New Year, Who This?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas and the weird, liminal week that follows it are in the rearview, the ball has dropped in NYC, and it’s the first week in January which means everything is new, new, new! I love Januarys because I love new beginnings and all the possibilities that blossom with them. Who will I be in 2021? I wonder to myself as I twist open the brand new moisturizer I bought especially for this occasion. What will I accomplish? I ask aloud as I boot up my painstakingly curated Notion, also newly bought for this occasion. Never does life feel more exciting, the possibilities more endless, or my day planner more evocative, than in the first week of January.
So in keeping with the ethos, I’m cleaning out this blog and hitting the reset button. I started posting on Medium because I had a lot to say about a certain male pop star and wanted to share that with the world at large. Since then, I’ve had sporadic entries about everything from the 2019 Grammy noms (tired) to that one scene everyone couldn’t stop talking about in A Marriage Story (my most popular post to date!). And while I’ve attempted to give myself some sort of structure, the last year was one in which all of our best-laid plans went up into a haze of smoke.
I sat on my ass and did nothing for most of 2020, which I forgive myself for because there wasn’t a single day when the world wasn’t hovering over the edge of complete collapse. But it’s 2021 now and despite my best efforts, I am a raging optimist, one who believes, however erroneously, that the pandemic might reach a point this year where I can safely watch movies in a movie theatre again and that the people I love will stop fearing death every time they step outside their homes. Perhaps I am fooling myself, but is that not at the very heart of every New Year’s Resolution?
With that, I ask: who are the celebrities you find the most confounding? Who are the musicians you can’t stop listening to? What terrible movie did you watch last week and why must I absolutely watch it as soon as possible?? The only thing I love more than pop culture is sharing my love for pop culture and in this vein, I hope this blog can be a communal act. I’m not afraid to scream into an empty void, but I’ve found that screaming always feels better when done with a friend.
So cheers to you, 2021! Please be kind to us.
