100 Important Directors of Animated Short Films

I'm going to try and see all of these. I am making it a mission. I've already seen a couple, but that's not nearly enough...

Some thoughts about the blog thusfar...

So, I'm actually rather enjoying having this blog, you know. Though I don't know why. I think the only person who reads it is my best friend (by the by, if you don't happen to be her, I suggest you gander at her blog, as well, as it often time appears far more interesting than mine and her vocabulary is infinitely better than mine, too) and, really, just about everything on this here blog has been discussed with her at some previous time already so it's kind of pointless for her to just read it again online.

Yet I completely intend to continue with this little venture, anyway. I think this is because on a deeper, more personal, more embarrassing level I'm a bit full of myself. I honestly think I like cool things and that other people should like these cool things, too, and so I've created this blog to spend my time talking about these things hoping someone will find it and agree with me. 'Cause...um...that's what I want - someone to agree with me. Believe me to be correct. Inflate my ego, I suppose. I don't know why, but that's what I believe to be the root of this thing. Plus, I really like to talk. I'll go ahead and blame four years of competitive speech for that, but I'll admit that it's more likely that I did four years of speech because I like to talk so much rather than the other way around.

And, much like I said in the beginning, I also love lists and organizing things and having knowledge and thoughts all in one handy-dandy spot: This here blog. And I think it's because of my love of listing and organizing things that I've started things like the Spotlights and the Cool Comics of the Month. But I think, honestly, I'm just going to cancel those while I'm ahead. Though I love the idea of titles and sections, I think I'm just going to go with the flow instead of trying to label and organize every little thing. It seems to come off a bit forced to me when I do it like that, and the end result makes me unhappy. So that's just gonna end right now. After I post this I'm going to go back and edit the tags.

But anyway, I guess that's about it. I just wanted to lay these thoughts out in type. Now it's time to go reorganize, something I love almost as much as simply organizing.

Let's See How This Works...

Here's the deal: I don't really know what's going on with this blog. I know I like the idea I have for it (of cataloging things I love and things I discover; of having that sort of directory all in one place) I'm just not sure how to organize it in a fun, appealing, unique kind of way. You can see I've kind of got some categories already started with the Movie Spotlight and the Cool Comic of the Month. I want to keep these going from now on. I think I'll also have music and book Spotlights, as well as some other things I come up with along the way.

A lot of this goes back to my love of lists that I discussed in the first entry. If I can label something I can categorize it and then easily go back and find it should I so desire. With that handy little label tool this blog has, it makes that all the more fun and easy to do. The tricky part is just my lack of experience - I've tried listing things I love in the past in notebooks and such, but never in this manner and on this scale. We'll see how it pans out. For now I'm just cruising nice and easy along the way. We'll just have to see what happens from here...

It's going to be an ADVENTUUUURE!

The Beginning

I like things. Perhaps this is a broad statement, but I like an awful lot of things, so I think it's alright.

Sometimes it's difficult to keep up with all the things I find myself enjoying and so I've decided I'm going to try and keep track of them here. Why in a blog, you (my invisible reader) may ask? Well, in the hopes that perhaps someone will stumble across it and find a few things they rather enjoy, themselves.

We'll see where it takes me. I've no plan or format here, just me compiling the things that make me happy.

And in that way, I suppose this first entry is rather reflective of one of the first things I thoroughly like: Lists. I love lists. I love making them, I love crossing things off of them, I love the way they look on paper, or hands, or computer screens. I just love lists. And that's really what this blog is going to be - me listing things in various forms, and by the end of it I'll have quite the little set up here.

So, onwards and upwards - it's time to start.