Crap Dammit!

So I guess I'm almost ready to do some crazy videos and stuff. Or at least I was. Commence story:

After getting that £117 camcorder from Argos, I was most disappointed to learn that there was no way of connecting it to this 'ere laptop as it's just an AV camera (which connects to analogue shite... which is really just a TV) and not DV (digital... computers, et al.)

Anyway, luckily I'm on a college course which deals primarily with Visual Media involving people who are actually well experienced in all the technobabblery and shizz. Turns out you can get some kind of converter to do AV to DV and stuff like that which made me rather happy. Trouble is it costs upwards of £100, which is yet another £100 on top of the £117 I spent on the blaady thing. But wait, what's that? A DV socket on the camcorder... but they told me it doesn't connect to a computer. But it clearly does and I have tested this in college. Weyhey. Then all I need is a simple cable off Amazon or somewhere for less than a tenner to connect it straight up. Woop-de woop.

Cue the arrival of the Amazon package of the cable connecting the camcorder to the computer. Oh yeah, it doesn't work...

Gahh!!!

Why not?

"Because there is no driver and therefore I don't know what sort of mechanical devillery this device is, fnar fnar!"

OK, so back to Plan A and the tiny converter box which will apparently set me back some £145 quid (because 100 was just an estimate). So I think my first video will most likely come about around mid-to-late June, coincidentally tying in with some birthday celebrations, which is strange since I'm not really one for celebrating my birthday.

Anyhoo... yeah, I can't be buggared with it any more right now so it'll be revisited in May-June-ish, or something.

And for now you'll just have to make do with reading.

Previously...

OK, I realise I've been a total blog whore but I've finally settled down over here on a blogspot blog because it's easier to use, better for surfing other blogs and, well... I wanted a new name really. Seems 'aquamaroon' isn't original enough. I guess other people actually created the pun before I did. Heck well anyhoo, I've chosen (and decided I'm actually going to stick to) this one under the alias of 'HardlyAmazing'... which incidentally is in itself hardly amazing. But at least this way I can't complain. See I wanted something original (more original than my real name at least) but I've always tended to be too clever with these aliases... (aliai?)

Anyway... I'M STAYING HERE! And I've even created the YouTube account to prove it. The YouTube account which will come into use quite soon, hopefully. Tis the curse of being a Media Production student... I now feel the uncontrollable urge to fuse my already fused love of comedy and love of music with my knowledge and understanding and growing love of filmmaking.

That said, my attempts at funniness and hilarity will soon bombard the Tubey-ways, along with attempts at musical stylings... and even greater attempts to combine the two. Like those times when I've translated the lyrics to "I Kissed A Girl" into French or sang Rihanna's "Umbrella" in the voice of Kermit The Frog. Not to mention Scouse Coldplay.

If I can ever be bothered firing up the oh-so new camcorder I just got to aid my college work/'spare-time-when-I've-got-nothing-better-to-do' extra projects, I'll be sure to get them recorded and whatnot.

In the meantime... since I can't import blogs from blog.com into blogger.com (who'da thunk it?) and copying and pasting would take a long time, as well as fuck up the dates and stuff I might as well just direct you to the aquamaroon archive (01/2009-03/2009). May she rest in peace.