I’m always impressed with people who take the time to bounce ideas off their friends or peers- mostly because I don’t take that time [see that post below about my thoughts on Those Who Save Us as an example (or any of my dvd 'reviews')].
It’s not an theme per se, but this has come up a lot recently- almost randomly…
I had been loosely following the Team Coco debacle on tv.gawker.com and somehow came across a link early last week of Patton Oswalt giving a radio interview on Comedy Death Ray Radio (link).
I don’t really know much about Patton Oswalt, I like his bits and voicework, but I haven’t seen him live or anything (although I did hear him on an NPR podcast last week talking about Big Fan also)… but I was impressed by his answer to the show’s host about his thoughts on Leno.
He says he had been talking about that with his peers for hours that day… and then also compares Leno’s rise to Nixon’s as described in the Perlstein book Nixonland.
I haven’t read that book but I did add it to my ‘to-read’ list.
I’m not saying I don’t have peers to bounce ideas off of, I do… but maybe my interests don’t match up right. For example, I know damn well that it’s pointless to discuss Audition or Old Boy with Kuz, but we meet in the middle on other things.
Some people can bounce ideas off each other online pretty well- I see really well described forum posts/threads like this frequently.
But online discussion is one area that I’m not comfortable with. Well, I should clarify, that it’s a one-way street. I get good ideas, but I add little to meaningful discussion. I have a tendency to write too quickly and fire off missives without putting reasoning behind it. I think I prefer the in-person “arguing and refining my argument” method (mostly because I’m wrong a lot).
I don’t know where I’m going with this post, but maybe I need to get out more, or start a book club…
