There’s an interesting post here from the 2 blowhards blogs about why one of them, Michael, decided to not pursue a career as a professional film critic. Food for thought esp. for me: somehow i know that things aren’t all they’re cracked up to be; but like being a photographer or filmmakers or musician, the fact that i have not entered the real world of those professions, the fact that i have not “made it” means that i jones after it that much more badly. I’ve never treated the whole blog thing that seriously, unless of course people took me seriously and read this blog seriously. Being the movie critic for the NY times–a paid position and guaranteed readership, and the status that confers on you has always been tempting. The thing about reading all these posts from other intelligent blogs–if you think that they know something you don’t, if you learned something new from them, then how exactly do you process this new information in light of what you knew previously? When someone who seems to know much mor about you than you about the film reviewing world tells you all this, how would you react? Would you get disillusioned? Or would you say that they were full of shit and keep doing and keep dreaming? Or would you just largely regard this as a partially true but ultimately subjective (but nonetheless intelligent) opinion of one individual and one individual only?
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