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The first clip I ever edited in 2024 vs my most recent clip. The difference 2 years makes. Really proud of how this one turned out!

I just do whatever @themyrrhcenary says🥴

Finally finished the Fender Booth video! Really proud of how this one turned out. It's also my face reveal😲 youtu.be/STE7vu4kwb4

Finally finished the Fender Booth video! Really proud of how this one turned out. It's also my face reveal😲 youtu.be/STE7vu4kwb4

1). Echoes - Pink Floyd If Stariway to Heaven makes me feel like I'm flying over the ocean, this song makes me feel like I'm floating through space, at the bottom of the ocean, and in a cavern deep beneath the Earth at the same time. The first movement envokes the feeling of standing on a cliff over crashing waves at the edge of the world. The second movement gives the image of diving deep into the ocean or lifting off into sky. The third movement is the feeling of pure isolation. You're in a deep cavern, you're at the bottom of the ocean, you're on an alien planet. Then the opening "ping" comes back and you start to find your way again. When the vocals return at the 17 minute mark, it feels like returning to Earth after a voyage in space or resurfacing after a dive in the Marianas Trench. There are songs on this list much more personal than this one, about much deeper topics, and sang with more emotion. But this song is unmatched in terms of the experience it gives. youtube.com/watch?v=KBca3xf-…

2). Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin I really wish I could have been there when this song was first released. Nowadays many people, including the members of Led Zeppelin themselves, stick their nose at this song, overplay having drained the magic out of it. As someone who discovered this song only a few years ago, however, the magic is still very much intact for me. It doesn't matter if I'm on a crowded subway train on the way to work at 8 AM in the middle of winter - hearing the climax of this song makes me feel like I'm flying over the ocean. Everything else about this song is impressive as well, from the mystical Tolkein-esque lyrics to the powerful vocals to the unconventional song structure to the fact that it seamlessly transitions from a ballad to a hard-rock piece. A monolith of a song. youtube.com/watch?v=X791IzOw…

Not even the Spirit Bomb could save me from Milotic 😭

3). Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance The song that told an entire generation that it was OK not to be normal. A lot of fans point to Helena and I'm Not OK as MCR's defining work, but this is my pick. It's astounding how MCR managed to make a song about death, mourning, apathy, and social distortion into a empowering marching anthem. This might not be my favorite all time song, but there's no other song I find quite as empowering. youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9N…

4). Wonderful - Everclear For a good 4 years, I would only listen to this song once a year: on the drive back home from Anime Central. This song is a desperate plea to return to the simple days when your biggest problems involved Pokemon battles and YuGiOh cards. The climax of this song at 2:33 that ends with the line "I just want my life to be the same, just like it used to be" is one of the most emotional moments in any song I've ever heard. I would listen to this song when I did because I didn't want to return to reality, to work, to adulting. Can't we stay and just have fun forever? Of course not. But it's fun to pretend. youtube.com/watch?v=_OsGggLr…

5). Shelter - Porter Robinson Sometimes I wonder how much I'd actually like this song if it weren't for the music video, and the answer I've arrived at is still a whole lot. Everything about this song, from the additctive beat to the tearjerking lyrics about mortality and parenthood, are breathtaking. I especially love the lyric "When I'm older, I'll be silent beside you. I know words won't be enough." The music video, produced by A1 Pictures, is a masterpiece of visuals and storytelling and just serve to elevate everything further. I remember sitting in a bar on a Saturday night the week after discovering it, eager say goodbye to everyone and go home just so I could watch it again. youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAE…

6). Time - Pink Floyd Every once in a while you come across a song that perfectly vocalizes the thoughs and feelings in the back of your mind that you could never find out how to put into words. Time is one of those songs. We're all getting older and we're all going to die, and most of us are desperately struggling against those truths whether we realize it or not. One day you're young with your entire life ahead of you, "then one day you find 10 years have got behind you" and you're in your twilight years. You can't stop the clock from ticking. "You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking." I've had at least 1 existential crisis while listening to this song, but ultimately I'd say this song has helped me come to terms with my own mortality. youtube.com/watch?v=JwYX52BP…

7). Jamie All Over - Mayday Parade The top comment on the music video for this song said that even at age 30, this song makes the poster want to run away and start a new life. That pretty much sums this up. I've said multiple times that if I heard this song when I was 14 right after moving back from California, it would have destroyed me. Hearing this song for the first time at age 26 was like stepping into a time machine, reinvoked the angsty and bittersweet longing to be where you belong. I love the line "I'll never go back to Georgia, not at least till I have to" - once you find where you're happy, going back to your old life feels unthinkable. youtube.com/watch?v=DZaK37dh…

