Blogs and Other Things

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 –

It’s a fair question; I’m no longer in Spain.

Among other things, the post-nut clarity (sorry) of coming home is realizing your life will become a lot less interesting on paper.

That said, I watched (the critically acclaimed) Snow White on the weekend, which was more of a culture shock than Morocco could ever muster.

(It was a musical)

*shivers*

Focus

Right.

What now, you ask?

Well, if you’re interested in music (in appropriate settings), sports or movies, then you may enjoy sticking around.

And if you’re not, I’m sorry to tell you you’re actually my target audience!

(So you’re trapped)

🙂

In my experience, music, sports and movies are pastimes people often use to escape the outside world.

But unfortunately, a lot of people don’t have the time, energy or opportunity to care about these things as much as they’d like.

And that’s what I want to change.

My end goal here is to make it easy for you to care, so that pursuing your interests doesn’t feel like effort.

Below is a glimpse into how I plan to do that:

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Pursuing: Site Overview

Music (Mondays)

• The A-Z Project: A Guide to the World of Music
  • Evergrowing collections of artist discographies, both condensed and extensive.
• Everything Grammys
  • Picks, Predictions, Reflections, Year-By-Year rankings (beginning closer to awards season).
• Ten A Year: Series
  • Evergrowing, ever-changing collections of the ten greatest songs from each year, beginning with the year 2000.
• Ten A Decade: Series
  • Evergrowing, ever-changing collections of the ten greatest songs from each decade, beginning with the 1960s.
• Shower Thoughts
  • Music-related opinions, uncategorized.
• Upcoming Releases (ongoing)
  • Look forward to what’s coming.

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Sports (Wednesdays)

• Throwing It On: A Guide to the World of Sports
  • Beginner’s Guides to a range of sports and their respective top leagues, with predictions and reflections on teams and players.
  • Hockey, Football (Soccer), Football (American), Baseball, Basketball and more.
• Shower Thoughts
  • Sport-related opinions, uncategorized.
• What’s On This Week?
  • Finding the best games so you don’t have to.

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Movies (Fridays)

• Lights, Camera, Reaction: A Guide to the World of Film
  • Director Spotlights, Actor Spotlights, Franchise/Studio Deep Dives, Composer Spotlights, Reviews and more.
• Everything Oscars
  • Picks, Predictions, Reflections, Year-By-Year Rankings (beginning closer to awards season).
• Film Guy Fridays
  • Monthly film reviews (miscellaneous).
• Shower Thoughts
  • Film-related opinions, uncategorized.
• Upcoming Releases (ongoing)
  • Look forward to what’s coming.

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Sunday Scaries (Sundays, shocker)

• Blogs
  • If I ever do anything worth recounting (don’t hold your breath).
• Shower Thoughts
  • Thoughts on the state of the world (in rare instances where political hilarity deserves the time of day).

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So that’s the gist.

If it feels like a lot, you’re probably right; you can merely focus on whatever keeps you well-oiled (however you take that to mean).

To help with that, topics will rotate every week to maintain a rhythm (and perhaps your interest); here’s what that will look like:

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Music (Mondays)

Every week: The A-Z Project

Rotation: Ten A Decade, Ten A Year

Eventually Added: Everything Grammys

Random: Shower Thoughts

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Sports (Wednesdays)

Every week: What’s On This Week? (will actually drop Mondays)

Rotation: Hockey, Football (Soccer), Football (American), Basketball, Baseball

Periodic: Olympics, International Competitions

Random: Shower Thoughts

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Film (Fridays)

Last Friday of each month: Film review

Rotation: Director Spotlight, Actor Spotlight, Franchise/Studio Deep Dive, Composer Spotlight

Eventually Added: Everything Oscars

Random: Shower Thoughts

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So, just to recap: both The A-Z Project and What’s On This Week will have something new every week in addition to that week’s rotation item.

Also, the Ten A Decade segments from 60s to 90s will be completed before Ten A Year begins (2000), in order to keep a chronological flow.

On a final note, Shower Thoughts will be randomly scheduled; the beauty of these pastimes is there’s always something to talk about.

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And I think that should be all.

So if you’re still here, thanks! If even one person is able to get anything out of this, I’ll be content.

Also, if you think I should add something or have requests of any kind, I’m all ears: leave a comment or shoot me an email!

Now here’s a sneak peek at next week (where “sneak peek” means I spoil everything):

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Next Week

Monday – The A-Z Project: Adele (extensive) / What’s On This Week?

Wednesday – Beginner’s Guide: Hockey and the NHL

Friday – Director Spotlight: Christopher Nolan – Following

Ongoing – Upcoming Releases

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See you then.