Dear Diary
August 1, 2010
The first in a trilogy of Dear Diary videos. Watch it. Comment. Please.
MUSIC CREDITS:
Tia Dalma (Hans Zimmer)
Too Much Fighting (Voices of the Lifesteam Soundtrack, available on ocremix.com)
Dinner is Served (Hans Zimmer)
Lay Down Your Arms (Everett, available on Come&Live Records)
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August 1, 2010 at 9:03 PM
This is funny. I love the vampire schpiel at the end.
And the secret underground headquarters looks great. You’ve really done a lot with the place while I’ve been gone.
I look forward to seeing where this trilogy is headed…
August 2, 2010 at 1:48 AM
Wow. That video made me sad, and I’m not even sure why. It just had a lot of emotion in it.
Did you really get a package in the mail? If so, I will definitely add in my word to the others’ and say that I do hope you keep graced Precision going. I totally understand that you’ll be busy, but who said you had to have a post every week?
There are dull periods between studying, as well as those great times that you come to our house.
Think about it, are you really ready to give up the writing and creativity that you love to share with others? Somehow, I just don’t see that.
I know you may think I’m just being dictating old me and telling you what to do, but I really, really am not. Graced Precision is a work of art. When I say I’m proud of you guys, I mean every bit of it. All three of you (four, I guess, counting the penguin) have so much talent, and you have been able to show it well through your writings and videos. They may be big or epic, but it’s the little things I think we enjoy the most.
And so, I join my voice with Caleb and the rest of your gang in saying that I too am looking forward to where this is heading.
God bless
August 2, 2010 at 3:17 AM
YOU’RE WEARING THE WRISTBAND I GOT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 :D :D :D :D
Okay, now that I got my happiness out of the way, nice video. I liked the new shirts, and I don’t think you look like a lesbian in the flannel one :P
August 2, 2010 at 2:52 PM
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That last comment was a bit… odd.
Kyle, to quote one of your favourite series from which you take your nickname, “All things must come to an end.”
Just something to think about.
We never expected this to last forever. Actually, we didn’t expect it to last as long as it did. But it has. And now it won’t. Because we’re busy.
But it’s not the end of the world. Just wait and see.
August 2, 2010 at 3:16 PM
I KNOW RIGHHHT?? IT’S AMMAAZING! =DDDD
I should wear it more when it’s cooler out, and it doesn’t make my wrist sweat. <.< And yesh…I didn't think it looked like a lesbian shirt, and I've met quite a few lesbians in my time. So I think that Jonathan can just…not know what he's talking about. =P
August 2, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I actually think that is a silly quote. It’s contradictory to the Bible. ALL things come to an end?
Not so.
August 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM
I suppose the exact quote was “All worlds must come to an end.” And that would be true. Unless you consider heaven to be a world. But if it is, it is not a worldly world. Savvy?
The point is that this website is not going to last forever, and it was never planned that way. And so the end has come. Suddenly. Like the series of unfortunate events that cause you to scream and run away.
*laughs over previous video*
August 3, 2010 at 4:29 PM
All “things” will come to an end. The material has become…material. It will be consumed by the fire, and the immaterial will be that which remains. The flesh will not reside, but the spirit will.
But in all, this is pointlessly nit-picky.
And Graced Precision, world or not, is certainly material, so it will be consumed, or at least, left behind. Graced Precision has lasted far longer than I expected, to tell the truth, and the videos…were originally intended to end with two, the first Gathering video, and The Pilot. So. It’s lasted a long time.
August 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM
First of all, I can’t believe you just got into that debate.
Secondly, nice video. The Twilight conversation was interesting.
Thirdly, I have two questions. A) Do you really keep a diary? I can’t imagine you not, just because of your personality and need to write. I only just started a couple months ago myself, because I couldn’t help but write more. And B) If you do really have a diary, do you really sign ‘Sincerely, Ian’? I don’t know, I always just thought it odd to write in a diary as though you are writing *to* it.
But anyway.
Moving on.
August 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM
A. I do, in a sense. I keep one poorly. I just bought another, and I hope to write more prolifically this coming semester. *nod*
B.I don’t. =P I write to an undisclosed third party, not a certain Diary, or even to a future me. I just write to someone. Essentially, I write to the reader, because a diary, I feel, is part expression, part history, part biography, and in any case, there will be someone reading it somewhere down the road, to peek into my life. So I’m writing to that person. *nod*
August 4, 2010 at 4:18 AM
This was comical in a sad way. I liked it none the less. You have a wonderful film presence, Ian.
