More re-hashed old material.

I wrote a new entry today while at work, but I need to polish it up a little more before I post it. So, in the meantime, here's a short writeup from Film 102 in Spring 2006 about William Eggleston's "Stranded in Canton" (a damn fine film, if you ask me.)

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William Eggleston and “Stranded in Canton”

The question posed for this week is a simple one: “What do you think could have been the intentions of Robert Gordon when choosing only about 1 hour of footage out of 70 hours?” I believe that Robert Gordon’s intentions during the editing process were exceedingly similar to William Eggleston’s intentions during the original filming of “Stranded in Canton.” It seems to me that Eggleston was intent on making a document of life in the south in the 1970s. By filming everyone and everything, from the dentist in the town to the chicken geeks on the street corner, Eggleston was able to create a vibrant, almost living document of the ways in which he perceived life as being. In his approach to editing Eggleston’s footage, Gordon had to have been thinking along similar lines, or else the work in question would not have had the same qualities. Also, remember that Gordon worked very closely with Eggleston during the editing process; from what I’ve learned of Eggleston, he would not have allowed someone to edit his footage unless they shared similar hopes, dreams, and desires in the end product.

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...Boy, has my writing improved since then. I credit my English instructor Dr. Peter Blewett and my Media Writing TA Tyler Gaskill for really improving my writing over the last year or so. Without those two, I'd still be really, really bad. Or, worse than I am, anyways.

**disappears off to watch "Snakes on a Plane" for the fifth time today.**

A New Year is Here!
(...So why do I feel the same?)

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you....twenty-oh-seven!

As promised, a new year brings a new layout and new content. I will now (officially) be updating this blog at least twice a week (most likely on Monday and Thursday nights), or more. That's right...I'm finally delivering on the promise I made to the blog-world three years ago.

So...New Years. As I drove home from this evening's festivities (Cake @ the Riverside Theater with FM 102 One), I began to think about resolutions. More specifically, I thought about the concept of a resolution. What, exactly is a resolution? Why do we make them? And who among us has (honestly) followed through on any resolution they have made?

To me, a resolution is a promise to the world and to ourselves. It's a commitment to better ourselves in a specific way and improve both our lives and the lives of others. But, shouldn't we be striving each and every day to better ourselves? Why do we instead focus on it only once a year? If you ask me, that's a pointless concept, and one that I feel should be examined further.

If you ask me, we should not be making resolutions only at New Year's. We should make resolutions each and every day; resolutions to better ourselves, our relationships, and the global community.

But, since I know that people will harass me, I'll still post some resolutions.

• A half-drunken Adler mentioned something to me tonight about wanting me to be more involved with FM 102 One and the morning show this year. So, I resolve to fully embrace my internship and strive to be as active with the station as I possibly can be.
• I fully resolve to finally stick to my diet and lose some weight.
• I fully resolve to get back into shape and tone my body.
• I fully resolve to raise my cumulative GPA over a 3.0 by the end of the academic year.
• I fully resolve to throw myself completely into each and every project I take on as opposed to half-assing it and throwing things together at the last moment.
• I fully resolve to end my self-depreciating humor and embrace who I am as a person.
• I fully resolve to be less of an asshole.

There. Yearly resolutions. Now, get off my back, world.