YouTube

I had a big meeting today that got pushed to tomorrow so I took a little break about an hour ago to sit outside. I’ve found that some combination of water and sun can cure most problems. Seriously, try it.

Anyway, I find myself on YouTube watching old New Hippies videos (more on them real soon). I watched the lyric video for “What You Want” which Understanding and I made with Griffin, our roommate at the time and I still think it’s pretty cool. Sure, I was heavy-handed on the color and the effects but we were vibin’. It was a vibe. I’m making a sick face with my tongue out while I’m writing this to emphasize the vibe.

Next I watched one of the videos we made with Zane’s brother Jeremy. We did a live version of the first song we released, Street Dweller. Two of many thoughts: 1. It was about as raw as could be and, 2. Everybody went for it, and that made it awesome. Also, the video is already six years old! Sheesh.

(Sidebar - I’ve had my AirPods in for about 45 minutes with nothing playing. I always do that. wtf)

Finally, I watched about 30 seconds of a recap video of Jacaranda Jams volume 1 before I had to turn it off. It had nothing to do with the quality of the video, which some friends at school were nice enough to shoot for us, I just couldn’t take the sound of my own voice in that one. I did catch a quick early Ginger Root appearance before I stopped watching, though. (It’s been awesome to witness the growth of Ginger Root. Cameron was always very kind, and even subbed in on bass for us once!)

I laughed when I closed out of that last video, thinking about how funny it is to look back and hear me rapping when I was in college and then to think that people might also remember that. I never could’ve guessed that would happen, and now there’s video evidence forever. Plus, I’m still doing it. This thing better work out, otherwise I’m going to look like an idiot.

…a beautiful idiot.

-J.P.