The inaugural post...
Ah good, you found it. Well done.
Welcome to Ryan’s Head. It’s a blog which exclusively posts reviews and essays. Clever, eh? And it means that you don’t actually have to read about my life in excruciatingly dull detail. It just keeps getting better…
Now, the craze of using blogs for reviews and stuff is by no means a new trick. Many people have been doing it for quite some time, and doing it damn well, too, I should add. Just check out some of the links on this blog if you don’t believe me. So rather than being a huge innovator, I’m really just jumping on the bandwagon, and why not? After all, it’s been a few years since I’ve actually had a regular stomping ground to put out my various ramblings. The Event once served that purpose quite well, but most of the people reading this will know what happened there. Backlash (see the links over there again) occasionally does the same, but my one-time lover and current pimp Mischa, in all his sexy lankiness, hasn’t managed to get it on a regular schedule, for perfectly understandable reasons. So this is my way of getting back into the whole reviewing lark, something I’ve actually missed more than I thought I would when I stormed out of the newspaper office a little over a year ago. And more importantly I’m doing it on my own terms: no editors, contributors, no deadlines, and no spending entire weekends pissing about with Quark Express. It feels quite liberating.
So I suppose I should give some kind of mission statement, some hint of what to expect. Well, a mixture of opinion pieces and reviews covering anything I fancy, init. And I mean anything. Books, comics, DVDs, CDs, gigs, museums, towns, every bite of a goats cheese and tomato sandwich. And very occasionally I might put some creative stuff on here, too. I’m going to aim to get at least one new article on here per week, on Sunday night, and perhaps some more before that if you’re lucky. So add me to your favourites and check back in a few days.
Finally, I’d like to dedicate this first post to Constantine for being a truly awful film and making me want to write a review more than anything I’d seen/heard/read in a long time. I think that’s where Ryan’s Head truly started (and not, as biologists continue to insist, in my mother’s womb).
Welcome to Ryan’s Head. It’s a blog which exclusively posts reviews and essays. Clever, eh? And it means that you don’t actually have to read about my life in excruciatingly dull detail. It just keeps getting better…
Now, the craze of using blogs for reviews and stuff is by no means a new trick. Many people have been doing it for quite some time, and doing it damn well, too, I should add. Just check out some of the links on this blog if you don’t believe me. So rather than being a huge innovator, I’m really just jumping on the bandwagon, and why not? After all, it’s been a few years since I’ve actually had a regular stomping ground to put out my various ramblings. The Event once served that purpose quite well, but most of the people reading this will know what happened there. Backlash (see the links over there again) occasionally does the same, but my one-time lover and current pimp Mischa, in all his sexy lankiness, hasn’t managed to get it on a regular schedule, for perfectly understandable reasons. So this is my way of getting back into the whole reviewing lark, something I’ve actually missed more than I thought I would when I stormed out of the newspaper office a little over a year ago. And more importantly I’m doing it on my own terms: no editors, contributors, no deadlines, and no spending entire weekends pissing about with Quark Express. It feels quite liberating.
So I suppose I should give some kind of mission statement, some hint of what to expect. Well, a mixture of opinion pieces and reviews covering anything I fancy, init. And I mean anything. Books, comics, DVDs, CDs, gigs, museums, towns, every bite of a goats cheese and tomato sandwich. And very occasionally I might put some creative stuff on here, too. I’m going to aim to get at least one new article on here per week, on Sunday night, and perhaps some more before that if you’re lucky. So add me to your favourites and check back in a few days.
Finally, I’d like to dedicate this first post to Constantine for being a truly awful film and making me want to write a review more than anything I’d seen/heard/read in a long time. I think that’s where Ryan’s Head truly started (and not, as biologists continue to insist, in my mother’s womb).
posted by Ryan Stephens at 2:00 AM
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