Hello there, and welcome to my blog. It’s going to get weird pretty quickly.

This certainly is not my first venture into blogging, and for quite some time I stopped blogging altogether. I used to blog a lot about movies, and though this blog will certainly cover movies quite a bit, I’ve stopped one big part of what I was doing before: criticizing. The more I watched documentaries and read stories about art from the perspective of artists, it occurred to me that the critic criticizes because the critic can’t do what the artist does. The critic (at least many of critics) dumps on art and artists to be recognized without having to create anything original, and because positive criticism places the critic in a vulnerable position where he has to defend the merits of that which he is praising. Negative criticism doesn’t require the critic to provide answers about what is right, merely answers about what is wrong. Negativity also lends itself better to humor, which many critics thrive on, as something has to be at the butt of the joke. Read more ›