the here's luck and renenet show™: more excerpts from lost episodes
renenet and I spend a lot of time on the phone and in chat. Sometimes I take notes. Then I forget about the notes for months. Occasionally I remember to round them up and post them. ( Or make her post them!) This is one of those times, because I am trapped on my couch with a sleeping cat on my lap and
renenet is whining to me that she's read all the old episodes a million times. [ETA:
renenet would like it noted that she does not whine: "I demand! Charmingly!"]
renenet: Annoyance and enjoying myself are not mutually exclusive.
here's luck: Oh, right - you enjoy being annoyed.
renenet: No, I - well, yes. No. No! Or maybe, but it's your fault! You're training me in weird ways, to enjoy being annoyed AT YOU. And that's really annoying. In a fun way.
(February 2007)
renenet: I was thinking about that as I was washing my hair this morning. Why does all this stuff take so much time? Washing our hair, brushing our teeth...
here's luck: Going to work.
renenet: Going to work! It all takes up too much time!
here's luck: Valuable TV-watching time.
renenet: Valuable fic-reading, lying-around-doing-nothing, TV-watching time. I'd like to lodge a complaint with reality. Dear Reality, day-to-day life is sucking up too much of my time! Please change.
here's luck: Write that down.
(September 2008)
here's luck: Well, basically I can't get the songs out of my head and it's incredibly annoying. So today I broke down and opened Premiere. Which seemed to help.
renenet: I guess it's not really vidding unless it's a whole hurt/comfort thing: you hurt, and the vid heals you. And me, too!
(July 2009, re: h.l starting work on "The Test" and another Trek vid)
Okay, this next one needs a little bit of setup. In mid-February of 2010, just as I was getting ready to import "The Test" into AE and start working on the effects, I watched BlueFairy's Trek vid "Must Be Dreaming" (which is amazing, by the way) and realized that, SHIT, it was the same concept as my vid, some of the same effects, a lot of the same clips, especially the TOS clips, including some that I would totally have used myself if I'd been diligent enough to find them. Suddenly, "The Test" felt entirely redundant.
So I had a meltdown and called
renenet, because what are favorites for but to listen to each other bitch about shit?, and she was very patient up to a point; but, as Fielding reminds us, patience is a virtue which is apt to be fatigued by exercise, and so eventually... well, see for yourself.
renenet: But why were you even watching this vid in the first place? I was going to watch it for you to see if it was okay! You know you're not allowed to watch other vids for what you're vidding while you're vidding it!
here's luck: I know! It was a mistake! I don't know what I was thinking!
renenet: You're going to forget you ever saw this vid. You're -
here's luck: OH FUCK YOU. I can't just unsee the vid! It's in my head now!
renenet: You're going to put it out of your head and not think about it and get back to focusing on YOUR vid -
here's luck: Oh my god your magical thinking is so inadequate to my trauma.
renenet: Oh, for - okay, have your meltdown, you're going to anyway, but NO REWATCHING THAT VID. You know that's a bad idea.
here's luck: ...maybe.
renenet: And no doing it just to spite me. Like you do.
here's luck: I don't know what you're talking about!
renenet: Oh, you're funny. Seriously, you are not allowed to do this when it fucks with your vid process.
here's luck: You are so BOSSY.
renenet: I'll come take away your internet. I'm serious! Don't think you're so far northwest of me that I can't come cut your fucking cables.
here's luck: WHATEVER.
renenet: Just - do you have ice in the house?
here's luck: ...what?
renenet: Do you have ice in the house?
here's luck: ...the freezer can make ice.
renenet: You are not a normal person!
here's luck: What? It's winter in the upper midwest! I'm not drinking beverages with ice in them! ...of course, I don't do that in the summer either.
renenet: You are so WEIRD. And you don't have frozen vegetables in your freezer like a normal person either.
here's luck: I do too have frozen vegetables! Corn and peas! And hot peppers from my garden.
renenet: ...okay. So -
here's luck: And flaked coconut. Although that's not really so much a vegetable.
renenet: OKAY. So apply a bag of frozen peas to your bruised vidder ego; when thawed, apply fresh bag; and then GET ON WITH IT.
here's luck: [sulks]
renenet: You are not going to let this derail you! For you are strong, like a mighty oak.
here's luck: [groans]
renenet: Go! Vid like oak! You can bounce back from this, like a sapling!
here's luck: Oh my god stop with the tree metaphors.
renenet: If you want me to stop you have to keep vidding!
here's luck: I'M HANGING UP ON YOU NOW.
Later, in chat:
here's luck: Also, FYI, I may have to post a version of our earlier phone conversation.
here's luck: We haven't posted an episode of The Show in a while, and other people seem to find it funny when we mock each other's pain.
renenet: \o/
renenet: I approve!
renenet: Also, I now have a short txt document that begins with the heading "Why h.l's vid is totally different from that vid on YouTube"
here's luck: I love you
here's luck: except when you threaten to come take away my internet
here's luck: that's just hateful
renenet: I love you, too. And you earned that threat.
here's luck: that's, like, me-quality hateful
here's luck: also?
here's luck: self-defeating
here's luck: because then I can't upload drafts to show you
here's luck: SO THERE
And, later still, on the phone again:
renenet: You have to make this vid! I need this vid.
here's luck: Uh-huh.
renenet: I really do! And tomorrow is another day!
here's luck: Another day with no time to vid.
renenet: You might find some time somewhere!
here's luck: Oh, you're hilarious.
renenet: Well, next weekend is another weekend!
here's luck: ...also with no time to vid.
renenet: Okay, so by the time you have time to vid again, your frustration will have faded.
here's luck: Well, we can dream.
renenet: Yes! I believe!
here's luck: ...in coyotes and time as an abstract?
renenet: ...
here's luck: Sorry. R.E.M. reference.
renenet: And just as with Michael Stipe, I was mostly struggling to discern what the hell you had even said. It sounded like you were pretty much faceplanting right in the middle there.
here's luck: Yeah, that's because I pretty much was.
renenet: It's past your bedtime! Go to bed! There will be cats there!
here's luck: There will indeed. And no vidding, which right now is feeling like a plus.
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