Hello World

At the suggestion of Bogdan (a "friend of need" that was truly there when the "needing" arose) and as a requirement of a class I'm taking, at long last, I open my very first blog.

A Journal of Thoughts is supposed to be pretty much exactly what the name implies - an outlet for ideas, reflections on current and old movies and games. An insightful look into how I feel about them and an intruding viewpoint on how I think you should feel about them. My class requires me to write reviews, but for the most part I will stick to an informal and highly personal style. A coherent form of writing that deals exclusively with the analyzed material is not going to be one of my main concerns, but rather an honest discourse, a stream of consciousness caught on paper.

In many ways you can consider this to be simply a journal if you will. In the preface to her "For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies", Pauline Kael writes a line very dear to me - "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs. I think I have." It's a romantic idea that the heartfelt writings of a passionate reviewer can capture his/her evolution as a person, become a record of a living being.

That being the case, I suppose only time will tell as to what exact structure the blog might take, or if it will ever take one at all, but one thing is certain: Here we are and it's a beautiful day so we might as well proceed with this and I invite you all along for the ride.