Those of you that will be seeing this, will probably know me.
Those that don't, let me explain how I am as a person: I am analytical, arrogant, opinionated, somewhat cantankerous, cynical and an elitist. I have been this way for many years, starting when I realized I was more intelligent than average. This began when I was just hitting the age of ten, and I gradually started using the style of thinking that I use today.
Even though I had my style of thinking cemented within myself, it was not til these recent years that I realized that my thinking meant that I was something....more.
It was in these recent years that I have started to realize I....am a critic. I like to analyze, I like to take apart, I like to judge EVERYTHING. Music, movies, TV, people.....and I don't mind saying so. So much of learning to live in a "polite society" removes our ability to judge things as they are, we are taught to accept things. We are also taught to "fit in", to "conform", and as a direct result we do not critically think about the things that we experience.
We go through life listening to bad music, because its what's "popular", so we think it's good. We go through life watching the same bad movies, but because our friends say its "amazing", we accept that its good. I don't do that. I am the dissenting opinion, I am the one that says "this song is poppy tripe", I am the the one that says "these people can't act", I am the one that says "this TV show has no substance".
My first critical review was on a Facebook and Twitter update. I had just seen Avatar (the movie by James Cameron), and that is a grand example of hype over substance. My review was succinct, simple, and a bit controversial with my friends; I did not care. That began my criticizenship, and this is to further it.
This will also be a blog about other things, though the critic part will be the biggest part. It was also chronicle my journey into vlogging and video criticism, as well as my journey as a dj and a producer of electronic music, and the occasional snippet on the human condition and my views of the world.
Here, is to the beginning.
...Who are you, again?
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