Entry Numero Uno

'Sup.

The boredom of unemployment, set on by the financial crisis in North America in addition to my increasing laziness, has led me to the creation of a blog so that I can do something a little more productive than noodling around with my guitar or torturing my characters on The Sims. I've also grown a little bit bored with putting all of my thoughts/CD or film reviews/rants in Facebook notes because the majority of people there don't read them. The majority of people who frequent Facebook don't like to read anything longer than two lines of text. They're waiting to see if one of their friends is still dating so-and-so, and if it's someone of the opposite sex they'll shortly after message the person with some form of proposition. Facebook has made rebounding so much easier and faster. I wish it was around in high school after I was played like a fiddle by the girl that I thought would be my "first love". That way at least I would've known what I was getting into (delicious pun intended).

But enough of my mid-pubescent romantic escapades. I'm going to see if I can find a decent excuse to keep this blog updated relatively often. Being unemployed means that I live quite the uninteresting life (for the time being), so writing about my daily interactions with the world would render this blog useless. There aren't enough albums/films released for me to constantly update, either. I guess I'll just have to think of a good idea.

And I have.

A famous rhetorician who went by the name I.A. Richards made a list of the "100 Most Important Words". Here's the list: Amount, Argument, Art, Be, Beautiful, Belief, Cause, Certain, Chance, Change, Clear, Common, Comparison, Condition, Connection, Copy, Decision, Degree, Desire, Development, Different, Do, Education, End, Event, Examples, Existence, Experience, Fact, Fear, Feeling, Fiction, Force, Form, Free, General, Get, Give, Good, Government, Happy, Have, History, Idea, Important, Interest, Knowledge, Law, Let, Level, Living, Love, Make, Material, Measure, Mind, Motion, Name, Nation, Natural, Necessary, Normal, Number, Observation, Opposite, Order, Organization, Part, Place, Pleasure, Possible, Power, Probable, Property, Purpose, Quality, Question, Reason, Relation, Representative, Respect, Responsible, Right, Same, Say, Science, See, Seem, Sense, Sign, Simple, Society, Sort, Special, Substance, Thing, Thought, True, Use, Way, Wise, Word, and Work.

You can probably see where this is going by now. I'm going to write a little blurb about each of these words, one at a time, what they mean to me, what my interpretation of their meaning and importance is, and so on. It should be interesting. I've always felt that understanding words and their vast amount of potential interpretations was an important part of one's intelligence. You should always know every possible interpretation of the words that you choose, because you never know when someone will take a certain word/phrase in a way that you didn't intend. So I will take some time to blab about each of these words in the next year or so.

...And after that? Well, we'll worry about that when the time comes.

- s.d.z.