I'm starting a blog

I'm starting a blog.

My first foray into writing for the internet was a 'columnist' for Oasis Magazine back when I was in high school.  It was a queer youth literary mag that helped me immensely with coming out and such, and eventually I started submitting articles until I left for college.  Then I was previously a member of livejournal.  I had a pretty big problem with overshare, and eventually decided to just call it quits to save me from myself.  I don't have any desire to return to accounting my various neuroses and goings on for the masses (*cough* few friends who bothered), but I do miss the aspect of creating/writing even though it was self indulgent and narcissistic.

So I've decided to start a blog that has absolutely nothing to do with me.  Well, except for my opinions.  I've realized that I spend a lot of time watching the same TV shows over and over again, or the same movies, or listening to the same music.  I want to branch out and experience more of what the vast cultural landscape has to offer.  I also want to avoid just mindlessly consuming things so that they are in one ear and out the other.  As a means to achieve this I'm going to write a ditty about every new book, movie, album, and perhaps show that I experience.  I'm not the best writer to grace the blogosphere, and I don't want to spend copious amounts of time editing so it will not be particularly polished.  However, I hope over time I will improve.

I initially conceived of this as a New Year's resolution, along with the goal of reading 1 book, ,watching 1 movie, and listening to 1 new album a week.  It is almost the end of January and so far I've only gotten to the movie party, so I think I might have been a tad overly optimistic.  But perhaps I'll gaine some momentum.  Besides it isn't the numbers that matter, although especially with books I have a tendency to put them down and pick them back up which doesn't really facilitate reading them so much.  We'll see.

A little background about me.  I'm 26 year old gay guy living in Pittsburgh, PA.  I gew up in the DC area and came here for college where I studied Economics and Anthropology.  Currently I work as a cubicle monkey for the mortgage industry, but hopefully that doesn't last forever.  As an example of some of my tastes, here are my favorites from my OK Cupid profile:

Books: Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), Lincoln (Vidal), A People's History of the United States (Zinn), Maurice (Forster), other authors I like include Andrew Holleran and Jhumpa Lahiri. I go back and forth between queer fiction, left-wing political non-fiction, and general fiction

Movies: West Side Story, Run Lola Run, The X Men Trilogy, Y Tu MaMa Tambien, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rudy (I know I don't get it either...but it always moves me and I have a thing for Sean Astin), Glory, The Incredibles, Lagaan, Ikiru (To Live), Showgirls, Zombieland

Music: 80s (Prince, Madonna, The Cure, Erasure, Pet Show Boys), Motown (THE SUPREMES!, Four Tops), Donna Summer, Cher, Showtunes, Oldies like Simon and Garfunkel, etc.... Elton John, R.E.M, Opera (3 Temors), Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Leaonard Bernstein, and some other American composers

So here goes.  If you happen to stumble across this blog thanks for visiting.