8). Going to California - Led Zeppelin A song about traveling across the world to find the person of your dreams and slowly realizing they don't exist. The lyrics start out naive and wide-eyed and slowly grow cynical and wold-weary as fantasy clashes with reality, yet still retain a sliver of hope. This song came to me during a rather chaotic time in my life. Work was as tumultuous and unstable as it had ever been, my love life was messy, and I still didn't have a stable social group in the city. I found a lot of comfort in this song - I'm on a journey of self discovery and all of these calamities are just obstacles along the way. The ideal life I'm chasing might not exist, but I'll be wiser at the end of it. youtube.com/watch?v=NrUIJY_X…

9). Let Down - Radiohead Whether or not Paranoid Andrid or Let Down is my favorite Radiohead song is basically a coin-toss, but coins do have a slight bias. To me, no other song manages to be so simulatenously uplifting and heartbreaking as 'Let Down'. It so elegently describes the cycle of hope and disappointment, the exhaustion of trying over and over again, and the crazy hopes we cling on to. The breakdown at 3:40 where Yorke declares that "One day, I am going to grow wings" before lamenting about being "crushed like a bug on the ground" is simply breathtaking. Objectively speaking, this song doesn't have a happy ending, but I like to believe Yorke eventually grew those wongs. youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgHPSyE…

10). Paranoid Android - Radiohead Coolest song ever written. End of story. The Bohemian Rhapsody of alt-rock and the song that got me obsessed with Radiohead (yes, I'm one of those people). Listening to this song feels like watching a sci-fi movie, and I swear every time I hear it it's like listening to it for the first time again. The lyrics are cryptic even by Radiohead standards, but to me, they vividly speaks to existential dread and a sense of paranoia about society that drives one to isolation and madness, ideas that are just as relevant today as when the lyrics were written almost 30 years ago. The breakdown at 3:36 where everything slows down and Yorke starts beckoning an unnamed entity to "rain down" on him "from a great height" makes me feel like I'm going just as insane as the protagonist singing the lyrics. Maybe I am... Don't ask what's going on in the music video, though. youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolF…

11). Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd For a long time I treated this song like I treated the finale of Avengers: Endgame - I heard/watched it once and subconsciously avoided every hearing/watching it again in fear that the replay would not live up to the perfection I remember it as. I eventually got around to listening to it again, and when I did I realized that I had missed 90% of the details when I heard it the first time. There's so much to this song. It might be the closest a rock song has ever come to being a symphony. Most importantly, though, this is the last song Pink Floyd ever wrote about former frontman Syd Barrett. To me, that means this song represents the band moving on, celebrating his legacy one last glorious time before finally stepping out of his shadow. youtube.com/watch?v=8UXircX3…

12). Konstantine - Something Corporate 9 minutes of someone rambling about an ex and repeating the line "Did you know I miss you?" 8 times sounds unbearable on paper, but there is a sincerity to this song that has haunted emo fans for the past 25 years. Andrew McMahon played this song for the first time at a concert where his ex-girlfriend that the song was about was standing in the front row. This prompted McMahon to go off script and improvise lyrics for 9 minutes, lyrics that ended up becoming the official lyrics of the song. As a result, this song feels more like a stream of conscience than anything else, and that's what makes it so compelling. Adding to the mystique of this song is the fact that McMahon only plays this song on a November 11th ever year for reasons that have not been disclosed. youtube.com/watch?v=PkUJkKtF…

13). The A Team - Ed Sheeran For almost a decade, this was my #1 favorite song. This song has an earnestness that made me become obsessed with Ed Sheeran. It really puts you in the shoes of someone struggling similar to the way Fast Car does, with Ed singing lyrics about struggling to pay rent and "strange men" with a strained voice that makes you feel every ounce of the tragedy. Hearing the line "it's too cold outside for angels to fly" for the first time while driving down an empty road in a snowstorm was a core memory. youtube.com/watch?v=UAWcs5H-…

14). Never Meant - American Football When I was first exposed to the Midwest Emo genre, I thought it was a silly little novelty. The instrumentals were really cool, but the vocals and lyrics were hilariously cringy. Then I listened to American Football and realized just how much substance there is to this genre. Never Meant is one of the most effective songs I've ever heard. The guitar melody is an addictive earworm and the vocals and lyrics are the perfect level of somber. The song's story about a dying relationship and the couple's decision to just forget about each other and move on is somehow sadder than 99% of songs that lament the breakup - there's something about being in the acceptance phase of the greiving process that adds an extra layer of heaviness. This song has been described as the "Stairway to Heaven" of Midwest Emo, and I can't agree more. It's so good I literally based my VTuber persona around it. youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXp…

15). Tek It - Cafune I have a soft spot for bittersweet nostalgic songs, and Tek It might just be the epitome of the archetype. What I love about this song is how liberating it feels desipte being a breakup song. There is a sense of triumph to the line "So long, nice to know you. I'll be moving on" that instantly puts you in a good mood. I also love the opening line "Where did you learn what it means to reciprocate?" It's such a "fuck you" line but it's said with such whimsy that it's hilarious. When listening to this song, I picture an oddly specific scenario of driving along the coast with the roof down after a breakup, and you know I dig that kind of vibe. youtube.com/watch?v=7RWbq-lb…