Temps à perdre

I've been reading a lot of other different blogs lately, which has chewed up the time I was going to use writing mine. They all seem to end up leading into some sort of philosophical discussion and from there my mind gets drawn into some sort of endless sinkhole of compacted emptiness. It doesn't help that the more I read the more it changes what I think, and therefore what I think about writing. So it's kinda been hard to nail down my thoughts long enough to get them out. So I figured maybe I'd take a break and watch a movie or something.

The movie I decided to watch is called "The Nines". It had some tag line about an actor who's life was falling apart and was mixed in with a game producer or something. Didn't sound overly interesting and I didn't really want a movie I need to think for. It ended up being a bit of a twisted view on perception and reality. Unlike some others I've seen, such as 13th floor, it managed to have the quality characters needed to draw me in while it slipped in past my consciousness only to unleash its mindfuck from within. So much for taking a break.

There's a few web comics I try to keep up with regularly so I think I'm gonna see if I can add them over there -> somewhere. There's quite a few more that I enjoy but only look at irregularly so I might add them sometime too. And may end up looking at them more frequently as well.

Déclaration de principe

When I was considering starting a blog, I began thinking about all the things I felt like writing about. I came up with quite a substantial list of a wide variety of things which seemed to widely cover the four pillar taboos: sex, politics, money and religion. Of course I'll inevitably end up writing about light issues such as artistic matters or even maybe the weather. But most of what I had already written, through comments and the like, orientated around the more meatier issues.

In reading a lot of other blogs or sites they commonly seemed to take on some sort of cause or focus issue. The remainder were generally of a personal nature, relating day to day experiences. I've tried keeping a personal blog before but didn't really find myself being self obsessed enough to maintain it. Equally I couldn't come up with anything that stood out as a key issue for me either. I think it comes down the fact that I rarely see things in black & white and so find it quite difficult to 'pick sides' or chose a 'label'. So this may turn out to be a Seinfieldish blog about nothing.

If I absolutely had to chose some sort of ideal to get behind it would probably involve something like "balance" or "moderate" or the ideal that there are no bad ideas, only bad ways to use them. I guess it comes down to the notion that this blog, and the comments I make around the place are as much about finding faults with my own reasonings and learning from others as it is about expressing my own points of view.

Je ne sais rien.

I don't know exactly why I'm starting a blog. Well that's not entirely true, as I do know, I'm just at a loss on how to explain it. Or maybe I just don't want to tell you. Forging a blogentity and becoming part of the blogosphere appears to be the thing my generation Y comrades are into. And yes, as I'm part of the blogosphere I'm allowed to mash-up my own words. And use bad grammar. If only I was one year older and I'd be a Gen Xer and not in this mess.

I guess I should point out a few of the sites that have inspired my renewed opinionation. There are quite a few more that'll probably get around to naming and shaming at a later date. It's probably time to stop this meta blogging now though.