| Media Consumption | ||||||||||
| Personal journal of media products. | ||||||||||
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Disclaimer: These are impressions only. For various reasons too numerous to enumerate here, I have become philosophically opposed to the idea of supposedly comprhensive reviews. Anyone who has ever been involved in a creative project must--by virtue of understanding the supply (i.e. creative) side as well as the demand (i.e. consumer) side--chafe at this idea that there could ever be such a thing as a complete review. It's a mathematical impossibility that is a direct consequence of the severely lopsided relationship that consumers and producers of media can form with a given bit of work: for every hour a producer puts into his work, a consumer must put in at least five hours to gain an equivalent appreciation for the work. And so, consequently, what you'll find here are impressions. Please try to take that word as literally as possible. Summary: "Media Consumption" is the name I've given the database where I record the titles, authors, release information and brief impressions of the various media I consume. When I say "brief impression" I mean "rating on a scale of 1 to 5". It's kind of like a journal. As you can see, the most recently consumed media are listed along the right side of the web UI; a complete index (organized by month) are available above. Purpose: Inventing and updating lists is a passion of mine. And while I would stop short of calling that particular expression of my notorious and well-documented graphomania "pathological", many others would not. And so here I am endeavoring to combine my enthusiasm for lists with my habit of media consumption. I am doing this because of the above-mentioned feelings of compulsion but also because I feel like the exercize will be at least somewhat revelatory: one can easily imagine what a person with similar interests might learn from a gourmand inventorying his meals, an runner keeping a list of the distances and terrains he's covered or a murder setting out short descriptions of harvested ears (or whatever other appropriately grisly keepsakes). | ||||||||||
| A Shotglass of Lymph: |
| If there is a better movie than Blade Runner and y'all ain't telling me about it, then you guys are a bunch of dickheads and we are most definitely not friends anymore.
Date: 2008-11-17 | |||||||||||||||||||
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