Goodbye, Lamppost (Moving Trilogy Part 2 of 3)

[TheWeatherman100]

That was the saddest goodbye to a lamppost I have ever seen, it almost made me cry.

Probably the music and overly-long anime like feeling

[Aquamonkeyify]

*sigh* If only a man could talk to me like that...I'm almost jealous of the lampost!

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Don't worry, madame! Some day, I'm certain such will happen. *grins* I mean, I talk to my starry-eyed Someone this way whenever I need to tell her something important! ... sans the slight bit of tongue-in-cheek and... over-the-top dramatics.

... okay, when I'm being SERIOUS. We're both victim to being really, really silly sometimes. But that's great. *grins*

There's someone out there for everyone, and I live by that ridiculously optimistic sentiment!

And actually, the Lamppost is married.

[DefinitelyNotNoah]

I wonder if any of your neighbors were looking at you awkwardly when you shot this video...

But I wouldn't have the guts, (as in bravery, cause I do have guts, like the heart and the lungs and the liver,) to do this.

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

ROFFLE-- I actually have footage of the people who were watching me the entire second and third take.

In other words, quite a few of my neighbors were out the day I filmed this. And had NO idea how to respond. Except for the kids-- they knew how to respond: INANE LAUGHTER.

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

As far as bravery goes, I'd say a mix between the end of my Raisinets video and my Feelin' Groovy video would be my braveness-ometer. Also, me dressing up as a cowboy and tossing a hat into the sky half-a-million times in BHFnanza. ... one of my next videos will top that. I'm undeniably certain you could find it within you, if I could!

[DefinitelyNotNoah]

@HomeStarRunnerTron I have to admit, if I was out there watching someone talk to a lamppost, I would laugh non-stop.

[KurayamiHikaru]

I love this video!

Also... I think I know where you are filming this... Well... The general area...

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Thank you so VERY much, Tiana! *grins*

Whoa-- NOICE'ness! It's a grandiose area... with street signs and houses that ALL look the same, making everything FAR more perplexing to navigate through. God bless housing complexes.

[walletlamp12]

technically im in tears right now, this is wonderful

[acyr]

well goddamnit, that was beautiful

[clarissavandell]

You'll find a new lamppost, and create lots of new memories! And the house of your past shall always remain in your heart.

You might have been asked this before, but was your 'adieu' speech scripted? It stirred in my heart - I was touched.

[HungAzn]

:44 made me laugh. a lot.

[sonicdistortion12]

this is so emotionally moving! *cries* lol i like it ;p;

[dravarian26]

You seem to enjoy using large words a lot.

[Dorkothy95]

Aw, that's so DEPRESSING!!!! I wanted to cry.

But you'll always have the happy memories of the time you spent with the lamppost, right? :-/

[michaeleddie2006]

ROFL WHAT THE FOCK

[SaraSinger42]

I love this video Skye! It's really moving. I was in tears when I watched it. Also, Nova was cute when he waved. You're awesome! :)

[Roselupin13]

I used to talk to everything XD I still talk to my computer and TV... Sometimes my clock....o.o;;; So...I wish you a happy new year! ^^

[BubblegumGuru]

Oh my...that was...that was DIFFERENT.

I was all "OH YEY GOoFY FUN VIDIO FRUM SKYE TIEM!!!11" and then I watched it and was like "...I should go hug that lamppost at my old bus stop. *sob*"

Srslytho, I got all misty-eyed. I don't believe any of your videos to date have made me do that..Not that it's a bad thing. :)

I liked the little effects used throughout..Especially that shot of the reflection in the puddle. Darnit, Skye, your camera skillz never cease to UH-MAZE me. :O

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

LAWL. Like any of my videos are often similar to each other-- except in whimsy. -- But-- I understand whatchya mean, good Katie! This really is the first wistful, melancholy vide'ro I've uploaded!

-- LAWL-- it's funny the sort of things that really matter to us in our mind-- the things we see that indelibly echo and resound in our heads... and mean SO much!

-- D'aaw, I don't even want to know how Misty got in your eyes!

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

-- Oh, thank'oo ved'dy much! *grins* -- Yeah, that puddle wasn't there when we first moved in-- after the first violent storm of the year, the macadam eroded and after that point, every rainstorm issued a new puddle in the exact same place. So... I just had to film it to remember. *grins* Thank you so VERY, VED'DY much! This cam-my-corder has served me well.

[SemTatsuki]

Oh gosh. I will admit that I teared up towards the middle. You have such a way with words! ;o; Good luck with everything!

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

D'aaw, thank you so VERY much. Your tears have made me one very humbled individual. *grins* I wrote the monologue on the back of a loose piece of scratch paper spared by the moving guys-- and I memorized it around them while I also had to do some packing of my own. Glad it worked out time-wise as well as it did! And trust me, the move has worked out MAH-VELOUSLY-- and the house turned into a home before our very eyes! *instant Hallelujah chorus*

[TiaSiren]

Hopefully the lampost will inspire some other sentimentalist with it's rays of light. And no worries - houses and neighborhoods always holds pieces of the people that once inhabited them. However, I've found in visiting my old homes after moving away, is that when you visit again, there is a bit of familiarity left from a time when you lived there, but there is always a new feel to the place as well.

This was wonderful and heartfelt.

Oh, and Mr. FireHydrant loves you too, I would presume. :-P

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

I think you mean DELUSIONAL sentimentalist! *grins* But, yes, sentimentalists of ALL-sorts! Please do bask in this glorious lamppost's love-light!

Hey, you're right! I have NEVER forgotten my neighbors and good friends... and probably never will! Likewise, we'll not be forgotten quite easily, ourselves!

"I'll never forget you." "Really?" "You're too weird."

