I've been struggling for ages with how I should start my first blog but as you can see this is how it has ended up. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to be blogging about but with life throwing all it has at me at the moment, venting, in some form, seemed like a good idea. So here we are.
So....I'm a recent graduate, woohoo. And like all other recent graduates I'm struggling to even get my foot into the doorway that is the big wide professional world. And like some other graduates was very nearly taken into a "too good to be true " job that was actually too good to be true and turned out to be a pyramid scheme that preys on desperate graduates, trapping them into a 60 hour a week job that they hate but can't escape because they need the money. Not that I'm going to go into too much detail...but stay away from jobs advertised by SRM Marketing and known affiliates of The Cobra Group. They really do sound evil, don't they? Like an evil corporation out of a Bond film.
Anyway. (Like I said first blog, and bitter about recent job blow so this first entry is not going to be great.) I'm gonna get of the subject of job hunting because as 2.5million of us Blighties are now unemployed I don't wanna go on about it anymore and get you and I even more depressed...OH GOD!.....Sorry, all vented now.
I think I shall turn now to the lighter subject of film. Ah film, good old enjoyable escapism. Being a film student, or rather former film student I have decided to keep my film criticism and analysis in constant exercise. (I hope I spelt exercise right, it's one of those tricky words, like pseudonym, if that's right?) Being a film fanatic I have decided to work my way through a 100 greatest films list. And I use the term a because there are loads of these lists. I've wittled it down to two though and these are the BFI and AFI. Question is I don't know which one to go with.......
...Ok I think I have decided to start with the AFI. I know there will be some film fans out there groaning because I've typically gone with the Americans who "make better films" (which may or may not be true) but I'm intrigued more by the American version at the moment, I'm sorry. I am giving in to temptation. Anyway there should be some damn good films on the list, as they are the top 100. And I will most probably be perusing over the BFi list once I've done with the AFi one. Obviously I will be starting up with number 100 on the list which is Ben Hur...oooh! I may have seen the film before but I have decided to play fair and rewatch any films that may be on the list. So if anything I have will have something to say that people can follow on with and have opinions on, as there is not much else going on at the moment...that's also assuming anyone reads this blog.
Yikes, I've just noticed I've yapped, or typed on for quite a while and should probably stop now, so, that'll be it till something else happens in my life or I've watched Ben Hur. Until then have fun.
