I have had a number of things wander through my mind in the time since last I posted. I sadly do not have the time in this moment to properly organize them into anything coherent but perhaps in the coming week I will be able to do so. It had been almost two weeks since my last entry and since I actually intended to keep my updates somewhat more regular this time, I thought I would post some things.
I bought a MacBook Pro as I said I would and I love it. There are so many things I had been planning to do that I can now that I have better equipment and software. Now if only I had a video camera...
I feel that one major issue that led to Orson Welles decline in the cinematic world, in addition to his having peaked too early with "Citizen Kane", was the fact that he was too dedicated to his personal aesthetic. There is nothing wrong with making truly deep, meaningful cinema that forces people to reanalyze their very being... but sometimes one has to pander to the masses. It is fairly well known that he had quite the ego and that probably didn't help matters. I understand these things all too well as I would prefer to make the deeper, more meaningful stories myself... but I also recognize that such stories don't sell nearly as well as the average cookie-cutter blockbuster or romantic-comedy. As the saying goes, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."
That shall have to be all for now.
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