Our old house is far too diff'rent-- hollow shell of what it was for us! But it's still in my head!

Thank you so VERY much. -- and YAY.

[TheMuffinator3]

moving makes you really think of all of the good times you had in a home...that and the beginning of a new school year. d: This really gave me the chills. ^-^ I would cry if tears normally come to me easily... ;-;

[CandycaneLunatic]

Haha, as always, I love your videos! Tho, you did not reply on my last message which I sent you months ago :(

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Baah, I'm SO sorry, Tanja! They really do just surmount one upon another-- and I get SO behind. Thank you SO very much for leaving another frabjous comment, though! Means the wo'ild to me. *grins* Try my best in the future to respond to your messages!

[YoshiStarSpirit]

I actually started crying upon watching this heartfelt goodbye!

The music is wonderful, as usual! Excellent job, an inspiration for all lampposts in the world!

2:23 I feel envious of said lamppost! :D

[Dekiller395]

Oooooh,I feel sorry for ya now. I bet you and this lampost go waay back. It's hard to say goodbye to an old friend,but you hung tough,and that's good.....Take it with ya,they won't mind!!!

Hey,did you have a name for this lampost at all?

[survivor104]

I teared up a little bit

[Soberhamster11001100]

What I love about this, is that it actually makes sense, SOOO MANY times I've heard speeches like this that are just half-baked, half-written, quote-on-quote "sentimental" jibberish that didn't really convey anything. You really seemed to take the time to write your speech in a way that actually makes sense. And for that, I applaud you.

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Oh, gee, thank you so VERY much. *grins* I tried my best to say this directly from my wonky lil' heart-- so I'd like to hope that my sincerity shines through, at the very least, no matter how ridiculous the scenario is. Praise be to having less than 24 hours to write a goodbye speech to the lamppost on your driveway while the construction workers are tearing away all of your stuff and stuffing them recklessly into boxes!

[waltdisney828]

were you moving to?

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Oh, just into town! We didn't move into a different state or anything-- just closer into town so our family wouldn't have to commute!

[TheSPAMi]

I've never seen such an emotional goodbye speech ever... to an inanimate object no less!

The ending bit helped me in recovery though XD

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Heheh-- and to think they were all real feelings! *cracks up* Ohh, I AM the ball that is odd. Which... being a ball... would technically make me an inanimate object, myself...

ROFFLE-- my mom and I have always had this thing about Fire Hydrants-- she and I used to talk to them all the time when we walked along the pavement before... and even after I started school! They... they're still important to me! ... *wistful sigh*

[TheSPAMi]

The only inanimate objects I excessively talk to are my instruments, seeing that they do have their own names and somewhat of a personality. My friends have been accustomed to it so much that they also refer to them by name too. Especially Oscar.

I used to talk - er, yell at - my desktop computer a lot. That has stopped quite a long time ago once I obtained a laptop.

[steamlord313]

It's enough to make me cry...

-clapclapclap-

Bravo.

[pattso92]

when did i subscribe to this crap?

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Probably back in the summer of 2007 or so when I was redubbing Pokémon. *crosses eyes*

[pattso92]

@HomeStarRunnerTron yer youre probably right.

[theatregeekmania]

*sniff sniff*

...So, so sad...

[tripthelightfilm]

"Skye Moves", in the form of a video game cut scene.

[ryan50ryan]

definitely interesting performance and choice of words. if lampposts had arms, im sure it would hug back.

[CartoonDork]

*Wipes away tears* Simply....Simply touching....

How sad that you had to deal with saying good-bye with such a close, wonderful lamppost.

[JohtoKen]

Best. Example. Of. Cargo. Ship. EVER.

[MDragonFang]

Pity you're having to move.

Oh come here, and cry out loud! *intense hugging*

[TransparentSky]

I've never thought I'd ever see someone say such touching words to a..lamppost. xD But that was fantastic acting, and the ending was just..LOL.

[DreamlandMessenger]

Wow. I didn't think a video about a lamppost could get me sentimental but this really did. The music was beautifully moving, as was your acting.

Though somewhere in the back of my head, a part of me snickered as it wondered what the faces of anyone that might've saw you hugging the lamppost would have looked like XD

- Gemma

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Oh, man, Gemma! I'm SO sorry for not coming on-line for the longest time-- I truly have missed talking to you-- oy!

Heheh-- thank you so VERY much. *grins* I tried my very best to be sincere in everything I did, even though the situation itself, I know (... or do I... ?), is bizarre and... really, RE-HEALLY funny. And yeah, there were plenty of kids out that day... all awaiting anxiously as I kissed the lamppost. Hur'hur'-- it's amazing I didn't pick up the laughs!

[donk4y]

hey dude umoving?

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Why, yes! That's what I said at the beginning of the first part.

-- Although technically, it's that I already DID move, and now the vide'ros are coming out about it.

[keyboarder200]

That's some first class acting right there. :D

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

D'aaaw, thank you VERY much! *grins* I tried... even with all of the elementary school kids circling me in bicycles. That's what I get for wanting to perform a monologue for a public lamppost!

[Onirayushizobura]

You are the first person I have seen, and potentially only person I have seen make saying "goodbye" to a Lamppost touching.

[JustAnotherX]

That was the most touching goodbye to a lamppost I've ever seen. O.o Also the first one ever....

[gunboss201]

he looks like he's gonna pee

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

Don't we all look like we're gonna pee when we're sad? *grins* Those emotions are, like, intrinsically connected in the scheme of the things! Heheh. Sad... sad pee.

[gunboss201]

i know but it's really sad when we are moving i mean i really like the video so yea sry

[crystaltharox]

lmao i love the last part xD

[TheDBZAbridged]

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