John Martz

Aught Five

The dawn of 2005 is upon us.  I’m a little late formulating my year-end best-of lists (after all, isn’t that just what you need?  Another random bunch of lists of someone else’s opinions?) but I’ll be posting it in the next few days.

There will be no new year’s resolutions this year, as I never keep them anyway.  But expect an updated site design in the coming months (no e.t.a., as I really should finish the handful of site designs I’ve already promised to various friends) and more illustrations. 

And if you’ve been following my movieblog, CinemaToast, you’ll have noticed it’s been a while since I’ve posted any reviews.  It’s not that I haven’t been seeing movies—I’ve just been too busy to write anything about them.  So I’ve decided to put the whole thing on hold.  I started the thing as a way for me to keep track, for myself, of what I’ve been watching, but I quickly found that for every moment I spent writing reviews, finding links, and formatting graphics for each movie, that was time I could be spending on this site, and on my illustrations.  So no more CinemaToast for a while—I spend too much time consuming media as it is, instead of creating my own, that I really don’t need to spend extra time writing about consuming media (unless it’s on this site, of course!).

So hello 2005! As for 2004, we had a good run, but it’s time we parted ways.  It’s not me; it’s you.  Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.