention maybe making a compilation of unused vlogs at some point. for the real ones. i keep everything, cause you never know when you're going to need something, or want to use a thingy. this is especially true with writing. heck, maybe that vlog might not get used in this video but will in the next one. it's like a rabbit hole, layers deep. i may use it in this one and this part as well. creating art is beautiful for that. i've had a lot of coffee today. like the double shot of expresso. i normally say shot -a but if you put the a with that the sub thinks i'm saying something else oops. trying to avoid making it sound like i put liquefied anime boys in my coffee.
SHEN: fuck, I don't remember what the original "day in my life" segment was supposed to be about. actually, i think the tangent i went on was it. oh well, i had to go take care of something in between segments and decided to cook, so we're gonna do that now. this vlog is just random shit, but more than normal. but before we do that, or i lose enthusiasm to do so, place your bets with your friends. why do i make these? what constitutes as random? doesn't it all? i'd say the first vlog, where i go to the store is close to "a day in my life". the goal was "i'm going to take the audience on a journey to the mini store, i'm going to make mac n' cheese and whatever else happens, does." the second one was more like this one from my memory. i don't remember too much of it. i remember showing my plushies and talking about fucking your mom. i think that one was probably maybe more cohesive as i wasn’t hyped up on caffeine and talking about so much random shit i'm forgetting about what i originally was going to say. usually, i don't know the meat of what the vlog is. like, me talking about feminism or day in my life. at least i try to have a concept. mac n cheese, my brother's birthday party. i work from that. vlogs like this are harder, because it's like i want to do things, idk what. so, i make all these littler things and see what sticks and doesn't until something happens. at some point i’ll make a whole vlog and be like "this lame, i'm moving onto something else." these are supposed to be fun for me. i'm not gonna tell you every reason why i'm here doing this. i really need to rewatch vlog 2 apparently.
SHEN: after my brother's party i went to a nearby store and got some shitty cup noodle, which is a complement, and some other groceries. i usually take a day ride. though i take my motorcycle instead of the regular bike for the sidecar to this big gro show, about forty five minutes away and stock up. thus, i've never talked about my motorcycle. anyway, at some point i'll make a vlog of that, but it won't be for a bit. my noodle is ready.
SHEN: so, apparently my ma loved this cheesy yeast shit and put it on her ramen, and least she wasn't dying it all the time. she would dye it random colors before this era of shorter vids. apparently she woulda been all over this new short shit. i don't remember anything before ten years old and she died before that. i'm serious. like, i had to relearn how to speak english. but that’s not interesting, i hope. so i'm letting the noodles cool and soak up sum yeasty while i make a sandwich. yeah, this has lots of calories, but i want.
SHEN: it tasted good. There was a cute birdy in my window, but he went away. i'm sad i didn't snap a photo. little yellow fuzzball.
SHEN this part had more context, but it was dumb, so i cut the rest of it. you're welcome.
SHEN: i haven't smoked a cig all day. i'm not joking. holy shit. well, that's gonna change. but i'm gonna not do it on camera, to make this the first vlog i don't smoke. yeah... anyway, i'm
SHEN: trying to figure out i guess how to tie all of this together. or at least an ending i'm satisfied with. because like, i don't think this one should go on for much longer, but like we're floating. that's fine in a way. sometimes you just need to create a thing. it doesn’t work out in the filming or editing the way you'd hope, but it exists. of course this is such a small thing compared to a big movie. i've thought about making longer vlogs, and maybe someday. for now i like just booping a thing on here. Kind of like the old days.
SHEN: that's perfect! that's what i'm looking for. not a new camera, fuck, embarrassing, but that topic. because another thing i've been thinking about lately is the corporatization of the web. in very short, the 2000s future mega corpos started making social media sites and now instead of everyone having a personal site we have like five of them. normies reeeee. blah blah blha. i think the thing, or at least imo, that has been fucked the most is video. there was video before the specific site, i'm talking about the world i come from. i upload these to several different internets btw. anyway, metube at the beginning was a place where people would just upload silly little things for fun, no profit. it felt limitless. i was there for it. very young, but there. Then the owner changed, money rolled in. things were mostly still fine until copyright would get involved. and a bucha other stuff also fucked the place up. now you can't be kid friendly, but you can't be edgy. in short, it's a business strat. they want to turn into tv. which is fucking stupid, tv is dying because of metube. and even streaming services. so, in a way they're pushing all their creators to faux tvpill themselves or leave. the first one is impossible for most cause rarely do we have any budget to compete. we can’t go elsewhere since there’s no meaningful competition. thus, more artistic stuff, aka the good shit we all came to the platform for, goes down the drain. for full disclosure, i don't put this shit out for money. i don't expect what i do will ever generate a big profit. i'm just vibing.
SHEN: my point for bringing all this up, is i'm not as mad about the money side, as for the creativity. the freedom. because that's the internet, to obviously a certain point, ya know. but pretty free to do whatever. if not only money, but poorly explained guidelines are stopping people from creating, then we're losing out on so much. hold onnnn...
SHEN: my camera is corpo! it tried to die. anyway, not saying all this art is good, because that’s kinda subjective to a point, but how will i know until i see it? why should corpos, and really rich losers tell us what we can do and can't? the problem is no competition for MT, but also anti real artist stuff. people yell about smol new vidya site, and i do agree that algorithm bad, but small videos themselves are not the problem. it's the corpos. and i'm not god, there's not much i can do about it, but just be myself.
SHEN: So, like, i'm starting to edit this video.
SHEN: So like, I'm cutting in again, you see all this new footage? Yeah, um, i went on another rant that's just too much. yeah, i know, lol, i can't even end the video right. hahaaha. anyway, might separate this into two different vlogs, as everything i want to cut is giant "mean" i guess, rants. in the big rant i'm talking about my uniqueness or whatever. what i do as an artist. i follow my heart. i thought about throwing this camera into the water, but i don't know if it's water proof so instead i'm going to light another ham sandwich i made and just let it cross the river. like a sacrifice or something.
SHEN: i guess i need to smoke while making these.