i think something that i seem to have lost sight of since leaving public address was the reason i wanted and needed to blog in the first place.
i’ve been get to business by writing wee reviews and the like, but i think i’ve lost what it was that made me really enjoy the writing. it wasn’t until i found this post on kung fu monkey that i realised it. what’s great about blogging is the careful consideration of posts, but the ability to channel passion and thought into something.
there’s been a lot of consideration of blogging and web2.0 that i’ve been privy to lately, and i think it’s kind of drawn me away from the potential of the medium. if you’re thinking a lot about formal processes for blogging, and ways to communicate messages, there’s the tendency for the humanity of the tool to be lost. we end up using it as yet another means to get across a programme, educate, disseminate. but what this is supposed to be about is the human voice; raw, unedited, natural, and whole.
so. i think i’ll leave off with the reviews and the like unless people are genuinely wanting to read them. of course, if i attend something that you might really like to read, or if i finally figure out how to post to separate pages (thereby leaving the front page free of “review clutter”) , i’ll put them up there.
otherwise, i’ll see if i can’t recapture some of that old style. as john says,
Why? Because it brings me a bit of joy, and that may be what blog-length is for — transmitting bursts of thought rather than full ideas, but those bursts still have the rough edges of raw passion. Your mistakes are your style, I once had an old writer say to me. Blogs are where we can throw down some of the filters and gift more of our mistakes to strangers.
29 May, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Oh good. Does this refound “flow of consciousness” approach mean you dispense with CAPS (whilst retaining all other grammatical norms)… ’cause it kind of sucks for the consumer of your pearls
29 May, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I like the reviews.
I never get to the movies. So I like to hear a bit about what is out there. I like the book chat. I loved the recipe book review.
It’s a shame that the PA type stuff is gone, but I understand all too well about paid employment constraints. OTOH, seeing as I am looking at being unemployed next year, perhaps I might just lose all those constraints…
The thing is, Che, you write well, and it almost doesn’t matter what you write about – it’s worth reading.
Cheers!
30 May, 2007 at 8:04 am
What Deborah said.
Don’t constrain yourself too much it’s just 26 symbols (including fullstop and space). Part of the art of life is thinking about work for food for the stomach and work for food for the soul; heart and head can become one on this. The best way to write is to look, you can see alot by watching. IMHO.
As for CAPS, who care’s, I’m for the intent not the content.
30 May, 2007 at 9:48 am
che mate, you’re a hack
(just in case you were thinking of being a tall poppy, I mean you’re already tall)
But seriously I need those caps in order to read what you say easily. Burst Culture is good (and you’re good at it) but if I have to read it twice it’s no longer a burst.
Ps. I watched the movie at the bottom of that KF Monkey post the other day. It is well worth it. I found I couldn’t look away.
31 May, 2007 at 10:49 am
I’ve decided to embrace “burst culture”. From now on if I can’t think of anything else to add (to refine my arguement) in 5 secs I hit “submit”.
Wooo this is gonna be fun!
31 May, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I don’t think you should wail on Submit because you can’t think of anything to add in 5 seconds.
Submit has feelings too you know. With all this Burst Cult, alot of Submits are going to get teh bash eh.
31 May, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Mind you Che has a Submit Comment, an altogether more interesting form of Submit species, a little like a wrestling command maybe,
Submit! Comment, I have you now.
2 June, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Did you mention somewhere that you worked on a film for the 48 hour film festival? Any chance that you will blog an account of it for our reading delight?
18 June, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Very interesting- maybe this is part of why blogging just isn’t doing it for me at the moment- but I have a new found obsession with Twitter
18 June, 2007 at 11:45 pm
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