True Life Seek

For the last week, I’ve been focused on Batman. It was an excellent movie, but there is the potential that Nolan & Co. made a tremendous mistake. If anyone wants to talk THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) with me, just email me.

Getting on track, this is an entry that I am going to have fun writing. TLS.com has been around for almost half a year now. I’ve had good entries in this time. However, there have been disasters. A blog that is active long enough is going to have some subpar entries. My blog has many of these.

So let’s look at the entries that didn’t live up to expectations. Entries that, in hindsight, I should not have posted. It’s time to expose these entries for the frauds that they are.

A Visit to Kirarin Land

A review of music does in fact exist on TLS. It is sort of an Easter Egg considering its rarity.

I do enjoy music. However, I have a lot more fun talking about music videos, concerts or television shows. I don’t want to force opinions or blog entries out of myself. It would be disingenuous for me to say something like “this guitar riff at 3:24 in Song X conveyed a deep emotion.” Coming from me, a statement like that would mean absolutely nothing. This entry has plenty of quotes like this, as well as me contradicting myself a whole bunch. Here are some gems from this entry:

• “It [Happy] is very plain that’ll have an occasional guitar that gives it some flavor.”(broomhead sez: I wonder what flavor an occasional guitar tastes like. Chicken? Duck? Avocado? Nylon?)
• “The song [Chance!] is simple and a little repetitive, but not to the point where it is boring or harsh on the ears.”(broomhead sez: “Harsh on the ears”? Keep in mind that I just referred to Chance as being “simple.” I guess I could argue that “simple” is “harsh on the ears,” but no one would believe me…
• “[Shiawase Clover is] a fine song. I won’t listen to it much, but a fine song regardless” (broomhead sez: Shiawase Clover is a fine song, but I’ll probably never listen to it again! I never explained why I’ll never listen to this song, which was a lie as I have listened to it since. What would I say about Perfume’s love the world. Oh, it is a fantastic song but I’ll probably listen to it only a few more times.

Maybe one day, I’ll find a style to review music that suits me. Until then, this review of Kirarin Land will stand out as the only music review on TLS. For now, for the crime of being littered with statements that are contradictory and meaningless, it is a TLS Failure!

PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE

There is nothing inherently wrong with doing a little fangirling (fangirling sounds cooler than fanboying), this is a mess. I don’t know what got into me that day. The rumor of a unit of Risa Niigaki, Koharu Kusumi, Junjun, Linlin and Aika Mitsui did come to fruition, but as a one day event thing. Whether it was true or not, posting “AWESOME” 25 times isn’t a good read. This post is so unlike the rest of TLS. I’m really not sure what got over me…

For the crime of overeagerness, this is a TLS Failure!

American Idol Reviews

When will I learn? I’ve blogged about American Idol before my days at TLS. Every season has fantastic contestants in the Top 24. Every season, as if it were clockwork, ends up having these fantastic contestants eliminated way too early. I lose my enthusiasm for the show each time. I will still follow the show. I need to quit blogging about it though; I’d only be feigning that level of interest.

So for the crimes of setting myself up for failure and believing, in vain, that I will no longer blog about American Idol again, this is a TLS Failure!

It’s a Day of Disco

I am learning here. I am learning not to rely on youtube and dailymotion for my content. I still embed videos directly from these sites, but I am learning that it is best to host videos yourself. The failure here is not the embedded video of Pink Lady’s Boogie Wonderland performance – that is a whole different sort of failure – but of the link at the top of the entry. You see, a certain suspended Youtubber named “denbee81″ had this amazing video of Saturday Night Fever set to the tune of Perfume’s Chocolate Disco. Until it was taken down, I watched that video over and over, never realizing that I should download it.

So for allowing one of my favorite videos to be lost to the annals of time and Interwebs, this is a TLS Failure!

March Madness

For the most part, March Madness was a success. I enjoyed how the series played out. It got a little repetitive, but I don’t feel it grew stale. Most importantly, I had fun whenever I did March Madness entries.

However, that “whenever” was the problem. It ended up taking me months to finish March Madness. Months. Yes, March Madness took months. I promise too much. I should only be promising content unless I am 100% certain that it will be delivered. Even at the beginning of March Madness, I wasn’t sure that I’d finish it in time. We have perhaps my first TLS Rule: Never promise anything (I am going to break this rule within this entry).

March Madness was also home to numerous mislabeled names and images, which were mostly edited after maiZe picked them out.

So for the crimes of false advertisement and gross mislabeling of idols, March Madness was a TLS Failure!

The Reason Wasn’t All That Complicated After All

This was my greatest failure! But before we talk about the failure that lies within this entry, let’s go over some good that preceded it.

The Help a Blogger Out; a TLS Survey entry asking why bloggers blog was a success. It got a fantastic reaction both in the quantity and quality of the responses. There were a number of reasons people gave for blogging, of which I think creative outlet or an activity to do for fun were the most compelling to me.

I promised that I’d give my reasoning for blogging. Never promise entries for the future. What I gave within this entry was a cop-out. I didn’t really know what to say at the time. Honestly, I still don’t. If I were to think it all over, then I could probably find some reasons for why I blog. Whether or not I’d feel strongly about my answers – that is to say, whether or not my reasoning was definitive and concrete - is another question.

So should I promise an entry in the future going over why I blog? It’s breaking the rules if I do so! I am going to regardless. I will do this entry one day. I’m going to wait until I feel that I have some definitive reasons to blog. I just refuse to put a timetable on it. If March Madness taught me anything, I’ll start writing the entry in August and not finish until December.

As for this entry, for the crimes of not meeting expectations, this is a TLS Failure!

Now that you know how awful True Life Seek is, why are you sticking around? Actually, what I want to ask is what are the worst entries your blog has done. You are either delusional or full of yourself if you think that all of your entries are glorious perfection. So fess up, what are the failures of your blog?

Posted on July 20th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Articles.
Tags: Aika Mitsui, American Idol, blogging, Interwebs, Junjun, Koharu Kusumi, Linlin, March Madness, Perfume, Risa Niigaki