This Too Shall Pass

[Starmexus84]

Dude the 'man' disabled the audio in your video!

[gamesviewtv]

I like very simple shorts with a statement. This short is saying i think keep trying, never give up and live your life. Forget Spider- Baby flesh a story with meaning using this as inspiration, I'm working on a David Lynch style novel (or Novella) about a man who tries to get his life back after twenty-two years in Jail. Called "At the Emerald Bar."

[theendofconfusion]

Well done.

[leporidus]

I was just in the right mood (not necessarily the best of all moods, I guess) to watch the Vimeo version of this video.

BTW zoomed with ctrl-Scrollwheel (Mac), it seems to run with a higher framerate than with Vimeo's fullscreen thingie; maybe because of Aqua/Quartz doing the heavy lifting instead of Flash.

I agree with LoveCraken about your smile. I just wish you'd upload more of your work. Hope you're doing well, man.

[LoveCraken]

Holy crap, Bob, your smile is exactly the same from all those years ago as it is now.

[holybabble]

i started this video fully expecting to watch just a bit...i certainly wouldn't watch 27 minutes!

this is the first video i have seen of yours. based on this video, i would have to say that you are the most genuine person i have seen on youtube!

i will watch more.

[LoveCraken]

You'll not be dissapointed.

[racsonam]

AS IF THATS YOU. You look uber different.

[EchosideProductions]

Very meaningful. I can only imagine how cathartic it was for you to edit this together from (dusty:)) old VHS tapes and make something simple yet powerful. Good stuff.

[vegrin]

Natalie merchant too... we share music prefrences Bob:) Nice film!

[kaberlova]

I had to stop watching after the first five minutes when you were mentioning death and suicide, still struggling with the thoughts so I guess I can't sit still through this. Anyway I'll understand if you don't accept my friend request, *really* should shut up now but I'm too impulsive a creature. Which has been my problem to begin with. :) {hug}

[Ch2Diacorda]

UN coup LOL

Oh you could have so played Leif Ericson.

The content of the short is very timely.

[PackratCND]

Damn Cool - I enjoyed that Bob !!

[PositiveLogic]

"woulda been nice to have some help"

[abarias500]

Keep passing the open windows. Great, it was all good.

[apatheticbuddha]

I really enjoyed this. I thought I had subbed to you with my new account already, but I guess not. Oh well, thats resolved now. Peace Metabob.

[Colston]

The Great American Dream... so much to answer for. Making it seems very important to you Bob... surely having something "left" is not so much about the material resources you leave behind, but the lives transformed. Despite your reluctance for the interpersonal I sense a man with much to give...

[Interminablespirt]

Thanks for sharing this with us!

[excilerart]

that was amazing. so much emotion. the shots were wonderful as well. just wow... and I see such a resemblence as you say...

[ftom2006]

Very good, thanks for sharing.

[OngaTheFlammable]

Beautiful is all I can say.

[VeiledHeathen]

keep driving

[Darvec]

To the edge of the precipice and back.

[exsequitur]

Beautiful, man.

[AsertyDances]

That was awesome! Great job... the Primal Scream is always an excellent solution to life... to live. Some of the shots and angles were fabulous and great job again... putting it all together.

Take care!

[TyroneSandalphon]

Saved!

..by You Tube.

[747dog]

TAA...is just sleeping...searching in his private dreams...for what he does not know...

[CousinoMacul]

You've never really lived until you've stared that moment right in the face.

[TheDude0fLife]

This was great Bob. It really made me think about how I too persevered in times of despair, things are much better now. You never know what lies hidden just around the corner.

[SheRa0303]

Bob, this is a beautiful video and I am glad that you posted it. I have come across someone who seemed to almost be the exact person as someone from my past too. It is so weird and wonderful at the same time. Sometimes unsettling more than anything though.

[GOAQ]

Brilliant!

Made me very emotional.

Touched me more than you and TAA probably will ever understand.

[jiidee]

I tried to pm you last week about my concerns for TAA, but unfortunately i couldn't get it to you, not being on your friends list. We shouldn't really be suprised that TJ has elected to finish with youtube. Theres nothing like losing someone that close to you to put ones priorities straight. Youtube doesn't matter. Family is all important.

[pkingo1]

What are the songs playing in the video? I love the first one.

