From a friend and reader: "Send these people your resume and some clips or I will kick your ass." Hard to say "no" to a sentiment like that (she could totally do it, too). And while none of the posted jobs are "movie reviewer," nobody ever lost anything by submitting their portfolio. So the time has at last come for me to unveil a plot that has been brewing in my mind for some months - some of you know it, some of you have probably guessed, and some (a small number, I'd wager) will be completely suprised to learn that a big part of the reason I've written so goddamn many film reviews of so many bad films lately is because frankly, I'd like to be doing this for money instead of being a little office monkey for a media consulting company. And I figured, what better forum for developing a nice little portfolio of review samples?
Here's where you (the great teaming mass of unnamed "you") come in: I lack the critical distance necessary to judge my own writing (as in, I think my Hostel review is one of the cleverest things I've ever done), so it's probably best if I have some help putting this all together. Hence something I should have done long ago: an index to all of my movie reviews. I'd take it as a kindness if all of you good people would help me pick my eight or ten best reviews to send off into the world and hopefully secure me a position of wealth, fame and influence. Vote in comments! Dash off an e-mail (the button over there, under my picture)! I put my future in your hands, dear readers. Be gentle.
31 August 2006
1 comment:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
DUDE! You goin' after the accounts receivable position up in Milwaukee? That's be HOT!
ReplyDeleteIn other news: you should OWN this. I will advise you on the proper writing samples in private, secretive and highly classified e-mails.