I have a confession. I am a cinephile. I love movies. I love watching them. I love talking about them. I love everything there is that has anything to do with them. Living the life of a cinephile, I started off by watching large budget Hollywood movies, moved onto classics, and then developed a specific taste for certain genres and subject matters, and all of a sudden, I have an opinion about what I watch. Eventually, I would like to make something of my own, because after all, in the words of a wise French man, more or less, the greatest form of criticism is to make a film yourself.
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While I was filling out some information on Facebook, I came across the favorites section, and naturally, they have a section where I get to list my favorite movies. Neat! right? Well, it turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. There is just an abundance of great movies out there and leaving any of them out would somehow imply that they’re any worse than the ones who made it on the list. If I am going to show my appreciation of all these films, I need more space than the tiny box on Facebook. I need some place where I can write whatever I am with no restriction. If only I had… like a blog… or something.
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Warning: This site, no matter how you argue it, is still a blog, which means I get to tell you all about my day. (because we all give a damn how interesting it is)
So we said our goodbyes to wonderful summer and now we are back to school. Lectures have been running for two weeks now and we are settled down. I’m living by myself just off campus and the engineers got their own place on the other side of the campus.
I think we’ve all been pretty busy the beginning-of-term errands. (things like the work term report, osap, book, and i guess for others involve some heavy drinking) I did, however, manage to finish off the final panels of what will become SC’s first offical comic. I sent the scans to Sam, who I’m sure will vectorize it the first chance he gets. When he does, I’ll explain the comic a little better. Other upcoming ideas for the comic will include a character named Scott, who will be a tall arts major among the engineers. The joke is, for those of you who know him personally, almost an opposite of what he’s like in real life. As for the graphical theme of the website, what I have in mind is something that has to washing machines. (I won’t go into why) I’ll see what I can do with that.
Long story short, my video card crapped out and I am without my precious for 4-8 weeks. Any of its replacements is like… some sort of time-space-flux-capasitor-continium-jumbo-thingy where you watch for trillions of years as the universe collapse onto itself - not fun.
Maybe it’s not that bad of a thing.
Maybe I can take this opportunity to put some work into this website. After all, I am posting something.
Maybe I’ll take less than a year to finish 3 panels of sketches. You know… when you start to notice stylistic differences between the panels of the same comic.
Maybe I can do something productive with my time for once. Like that script I’ve been meaning to start for a few years.
Maybe [your favorite sports team] will actually win for once.
Who knows? We’ll see where I’m at next week.
