Blogs are Stupid, Write Blogs!
Monday, April 7th, 2008I was reading a blog, just now, not much unlike a lot of time that I spend reading blogs. Reddit.com is the death knell of productivity and it links to a shit load of blogs. The concept of a blog is great but I’m slowly realizing how stupid they really are. People get their feelings out, they write… and all is well in that regard. But blogs that are written to be read are fucking dumb. No one reads blogs until they have absolutely nothing else to do, eager to soak up more useless information seasoned with useless personal life information. As content, blogs suck.
People however do not read regular news, either. Newspapers are only read by a small microcosm of people… as a film maker I can not even count on people reading title cards. And yet, people read everything. Advertisements anyway, flashy shit that catches their attention in one word or less. I live in San Fran-fucking-cisco and it seems like the advertisement capitol of the world (though I realize that’s not true, many cities have LITTLE or NO regulation on the matter).
Practically every word one sees in this city is intended to sell the viewer something. There is signage everywhere, and it’s insane. I bargain that people’s senses, their ability to read or underlying, subconscious desire to read gets so watered down that when they actually _should_ be reading and _should_ be paying attention that they’re not. Fuckers. It’s subconscious though, and they can’t do anything about it. I just fucking ignore it.
And I certainly don’t expect people to realize what they should be reading.. and what they shouldn’t. No, they would have to be told to.
DON’T READ THIS SIGN
Perhaps it’s the problem with how little people are involved with art, and how it can help one become a better person. One learns an unmeasurable amount about themselves when creating art, no matter what it is, as long as it makes them artistic and they realize what that can do for them. Few people I’ve met other than artists even realize what self expression is, much less how to do it. It doesn’t involve buying new sneakers, or even buying old sneakers. It doesn’t involve buying anything, in fact, and it god damn well shouldn’t.
Pick up an art and start expression your emotions with it. Stick with it for long enough until you no longer are thinking about _the art_ and thinking about yourself. So many people think they can express themselves by how they dress… and mostly what that indicates is that person has absolutely no idea how to express themselves, and this is their closest interpretation. First time expressionists… we’ll call them expressionists, should also not look at blogging as a form of self expression. Choose something that is definitely not on a computer. Choose painting or acting (but for god sakes keep your head straight… remember to express!)
Most bloggers that I know, or not necessarily bloggers… people who write “blogs.” IE: friends, people from school, the regular joe schmoe… like me (?)… will pull up Firefox to write a blog, open tabs for My$psace, F@cebook, Gmail, etc, etc, read through those first, spend hours perhaps re-connecting with their friends they re-connected to last night. Their heads are wrapped up in an entirely wrong space. Social time is not expression time, for me anyway. I don’t believe people can really express themselves in social situations and that is increasingly what computers are becoming for young people.
Wow the thought process was weird on that entry…
If you are planning on blogging, just remember this: shut the fuck up. Just write exactly how you feel, as fast as you can. Force yourself to ignore punctuation, spelling, grammar… whether your writing’ll get you into trouble or not or whether your piece makes sense, those mechanics can get in the way of getting out what you really want to write, perhaps working through an inner mental problem (if you do it this way, writing will help you think).
