First off, thanks to
Stevee and
Nikhat for passing this award on to me - pretty straight forward and fun doing it, so I definitely can't complain!
Here we go with the rules, then:
- Tell everyone something that no one else knows about you.
- Link to one of the posts that I personally think best fits the following categories: Most Beautiful Piece, Most Helpful Piece, Most Popular Piece, Most Controversial Piece, Most Surprisingly Successful Piece, Most Underrated Piece, and Most Pride-Worthy Piece
Tell everyone something that no one else knows about you: I can't think of anything that you guys don't know about me that would even be worth mentioning, dodgy and all. (And there is plenty of dodgy things to speak of.)
I'll stick with the whole artistic theme, and speak of a couple of projects I have on the go that I probably won't end up talking about on
Feminising Film, since they don't really have anything to do with film, unfortunately. Some of those projects include comic related goings-on, who my friend, Katie (she can be found
here and
here), is drawing and I am writing, along with a scripted TV show series (another collaboration with a friend), and the most recent occurrences - a possible art collective, and working on my brother's music label. In-between that, I am doing my fictional short story writings - which is my main love if any of you guys didn't know - and the EastEnders: E20 Writers School. Busy times, indeed
Okay, moving onto the other categories in this award, with my lack of posts becoming quite prominent (the craziness that kick-started in my life again since I posted the post about posting more - bad timing - combating my laziness when I do have a few minutes in the day ain't good, I tells ya!), I've managed to scan through the reviews, articles and ramblings I do have uploaded, and selected posts for the following categories:
Most Beautiful Piece: I've never considered anything that I've written to be beautiful. Depressing, yes, but beautiful, no. The one that I has buzzed around my head a bit when thinking about what to put into this category is my unabashed love for
My Own Private Idaho. It's been a while since I wrote that post - nearly a year, in fact - but my love for
Idaho is still going strong, and since I wrote that article, I have watched the film more times than I'd probably like to mention here....
Most Helpful Piece: Like the former category, I was a little stumped on this one. On thought, though, I'd like to go for my rant about the
white-washed casting in Akira. I think this was a surprise turn in direction for the blog, and something I really enjoyed writing. I always like to make people aware of topical issues in relation to art and what have you, and I think that post really hit it on the nail. Was also good to get out some of my frustration about REMAKING ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF ALL TIME.
Most Popular Piece: Weirdly, my introductory post has the most comments out of everything I've posted. But there were a lot more conversations going on there than in other reviews/articles, which have more different people commenting, but less continuations of conversations. (If any of that makes sense...). Views wise,
My Childhood, Feminist Hero: Trinity and my
She's the Man review are riding high out of everything else on
Feminising Film. Down to the photos, I'd imagine.
Most Controversial Piece: Possibly the article I wrote
about The Guardian critic, Danny Leigh, and his odd reasoning for thinking James Franco wouldn't be able to pull off playing Allen Gingsberg because he looked nothing like him. Ridiculous, I know. Or my
Bridesmaids review, because everyone else loved that shit, and I didn't.
Most Surprisingly Successful Piece: Stumped on this one, too. I really can't think of anything that has been surprisingly successful. I'm going to go a little bit crazy and say that I am surprised by the success of the whole blog, really. The fact that people still stick around and comment when I eventually get round to posting something is so sweet!
Most Underrated Piece: Probably go with
White-washed Cinema: Akira or a review I did way back in the early days of the blog for the film
Love Like Poison. Underrated film, as well.
Most Pride-Worthy piece: God, this is a toughie, isn't it? I've mentioned it before, but this category definitely goes to
My Childhood, Feminist Hero: Trinity. Took a lot to write about my slightly borderline obsessive love with Trinity, but I did it, and it is still one of my favourite things on
Feminising Film. I should really do more shit like that.
Right, now time to pass this award on:
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Bonjour Tristesse
Girl on Gore
Inspired Ground
The Velvet Café
The Smoking Pen
to the escape hatch!
(Sorry if any of you guys have been sent the award! Tried to get blogs in that hadn't been sent the award, but might have failed on that front.)
