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What in all the seven hells of whatever planet did I just do to myself!?
*sigh* I might as well explain what my New Years resolutions were this year:
Get healthy, lulz! Get to Collage, find a job (no success, thus blog), and other things.
But above all, I really really wanted to get into making YouTube videos. I don't know why. I guess it just looked like a lot of fun! And I wanted to make something fun of it, you know? Rant and have you all see my face, if you even exist. This is why I call you my little no-one (or no-ones, at times, when I feel important on the scale of the internet.. . . .or try to feel important, at least. I dunno. "No-ones" invites a bigger audience, don't you think? It's a bit weird. . . .)
Point is, I greatly enjoy watching some YouTubers I've been mentioning on posts as of late, and I enjoy "spending time" with them (is that a weird way to think about it? "Spending time" with them isn't exactly accurate, since we're not physically next to them, but they all acknowledge we're there. And like any conversation, conversations are struck in the hopes the other party likes what we're talking about. Right?).
So I went on and made a video. And I'm going to keep making videos all week. In hopes of. . . . . reaching someone. Anyone, so long as they're not a creep pedophile or something.
Well. . . . hardly anyone's ever gonna see these videos, so they're not too big of a deal anyways.
Yeah, I think we're good!
With double the love
Nikola Strange
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MY NOTES!
Is it weird Charlie McDonnell and Dan from Danisonfire narrorate all the thoughts in my head?
Yeah, that is a bit weird. Very weird, actually. Too much YouTube! Then again, isn't that the point of this post?
*sigh*
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As you probably don’t already know, my pen name is actually after Nikola Tesla, who’s the greatest most brilliant scientific mind ever. It’s essentially this dude and Einstein to me.
Take a moment outta your day—right now would be good—to marvel at the brilliance and pay thanks to Nikola Tesla’s amazing mind:
Wireless energy in 1891.
1891!
Experiments with X-Rays, because of the beautiful thing to the right of this sentence!!
That awesome thing is the Tesla Coil a—and. . . . . you know, I should just let Hank Green take it from here:
Wheezy Waiter is so cool, like. . . .Cool! :D *shot*
There we go!
Anyways, while surfing through my daily batch of YouTube
vloggy videos and stuff, somewhere between Hank Green music and Charlie’s
public relationship*, I found a guy named Wheezy Waiter
And oh my God he is weird!
Wheezy Waiter’s videos are, essentially, a random person’s
brain going on and on with virtually no omitting. . . . and a lot of great
editing.
He describes himself as being “a dude making weirdness
happen in his apartment nearly every weekday with the help of clones, a whale,
alligator, eagle, and everything else in the Wheezyverse.”, and trust me, the “clones”
are actually used. For once, it is not just some weird thing someone puts in
their description to be witty and fun. This guy actually uses clones in the
videos for jokes. Along with the Alligator, the eagle, and the whale!
Seriously, I don’t know if this guy is just made of awesome
or if I’m just too elated as seeing a person with such random thoughts and
actually having the balls to go through with them all!
If Charlie is awareness, and Cullen is conceits, Wheezy is
just weirdness. . . . . and it is amazing (and I totally did not mean for that
to sound this way).
This guy is an oddity of fun things and really smart words
of wisdom. He’s a definite must-see for
fans of Charlie and other fun oddballs!
8.5/10, would “Wheezy” again—I’m gonna start rating blogs
now.
Yes, I’ll go that.
With love
Nikola Strange
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My notes:
*Charlie’s got a girlfriend! :DD
As of, like, seven months ago or something, Charlie announced out loud on
youtube that he’s now in a public relationship with Bryarly Bishop! :DD
I was kinda sad, but after seeing how goddamn happy he was I was suddenly so
goddamn happy for him! I’m glad! Congradulations, Charlie! I hope you two’re great and happy-dandy as
hell. :3
My new crush lasted a total of less than 24 hrs. *sigh* Better than no crush at all, I guess! :)
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For about a year now, I’ve been watching “Charlieissocoollike”’s videos on YouTube
after a recommendation from a friend when she found I had had gotten into Chameleon Circuit(whom totally deserve their own post—multiple post).
