Back to School

The bountiful amount of writing I do in my free time might distract from what I do in, well, "real life". I'm going back to college and starting classes in the next few days (where you might be surprised to learn that I am a History major -- working on slipping in a minor in Film and Media Studies). Though I intend to keep watching films and writing about them, I can't guarantee my output will remain at the level it has been. The summer gave me an opportunity to really dig into this side project of mine. And though I did a good deal of this last semester, it was admittedly at the cost of my academics (even as some part of me is totally cool with that). 

Whether I will be watching less movies or watching the same, or nearly the same, amount of films and writing about them less has yet to be seen, but I post this forewarning the likely event of a drop in writing. I love doing this but right now it's only a fun hobby. I love it but I have to be honest with myself. 

I have only scratched the surface of movies out there. If you look through the films watched and written about this year, they have nearly all been films I have never seen before (nearly 98 or 99% -- no joke!). And that still doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. The pleasure of enjoying films is that as many as you've seen, you still haven't seen everything and discoveries are just around the corner. Fellini, Bresson, Bunuel, Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock, Cassavettes, Peckinpah, Wyler, Kar-Wai; to name a few, are on a long list of directors I hope to sneak in at least one more movie of before years end. That's not to mention genres and eras of film that I've neglected (I hope to see some more musicals, Westerns, and romance before the years out).

We'll see where it goes and how I treat writing about it. Perhaps I will do shorter reviews or more summary things. I hope that if you follow this blog though that you stick with me. Please remember that comments and suggestions are entirely welcome, even encouraged. Writing is nothing without discourse.

I'm not going away. I'm just changing with the times.