Huge thanks to filmgeek of Final Cut, for nominating me for something called the Kreativ Blogger award. I must admit to my shame that I've never read her work before, but having taken a spin 'round in the last day, I am damned impressed, and quite grateful that she singled me out for this honor.
[Added: Thanks as well to Jake of Not Just Movies, another pretty swell blog I'm just now discovering (awesome Sunrise review), who has flattered and embarrassed the hell out of me with his effusive praise; two nominations! I shall get a big head].
But I must decline.
See, one of the rules is that you have to pick seven other bloggers to pass on the award to, and after spending more than a day trying to do just that, I have to confess myself stumped: how does one pick just seven blogs out of the dozens I read, and not feel like I'm doing a horrid disservice to the rest of them? I've never been good at getting over that feeling. It's why I don't tend to do memes.
Instead, let me just turn your head over to that thar blogroll on the righthand side: newly polished up, with a few additions, a couple dead sites taken off, and say with some urgency that all of those writers are very good at what they do. So if you're one of those folks who comes to read my shit and skip out (and I know that's most of you - I have the exit click stats), can I just please ask that you might spend some time perusing those sites? At the risk of sounding cloying and family sitcom-esque, they are all Kreativ bloggers in my book, and some of them are much, much more famous than I am, and do not need my boosting; some of them are quite unaccountably obscure. But not one of them is going to be a waste of your time. So hop to it.
There is one element of the awards acceptance that I hope you'll indulge me in even if I'm pussying out on the much, much harder part. Name seven facts about myself that I think people will find interesting:
1. I desperately wish that we all still had to wear formal eveningwear every time we went out.
2. I still think of filmblogging as the thing I'm doing until I get to be a proper filmmaker.
3. Movies aren't my favorite art form, or even my favorite dramatic medium. Opera is.
4. I have studied German, Norwegian, Latin, French and Spanish. I speak none of them fluently.
5. My cat is named after a Welsh goddess.
6. The DVD I most regret buying is Ransom.
7. Though I cannot stand them, the mixed drink I make the best is a Cosmopolitan.
Dead serious, though: read your way through that blogroll. You'll be happy with what you find there.
14 January 2010
13 comments:
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.
Oh, you. I do hope these nice things you say apply to me. I'm always honored to look at your blogroll and see mine right next to all those wonderful blogs, written by bloggers far more adept and experienced than I. So many of those are people who I can look up to as a nubile young blogger.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely included in that blanket of praise. Herr Machine, folks - mostly genre reviews, mostly outstanding.
ReplyDeleteI love you.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I nominated you as well. I would say that you've been a big influence, but I like you too much to depress you like that. And, if it's all right by you, I'd like to think that you studied Norwegian to be in a metal band.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Oliver here, I didn't even know that I was on your blog-roll which makes me oddly stoked since you're such a harsh critic [that's a compliment].
ReplyDeleteMr. Tim,
ReplyDeleteRick's Cafe Texan is honored to be included in your blogroll, and your kind words reverberate back to you. I hope this isn't sounding like "It's an honor just to be nominated".
I will follow your advise and read more of them. Once again, Thank You.
No need to thank me; you guys are all good or you wouldn't be there.
ReplyDeleteMan, what a love-in we have here.
GIVE ME BACK MY SON!!
ReplyDeleteHow could you ever regret buying that film!
And it's an honor to be on your blogroll.
One more guy saying it's an honor to be on your blogroll and all that. And it is; every one I've looked through made me think "What am I doing next to these guys? They put me to shame!"
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I want to say I too wish we had to wear formal eveningwear every time we went out, and that it was possible to wear a suit all the time and not look like kind of a douche.
Personally, I'm not too sad to not wear formal evening wear when I go out...since I'm finding it harder to squeeze into my tuxedo. However, I recommend not a suit but a shirt & tie (w/the pants, socks & shoes)--works for me. Did I just sound like Hunter? I digress.
ReplyDeleteI actually assemble outfits all the time to try and work with my desire to always be wearing formal eveningwear. Like, I might wear a dress shirt and black tie with a black chor jacket and black pants.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm glad that you put some thought into naming your cat. I have two cats named Professor Moriarty and Shere Khan (who I can call by shouting "KHAAAAAN!"). Everyone names their cat "Spot" and I think that should be considered cat abuse.
Frankly, I find the number of interesting bloggers overwhelming. If I read every guy and gal that deserved it I would do nothing else all day.
ReplyDeleteI hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, I think you're all great and encourage you to go on.
My cats (actually it's more like "cats that happen to live around the house") don't have names. I just call them "fatty" or things like that. But in spanish.
Awww... RANSOM is actually relatively effective, I thought, up until maybe the end of the third act. That bit where Mel Gibson is tailing Gary Sinise while Sinise tears him a new one over the walkie-talkie is quite good. Sure, it's Ron Howard in generic mode, but the script is decent and the performances from Gary & most of the supporting people are good.
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