It begins ...

So here it is; I've done it finally. Yet another one of those lousy Millennial bloggers joining this maelstrom of gooberness. But to continue: it's been around 10 years since I first began pacing uncomfortably around the room trying to put some thoughts together for an entry, and here I may finally do so with proper capitalization and punctuation. And I'll even try to avoid parenthesis (yea right ...) But I may finally have found a focus for a proper blog; let me explain:

Always I've been a kid (now a man?) concerned with the vagueness that is 'Art'. There is the collection of old crayon and otherwise drawings I did as a child that my mother still has; there is my curious seven-year-old aerial imagining of my elementary school used for its yearbook cover; there are my numerous memories of building brackets and tournaments with my brother for paper-airplanes and matchbox cars among other things (art?); but it wasn't until my years at UNO that what may be becoming my 'mature' outlook began to materialize.

One course determined this focus. 'The Philosophy of Art'. What a curiously vague thing! At the time I truly had no idea what even 'philosophy' was, but I sure had some ideas about Art. Or so I thought! I quickly dove straight into what has become the crux of most of meditations over the past five years, the perennial questions of aesthetics: What is Beauty? What is Good? How are works of art judged and evaluated? What is this supposed objective standard that allows us to call one thing 'better' than another with any credibility?

These are the questions I intend to explore through this blog. I'll approach various topics: how popularity and sales comment on a work's value, questions of hype and backlash, what truly makes art memorable, beautiful or useful. I plan on posting my opinions regarding pop music, movies, whatever it is I've been reading, or generally just whatever I'm seriously contemplating at the time (which if you know me you're aware changes frequently). We'll see how this experiment goes; though I can't really say I'm new to the blogosphere, I may be able to say that it's new for me to approach it with some professionalism (how much of a joke is that?). Hopefully I'll be able to voice some interesting opinions on some interesting topics. Alas, it begins!