Blue Monday

You know, it’s kind of fitting that today is Blue Monday, especially because a certain someone’s inauguration is mere hours away at the time of this writing. I won’t be watching the event and I certainly won’t be engaging with it either. I don’t know about you but I personally value my sanity and I’d really like to keep it intact. That’s all I’m gonna say about the matter for the time being.

I really need to get started on writing that “What I’m Looking Forward To In 2025” video. January’s almost over and new releases are starting to come out thick and fast. The common consensus for film fans seems to be that January is usually a quiet month at best and a dumping ground at worst, but that’s not necessarily the case. Here in the UK, many of the big awards contender don’t come out until January and that’s frustrating because it wreaks all sorts of havoc with year-end lists. For example, is Poor Things my favourite movie of 2023 or is it tied with The Substance as being my joint-favourite films of 2024. I don’t know, and it’s something that I might touch on in the video. Hey, at least it’s not like back in the old days when theatrical rollouts were considerably more spaced out and you would often have to wait weeks or months before a film was released in foreign territories.

Hmm. Maybe that’s something I could talk about in a future video.

I need to make some time where I can just jot down ideas for future videos. At the moment, I’m still figuring out what my… ugh, I hate this fucking word… “content” would look like if I were to make a proper return to YouTube. My old videos are what they are, but I want to branch out and diversify slightly, even if that goes against YouTube’s current ethos.

No further update on the podcast yet. That’s on the backburner right now, mostly because I don’t know where I’m going to record and film it. I could probably use the “mancave” or “Dancave” where I filmed most of my older videos, but how is the setup going to work? I’m not sure, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

I still don’t have any clear cut New Years’ resolutions as of yet, but generally speaking, if I could get any one of these ideas off the ground in 2025, I’d be pretty happy.

Fingers crossed.

Feeling 🤞cautiously optimistic.