Hello everyone. It's been a long time, huh? Welp, I'm back, and not gonna try to make this a dramatic comeback or anything. Just a few briefings:
--Will be deleting previous articles that don't fit to my tastes as of now
--Only going to post complete, focused, topical blogs here. I usually do smaller posting on my dA(fngrscr8dstroui.deviantart.com), dnbforum(mason john....yep, my Facebook profile) and Facebook (mason john). Basically, when I'm able to collect my thoughts on a given topic in a complex and structured way, I'll put them here on this blog, otherwise I'll post randomly on spots like those and Youtube like 99% of the rest of the internet population.
--I want to mainly focus on exploring dark, scifi/horror orientated work, wherever it may be. Anything that pushes well beyond the typical mainstream tropes and deals with harsh elements of reality-whatever those may be-but in a way that explores creative uncertainty. I am obsessed with things that touch into the true nature of the unfortunates of this world, particularly with some sort of scifi/technological bent-and this is as good a place as any to do so b/c I don't know any other spots.
--If I cover music, it'll most assuredly be the likes of jungle/drum and bass/breakbeat/liquid/house/industrial stuff, with some "true" hiphop, jazz, and rock thrown in for good measure. These are the sounds I'm invested in, they're the real melodic voice of the world and I hope to explore what interests me on this front in unique and thought-provoking ways.
--Since I like video games, I'll cover those too. But don't expect me to talk about the same 3-4 games everyone else does. The mainstream games, they get enough coverage as it is. I think people see a lot of "certain" games that come out these days and think they're so innovative, but if they knew any gaming history they'd realize they're treading on proven ground, it just wasn't treaded that much before. Not knocking those experiences of course-the industry needs more of them-but I won't pretend they're revolutions when they're not. But anyway; I want to cover the stuff history's tended to forgotten, the games that get ignored like the quiet kid in the family gatherings. If I do focus on stuff that's also big on the more mainstream scene, I'll attempt doing so in ways that actually dig deeper and more uniquely into the narrative, rather than repeating the same bullet points and barely digging into the meat of the issue.
--Same with films: don't really expect me to talk about the same films you can get plenty of coverage on elsewhere. Just films that interest me, or films that I may not personally enjoy, but bring up a good chance to touch on stuff.
--This blog may end up offending a good chunk of people; I'm not a politically correct guy and I've come to understand that Offense is a two-way street: the offender probably dressed their wording in an ambiguous way, but the offended likely reads into things wrongly. The two sides need to compromise. So if you are offended, please be willing to compromise and not make me feel like I'm 100% at fault, and I'll be willing to admit some flaws in my own argument as well. As long as both sides are willing to admit they're somewhat wrong in their reaction, this can go smoothly ;)
--Very rarely I may also get political; I don't trust the political system whatsoever and feel like it's only chance for real salvation and redemption is if the entire complex is dismantled, destroyed, and built again from scratch, but whatever. If I do get political, I hope to not come off like a dumbass or annoying twat (this is politics, tho; that's very hard to NOT do).
So I hope you've got a good feel on what I'm attempting to refocus The General Express into. If I've made it sound like a ranting haven, that isn't the case: I actually have a good grasp on vocabulary and always consider the flaws in my own viewpoints (tho I still choose those viewpoints because, even with the flaws, I just feel that way for them), and do things respectfully. But a person who's willing to bend over backwards to appease the most sensitive of sensibilities cannot be respected either; you have to stand firm somewhere. And there is much good in the world-even my own life sometimes-and I definitely want to embrace that too. Truly, I'm just here to speak on the reality, tho, the facets of which teeter on being ignored and forgotten, and try to make them relevant and interesting to the ignorant. And I'm gonna have a hell of a fun time doing it :).
--Will be deleting previous articles that don't fit to my tastes as of now
--Only going to post complete, focused, topical blogs here. I usually do smaller posting on my dA(fngrscr8dstroui.deviantart.com), dnbforum(mason john....yep, my Facebook profile) and Facebook (mason john). Basically, when I'm able to collect my thoughts on a given topic in a complex and structured way, I'll put them here on this blog, otherwise I'll post randomly on spots like those and Youtube like 99% of the rest of the internet population.
--I want to mainly focus on exploring dark, scifi/horror orientated work, wherever it may be. Anything that pushes well beyond the typical mainstream tropes and deals with harsh elements of reality-whatever those may be-but in a way that explores creative uncertainty. I am obsessed with things that touch into the true nature of the unfortunates of this world, particularly with some sort of scifi/technological bent-and this is as good a place as any to do so b/c I don't know any other spots.
--If I cover music, it'll most assuredly be the likes of jungle/drum and bass/breakbeat/liquid/house/industrial stuff, with some "true" hiphop, jazz, and rock thrown in for good measure. These are the sounds I'm invested in, they're the real melodic voice of the world and I hope to explore what interests me on this front in unique and thought-provoking ways.
--Since I like video games, I'll cover those too. But don't expect me to talk about the same 3-4 games everyone else does. The mainstream games, they get enough coverage as it is. I think people see a lot of "certain" games that come out these days and think they're so innovative, but if they knew any gaming history they'd realize they're treading on proven ground, it just wasn't treaded that much before. Not knocking those experiences of course-the industry needs more of them-but I won't pretend they're revolutions when they're not. But anyway; I want to cover the stuff history's tended to forgotten, the games that get ignored like the quiet kid in the family gatherings. If I do focus on stuff that's also big on the more mainstream scene, I'll attempt doing so in ways that actually dig deeper and more uniquely into the narrative, rather than repeating the same bullet points and barely digging into the meat of the issue.
--Same with films: don't really expect me to talk about the same films you can get plenty of coverage on elsewhere. Just films that interest me, or films that I may not personally enjoy, but bring up a good chance to touch on stuff.
--This blog may end up offending a good chunk of people; I'm not a politically correct guy and I've come to understand that Offense is a two-way street: the offender probably dressed their wording in an ambiguous way, but the offended likely reads into things wrongly. The two sides need to compromise. So if you are offended, please be willing to compromise and not make me feel like I'm 100% at fault, and I'll be willing to admit some flaws in my own argument as well. As long as both sides are willing to admit they're somewhat wrong in their reaction, this can go smoothly ;)
--Very rarely I may also get political; I don't trust the political system whatsoever and feel like it's only chance for real salvation and redemption is if the entire complex is dismantled, destroyed, and built again from scratch, but whatever. If I do get political, I hope to not come off like a dumbass or annoying twat (this is politics, tho; that's very hard to NOT do).
So I hope you've got a good feel on what I'm attempting to refocus The General Express into. If I've made it sound like a ranting haven, that isn't the case: I actually have a good grasp on vocabulary and always consider the flaws in my own viewpoints (tho I still choose those viewpoints because, even with the flaws, I just feel that way for them), and do things respectfully. But a person who's willing to bend over backwards to appease the most sensitive of sensibilities cannot be respected either; you have to stand firm somewhere. And there is much good in the world-even my own life sometimes-and I definitely want to embrace that too. Truly, I'm just here to speak on the reality, tho, the facets of which teeter on being ignored and forgotten, and try to make them relevant and interesting to the ignorant. And I'm gonna have a hell of a fun time doing it :).
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