Well, it appears I have become part of the blogging world...it's odd, as a serial writer and one whom continues to post random thoughts in my notes on facebook, you would have thought this would have come earlier. Unfortunately joining things has never come easy for me.
I resisted the social network phenomenon till 2008. I only got a Facebook last year, and now I am an addict.
It's the stupid questions they insist on asking you, and then the insistance that absolutely everyone in the world has favourites. Favourite songs/bands/films/books. I end up writing essays in each section, only to run out of room to make my point and delete the whole thing, deciding instead to either leave it blank or add whatever my favourite thing is at that particular time.
Favourite films is something that really annoys me. For example, simply listing some films that i quite like doesn't say anything about me as a person...The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (a silent german impressionist film from around 1920) happens to be a film which i quite like, i also love foreign films (being a sucker for anything with subtitles), but at the time at which i will be writing, i might be in an american comedy mood, leading me to list things such as Clerks, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and even Hairspray; this could lead people sad enough to read these boxes on my profile to believe that i have absoutely no intellectual merit. A snobbish view, i am aware, but it's true. When was the last time you heard someone rant about the merits of Reeses Witherspoon only to go on to address the gritty realism of films such as Scum??? Although many fans of the film Scum like it for the violence, myself however fell in love with Natural Born Killers and hail it as one of the best romances i have ever seen (Mickey and Mallory are easily on par with Giovanni and Anabelle or Romeo and Juliet)
I must say that i don;t judge people on their favourite things, otherwise a lot of my friends wouldn't be that. For example, my hatred of Twilight would hhave lead me to never speak to my own mother and to disassociate from a lot of my friends...even music taste does not define the person (my best friend likes take that -.-)
but the concept of choosing a favourite of any media category, especially nowadays, when we have literally millionns of different texts (takebn to mean any kind of media) at our disposal is stupid. One of my favourite things to watch on tv is without a doubt Gilmore Girls, but it's no longer broadcast, and so peeople forget it. It's easy to forget the genius and hilarity of Newman & Baddiel when the idicoy of Baddiel & Skinner is much fresher in our minds.
Well that was a rant without a point.
Hope you enjoyed it
xx
