Just like that

It's almost funny how fads go from "unrecognized" to "discovered" to "the new thing for me" to maybe either "my life" and/or "actually never mind that sucked".

I think you will enjoy reading this. Along with this and this.

Here's a few excerpts I found interesting from this awesome site I found this morning. (added to the COSoTL!)

4) IT’S A BLOG, SO MAKE IT PERSONAL
I really believe that as a blog, your site should be as much about YOU as it is about the movies you’re talking about. YOUR thoughts, YOUR experiences, YOUR opinions. You’re not meant to be an impersonal movie news site. Blogs by nature are personal things. Don’t be afraid to share bits of yourself with your readers and engage them every chance you have. The news is the same on every single site out there… YOU are the most unique thing about your site. Leverage that. Some will say to me sometimes that Blogs shouldn’t be personal at all… to them I say “Then you have no idea what a blog is”

15) START A PODCAST EARLY
When we started The Movie Blog Podcast almost 4 years ago, most people hadn’t even heard of the term before. Now, podcasting is insanely popular and very EASY to do. Remember how I just said to make your movie blog as personal as possible? Well podcasts are a great way to do that. It’s YOUR voice. It’s a wonderful way for your personality to come through and for your readers/listeners to get to know you. Podcasting has never been easier. With free podcasting services like:

Studio Odeo
GCast

You can be up and running in no time at all. It’s VERY fun, VERY easy and very effective too. There’s no reason not to start podcasting as soon as possible once you launch your site.

So, cool. Eh?

And then these just hit home:

Don’t become a “blog” that just repeats the news that has been repeated a million times already today on every other site out there.

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Blogging is about personal expression… so what use is expression if you’re not expressing YOURSELF?

So yeah I'm pretty psyched about the documentary idea, and blogging. Inspiration! Inspired! Invigorated???

It's almost not fair. If you were/are puzzled by that last post, yeah well yeah. I don't feel like explaining. I sort of did. Actually, I sort of already did with the majority of my recent posts. Basically it means that, well ugh I'll just be repeating myself, but that the perspective keeps changing. Take now for instance, I am out. I'm not really in Europe anymore. But then yeah once I finish that HW I'll be back in. But. There is hope. There's weekends, there's my ideas and there's chatting with Albert. Among other people.

But then its just... let me be with my friends. I hope to explore with my film.