Kirin Tore Up

today i made this. i'm very, very proud of it, and i like the direction my channel is going now. i've got it figured out, in terms of what i want out of youtube and how i want to represent what i do on there, and now all i've got to do is keep making awesome content and promoting it. i can do that better with a weekly show that has a somewhat predictable format. speaking of the format, what you see there is pretty much what you get: headlines, vocab, and a third [or fourth] other section that is in some way english-related. i just happened to get in two segments that talked about the same grammatical rule, which probably won't happen every time. but man, that'd be pretty awesome if it did, huh? i kind of happened upon this one, so don't think i'm a genius or anything.

i spent a good 6-8 hours on this video today, and it was absolutely exhausting, but well worth it. it won't take that long next time, because quite a bit of it was troubleshooting my audio issues, which i think i've got pinned down pretty well now. i'm now using my usb microphone as a boom mic, which i got working very well for this video. the first and last scenes were 'test' scenes, and i had it too low and boosted a lot, which led to weirdness. the other scenes [the ones that were shot in my room] had the boom above me, which worked better, and i recorded them onto my laptop instead of my p.c. i think the settings i chose on there worked out for the better, because the audio was just phenomenal. couldn't ask for better from my equipment.

the days are ticking down until julie and johnny arrive, and i'm super excited. it's been a while since i've seen either of them, almost a year now, and it's just going to be great. we're taking a trip up to new york city next weekend, which is awesome, and hopefully we'll get lots of downtime to just chill and hang out and have some drinks and watch stuff and talk. and. lots of ands. but yeah, i have to clean up a bit tomorrow because the pastor is coming to our house, since ken and debbie are out of town. also need to do something about the whole 'door to our bedroom is completely off one of its hinges and doesn't close properly' thing. tomorrow, perhaps.