So I finally decided to man up and get a blog. You'll find, with me, that's either subtle irony or a paradox. I like to consider myself somewhat of a writer; not a great one, but I can hold my own at times. However, I have long thought that blogging (and in a prior time, even before when "journaling" became cool) and generally keeping a journal or diary, was basically a good tool for self-therapy. You know, you pour your heart out on the page (in this case a formatted set of text, code and color) and you hope other people read it; mostly for sympathy, methinks. If I may reference pop-culture: remember the scene when Alli Sheedy dumps out her purse on the couch so that Anthony Michael Hall and Emilio Estevez can look at her junk and therefore get a gauge on the life she thought was so crummy. *editors note: I tried to find a clip of it on YouTube...guess not.
Anyways, I suppose most people write down their thoughts with some sort of meaning and people are supposed to read and react to it. Or, by not reacting, react to it. Yeah, I think I confused myself. Moving on...What I'm getting at is that I'm going to pose a fundamental question of philosophy and I want anyone to chime in with what you think.
The question is: Does life imitate art, or, does art imitate life?
I'm sure you've experienced it once or twice. You watched a movie and you could adapt a portion it to your own life experience. For example, however unfortunate on many levels, I can adapt to Dane Cook's character in Good Luck Chuck. *(Unfortunate because of his circumstance and much more unfortunate at how bad the movie was).
So, I want you to throw out your comments and blurbs and I'll follow it up with another post. Fair enough?
You little git! You were supposed to tell me if you actually started a blog. ;)
ReplyDeleteI had a fairly extensive comment written and then somehow lost it and I'm too tired to try and rewrite it, so I will later. But I wanted to say good luck.
Alright, I don't have the energy to recreate what I wrote last night, but long story short, it is like the chicken or the egg question... it is circular. Human's evolved first of course and created art, but at this point who can claim that they are not influenced by art? Almost all media is art on some level. At the same time, artists (writers, directors, etc etc) use what they observe, most commonly human behavior, to create their art. and round and round it goes.
ReplyDeleteSo, the chicken came before the egg, then?
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