FilmBlogging VII4

Promotion; It’s a dirty thing. Bill Hicks has forever infused the concept in me that marketing is pure evil. But what happens when we need self promotion? Personally I’m terrible at interviews and I hate selling myself, I really find the whole concept of selling to be fraudulent. If something has merit then it will find its place in people’s hearts – you don’t need to invade their space and use your psychology major to prey on their short attention spans. But sadly the real world doesn’t place value solely on merit alone, and sadder still my own self interest is like a magnet held too close to my moral compass, and it is for those reasons that I am announcing the following: Filmblogging is now on Twitter! Yes, that’s right people, now you can follow me in an even easier to avoid form! Just go to Twitterland (best said in an Irish accent) and search for @FilmBloggings – remember the “s” cos some dickhead already took Filmblogging – and you can witness the honeymooning enthusiasm of what is soon to be my third failed attempt to capture the imagination of the world’s most ignorant, obnoxious and self-involved collection of people!

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