Adiós Amigo
“It was more than being holy and it was less than being free”
All things must pass...I’m outta here...
Update 7/19/08: I thought about resuming the blog until realizing I had absolutely nothing to say. C'est la vie. In the meantime, I'll be out on the back deck, listening to Rickie Lee Jones and Pink Floyd while working on my tan...
Labels: Pink Floyd, Une affaire de Flickhead
posted by Ray Young at
2:01 PM
42 Comments:
What do you mean you're outta here? What's up? Why are you leaving? Is everything okay? You're my blog banner buddy, we change our banners constantly and see what the other one has up. I hope everything's okay.
E-mail me if you like.
Flickhead is one of my favorite places on the net. A daily stop for me.
I hope everything is OK and I wish you the best.
Ray, to echo the above I hope all is well. Do what you must, your friends will understand. I didn't visit the blog daily, but ever since the old MkT days I've always found what you have to say (about film or otherwise) interesting and thought-provoking. Best wishes always, old friend. ~Kevin Danzey
I would also like to wish you the best. I came by here frequently, and enjoyed your writing.
But you're right; all things must pass.
Hope everything's okay Ray. Your blog will be missed but I hope the Flickhead site keeps going strong and is still updated,
Hey, Ray, it's hard to imagine the blogosphere without you and Flickhead. As does everyone, I hope all is well and that you will remain a continued presence of comments columns everywhere, especially the SLIFR quizzes. There's a new one coming, and it just wouldn't be the same without your great answers leading the pack. All the best-- Dennis
Hope to hear from you once in a while. Good luck.
I'm very sad to read this. Flickhead helps me to discover so many american blogs. Me too, i hope everything is OK and that you stopped because "all things must pass" and that you are going away for new adventures.
Wish you good luck and hope to hear from you sometimes. Anytimes.
Vincent
Thanks, folks! The Flickhead website will remain online and open to writers who’d like to have their work posted there.
The Walmart-style overdevelopment of film blogs, however, has left a bad taste for me. There are just too many, and my antiquated method of concentration can no longer keep the pace nor adequately process what little I’m able to read.
Plus, I feel this proliferation has divided a lot writers and readers into segregated camps — academics and intellectuals, pop culture and nostalgia mavens, etc. I rarely sense a middle ground.
As an example of one of my misgivings, here, in this comment box, I should be providing some long-winded and exact explanation of my actions. (Many bloggers favor run-on sentences and bloated paragraphs, and will jump on the tiniest crack in one’s beliefs.) But the subject is vast, and by the time I could formulate a proper evaluation everyone will have long since moved on to The Next Thing.
However, I’ve sensed the so-called blogosphere has slowed somewhat; is my blog’s demise part of a dawning exodus?
I’ve already started doing other work that you may eventually find online.
This was fun for a while, but, like I said, all things must pass. Thanks again for your support.
Where shall we go, Nadir?
oh no Ray! Your site led me to Chabrol, your wit was in your every post, your banners were a constant delight. You were one of my first and most treasured commenters. This makes me very sad, but I am glad that the Flickhead site will remain at least, since I really can't do without your writing.
Bummer. I just found this place and liked it. Good luck.
"La Revolucion is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La Revolucion is not a goddess but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. And we run away, find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love, without a cause, we are nothing!! We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed." Jesus Raza, 'The Professionals'
Van: my sentiments exactly!
Siren: We'll always have Paris.
Congratulations, Ray. You're a man of resolve and bravery, and I say this as someone who regularly contemplates making the same move. I'm not ready yet, but I know where you're coming from -- and I'm sure that the future course you chart will be just as interesting as what you've accomplished here.
By the way, since you'll probably never return to the first riddle blog (why would you?) I just wanted to say I didn't see your "What have I done" comment until later and laughed out loud.
Well, Tim, if you're looking for writers for VW, my calendar is open...
Holy crap! There must be something in the air, Ray.
I'll miss your site, but I wish you the best in your endeavors.
Hey Matt, since I'm not doing anything, put me in your next movie!
Like all the others here, Ray, I too respect your resolve in the face of your disillusionment. Campus just won't be the same now that you've graduated. But your call for the "middle ground" is well-taken; I'll do my best.