After some pestering from this chum of mine, I decided it
was high-time to watch this so-called “Charlie” person. I tacked in the name
and clicked on a video: this odd-looking British boy with funny rusted hair was
staring back at me, talking about some everyday stuff he managed to make pretty interesting, along with some other at times oddball ideas, which again were delivered in an interesting manner.
Although I cannot remember the first video I watched, I
can remember greatly enjoying the videos I watched that week, and subscribing a
day or two into the discovery of Mr. McDonnell. And really, what wasn’t there to love? We’re
talking about a dude in his room/house making ridiculous videos that are
genuine and fun to watch. Every video concerns such normal things, yet since it's written
out and delivered to you so smoothly he makes them seem more exciting than when other
people do them, much like how the music tab makes your friend’s funny Facebook
status better turn into euphoria, and how gifs on tumblr can make buttered
toast the best thing on the planet, even if it’s a sarcastic post.
In fact, I remember being genuinely impressed at the amount of camera tinkering that went into his procrastination video (to the right).
Plus I am a huge fan of British humor, and he seems like a
great person, too. Very fun, relaxed (mostly), honest and downright fun/funny.
Yeah, this dude had another loyal follower.
It wasn’t until today, while procrastinating on all of the
things I said I was going to do today, that I realized something astonishing
while watching the Resolute Unicycling Muppet video. It was almost like the
skies had open up by decree of the universe so that a revelation could come to
pass--I have a crush on Charlie McDonnell!
As overly dramatic as that last sentence made it seem, my
secondary reaction (()) was strangely Gryffindorian*:
Every damn time.
I mean, yeah Charlie is great and deserves all the love in
the world as decreed by the laws of decent humanity and his legion of loyal
fangirls, but why did this legion need me? Why did I like him?
Maybe this is just my thing, but It didn’t initially make
sense to me, or maybe, as they say in my parent’s homeland, “Toda via no me caia el 20”^! So I began to really analyze what I define as beautiful:
As a younger version of me, I was often told that beauty
lied in the heart of the beholder, and the phrase stuck with me more than other words of wisdom for whatever reason, so I began to make my own definition of
beauty. . . .
And this is essentially what I’ve come up with:
Beauty is an emotion. It is not a question of being aesthetically
pleasing. There is an entire science behind what is aesthetically pleasing to
look at for another human being—what you would naturally be more inclined to
look at—all to create a perfect realism for products. And every now and again
some blessed individual will be born with that perfect face somewhat naturally.
But this is not the same as being beautiful. To be
beautiful, in my opinion, is to spark an emotion within a person—a feeling I
can only describe as beauty—to be happy, calm and accepting with an underlying but
distinct feeling of fascination towards the person of your affection. It’s the
distinct wanting to peel away at every layer of the onion and inspect each and
every single line of it—every expression, every flush of color, every movement
and shift in tone; to see what makes the person feel happy or sad or frightened
or whatever, and to be, during the entire process, fascinated, happy and grateful
they exist at all. That’s what I call being enamored.
Though logically I wouldn’t call it that, because I’ve never
really met Charlie in reality and probably never will—in fact, I’d be shocked
and ecstatic and too embarrassed to respond if he ever even found this post.
More so if he bothered to skim through it.
Not to mention I was thinking of my best friends while
writing out the definition, because “beautiful” isn’t just a unisex term in my
mind, is also isn’t exclusively romantic.
Because the way I see it, why not surround yourself with “beautiful”
people. People whom become so much more attractive with their flaws and fallbacks
and misgivings, because there’s so much to love about people—certain types of
people, I think; I’ve tricked myself into thinking all people are beautiful
because I ignore those I don’t think are, so I’m surrounded by my definition of
beauty (Does this post even make sense?)
Strangely enough, despite the fact I can see people as aesthetically
pleasing and do find myself gawking at exceptionally pleasing people, I don’t
ever find them physically attractive until I’ve pegged them with the title of
beautiful, and often find myself finding the closest of friends physically attractive
because they’re so beautiful.
And I found Charlie to be so beautiful during that video I
could not stand it.
