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This is a weekly blog where I discuss all my favorite things. Most of the posts are “essays” (and most of them are about film) but there are plenty of humorous lists and fiction writing posts scattered around too. I have a lot of different interests and many of them are pretty narrow, so not every post will be for everybody. But search around, you might find something interesting, I try to vary the topics up!
Recently I’ve shifted to weekly “Monday” posts (in addition to my usual blog posts about whatever random topic I decide to write about that day). Here’s the current schedule:
1st of the month – Monthly Movie Reviews
- I write a “two sentence movie review” of everything I watch in the Daily Movie Reviews tab on my front page. On the first of every month I collect all the reviews of the previous month into one post.
1st Monday – Mailbag Monday
- I get a lot of silly google searches that lead people to my site. On the first Monday of each month I pretend they are reader mail and “answer” the “questions”.
2nd Monday – Internet Meme Monday
- My excuse to rip of Internet fads that I find amusing.
15th of the month – Mid Month Metal Masterpiece
- I discuss a different Thrash, Death or Black Metal album with sound clips of my favorite parts. Only old school albums will be covered (for the most part).
3rd Monday – Minor Key Monday
- I talk about a different favorite sad sounding song on the 3rd Monday of each month. I try not to let my sketchy knowledge of music theory hold me back.
4th Monday – Middle Earth Monday
- I discuss a different obscure place in Tolkien’s fictional “Middle Earth” each 4th Monday. It is unquestionably my least popular Monday feature.
Infrequently Occuring 5th Monday – TBA
- It doesn’t come up that often, but when it does I’ll write a post relating to the number 5 in some way!
Dear Isley,
There should be more singing in films. Seriously. Bollywood all the way….. John Wayne and cowboys are very popular in Bollywood…. check it out…. where else can you find songs about Bumblebees and Hindu/Muslim angst all in the same script…. (see if you can find the film based just on that)…. or that guy from LOST dancing. Except that one isn’t REALLY Bollywood……..
Sooooooo, the question: whyfore have you so blatantly avoided Bollywood in your film discussions thus far? It’s the singing isn’t it?
You know, I used to think I didn’t like singing in films, then I discovered Fred and Ginger about 6 or 7 years ago and now singing is alright with me!
So why have I avoided Bollywood? Well, I haven’t seen many modern musicals I much cared for, but mostly I’ve just decided I don’t like Bollywood without ever having seen a Bollywood movie. Well, except for the credit sequence of Slumdog…which I was nonplussed by.
The clips and stuff I’ve seen they look like campy/cheesy soap operas with feel good endings. But I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and I’ve been meaning to check out Lagaan (or do you recommend Mission Kashmir?)
All this avoids the real reason I pretend not to like Bollywood…it’s pretty en vogue these days (or at least it was), and god forbid I like something everyone else likes!