Now there's a ton of TV shows I need to catch up on and I don't want to devote too much time to only watching TV and neglecting other things but at the same time...I need context for vids.
Heh, that's exactly how I feel. Not that I don't love the shows for their own sake, but I need the context for fandom (esp. vids) even more.
How do you find the distance and the cool to write in an academically approved style about something that makes you spin, wobble and weep?
This is the opposite of how I feel. How can you spin, wobble and weep about something for which you wouldn't want to explore the nooks and crannies or examine the underlying structures? Reading something without analyzing or reshaping or adding to it is like looking at a cool gadget inside a glass case in a museum and then not taking it home to play with.
And even in writing posts on LJ or not, I feel my thoughts are like birds, free of any bounds and restraints and yes, disorganized but spirited and alive and full of energy. And putting them to paper/screen feels like it's taking all the soul out of them to make it sound regular and ordered and...just there. Maybe there's a way to overcome this or at least help the effect but that's why I love vids as opposed to essays.
LJ posts can pretty much be essays. In fact, some would argue (http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html) that those have more claim to the name than the 5-paragraph lump of disputation one is taught to write in high school English.
In extremely happymaking news, I got my House and Arrested Development DVDs!! [...] And now I can vid them :D
Yay, to both those statements! Enjoy your Bluths. :)
no subject
Heh, that's exactly how I feel. Not that I don't love the shows for their own sake, but I need the context for fandom (esp. vids) even more.
How do you find the distance and the cool to write in an academically approved style about something that makes you spin, wobble and weep?
This is the opposite of how I feel. How can you spin, wobble and weep about something for which you wouldn't want to explore the nooks and crannies or examine the underlying structures? Reading something without analyzing or reshaping or adding to it is like looking at a cool gadget inside a glass case in a museum and then not taking it home to play with.
And even in writing posts on LJ or not, I feel my thoughts are like birds, free of any bounds and restraints and yes, disorganized but spirited and alive and full of energy. And putting them to paper/screen feels like it's taking all the soul out of them to make it sound regular and ordered and...just there. Maybe there's a way to overcome this or at least help the effect but that's why I love vids as opposed to essays.
LJ posts can pretty much be essays. In fact, some would argue (http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html) that those have more claim to the name than the 5-paragraph lump of disputation one is taught to write in high school English.
In extremely happymaking news, I got my House and Arrested Development DVDs!! [...] And now I can vid them :D
Yay, to both those statements! Enjoy your Bluths. :)