A less public public place.

So what is it about a new format or forum that is so tasty? Why the drive away from the blue monster? I really feel like of the 400+ friends I have on facebook I am seeing entries from only the tiniest few of them. In fact it is clear to me that like a Pandora station, the content keeps shrinking. I once left a Pandora station on for 8 hours and it ended up with 5 different versions of "I want to marry a Lighthouse Keeper" in rotation. It kept deselecting new things in response to one thing I said I liked. Well, I don't like monotony, so it got nuked.

And yet, I don't consider myself someone with a lot to say. I know a lot of things and I have opinions but mostly I keep them to myself.

But occasionally it would be really nice to have a place to post about music or fashion or film that doesn't feel like a high school courtyard. I'm also aware that my interests in occultism and goth culture are something that's hard for several contingents of my fb friends to understand- mostly the scientists and the relatives. I think therefore that this might end up being a music and culture blog on the face of it, with the esoteric posts limited to personal contacts. That way, people don't have to think about potentially uncomfortable things and everyone is kept happy.

Oh, Frankenstein

How I love this movie. Like 1984, it tells deep truths about the human heart and mind. Ignorance begets evil in many ways in this story- from Dr. Frankenstein creating a monster without thought of consequence, to the monster's ignorance of the little girl's frailty, to the townspeople burning him because they couldn't understand him and thought him evil when he was really unaware. An old and perpetual story.

Karloff is an amazing actor.