“The cool thing about cool is that it’s often undefinable.”

5/20/2025

I’m not sure what this is. Not sure what its going to be. Or how to proceed. 

It’ll probably be some combination of a catalogue, a diary and a commentary on what interests me. My guess is that it will be dominated by movie posts. But sports, specifically basketball (and more specific still, the Phoenix Suns) will make their presence known. So will books. Possibly an occasional tv show and some music will likely sneak its way in from time time. 

I’m going to start by writing. And posting catalogues and lists that I’ve been compiling for over 25 years. Might post some videos as they get unearthed. Maybe a podcast if I ever muster enough courage. Just throw a bunch of shit at the wall and see if anything sticks. If the shit slides slowly down the wall, I will consider this a victory and soldier on. 

Right now I’m doing this for myself. One day, I hope I’ll have to consider others here, but in this moment, at the starting blocks, its all for me. 

Welcome. 

To be clear, this won't be journalism. It'll be closer to private journal entries made public. I don't intend to google or ask siri (or whatever the tools at hand are, these days) to get my facts straight. So please be encouraged to correct any inaccuracies or answer any questions that I will be asking out loud. All that being said, tally-ho and off we go.

I used think a great deal about the movies.  I used to chat about film late into the night. I used to argue about the Cinema. It could get heated. It was great fun. An all time favorite pass time. 

I think about them less now. These days I prefer to feel them. They work better emotionally than intellectually. Consequently, I’ve never loved watching movies more.

However, I miss the discourse I so adored. Partly because most, if not all, the movie chatter happens online now. Something I’ve never been interesting in engaging with.

Until, now. 

Honestly I’m not certain I’m interested in engaging now. But I’m doing it. The hope is that by throwing all of my thoughts and opinions and, more importantly, my collections of thoughts and opinions, against the public wall known as the internet, these pages might find some friends and enemies and passer-by’s

One of the big reasons I’ve stopped with the heated exchanges of opinions about art is that iIt’s been increasingly difficult to explain why I was so moved by something, emotionally. 

When thinking about a movie, logic plays a big part and that’s an easier argument. This means that and this leads to that and the next thing that makes sense, before making complete sense as why would so-in-so do that, then? These days, logic seems to have left the conversation.

Mostly, it has no bearing on my appreciation for the movies. Mostly. When it is a factor its its a MAJOR problem. I don’t want to be thinking about if anything in a movie is logical. It usually means the story tellers have abandoned some arbitrary rules they made a point of setting up early.

Feeling a movie is more of a challenge when trying to convert someone over to your side of the debate. If they didn’t react to the movie or feel the same things as me, then, welp, fuck it. I’m not going to convince anyone they felt something they didn’t. 

But it could be a whole lotta fun to give it a try. 

Thanks for playing, 

Guff