[pkingo1]

nm. I'm stupid

[pipslingerz]

I kept expecting you to say he had committed suicide. I'm glad that wasn't the case.

[squitmaa]

Thanks for sharing. That was awesome.

[Erdrickgr]

You should be able to locate him with the online white pages? I've located a couple people through the net.

[coaxx]

i really enjoyed this video. no-t more else to say :)

[ficktard7]

This is actually a good video. A fitting tribute to TheAmazingAtheist. I am not sure if TAA is as distraught as he presented himself on YouTube recently. The wise YouTube posters present a character to the world -- not themselves.

However, I do believe that he was profoundly affected by his father's death.

In so much as anything good can come from the death of someone who loves you unconditionally, I believe one thing.

Love makes us human. TAA is a human being.

[Cubit100]

TAA changed with the death of his father. Also, he seemed to be angry about the poor sales of Cody's book.

Before I die, someday, I would like to visit Vasquez Rocks. However, it looked like you might have done some trespassing to get there.

[blueadept111]

cool

[Jesusfleabop]

as Alan Watts said, if you really have it in you to kill yourself, you should. People have the right to check out, but when they really understand that, they usually find that they didn't have it in them after all.

[stratocasterz]

You even made vlogs before the internet.

You're hardcore.

[ozjthomas]

Hollywoods a tough business, but life will break your heart whereever you go. I think there will be more good independent films in the future, especially because technology is so cheap nowadays, but it sets the bar higher and higher so it will be just as hard to "make it".

[Killersepp]

"There's nothing to grow up for anymore"

The sad - or funny, depending on your perspective - thing is, that I realised this around the age of 15.

Sigh. I'm trying to sound "deep", while just spewing out random shit. Never mind.

You know Bob, when I called you a "drama whore thinly veiled as a wise old man", I didn't mean that as an insult. You *are* wise, or at least you have, how did you call it, life expirience. That's worth a lot.

[Killersepp]

And drama's not that bad either. Quite the opposite actualy. It is, when you think about it, all that makes life worth living. You know, human interaction and all.

Anyway: Is there any way to get that short film as a stand-alone-video? Maybe even in HD? Coz it's real good.

[gratex]

I've seen you on my clan's tf2 server.

[Killersepp]

Hehe, really? I haven't played it for 3 weeks now... but please, pm me the ip, and I'll be there more often ;-)

[bubonicnate]

thoughtful vid

[nicanicabad]

-and I'm quite pleased that he didn't crash and burn in the last 30 seconds.

[nicanicabad]

Now I saw it all. Wonderful.--all of it. We are the same age, and yet, I look 'like' me-I've never seen anyone who was more unrecognizable to their younger self than you are-not that you look old or worse-just SO different! I don't know-maybe I AM different but just can't see it.

Love you Bob.

[Loserido]

Pretty Good.

[CitizenWorm]

That was very interesting and actually engaging. The depths of despair/desperation definitely make for good cinema, no matter how primitive the equipment. Not knowing either well at all it's hard to speculate too much as to TJ and Tim's similarities but I did notice that they have a similar gait. I'd believe there's a lot more though.

It would be really funny if he posted the viking footage as a response to this.

[BellaTheHappyLoser]

nice, very nice short film there, I'm glad he didnt do it.

[WhoWants2Live4Ever]

Wow, Bob... what else can be said? I can't even express how much I liked this video... except to say 5/5.

[SSanf]

Yeah, TAA evoked ghosts.

I loved the film.

[BellaTheHappyLoser]

jesus, how different you look in that footage.

not younger, just totally different. totally.

different person

[nicanicabad]

hey that's what I just wrote-I thought it was just a high school thing with him-but even as an adult-I've never seen anything like it! He should go in the Witness Protection Program-for the fucking hell of it.

[Killersepp]

Yep, my thoughts too. Almost uncanny.

[pipslingerz]

That was his friend, wasn't it?

[LoveCraken]

That short film of yours is great. I skipped to that part because I have to go in a little while- but I thought it was really good, especially the conclusion.

[nicanicabad]

and here I thought you were constipated.

[BellaTheHappyLoser]

(while listening)

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

gandalf - loves it!

oh dear bob I think i will make it

[BellaTheHappyLoser]

oh dear bob, for the love of bellah, 27:02

let me test myself and see if i can make it