Aufwiedersehen
You don't do this blog anymore. Why do I keep coming back here?
Because you're addicted. It's a narcotic, you know...all this Blogger nonsense...no money changes hands, no one gets paid for hard labor...they may get a lot of shit for their hard labor...but no dough...which means it's a drug...
If just for my own reference, the following are links to articles mentioning the Flickblog’s death:
David @ GreenCine
Tim @ Video Watchblog
Dave Kehr mentions Flickhead (!!!)
Scott @ Filmmaker magazine
The House Next Door
Ray - I didn't know of Flickhead until your Bunuel-a-thon, which was my first blogathon. It was great fun, and I'll always remember you for that. I've been on the blog treadmill for 2.5 years and am starting to feel the fatigue myself. I'm not ready yet to throw in the towel--maybe I just need my second breath--but I understand where you're coming from. Have a great time doing whatever comes next.
Maybe this comment thread can be your new blog. You don't have to do anything, just occasionally respond to comments. Perhaps Flickhead could become a place where bloggers go to ruminate on anything and everything free of an introductory post to lead the way.
Inadvertently justifying one of my many peeves about blogs, this myopic post by people with something to say about my work without having read it (check out the comments, too). Their rather limited take seems lofty, considering I’ve done all this online work for free. Also note how the Bloggy Snatchers never set foot in my website, just my blog…are our minds taken over by our computers while we sit quietly gazing into the screen?
You’re next! You’re next!
I work in the film industry and flickhead was one of a few sites that I would regularly read. I'm aware that there's a lot of other film blogs, but I don't bother reading most except flickhead, that guy from the New York Press and Defamer for gossip. Believe it or not Ray, but the cream rises to the top.
Flickhead,
As the author of that "myopic post" I didn't mean any offense. You made some good points about why you were leaving. That is what I was mainly responding too.
I have been a regular reader of your blog for a while now. I was sorry to see you announce your retirement.
I mean, with you gone, we will have even MORE sites devoted to IRON MAN stills and drooling about HOBBIT set photos.
I wish you luck with whatever you do.
The menace was gone . . . so was a great man, but the whole world could wake up and live again.
This smells like sour grapes. First the mysterious "adios" without any warning or rationale provided, clearly intended to prompt an outcry. Then, almost too must explanation, all of which equates to bitterness over the changing blogosphere, much like middle aged parents complaining that their kids' music is too loud, too synthesized, not as good as what me and Bud and Mac and the rest of the guys listened to when we were growing up, etc., etc. You clearly understand this intellectually, since you note that all things must end, but it doesn't seem like you've come to terms with it emotionally yet. You may very well look back on this and wish this exit had been tinged with a little more grace. My apologies that the rest of us have ruined the blogosphere for you.
Sometimes people just get burned out after decades of writing about a subject. Stop projecting your own crap on Ray.
Wait a minute, you're still putting up new banners? Are you sure you quit blogging?
Making the blog rounds and am bored so I figured I'd comment here again. Howdy.
Dude, you must be Chairman of the Bored.
Nothing happening here.
But I am working on something...I'll let you know what later on!
Hey, it's me again. Ray, I commented on that Pop Matters article you commented on. My reply to you must be read. Because, you know, I want to be a serious online film critic.
Hi, me again. So here's the thing: You quit the blog, but change the banner a couple of times and now you've changed the template. May I be the first to say I admire your sense of retirement. Seriously - no joking. I do believe if the day ever comes to quit Cinema Styles I will continue to change my banner religiously in tribute to you. I shall henceforth refer to visually updating a blog you no longer post on as a "Flickhead Retirement."
Oh yeah, and quitting once every three months only to re-emerge a week later with a new blog is called a "Larry Aydlette Retirement."
Say it ain't so, Flickhead! We need another Bunuel Blog-A-Thon! At least host one every year or two! I'll keep checking your site for all the cool things you post there.
You will be missed
Hasta la vista
Perhaps if you listened to better music you'd be more inspired to continue the blog.
Perhaps if you shut the fuck up I wouldn't feel like throwing my computer out the window.
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