March 23, 2006 | Filed under: NYC
We’re going to try something new today! People who don’t use web-based or desktop video aggregators to view my posts have reported some difficulties; many folks don’t have Quicktime. Let’s see if this helps:
Click here or on the picture for the Quicktime version.
(ED:it used to say ” Or click here for flash…but it totally isn’t working…I’ll try again later…I’m cranky…I was so excited about it…)
(Re-ED:It’s later now. You can click here for a flash version at Blip.tv, where this video lives)
It’s very short and not the least bit sweet.
Unfortunately, my neighbor is losing her mind. She either needs major meds or has decided not to refill the prescription she already has for whatever it is that ails her. This is a tiny snippet of what I’ve been treated to ove rthe last several months…usually it goes on for hours. And hours. And hours.
(please toss me a litttle feedback about this whole Flash-thingy…thanks)
(totally don’t bother…it ain’t working…)
(Yeah, go ahead and let me know about that Flash link…)
March 23, 2006
@ 12:28 pm
I couldn’t hear what she was doing! What was she doing?
Now I’m dying of curiousity.
March 23, 2006
@ 2:28 pm
Ohmigosh, this cracked me up! How scary! She sounded like Linda Blair…(at least that’s what came through in the video) maybe she’s possessed!
Anyway, I like your blog! You write beautifully and you’re funny. I totally understand about the nail lady dilemma. I moved last year to a tiny town 30 miles from the big city I’m from. I used a nail lady here for about 3 months who was more expensive and not as good. (I can’t believe how inexpensive mani/pedi-s are there) Now I find that it’s worth the commute once every 2 weeks to see my old nail lady Nancy at Golden Nail. I figure what I spend on gas I would have spent here on the higher prices, so…
I’m going to put a link to your blog on my blog, if you’ll let me. I’ll wait for your permission.
BTW, my mom is a midwife and I was a doula until my divorce…I love women who love birth. I hope you’ll tell some L&D stories!
Nice to meet you…
Mere
March 23, 2006
@ 4:00 pm
She is performing a demonic ritual, obviously.
Are you against freedom of religion?
By the way I had to type “goupfxvo” to leave my comment…
Joe
March 23, 2006
@ 4:01 pm
What a complete and total fucking nut!!!!!!!!
*I* was scared just listening to it. You live next to that crazy lady? Really. That’s creepy. DO. NOT. GO. IN. THE. HALL. when she is out there.
New York. I tell ya.
I don’t have crazy neighbors at the moment, but the guy downstairs from me killed himself in his apartment immediately before I moved into the building. I’d like to think that it had absolutely nothing to do with me.
March 23, 2006
@ 5:24 pm
TinaPoPo, she freaks out for a few seconds at the beginning of the video, you have to turn your volume up pretty high to hear it. Maybe not something you’d want to do at work…
Scary, right? She not even IN the hallway, she’s just so loud that her screaming seeps through the doors. I live on one of those old pre-WWII buildings with VERY thick walls and doors. I’ve lived here 10 years and never heard a neighbor before EVER and I play my mustic extremely loud and no one complains! This place is built like a fortress. Her madness, however, can cut through bricks, steel and lead. I envision her screaming at herself in the mirror…perhaps while tearing out her hair. This time it was unintelligible, but usually its rapid fire insults and major-league swearing (the F, B and C-words are prevalent) and thumping which may or may not be headbanging.
It’s totally horrifying. Wes Craven could hire this chick. She’s make millions with that scary screaming
March 23, 2006
@ 8:01 pm
YIKES!
March 23, 2006
@ 10:17 pm
A lot of times when our fire engine goes out on medical calls, we attend to alcoholics passed out on the streets. Sometimes we recognize the person from a previous call. They’re operating at a lower capacity sometimes just enough to refuse any help. Most of the time, the EMT & Paramedic arrive with their ambulance and cart the drunk away for the ambulance free ride. It’s actually a small get together for three city agencies, the cops are there to watch and make sure he doesn’t hurt himself or anyone, the fire engine gets there first to provide CFRD if needed, and then EMS with their ambulance. We have a collective sigh of relief from the normalcy.
March 24, 2006
@ 12:43 am
Agh! I used to have a psycho woman live next to me to. She would always yell and me and mom when my mom used to live at my house. Finally, one day she snapped and stabbed her husband, and then we finally had to get a court order against her.
I’m glad you’re still okay. How scary!
http://beccavlog.blogspot.com
March 24, 2006
@ 2:28 am
I watched it 3 times, after turning down the music, I could hear it! She sounded like a horror flick, Yikes…I get freaked out when the newspaper man rides thur my part of town at 4AM on his gen-chari (like a loud moped) and the chickens next door sometimes rustle up a fuss, but no crazy in my parts.
March 24, 2006
@ 5:25 pm
Very Blair Witch!
You need at least one more lock on your door, my friend…
March 24, 2006
@ 7:13 pm
I can’t believe you made fun of my aunt Lucy like that……..(just kidding)
That chick sounds completly wacko…….sorry I didn’t mean to use those “high flauting” words…….
I can’t spell worth a damn………
March 24, 2006
@ 8:51 pm
I would walk up to her door and knock.
Make sure you have a butcher knife in your hands and some blood you leeched from a raw steak, and say this:
Excuse me, I’m trying to do something really serious that requires all my concentration. Do you mind?
And just walk away.
March 25, 2006
@ 8:34 pm
This video reminded me of the suspense/lead up to some kind of scary movie, which was cool. I was scared, waiting for a psycho to jump out.
Unfortuneately I didn’t hear what was going on in your hallway. All I could hear was you.
March 26, 2006
@ 10:38 am
Flash worked fine. Freak out came through loud (sortof) and clear. Now I know why I live in the suburbs.
March 26, 2006
@ 9:42 pm
she sounds like a witch. scarry!!.. i think its time for you to break down into a Brad Pitt on the movie “Seven” haha.
April 1, 2006
@ 7:38 pm
What the f**k?? I’d call in some sort of social worker and have them check on her.
April 3, 2006
@ 1:43 am
Crazy neighbour. Yes. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY!!!!!
April 3, 2006
@ 10:29 pm
Holy crap! Totally Blair Witch! That is super freaky - and I KNOW freaky! ; )
I would also call someone, not sure who - to check on her. But, I’d only call if you aren’t the only other person who lives in the building, don’t want her to think in her Schizophrenic state that you are out to get her.
Here’s hoping she moves out!
May 9, 2006
@ 7:20 pm
isn’t it comforting to know that you can videoblog this and have a ton of other people relate?
ah videoblogging!
July 20, 2006
@ 5:42 pm
That’s exactly what I was thinking–sounded like pea soup would come shooting out of her mouth!