Which made me sort of worry what it’d be like when he’d
change! Because I automatically connected it back to the “I’m excited” video,
and how people will always change and evolve as they grow, and if I now found
Charlie beautiful then it would be bound to end at some point in the future
when he’d change, right?!
Wrong, actually. I went back to watch some older videos of
his and found myself inwardly swooning like a woman from the 1950s. *Awkward*
This is a real person, and I will never know him, and I am
swooning like a girl from the 1950s while trying (and failing) to keep a
somewhat straight face.
I’ve been told about a million times my face is like a map.
*Sighs!* Regardless of my reaction to the chemicals in my
brain, Charlie is now the cutest British man in all the United Kingdom to me,
because he has become so beautiful.
So beautiful in fact, it’s now on my bucket list to hug him
and maybe have a conversation that doesn’t consist of awkward silence and “How
are you?” repeated over and over again.
Charlie, if you do by some odd miracle find this, you should
know that you’re lovely to me and to a ton of other people across the globe.
And I hope that thought puts a smile on your face. :3
With love
Nikola Strange
In celebration of my feelings, here’s Charlie:
My feelings exactly at the moment, more or less.
UPDATE: Charlie has a girlfriend by the name of Bryarly Bishop. Well, that crush lasted less than 24 hrs. :3
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These are my notes:
((by secondary reaction, I mean my feelings towards the feeling of suddenly
having a crush. . ..I don’t know if this is the correct term, or a term at all,
but it sounded smart and correct, so. . . .))
^”Toda via no me cae el 20”, or “The 20 hasn’t hit me yet” is an allusion to payphones
in Mexico, which once upon a time when they were real, would have some
difficulty accepting currency (20 cents, or “pesos”) because it would get stuck
on the way down. The phone would give you no notions of it receiving your money
until you tapped the side of it, much like you’d tap an old TV when the picture
would blur. The phrase is used now-a-days to express something that hasn’t
QUITE hit you yet. You’re waiting for it to register.
*If you guys have not started
following Hogwarts House Traits on tumblr, you should! Check them out! :DD*
I’m going to try something new called propaganda, or
friendly reminders, to see what’ll happen so:
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So after a myriad of terribly unclear news coverage, some
(unsurprisingly extensive and time-consuming) studies on United States
Government and Politics in AP US Gov't, and some . . . .spirited debate with
individuals ranging from teachers to fellow students, I've found no greater
video clearly explaining the origins of the Sequester, its' importance, and
its' long-term effects as well as this one.
I would go so far as to say John and Hank Green are sort of
like diluted Richard Feymans (was that rude? That felt rude): they make the
same complex topics you've been brow-beaten with your entire life easy to
understand, without dumbing down the subject matter. . . .And they still seem
to have a lot of fun with it. Hell, it almost feels like their explanations for
things just roll off their tongues, mostly on their main channel since you
don't see all the cool animations or studios (even though it's absurd to assume
they have some sort of genie or magic eight ball implanting knowledge in their
minds. . . well, internet, but it's not insta--you get the idea, no ones!).
Back to the point: I feel this video is too important to
miss out on for any American citizen and citizen of the world, because
economies are global and this Sequester thing is seriously killing the brain
cells of millions trying to wrap their heads around it: Similar things have
been passed before including the Graham-Rudman-Hollings act (or however it is
it's called/spelled) and PayGo, so why didn't those work? The answer's given to
you in any US Government class, and in this video: loopholes, like refusing to
cut things that actually add up to our national debt. Why would Congress to
this? Simple: they like their jobs. And voters like their benefits. Yet despite
how simple the answers are, no one can really comprehend them since we're
always bombarded with heavy images and loaded diction even in seemingly
objective environments (just ask any of my AP Gov't teacher's students. We're
hashtaging quotes under "rocketship to 20".)
More importantly, I feel since there are virtually no
holistic, objective viewpoints on these types of topics, there's a lack of digessiveness.
The topic itself needs to be viewed from a more detached and statistic heavy
(and slightly image-saturated) environment for the sake of having it be more
digestible to the American public as opposed to being blown up to the size and
force of a nuclear bomb falling from the sky in slow, ACME-esque style. We need
to see the Sequester and other issues as they are: stupid plans with stupid results
future generations will be facepalming at from the comfort of their school
desks (like every other major catastrophe in our short but *for lack of better
words* impressive history as a nation . . . . . or the history of humanity,
which is short in comparison to the rest of the universe).
