True Life Seek

I find the pop world fascinating because anyone can create their own perspective of it. This is what my original two favorite blogs, Cult of Pop and Idolizing St. Anna, were able to do. Some of their interpretations didn’t make sense to me at all, but it didn’t matter if I found them to be correct or incorrect. What Ray (Cult of Pop) and Santos (Idolizing St. Anna) did at their respective blogs was create their own view of the pop world.

I told you that I’d give you all a reason for blogging eventually. I just needed to figure it out.

Creating my own perspective of the pop world is the reasoning behind True Life Seek.

I stopped blogging at TLS because I felt like I strayed off course. There is a problem when I am deleting drafts because I think that no one will read it. I’m not creating a unique voice in that situation. I’m just writing what people want to read.

Another problem was imitation. Imitation can be a good thing – if you imitate something and make it your own. If my goal is to speak my voice, it is insincere to imitate something just to meet the standard that what you are imitating has created. This is the problem that I find myself in concerning Ray and Santos. At times, I tried to make TLS too much like Cult of Pop and Idolizing St. Anna, because I felt that they were the standard to live up to. That may not be a problem for some. But for me, it didn’t sit well. I don’t want TLS to become a Cult of Pop or Idolizing St. Anna clone.

Why is it so important that TLS be unique? We could theorize on that all day. Is it a product of the medium (blogging), which says write about topics like yourself, your job, your interests or anything that makes you different from the next person? Is it a product of my society (America) that emphasizes individualism? Is it an outlet for me to talk about topics that I am not as outspoken about in other situations? Am I bullshitting here? Probably a combination of all four and more. I don’t want to focus on this.

I am not going to be talking about idols exclusively from now on. Ok, TLS was never exclusively about idols; but for the most part, it was.

I have fun trying to figure out the reasons for why I enjoy what the pop world gives. I have fun trying to figure out the reasons why I don’t enjoy something. I also like trying to figure out what other people enjoy and don’t enjoy and why. There is a logic behind these decisions and, for the most part, it is left unstated. That is what I’d like most TLS entries to be focused on, understanding why myself and others are willing to give up a part of our own lives to watching the lives of others.

And other times, I am going to want to just post pictures. The archives of all my old entries will be up eventually. I’m still working out a few kinks in this layout.

If I have to write an entry like this again, I may just quit blogging.

Posted on September 24th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under About This Blog.
Tags: blogging, Cult of Pop, Idolizing St. Anna, Ray Mescallado, Santos