The fallacies of the word "random" plus other YouTube related things

When I google "define: random" it gives this as its definition, "lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance". First off, if you've ever said anything along the lines of "omg I'm so random", then I question your reason for existing. People have describe my videos as random and that bothers me to no end. My videos are not "lacking any definite plan or order or purpose". I spend a good week or so carefully planning what I'm going to do and say in my video and a lot of my ideas don't even make the cut. Just because I don't transition between ideas, does not make my videos random. I make my videos very stream of consciousness ON PURPOSE. It's not like I look around my room, see my snuggie, and then decide to include it in my video. When people say random, they're not even using it correctly. What they are really saying is what just happened came from "seemingly out of nowhere" or that it was "unexpected". Calling something random just denies that there is a thought process behind it and reduces its validity. I don't mean to sound preachy or anything, you can say whatever you want. I'm just trying to let people know that it's very poor word choice.

On to my next topic of discussion: my channel is dying. According to my Youtube insight, I'm getting the same amount of views that I got LAST YEAR when I had half the subscribers. I'm washed up. I'm making videos in a style that was popular in 2007 and 2008 and I'm unwilling to make videos in this new "Shane Dawson" style that seems to be dominating Youtube. Don't get me wrong, I'll keep making videos. There is just no longer any incentive to do so. I just need a big break to rejuvenate interest in my channel, which I can almost guarantee you, won't happen. The only thing I have going for me on the internet is my podcast. Even if I was to stop making videos, I would continue to do the podcast as long as the others are up to it.

Mundane Revelry

Like the title of this blog entry? Me too, it sounds fancy. Sup my blog readers, long time no talk.

A lot has changed since I blogged last but a lot is still exactly the same. I've been going to community college for the past semester and I absolutely hate it. I want to major in film production and the state of Georgia does not have any schools that offer it. Because I don't have the money to go out of state, I'm going to community college in order to save. Community college is soul crushing and I'm counting down the days until I can get out of here. That's really all I have to say about that.

I've been working at a smoothie place for the past six months, I'm not going to say which for my own privacy. I really like it just because it's easy and we don't get many customers.

That's all my life consists of at the moment. It's severely mundane, but I can't complain. Over Thanksgiving, I thought about what I'm truly thankful for. I usually give a copout answer like family, friends, warm bed, and a roof over my head but I actually took it seriously this time. I came to the conclusion that I'm thankful for my current situation. Even though things are mundane, they could be a lot worse. So many things could be wrong with my life right now, like I could be miserable like a lot of us were during our mid teen years. I know that sounds terribly optimistic and I could argue the fallacies of optimism on end, but that doesn't change how I feel. Over the past year, I've learned how to be content and that's made all the difference. I have all the same problems that I've had for the past couple of years but they don't even matter anymore. I want a change from the mundanity because I've been living the same lifestyle for over a year now, but I still enjoy myself everyday. So until a big change comes along, I'm going to continue to revel in the ordinary and the mundane.

Introspection: over.

As for the video making, I have a few ideas in the works and I hope to get two videos out by the end of the year.

Home

I am currently writing this at 4 am because I cannot sleep.

I was born in Bellingham, Washington. The very same place where the band, Death Cab for Cutie originates. It's where my family and childhood friends live. While tossing and turning in my usual insomnia, I thought about old friends and old memories.

I lived in Washington until 2001 and went back to visit there every summer since, except for this past one. Now, I'm attending college and so are all my old friends. I'm about to cross the threshold where if I don't see them again soon, I will probably never see them again.

As I lay awake, I went through the history of my life and how far I've come and it hit me that I am finally growing up. I find that to be absolutely terrifying. I need to go back to Bellingham one more time. I need to revisit what's left of my childhood before it's gone forever. Only then, will I be ready to grow up.

T-shirt woes

I speak from experience when I say that you should never wear a t-shirt that calls upon anyone to do something to you. Confused? I'll explain.

I have this one shirt that says "Ask me about dinosaurs"



I bought this shirt because I find it to be hilarious and maybe use it to pose as a museum employee (which I did at The Museum of Natural History but it failed). Everyone who sees the shirt asks me about dinosaurs. Now, I can humor a few questions like "How tall is a Stegosaurus?" and "How fast can a T-Rex run?" but I am shocked at the lack of originality and imagination when 90% of the questions are "What about dinosaurs?" Believe me, it gets tiresome.

This is my other shirt (except it's green and looks way better).



Now Diggums is clearly offering his hands to anyone to give him a smack, or give him a high five. My friends like to obnoxiously interpret it as give Zach a smack (unintentional rhyming) or let's hit Zach over and over again because his t-shirt tells us so. As you can tell, I have wonderful friends.

Moral of the story: think before you buy!

I should probably blog about my travels. I might do that later on this weekend, but we'll see if laziness prevails.

Say Anything

I just watched the movie Say Anything for the first time, and the only thing I have to say is that it's nice to see a romance movie where the boy didn't do anything wrong and was nice throughout the whole movie (the girl didn't do anything wrong either, but all that matters is that John Cusack is a modern gentleman). You don't see that too often.

More blogs to come in the future.