Purpose

The last time I started a blog it seemed as though it had no purpose. I would come on and write a film review every once in awhile. Two weeks later I might come on and write another one. The funny thing is, the films I found myself reviewing weren't even ones that I was passionate about. They were just random films that I had seen recently that I thought I could write about in a humorous or lighthearted manner.

Film has always been important to me and I have always written and discussed it. Intelligent film discussion is hard to come by these days, and unfortunately I can't say that my blog really added anything special to the world of film criticism. Most blogs about film have a clever name that relates to something only genuine cinephiles would understand. My previous blog was called “Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs,” named after a song from “The Wicker Man.” Even this blog, which I don't intend to use as a platform for discussing film, is a play on the film title “Righting Wrongs” from Hong Kong.

Then my brother started a blog. He was also writing film reviews. From my perspective, it made more sense to stop writing on “Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs” and begin writing on his blog. It was an easy decision to make and I do not regret it, but blogging (on my own) was always something that I wanted to get back to. With this class, I knew that I had to create a blog, but considering I still write film reviews for his blog, what else was there?

My blog needed a purpose. My immediate thoughts were to write about my writing of a film review. I may do some of this as I do like to examine the process of writing reviews. Writing a review can be surprisingly difficult, and it is a completely different form of writing that most are not used to. Then I thought about focusing on comic books? I enjoy reading them, and feel that there is little discussion of them past a certain age. The reading of comic books, and most of all what comic books are important to read, is something that I will also cover from time to time. And then there is always television, the new underrated art form. How many people honestly write critically about television beyond “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men?”

Essentially, what this boils down to is the fact that my blog will focus on texts and art that I deem important. It will focus on how I analyze and write about different mediums, and will occasionally have a review of a particular text. This is my goal and hopefully it will be enjoyable for you to read and for me to write.