January 2, 2010
Anytime I think that I am lacking for story content, something comes along and just re-ignites the fire. The thing that is great about that, is the thing that comes along doesn't have to be anything special at all. It can be nothing more than a simple family gathering to remind you that there is never a lack of anything creative in the air. It's actually kind of funny because the thing that always gets me going again is spending time with other people. The only reason I find this funny is because I tend to almost always want to be alone. Though being alone is almost never a source of inspiration to me. I think what I just described is a sort of version of circular logic.
What I am trying to say is that the creative spark is usually never more than a conversation away.
On a completely different note, I am unable to stop myself from repeatedly watching the movie "10 things I hate about you". There is something so refreshing about that movie that makes me constantly watch it. I've watched it at least five times in the last month, one of those times being no less then a half hour ago.
Now it is not too surprising that I love this movie; I mean, one of my dreams is to write and create a teenage high school drama. Josh Schwartz(The O.C. and Gossip Girl) and Joss Whedon(Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) are my hero's for what they have been able to do in the genre. Joss Whedon has done what almost no one else in television has ever done with his combination of virtually every genre into one mind blowing showing. Buffy was able to take everyday teenage emotions and situations and combined them with Science Fiction, Fantasy, crime solving and epic romance. "Buffy" is still to this day my favorite show of all time.
Josh Schwartz on the other hand was able to, in less then one season of "The O.C", turn the eternal nerd, Seth Cohen, into a teenage girls dream come true. With the O.C., he brought the family back into "family drama". He made the Cohen's the most likable family on television, without making it a completely impossible dream to reach for. They were a believable group of people who cared about each other a great deal. He has done the same thing with "Gossip Girl", albeit, in a different sort of fashion.
With "Gossip Girl", he has combined the typical, petty world of teenage drama and combined it with the explosive ridiculous of a Michael Bay film. Now that combination sounds like a strange and almost stupid prospect, but after two and a half plus years on television, it is still the most entertaining and exciting show on the air.
I am almost at a loss for words to why I just explained all of this to you, but I suppose my point is that these three shows are some of the most influential things I have watched over the past decade. Sorry if I kind of went off there for a little while, but those shows along with that movie are what really gets me going. Which is basically the reason why I started this blog, to try to get myself to express the reasons to why I love to write. If I happen to go off into little tangents about the stuff I love, then well, I guess the process is starting to work.
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