I have been thinking about how to approach this post
for the last week and a half. In truth, the indefinite stop to my two
literary/film blogs seems inevitable. And unfortunately, I've decided
not to finish off the “52 weeks of Films” blog-roll I'd started last
year on Creepy Six Tales. Getting further and further behind,
these posts are now weeks behind as time continues to get away from me
these days. This blog-roll should have been wrapped by next month,
instead I still have 10 films in the queue and three 300-word posts
written – but not posted.
Between Creepy Six Tales, The Jess Franco Blogspot, the
Creepy Six Films official site (and its blog), the new Brivido Giallo
site, and the Shivers Film Society blog, there is just not enough time
to keep up with the ever-changing content as well as the continuous need
for new content on both of the aforementioned literary blogs
(Creepy Six Tales and The Jess Franco Blogspot, to be clear). Nevermind
the fact that I now have a Tumblr account that quite literally has
digital tumbleweeds lazily rolling through it as it sits abandoned
somewhere in cyberspace, and a Twitter account that is run by a
wonderfully automated online system called Twitterfeed. Facebook? I
don't even have the interest to go down that side-street of a
time vacuum. The decision to stop blogging (indefinitely) is not a light
one by any means, the Jess Franco Blogspot in particular has been very
good to me. But those posts too have been growing farther apart, and
let's be honest here, the idea for the 52 Weeks of Films I've Never Seen was really just a one-year filler for me while I thought of something really good to write - like the 52-part Tales of The Plumber I'd managed to do in 2011. Okay,
maybe that wasn't great literature, either, but damn, I had a blast
doing that one, and really took to the challenge of writing a connective
series of short stories (or chapters) every week for one year. I'd love
to have the time to do something else like that in the future. The 52 Weeks of Films... suffered
due to a lack of real inspiration, and the fact that I've now (finally)
realized that writing and blogging are two vastly different art forms
that require quite different variants of, shall we put it, a talent for
concentration. I no longer have the luxury of a full-time job where I
can steel an hour of The Company's Time to duck out at a computer
console rapping away at a new and insightful post every month, let alone
once a week. When I do set aside my ever-increasingly precious time for
writing, my mind automatically triggers the need to channel that
inspiration into the work I'm truly excited about, which is, at the time
of this writing, working on the next two screenplays for Creepy Six Films and the new Brivido Giallo production companies.
Running
three independent films companies is a daunting enough task, in this
day and age I find that I need to do that with a full-time gig on top of
it, and at the same time I'm becoming more and more interested in
quality time with my friends, family, the new Jess Franco blu-rays that
have been sitting in my closet, unopened, for the last two months, and
even the odd Stephen King book. While I don't have a mass following on
Creepy Six Tales or
The Jess Franco Blogspot,
and while I doubt one more internet film blogger will really be missed
(indefinitely), I hope that this re-focusing of my concentration and
efforts will reflect positively for
Creepy Six Films, Brivido Giallo, and the
Shivers Films Society, which
I do intend to keep running – indefinitely – and with the great gusts
of enthusiasm as I've always had for those companies that are really
close to my heart and mind.
So goodbye, blogs, (for now), and I
thank all of the readers and supporters that have been with me so far -
I'll see you cinephiles and wonderful supporters of indie films at the
cinema! The few that are left, anyway. But that's a whole other blog
waiting to happen...
Very truly,
Vince.
