Ah yes, a little video of my mom’s morning routine. Little does everyone know that I was up at midnight fryin that spam. It was the only time I had to record that bit. In retrospect, I really should have included rice on my plate, but it was so late at night and I didn’t feel like cooking up a true breakfast at midnight. The part where she’s drinking water - I forced myself to chug-a-lug that full glass in front of the camera. I wanted to recreate the feel of how we would stare at my mom as she downed 3 glasses of water one after the other. But as I was editing - it didn’t feel right to sit there for a full minute watching me drink the water. The sawing of the paper towel roll is not a fabrication. Last night my mom spent 25 min. cutting up a Brawny roll. A lot harder than one would think. Some real strugglin there. I told her that all the time and energy wasted on sawing that roll wasn’t worth the money she was saving. She nodded, but continued to saw. Finally, the “meest” is a direct quote from her. When I asked her why she brushes her teeth in the kitchen, she at first said “I guess it’s convenient”. Then she thought better of it and with much conviction told me about the meest. A viewer caught the mistake that I was using the same exact toothbrush that my mom’s character is using. Ooops. Missed that one. People may come to the conclusion that I’m playing my mom. Wouldn’t want that, now would we?

Interesting to see the viewer reaction on this one… heh heh. I’m supposing that a lot of viewers are stumbling upon this video without seeing any of my previous vids. They are assuming that that is the real me, when actually this is an extension of the teen character seen in my first video - “Instant video blogging”. She is an exaggerated spoof of the typical teen vlogger who talks about her pets names. It is a parody of the culture of myspace.com and the common pictures that teens take of themselves. No I wasn’t actually serious about picking one of those 4 pictures. The flash encoding messes up my original footage where you clearly see the 4 pics. But you barely see #4 and that is a weird glitch with Flash I guess. Anyway, the idea is to capture that classic myspace pose where teens take their camera, take a pic of themselves, but shift their eyes (as if caught unaware). The song in the beginning of the vid is “Deep Down” by Josh Verdes.
During one of the first recording attempts - a fly kept buzzing around during recording - and I was afraid he’d fly in my mouth while I was talking. At one point I get up to swat him with a newspaper, but of course -miss. I think that shall be stored away in my video bloopers.

This video is a re-enactment of my discussion with my parents as I tell them about my videos on YouTube. Yes they really did say these things! Some extras were added to keep the flow going but I would borrow from things they have said in the past. My mom truly forgot how to scroll so that she could see the entire video window, so she wondered why my head was cut off. My dad truly wants me to do something serious, in fact he suggested that I “re-enact 9/11″. I asked him how in the world would I be able to re-enact 9/11 from my bedroom? He just said I should act like the wives of 9/11. Needless to say, I left that thought where it was. The pork rinds that you see the dad character eating is his typical snack, and although he wasn’t actually eating them while he was on the phone, I thought it would be funny to mix that with the “drama request” he was making. Yes, he really did tell me to do something to stir people’s emotions. I actually had a visual in that moment of me stirring up stuff in a pot, and attempted to re-create that thought in the video. I’m writing this entry almost a month after my first video - and my mom STILL can’t seem to register successfully with YouTube.