Just adding a post.

 Hi.

I'm just adding this so Google doesn't decide to just remove my blog like they did with my "sister" blogs (which I hadn't updated in 5+ years). 

This blog, kenoncinema, hadn't been updated for two years and I kinda forgot it existed for a little while. It's easy to get caught up in your shit as you get older. I really miss the days where I could go see movies and review them. 

This blog actually did a lot for me despite it never blowing up. I don't think I'd be where I am right now without it.  Also have I written about this before? If I did, that's embarrassing, but here I go again.

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Ok, I looked at my previous posts and I'm safe to talk about what I'm about to talk... about. Wow, so eloquent.

Deciding to make this blog over 10 years ago has lead me to where I am right now. This is despite my blog having essentially no followers whatsoever. Nobody reads this. Nobody will read this post! Well guess what? I still succeeded because of the blog, so suck it! (sorry, it does kinda feel good to say that).

Most of my blogging on kenoncinema took place between 2010-2015. Toward the end of 2013, I felt that my film reviews were actually getting up there in quality. So, I emailed the people behind The Playlist (theplaylist.net) about a job. I sent them links to my writing from this blog, then they asked me for a writing sample, and hours later I got the job. Now, I wasn't getting paid, but I was having my work published on a website a lot of people read. Down the road, The Playlist would pay me to do gigs here and there, but the biggest thing they did was help me get into Chapman University.

When i was applying to grad school in the Fall of 2014, I was several years removed from undergrad. I graduated Penn State in the summer of '09 and did not do a good job keeping in touch with my professors. The heads at The Playlist, Rodrigo Perez and Kevin Jagernauth, wrote letters of recommendation for me. I don't know what their letters said. And funny thing is, I barely even knew them beyond the work I did for them. I don't know what they pulled out of their ass, but I do know I got into Chapman.

Months after I graduated Chapman in the Spring of 2017, I applied for a job as a closed captioner. My current boss saw that I had a Masters in Screenwriting and thought I'd be better suited for audio description - the other department. I took the job in audio description and I've been in that world ever since. 

And it all stems from this blog! If I had no blog, would I have gotten a job with The Playlist? Would my writing be good enough if I wasn't working on my craft all those years beforehand?

Food for thought, I guess. But, the main takeaway: I don't want Google to remove this blog! It's of high importance to me. That said, it's up to me to make something of it. I don't know if people even read blogs anymore. I don't even get to watch as many movies as I'd like to anymore. It'd be hard to update this regularly because my current job takes up so much of my time. Even now, it's almost midnight. I have two kids. If I don't go to sleep any minute now, I'm going to regret it. Life really gets in the way. But, I need to write. Just free writing feels nice. I write in such a specific style these days, for work, it can feel a little stifling (despite it also being rewarding). So, yeah, to the one person who reads this blog: you are looking at a big piece of my personal history. Enjoy.