Darn, I feel weird now. I write as if I’m writing to my diary, and I sign depending on my mood. If I’m happy it’ll be something like, “Well, write to you next time!” and if I’m bored or unhappy it will be something like, “Well, that’s just how things are…” then I sign with my Korean, Japanese, or English name. Again, it depends on mood. :P
August 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Most interesting. When I write in my diary, I just write like, “Well, today was a horrible day” and go on to describe it. I don’t say ‘you’ as though I’m talking to somebody or writing to the diary. I just write out how I feel about events, mostly. Or what I want to happen. And I don’t sign at the end. Most interesting. So am I weird, or are you? Oh, the questions… 0_o
August 4, 2010 at 3:55 PM
You’re all weird! Ha!
<.<
August 4, 2010 at 11:52 PM
I also write my journal (not diary) to an unidentified third party. Or at least, one of them I do. The other is written to someone else…
I never sign. I just write what I’m thinking, or feeling, or what’s happening. Occasionally, I address “the reader” directly, but that’s usually only when I’m either emotionally stressed, or feeling silly. So I guess it happens a lot.
I think anyone who keeps a journal/diary is strange. Particularly if it’s full of angst. In which case, you shouldn’t be keeping a diary at all; you’ll only feel stupid when you read it later. I know…
August 5, 2010 at 2:01 AM
Journal, diary…the same thing, only one’s manlier. The journal. I keep a “journal,” but for all logical purposes one could call it a diary. =P
I occasionally address the reader, but rarely…it doesn’t happen often. It might, depending on how quirky I’m feeling, but normally, not so much.
Well, some people who keep a diary/journal are really stereotypical. Like preteenage girls, for instance. The stereotypical preteen girl always keeps a diary with a fluffy pink pen ranting about boys. So…not always strange.
I burned my first journal. So. There.
August 5, 2010 at 3:39 AM
Well, I am weird. I’d never burn one of my diaries. I have like…3? Maybe four, but definitely no more than 5. And it’s not full of angst because I’ve been going to private schools and homeschools all my life. It’s mostly an account of my troubles, triumphs, and encounters with God working in my life. It helps to read them again when I feel like I’m “in a losing battle” so to speak.
As far as addressing someone, I do it simply because it’s easier, and it’s the way I’ve always written it. :P I think I started it with “Dear Diary” all the time since that’s the way I saw it done on television when I was younger; therefore, I adapted that style. ^_^
August 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Mine is digital. *feels nerdy*
I actually lost a little bit of mine when my computer fried itself. And I don’t have software to open it on the new computer. So I’m going to have to wait until I get home to do anything at all with it.
I technically have two journals; it’s two files. I stopped editing the one file when it reached the limit of what a disc would hold. And for a word document, that’s a massive file. I started writing in December 2005. So I was 14/15. I was a stupid kid; I didn’t know what I was doing.
I have been tempted to delete large portions of my journal, just because I’m so disgusted with who I was. *sings Relient K’s song*
But I haven’t. Because I’m OCD, and I like everything to be complete.
August 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM
First of all, I don’t care if it’s called a journal or diary. I’ve called my writings both. So whichever. Though, diary does typically bring up the image of a preteen girl with a fuzzy pen and a leopard-print notebook with a heart on the front, or something of such caliber.
My journal is actually probably half angst, simply because that’s one of the few reasons I write in my diary, to get out my frustrations. I put my joys in there, as well. Things that have happened that make me very happy. I’ve put desperate pleas to God in there. I write what I need to put down. I don’t care if it sounds stupid. I don’t care if it makes me sound immature. I don’t care if it’s all angsty. My journal is to simply let my emotions flow, whatever they are.
August 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM
[...] Since getting a job at Gabriel Bothers (Gabes), I have come into contact with a lot of discount clothing. Seeing college as an excuse to change my style and wear different things, I bought several new shirts (do men wear tops, or is that a distinctly female thing?). Since working there, I have bought five or so shirts, and three tank tops. Notice the stripy pattern, as I really like that these days. Not pictures is a solid brown t-shirt with a hood (this can be seen in the first Dear Diary video on Graced Precision) [...]