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May. 18th, 2005 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariMy last entry got me thinking about something I've wanted off my chest for a while now:
I am going to confess something,. Something that has caused people to straight up call me stupid, or, worse, throw a million books at me. I hardly read. I hardly read ANYTHING anymore. And for some reason this is seen as a cardinal sin by most of my friends.
When I was a kid, especially during Elementary and Middle School, I read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on. Absolutely everything. Fiction, non fiction, everything but fantasy stuff (Which I couldn't get into). IT was in late middle school, though, that I began to notice comics, and start drawing.
From that point on, I mostly began to focus on visual media...comic books, movies, television. They're not great literature, but I'm not asking for great literature - I'm more interested in how stories are being told VISUALLY. About the middle of highschool, I pretty much stopped reading books incessantly, and was watching MOVIES incessantly. Ask my parents, I was hitting one or two movies every weekend. My comic budget soared. I was taking scriptwriting lessons.
Eventually, I read less and less till I could count the number of books I read in a year on two hands. The number of movies/comics/TV, though went through the roof. But a problem emerged, one that I just didn't talk to any of my friends anymore, because they well...had issues:
1) "..." - This is the response most bibliophiles give me. As if I was walking around with my head cut off. These are usually good friends of mine, who are amazed at my writing skills, who obviously think I read Every Minute of the Day.
2) "YOU DON'T READ!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" These are the ones I hate...I've committed a cardinal sin. I am singlehandedly the reason that Terrible Television exists, because I obviously am watching really idiotic TV, or lowest common denominator movies. OR, worse, I'm out to CREATE some drivel. Some of these folks have even stopped talking to me.
3) "You're just not reading the right books, here's my personal library!" No. This won't work. The more books you give me, the more they will sit in the corner. I don't sit and watch TV, just like I don't sit and watch movies. I'm usually writing, or drawing as they're going on. You can't do that with a book (or a foreign language film...PAssion of the Christ is sitting unwatched cause I need to sit and read subtitles on it, and I don't have the time really to sit and watch a movie and NOT do something else).
So there, I said it. And I'm not apologetic. I'm a film buff. Not a bibliophile. So there. Pbbbbt.
I am going to confess something,. Something that has caused people to straight up call me stupid, or, worse, throw a million books at me. I hardly read. I hardly read ANYTHING anymore. And for some reason this is seen as a cardinal sin by most of my friends.
When I was a kid, especially during Elementary and Middle School, I read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on. Absolutely everything. Fiction, non fiction, everything but fantasy stuff (Which I couldn't get into). IT was in late middle school, though, that I began to notice comics, and start drawing.
From that point on, I mostly began to focus on visual media...comic books, movies, television. They're not great literature, but I'm not asking for great literature - I'm more interested in how stories are being told VISUALLY. About the middle of highschool, I pretty much stopped reading books incessantly, and was watching MOVIES incessantly. Ask my parents, I was hitting one or two movies every weekend. My comic budget soared. I was taking scriptwriting lessons.
Eventually, I read less and less till I could count the number of books I read in a year on two hands. The number of movies/comics/TV, though went through the roof. But a problem emerged, one that I just didn't talk to any of my friends anymore, because they well...had issues:
1) "..." - This is the response most bibliophiles give me. As if I was walking around with my head cut off. These are usually good friends of mine, who are amazed at my writing skills, who obviously think I read Every Minute of the Day.
2) "YOU DON'T READ!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" These are the ones I hate...I've committed a cardinal sin. I am singlehandedly the reason that Terrible Television exists, because I obviously am watching really idiotic TV, or lowest common denominator movies. OR, worse, I'm out to CREATE some drivel. Some of these folks have even stopped talking to me.
3) "You're just not reading the right books, here's my personal library!" No. This won't work. The more books you give me, the more they will sit in the corner. I don't sit and watch TV, just like I don't sit and watch movies. I'm usually writing, or drawing as they're going on. You can't do that with a book (or a foreign language film...PAssion of the Christ is sitting unwatched cause I need to sit and read subtitles on it, and I don't have the time really to sit and watch a movie and NOT do something else).
So there, I said it. And I'm not apologetic. I'm a film buff. Not a bibliophile. So there. Pbbbbt.
