un beso desde espana!

Arbo - Where were you when I was a kid? All the boys thought I was too weird to date!

Robert - Your advice is much appreciated and needed now since I’m feeling rather neglectful of the blog lately.

Dennis - Being able to exchange comments, emails and xmas cards with you has been a real pleasure and I’m very lucky that you took the time to encourage my blogging early on. Cheers to you sir!

Tom - It’s been my honor to contribute to the CHarlie Parker blog since it brings me a lot of joy! Of course lately I’ve been contributing very little but hopefully you’ll see me there again soon.

Christine- Thanks! It’s tough all over for all kinds of working people right now but hopefully things will start looking up soon.

Marilyn - You’re to kind! My parents totally helped influence my interests in movies and music, etc. As a teen I was sort of “old-fashioned” since I liked to listen to lots of ’60s and ’70s rock along with Duran Duran. ;) As for the resume, I’ll try to send you a copy later this week once things settle down a bit.

Thanks again everyone!!

Judging from your go-go boots, you look like someone who would grow up to be a 60s-70s afficionado. I personally thank whoever bought them for you for steering you toward your passion.

BTW, e-mail me your resume. I might be able to offer you some freelance writing work. Seriously.

You needn’t worry about the size of the pond or whether you belong in it– I can’t imagine anyone whose opinion I’d give a damn about who wouldn’t be able to see the value of your work here for those of us who care about movies (and not just the ones deemed of interest by the Ain’t-It-Cool contingent.)

I am forever in your debt for opening my eyes not only to some wonderful movies that I might have missed (do Four Times That Night ring a bell?) and movies worth discussing that I haven’t yet found the personal courage to see (like Who Could Kill a Child?), but also for just your personal conviction and the the generosity which exudes from this blog like the warm radiation from a deep red crimson sun (hadda get that Argento reference in there somehow!)

The interview was great, by the way, and thank you very much for your kind props. When I think back on all the good friends I’ve made during this adventure in blogging, it seems impossible now to imagine that but for the click of a mouse it could have all turned out differently and the group of fine writers around whom I orbit daily might not have gathered together the way they have. I’m very grateful indeed to be able to count myself a colleague of yours. I look forward to better, happier times for us all, and for many more years of excellent, informed and impassioned writing.

Cheers, my friend!

Dennis

And don’t worry about how MUCH you blog, it’s not quantity that counts, it’s the quality. And your blog is high quality.

Girish - I will see what photos I can find that might be worth sharing. At Myspace I have a small photo album there with a few pictures of myself but I’m not dressed as well as I am in the photo above.

Thanks again everyone!! :)

If you in no way get paid for all of this - you have my admiration. So many of us, I suspect, grapple occasionally with the - “why do I spend so much time blogging?” question “when I maybe ’should’ be doing something else?”

Yeah well - so much for “should!”

You have a great blog.

keep up the brilliant work and don’t let the shit get you down, scott

I myself have never claim to be as smooth and stylish with the written word as is my friend Dennis Cozzalio or his compatriots. However, I do enjoy good writing. Your articles are written with such fondness and joy that it’s just impossible not get all warm and fuzzy inside.

I also want to say that there are many blogs whose content I read regularly on my RSS reader, but yours isn’t among them. I need to actually and physically come to your site each time you post. The design and writing, the fastidious care with which you choose and present the images, and the overall style and elegance of this site–there’s no way to experience it in a second-hand fashion through an RSS reader feed. There’s no substitute for actually visiting your site.

You do wonderful work–please don’t even think of stopping.

Kimberly, I want to wish you good and healthy economic prospects for all your future writing and design freelance work.

Orlando - Thanks! I’m not exactly sure that I understand your question but if you’re wondering if I write all the content at Cienbeats.com, indeed I do.

Keith - Many thanks and I’m glad you enjoy Cinebeats. It is tough all over for everyone at the moment. There’s just no escaping the fact that the economy is in really poor shape and work of all sorts is hard to come by. I hope things improve for you as well!

Jonathan - I really appreciate your thoughtful response! I still don’t consider myself a “prominent blogger” even though I appreciate your support. ;) With so many paid pros blogging like Jim Emerson, Kim Morgan, etc. I usually feel like a small fish in a big pond. I’m not really sure why there’s been so much navel-gazing going on in the film blog world. Can you imagine if all the comic book bloggers, gardening bloggers, sports bloggers and cooking bloggers were as self absorbed as a lot of film bloggers seem to be? I just don’t get it. The minute blogging stops being fun for me I’ll stop blogging but like anything in life, it’s usually what you make of it - the good and the bad. I will add though that if I read one more ridiculous self-serving rant like this one from some guy trying to be the gate-keeper of online film criticism I’m going to storm the damn fort with my army of one! I swear that the piece I’ve been writing about “classism” among film critics is boiling over at this point.

Jeremy - Thanks so much Jeremy! I really enjoy your blog (or “blogs”) and I was happy to include it. I’m kicking myself now for forgetting some favorites but it’s hard to keep track of all the blogs I enjoy reading and new ones are popping up everyday. Thanks again! I always enjoy hearing from you and chatting about our favorite films.