I am sincerely hoping you all are taking notes or watching
and re-watching this video over and over again. Share it with your family.
Share it with your friends, or on your own blog or with a teacher: this
knowledge--this clarity--has to spread, and unfortunately because the main goal
of the media is to make a profit, we have to spread it the old-fashioned way:
pestering your acquaintances until they watch and/or give a damn.
This is ridiculously important and will affect everyone's
lives to an extent, so arm yourselves with knowledge! As the Doctor said,
"Books (or in this case infovideos) are the best weapons in the
world!"
Oh YouTube! How I adore you for all the bountiful fun things you give us! May you forever be blessed by the internet Gods, and may I always be blessed with awesome friends whom watch YouTube for me and hand me all the brilliant things they find, like Cullen Cochran!
From this little beaut on, I was absolutely infatuated with this wonderful person's music!
I ran my way through most all of his videos and found myself very fond of not just his music but his character. Unlike more *ahem* mainstream artists, YouTube has this brilliant ability of giving average joes--free from all the pressures of record labels and the worries of selling albums--to take on the roll of artist, which leads to a lot of experimentation.
Creative, fun and genuine experimentation.
From what limited exposure I've had to this young man's charming personality, I've found him to actually be quite pleasant! Any fan of a good conceit in literature accompanied with an infectious personality would most-likely love this boy.
Good lordy I must sound silly. I don't mean to play cheerleader, here, but this dude is just too damn pleasant!
And intelligent.
And funny.
And all-around talented.
With great taste in music!
And fandoms!
He's also a Nerdfighter.
Check the guy out, man!! If you like his style, he won't disappoint, spare a missed deadline or two. ^ ^"
Huh.. . . .this would be an absolutely useless post considering the amount of praise Cullen's already getting if it wouldn't have brought on a question onto mah noggin': Why is the viewership mostly women?
It should be a no-brainer, considering how I'm passively gushing over the poor man as I type, but it's not just Cullen: Charlie McDonnell, the Vlogbrothers, Nerimon, and other such YouTube vlogs are followed mostly by women--and some of the younger men openly admit they can't understand why this is, or girls in general.
I would say "Take note!" to the men in the audience (maybe one of the five people whom actually read these damn posts), but I'm willing to argue they don't have to.
These men are, roughly, everything a girl's ever wanted, be it in a platonic friendship, a romantic relationship or even in a sibling or cousin or uncle! We see in them what we don't see in the men surrounding us, but why is that? Do they not exist in our own circles? In our schools, or work environments? And if they do, why is it we don't see them?
To get the answer, we'd have to really look at how much of ourselves we put out for the general public online: you're alienated and distanced from the people watching you, listening to you, or reading your blog *ta da!*. How much of yourself do you put out there?
At the same time, how much do you hide after you realize people are reading or watching your things? Especially for the men listed above, whom have methodically thought of ways to engage their audience as Hank Green made clear in a video over vlogging.
I think this brings up another question: Are these vloggers really as pleasant as we believe them to be?
Short answer? Yeah, I think so. These guys do put a lot of themselves out there on the internet, proven time and time again via song lyrics, somber videos, and embarrassing questions answered. And they're courageous enough to post their videos up! I'm a coward in comparison! I spew out my guts and none of ya'll have seen my face!
In the end, it comes down to what side of ourselves we expose on the internet vs. "real life" (if the term is even applicable anymore) interaction: in "real life" (whatever that means), we're too busy worrying about what others think of us, while on the internet, with a level or two distanced and alienated, it's almost like being completely alone in your room--you can be the chipped, rusted, half-functioning, charming, interesting and generally pleasant human being you are without the fear of judgement or name-calling--because your league of fangirls will totally overpower the haters and you can just block negative comments anyways!
So maybe, just maybe, there are a lot more Cullen Cochrans out there in the world. We just can't meet them as easily as we've met this particular one, and probably never will.
