A while ago, part of the YouTube community made a bunch of videos directed at their younger selves: giving them advice about life, telling them what to watch out for, generally being quite sweet and nostalgic. They were a nice series of videos, and I was tempted to make one myself, but I figured that if I was going to talk to any version of myself, talking to the past wouldn’t really amount to much. If I talked to a future self though, and then watched that video 10 or so years later, I really would be able to talk to my future self! The idea really excited me, watching old videos of yourself is always really interesting, so a video based on that idea could potentially be quite fun, and very meta. Naturally, as I do quite a lot, I sat on the idea, eventually forgot about it, and the video never got made. Till today.
My favourite thing about this video is, very easily, John Green’s cameo. If you don’t know John, he’s a New York Times best selling authour, a video blogger (sharing the VlogBrothers channel with his brother Hank Green) and an all round nice guy. He’s was in the UK for a couple of days, and so popped round to the flat one morning to say hi to me and Alex -- of course, while he was here, I had to exploit his presence and shove him in a video of mine. He did exactly the same thing to me and Alex though, so we’re even! He also was the first person to Vlog in front of The Wall Of Stuff 2.0, so he officially has the wall’s virginity. That’s a fun fact right there.
John did a couple of events while he was over here, one of which being a kind of Book Reading/Gig hybrid, with him reading some of his work, and the other Sons Of Admirals playing some tunes. I just wanted to put out a quick apology to anyone that attended this event on Saturday thinking I was going to be at it -- very early on in the planning stages I thought I would be able to play at it, but other commitments meant that I wouldn’t have the time to rehearse. It’s really not very nice to have to say no to doing fun things, and I felt really bad about not being able to be there. I only have a finite amount of time, and I can assure you that if I miss out in something awesome, it’s only because I’m spending my time trying to do something just as, if not more awesome :) I heard the gig went brilliantly though, so if you were there, I’m very jealous.
Have a nice rest of your week everyone, time to leave this video alone for ten whole years!
