The start of the new year is a good time for stock-taking and doing new things in the world, and I've been getting up to both. You've already all seen the recent count of the ACS fundraiser & my terribly ambitious plan to wrap it up (coming tonight: When Harry Met Sally..., courtesy of Steve T), and today I have a handful of announcements.
One of these is that I have finally, only several years late, started to dig into the whole social media thing. So now, if you want to follow me on Twitter, I'm @timbrayton, and as of today, I will never tweet another sentence from Moby Dick ever again. I've also been on Letterboxd for a few months now, also as timbrayton, if you want instead to get the short version of the epic-length reviews that crop up here. And as long as I'm going on about social media, for seven years I've been also been on iCheckMovies as tbrayton, and I'm not entirely sure why I never mentioned it, but there you have it.
The other big announcement is that Antagony & Ecstasy's life as a Blogspot site is ending in less than two weeks. On 16 January, I and a couple of my friends will be launching a brand new website, Alternate Ending, that will be much the same as this, only a lot prettier, and also with a podcast attached. It will, when the time comes, be located at www.alternateending.com.
Have no fear! Almost everything will be the same - the reviews will be just as long-winded, and they'll come at about the same pace. The comments will be the same, only now they'll be through Word Press instead of the nightmare-awful native Blogger commenting system. Heck, even the initials of the website will be the same, a random coincidence (the name Alternate Ending was picked before I came onboard) that will be a psychological comfort to myself, at least. If we've done everything right, even the links should be the same, thanks to the magic of some internet wizardry called 301 re-directs.
We'll worry about this again in a couple of weeks. For right now, I just wanted to make everyone aware that change is a-coming - good changes! Changes that excite us! Changes that get us all very happy about leaving the rotten Blogger infrastructure after just 11 years! But changes that will undoubtedly be a bit annoying for some of you, as they have been behind-the-scenes stressful for me.
For right now, though, it's back to business as usual. Spoiler alert for tonight's review: When Harry Met Sally... is, like, pretty good, y'all.
Oh, and P.S. - any regular commenters who are on twitter, let me know your user name and I'll start following
03 January 2017
19 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.
This is all great news! The fact that you've managed to create such a vibrant film community here without the help of social media speaks to the quality of your reviews (and to just how many obscure films there are for which you're one of the only reviews available on Rotten Tomatoes).
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to follow your Letterboxd and Twitter exploits (I'm @itsrainingbrens by the way), and I wish you the best of luck with the new venture!
And finally... PODCAST! I've been wondering whether you'd wander over into the world of audio movie discussion, and I'm glad to hear there's a project in development. I can't wait to subscribe. Happy New Year, and with your help, 2017 just might seem a little less apocalyptic going in.
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS AMAZING
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Big big news, I'm so excited for you! New website, much more friendly commenting systems! And stuff!
Also happy new year to me cos I am Steve T! I'll let my own thoughts regarding When Harry Met Sally... wait.
moviemotorbreath - Once upon a time, I posted a 4-star defence of Les Misérables (the 2012 one) that was ridiculously indignant and so long that someone thought I was Tim as well. Turns out you can't read a movie review blog for four years (at the time) without some osmosis of ideas regarding what constitutes a good movie musical.
But will this site and its review archives forever stand as a testament of movies' inhumanity to man?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Tim! New digs and a new podcast sounds great (it will be fun to have a new one for my weekly rotation). I will be sure to follow your de-Melville'd Twitter account; be on the lookout for @iamaparade (you're not the only one who enjoys Sondheim references).
ReplyDeleteNot a regular commenter, but long-time reader. Follow @CocoHitsNewYork if you please, I will surely be following you (on Twitter, new websites and other similar adventures)
ReplyDeleteI fear change
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Good t' see you finally jumping to the Wordpress bandwagon, Tim.
ReplyDeleteAnd looking forward to the podcast, too! I've always wondered what your voice sounded like...
That's awesome to hear, I know you've been talking about a new site for forever now and it's kind of weird that it's actually happening. It's kind of sad though, the narrow paragraphs and the goofy mii and the 2007-ness of it all just feels like so much a part of your writing.
ReplyDeleteIs just the site going to have a podcast or are you going to be involved? Can't imagine you being anything other than the shadowy, hyper-productive movie review dude.
Awesome Tim! Like the idea of a podcast as I've recently got into them huge. Congrats on the upgrade!
ReplyDeleteI think I've only commented a handful of times (I'm @cameronwhite per your request) but I've read (probably) every article on your site and have been reading since at least around 2010 or so. Thanks for this wonderful blog and I'm very excited for your move as well as what I'm sure will be a great podcast! Best news yet of 2017!
ReplyDeletePodcast??!? OH HELL YES!
ReplyDeleteHi Tim, I'm a pretty irregular commentator (but a regular reader). Pretty excited for these new projects and pages. This is my letterboxd, I just started following yours:
ReplyDeletehttps://letterboxd.com/MysteriousF/
I wonder if should open a Twitter account now.
ReplyDeleteTim is on Twitter now? I'M BEING LEFT BEHIND! D:
ReplyDeleteBut congrats on the fancier site, man. I look forward to your profile pic remaining either a mii or Falconetti. ;)
@rjkarol on Letterboxd and @robbykarol on Twitter!
ReplyDeleteSounds fantastic! I'm @miasteinberg on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteTime to hunt down my old Twitter login!
ReplyDeleteAny possibility of a Facebook profile, Tim? For better or for worse, it's the only social media site I really use.
Gee, checking out your iCheckMovies profile is dangerous! Letting us know all the movies you see? Now I'm wondering "why don't we get reviews of this and that... oh, and that and that and...?"
ReplyDeleteCongrats on what you accomplished here, and enjoy doing something hopefully very similar next.
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