All good things... must reference Star Trek
I've been thinking a lot about things ending lately. So, just to warn you, this may be something of a melancholy post (it could be worse, I could have kept my original phrasing for that opening sentence, “ending things”. Sounds a tad suicidal, no?). Things end all the time, be they TV series, friendships, wars, lives, anything. But, and I think fortunately for all but war, none of those things are what I intend to write about, nor feel any need to write about.
I guess what's really brought this on is two things. First of all, it's approaching that time when I have to choose my subjects for Sixth Year, my final year of school. This entails not only deep consideration about what I want to spend many hours of many days out of the next 365 thinking about and doing, but also what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, in terms of universities and careers. The whole thing carries with it, for me at least, a weight of ending, rather than beginning. I've spent a fair chunk of this evening browsing websites about Computer Science courses and Computer Game Design degrees at universities I've never heard of. It's all rather depressing.
The second thing, the one which really put me in this mood, is the fast-approaching end to the show with zefrank. I don't know if there's anyone out there reading this, but if you are I highly suggest you watch all the shows in the sites archive. A curious mix of satire, political commentary, philosophical musings and just plainly funny nonsense, the show has gone on for nearly a year now and that means that Ze Frank has almost completed his internship for the League of Awesomeness. What does that mean? It means that there is only one Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day left. It means no more songs about giant babies. It means that on Saturday the 17th of March 2007, the show ends. It means that one of the few things on the internet that honestly made me think deeply from time to time is going away.
All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes. On the other hand, and now that it's been more than half an hour since I watched Ze stand calmly by while listening to some of the songs he's written over the past 12 months and I've closed all those damn UCAS tabs, I realise good things have to start somewhere as well. Ze Frank started off his internet career when a birthday invitation got out of control. Homestar Runner began life as a badly drawn children's book character. Shigeru Miyamoto was hired as an unnecessary staff artist because his father was friends with the head of Nintendo of Japan.
I doubt I'll ever get a fraction of their success but it's good to know that it's possible. In a world where it seems every politician is either far too clever or far too stupid to be trusted and the people running major corporations often seem to be little more than loud marketing tools, it's very nice to think, to know, that there are people out there who get recognised because they honestly have talent and passion. I really hope I'm one of those guys, or at least good enough at faking it to get rich.
And, to conclude this post, I'm going to go off and watch the second last RTFEDD show. It's nice to be wrong sometimes.
I guess what's really brought this on is two things. First of all, it's approaching that time when I have to choose my subjects for Sixth Year, my final year of school. This entails not only deep consideration about what I want to spend many hours of many days out of the next 365 thinking about and doing, but also what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, in terms of universities and careers. The whole thing carries with it, for me at least, a weight of ending, rather than beginning. I've spent a fair chunk of this evening browsing websites about Computer Science courses and Computer Game Design degrees at universities I've never heard of. It's all rather depressing.
The second thing, the one which really put me in this mood, is the fast-approaching end to the show with zefrank. I don't know if there's anyone out there reading this, but if you are I highly suggest you watch all the shows in the sites archive. A curious mix of satire, political commentary, philosophical musings and just plainly funny nonsense, the show has gone on for nearly a year now and that means that Ze Frank has almost completed his internship for the League of Awesomeness. What does that mean? It means that there is only one Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day left. It means no more songs about giant babies. It means that on Saturday the 17th of March 2007, the show ends. It means that one of the few things on the internet that honestly made me think deeply from time to time is going away.
All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes. On the other hand, and now that it's been more than half an hour since I watched Ze stand calmly by while listening to some of the songs he's written over the past 12 months and I've closed all those damn UCAS tabs, I realise good things have to start somewhere as well. Ze Frank started off his internet career when a birthday invitation got out of control. Homestar Runner began life as a badly drawn children's book character. Shigeru Miyamoto was hired as an unnecessary staff artist because his father was friends with the head of Nintendo of Japan.
I doubt I'll ever get a fraction of their success but it's good to know that it's possible. In a world where it seems every politician is either far too clever or far too stupid to be trusted and the people running major corporations often seem to be little more than loud marketing tools, it's very nice to think, to know, that there are people out there who get recognised because they honestly have talent and passion. I really hope I'm one of those guys, or at least good enough at faking it to get rich.
And, to conclude this post, I'm going to go off and watch the second last RTFEDD show. It's nice to be wrong sometimes.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:39 PM
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