After many years of putting this off, I finally did it. I went through the long and laborious task of reading a wikihow tutorial on setting up a blog. I suppose there was one wordpress blog I did in the way off past, but this is the first time that I paid for a domain name. So I guess I have to write more than three measly posts in order for it to be worth the $12 domain fee.
So here we go...
It wasn't until last fall when I realized my place in the present culture. Sure, I am a snake person, but I never felt like I identified with that crowd. Or at least I refused to be apart of it. All of sudden I found out that my alienation was not uncommon, and in fact it proliferated fairly recently. But I don't game or go on 4chan(fuck pepe), I don't even know how to torrent. I wish I could relate with other failsons, but most of them in my area are more preoccupied with watching videos of New Jack or going on roadies where (only) Korn is played at full volume.
This blog will follow the movies I watch. I do other things... like reading, listening to music and going to parks, but movies I consume the most. What movies do I watch, you ask? Well, to give you an idea my viewing is limited to whatever is on my parent's TV (usually TCM, Fox Movie Channel, HBO, etc.), public access in my bedroom, free full movies on youtube, and the revered veehd.com. Off the top of my head, some of my favorite movies include The Seventh Victim, Robocop, Witchfinder General, Deep End, The Devils, Design for Living, A New Leaf, Black Sunday, Cul De Sac and The Twentieth Century. In short, I like old movies. I grew up watching old movies, because of my boomer parents, and a Catholic upbringing. I found out about foreign and indie films around middle school when Sundance and IFC was added to our cable package, before they got shitty. Finding at a Half Price Books the complete three volumes of Danny Perry's Cult Movies books proved to be invaluable, along with works by the usual suspects --Bazin, Agee, Farber and Kael. I peaked in college, but right before that I was at the height of vulgar cineaste materialism. I had hundreds of dvds, blu rays, vhs tapes, and even a meaty stack of laserdiscs which took up half of my studio apartment. A lot of them were curios at best, euro exploitation and weird eighties direct-to-videos. I was regularly attending revival houses and concerts with my girlfriend and it really was the neoliberal dream. Then I broke up with my girlfriend, quit my job, couch surfed for six months and now I am living with my parents at 24.
This blog will follow the movies I watch. I do other things... like reading, listening to music and going to parks, but movies I consume the most. What movies do I watch, you ask? Well, to give you an idea my viewing is limited to whatever is on my parent's TV (usually TCM, Fox Movie Channel, HBO, etc.), public access in my bedroom, free full movies on youtube, and the revered veehd.com. Off the top of my head, some of my favorite movies include The Seventh Victim, Robocop, Witchfinder General, Deep End, The Devils, Design for Living, A New Leaf, Black Sunday, Cul De Sac and The Twentieth Century. In short, I like old movies. I grew up watching old movies, because of my boomer parents, and a Catholic upbringing. I found out about foreign and indie films around middle school when Sundance and IFC was added to our cable package, before they got shitty. Finding at a Half Price Books the complete three volumes of Danny Perry's Cult Movies books proved to be invaluable, along with works by the usual suspects --Bazin, Agee, Farber and Kael. I peaked in college, but right before that I was at the height of vulgar cineaste materialism. I had hundreds of dvds, blu rays, vhs tapes, and even a meaty stack of laserdiscs which took up half of my studio apartment. A lot of them were curios at best, euro exploitation and weird eighties direct-to-videos. I was regularly attending revival houses and concerts with my girlfriend and it really was the neoliberal dream. Then I broke up with my girlfriend, quit my job, couch surfed for six months and now I am living with my parents at 24.
My gods last year were Thom Andersen and Adam Curtis, but now it's time to get things back on track. Those guys are still awesome though. I just discovered the $12 domain fee wasn't mandatory.
Fucky.
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