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[which_chick]

One of the things I got for xmas was a set of DVD-ized videos from when my dad videotaped things. This wasn't something I really wanted, at least not in a good way, but it was something I got, probably for reasons in line with the adage pain shared is pain halved. Ah, well. One of the videos could be titled Christmas, 1983. Glossing right the hell over the fact that that was twenty-one years ago, let's go right to the (somehow more bearable) fact that I was thirteen in 1983. The amount of painfully awkward I was at that age cannot be expressed in words.

What with the DVD-ized home videos, though, I am not restricted to words.

In honor of ornery_chick's righteous essay about the selective view of themselves that people put on the internet, here is the awkward, unlovely, thirteen-year-old me, unwrapping a pair of Calvin Klein jeans which I was dead sure would make me one of the cool kids (~3.76 MB). Sorry for the pitiful image quality. It looks like a home video because it is a home video. I toyed with the idea of claiming there were technical difficulties with the sound, but honesty eventually won out.

Full disclosure: Having a pair of Calvin Klein jeans did not make me one of the cool kids.

Comments

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Aww...it is very sweet in retrospect. I think if you are not the subject of a home video you can get enjoyment out of watching them. Tell me, did nothing get between you and your Calvins?

I shudder to imagine what lies on the home movies my folks did back in the day. I know one exsists of the dog and me roughhousing, and the dog got overstimulated and nipped me on the butt!

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

At that age, I was convinced that one always wore underwear. Later on, I was convinced at some point that one needed to have pants that fit like a second skin without panty lines. (Dear readers, this was before thongs were sold at Wal-Mart. This was before we HAD a Wal-Mart.) By that time, I wasn't wearing Calvins anymore. At this late date, though, it would take a very, very special occasion to convince me that going without underwear was worth the discomfort. (Thongs are not an option. I don't care for them.)

I wasn't in charge of the transfer to DVD but brother Roy says it is not a matter of extreme technological clue. If you're interested, I could get details from him on the process.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be after going Commando myself.

Target's got some good underpants these days. It is their "own brand" called Formfit, and the elastic lays really, really flat, so you would have to be wearing chiffon trousers to get VPL!

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

I only got part of the video, actually, though I think I got all of the sound. It crashed Quicktime for me. I've downloaded it to my hard-drive and will try it again later.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I dunno -- it worked okay for me (Firefox, windows Media Player.) when I tested it. It was encoded with the XviD codec, if that helps.