April 21, 2008 | Filed under: vlogalicious, videoblogging Week
I’ve been away for far too long. Busybusy, not much to report, just busybusy. What better time to get back into the swing than Videoblogging Week? One video a day for seven days. After NaVloPoMo, a week should be easy as pie.
Last year for VBWeek I reviewed some of my favorite good, cheap foods of NYC. This time, it’s personal.
Pretty much every year for as far back as I can remember someone gave me a daily diary as a Christmas gift. Being the pack rat that I am, I still have most of them. I’m not sure what made me think that reading them in public was a good idea but I was inspired by a recent episode of my favorite radio show in which a man read entries from his childhood journals expressing his deep desire to become the prime minister of Israel. It’s what you’d expect from a teenager’s journal: intense, outrageous and touching. It’s also seriously cringeworthy.
I’m expecting a whole lot of cringing going on here, for certain.
I haven’t read all the way through the diaries and don’t know what embarrassment is in store; it could be really bad so this little project may end abruptly. I can always go back to good, cheap eats, right?
Let’s start with 1983-1984, the years documented in the journal with a unicorn on the cover. From what I can recall, those were very good years. The unicorn years.
April 21, 2008
@ 3:20 am
Hahaha…Sweeeeeeet! Never throw anything away. And never watch The Exorcist before an exam. More…
April 21, 2008
@ 3:42 am
Those were great years for me too! But you leave me hanging with what band was playing at the Roxy? I saw Nina Hagen there.
April 21, 2008
@ 3:57 am
Hahaha… I love it. I’m glad you kept the diaries…bring it on.
April 21, 2008
@ 7:09 am
Aaaah! That was brilliant! I recently recycled most of my high school journals because they were beyond cringe-worthy. I couldn’t bear the thought of someone reading them if anything happened to me. Yours, on the other hand, are a work of literature. Can’t wait for more.
April 21, 2008
@ 7:46 am
Hilarious, and amazing you were so diligent about writing so often
i was not even one year old when you wrote these
and I love your pseudo intellectual musings on return of the jedi…. what jedi?
April 21, 2008
@ 7:57 am
I can’t believe how brilliant your diaries are. Totally unselfconscious. Return of WHAT jedi? indeed.
April 21, 2008
@ 8:09 am
i was also going through my journals last night! http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2008/04/going-through-things-reading-erasing.html
i’ll have to get up the nerve to read some too.
ha ha, what jedi?
April 21, 2008
@ 8:21 am
Awesome! I love it: The Unicorn years.
Will we get to hear how the oh-so-anticipated camp goes?
Are you going to vlogger camp by the way?
April 21, 2008
@ 10:38 am
One of my favourite videoblog posts ever.
April 21, 2008
@ 11:43 am
@JimmyCraichead I believe it was The Jam. It might have been The English Beat. It was most certainly ska-revival.
@Jen So far this time period is the least cringeworthy. Trust me, it doesn’t last.
@Ryanne DO IT!
April 21, 2008
@ 1:49 pm
LOL!!! High school years relived.
April 21, 2008
@ 7:51 pm
So funny, Miss B. Keep ‘em coming, it’s great stuff!
April 21, 2008
@ 7:54 pm
that was awesome, bekah! “a b–… what is that?!” too funny.
April 22, 2008
@ 7:33 am
OMG OMG OMG
April 22, 2008
@ 8:49 am
LOVED IT! You gotta read them all to us, this is better entertainment than ..Um……….watching ALL of the King Kong movies…Ugh!
April 22, 2008
@ 6:34 pm
your diaries are so much cooler than mine ever could be!
April 24, 2008
@ 1:14 am
[…] in Popup | Download Bigger (640×480) [4:42m]: Download Inspired by Bekah Havens‘ highly personal, tortured-teen-girl and, well, plaid diary readings, but with no diary of my own at hand, I present […]
May 8, 2008
@ 7:46 pm
HOLY SHIT.
This might be the high point of my fucking MONTH.
Is it preternaturally pathetic that I was hoping you’d read an entry in which I was mentioned…and you DID?!
Sacred scat….wow.
Wasn’t that the party where Brett wound up making out with Sara Tomassi and gave her his Rangers jersey and Chance Steinberg got so drunk he puked on the balcony?
Oh man.
I love you, girl.
May 29, 2008
@ 7:15 am
Mo, YES that was indeed the party in question! I totally forgot about the balcony puke!
Love right back atcha!