Intro

Because I’m not doing as much writing as I used to, I thought I’d start a blog. I’m aware I seem pretentious. Whenever I heard anyone say they’re ‘starting a blog’ I always thought they were pretentious too. And I wasn’t wrong. But this blog isn’t going to be about any self-discovery stuff or how to turn an Avocado into wine. I feel I’ve some interesting tales to share and some great people in my life to write about!

The Craic

I’ve been writing stories as long as I can remember. Going back to primary school, I used to jump at the chance of writing essays. People have always loved reading my writing so maybe being a pretentious blogger is the way for me. If it works out, I could be a rich pretentious blogger. #freemoney. I studied Film and Documentary in college and I really had an interest in Script and Documentary. I realized half way through college though, that the interest only lied in writing up the idea. When it came to filming and producing I quickly lost interest. It was the same with music. Writing the lyrics was the easy part, I just hated organizing studio time or bands or having to learn the lyrics off.

I’ve always found an interest in things people take for granted. I love turning a story nobody would care about into a tale of fate. Refer to the ‘People’ section of my blog for an example. I don’t believe too much in fate, but I do think that, what has happened, happened and whether or not it was faith, there’s a story there. This is one of the reasons I appreciate that I was never one for drinking. None of my friendships happened through drunken nights that I can’t remember. They happened over a number of months until I eventually gave up avoiding the person. I also find some people interesting not just by who they are or what they can do. I also look at the way they talk, the things they say, whether or not they can stay off their phone for 5 minutes. This is how I see the person they are and not the person they want everyone to see.

Studying documentary, only made me more interested in the un-noticeable. By studying Observational Documentary, I started becoming a lot more aware. I’d see a tree and think, ‘I’d love to film some shots of that tree.’ I’m the same in conversation. I grill people to find out everything interesting about them. If there’s nothing interesting about them, they’re dead. But even then they’re interesting because you’ve just found a dead body! Sometimes I talk to people who might be a singer, or a dancer and I start asking them about this stuff and they look at me like ‘why do you care?’. I start asking them questions like ‘Why do you do this?’ ‘Have you taken lessons?’ ‘What would you say your achievements are in this field?’ ‘Have you any plans on continuing this in the future?’. I’ve always treated people as interviewees when I first meet them, which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. I always find, once I find out all this information, I can chat to them next time like we’re best friends instead of being like ‘So did you enjoy your night that night 2 years ago?’ ‘Did ya get home ok?’

Conclusion

So this is why I’m starting this blog I suppose. To give me more of an interest in meeting people and going places and doing things. Instead of going through the effort of making films and documentaries, just become a bit of a journalist and write about things I find interesting that most people wouldn’t notice. Instead of filming that tree and editing the footage for hours until I find that frame where the sun hit the leaf just right, I want to put everything down in words. I don’t read many blogs so maybe this has been done a million times, but we’ll see what happens. I might even end up deleting this whole website in a month cause people are very mean online.

Are these blogs too short?