I’ve been keeping up with everything lately, holistically.
It’s not necessarily unusual behavior for me: I tend to fall in-and-out of keeping up with current releases when I’m not invested in consuming/doing something very involved; and so I’ve never quite held my finger on the cultural pulse, so much as checked up on it every season or so to see what’s keeping it kicking.
I am a weirdly particular person, but also fascinated with other people and their behaviors and interests; and so I try to investigate and have SOME idea of everything going on—whether I am going to engage with it more deeply or not.
Usually, my choice to write or talk about something is at the tail end of engaging with a whole ton of stuff in a massive filtration process; and when I limit the kinds of things that I write about categorically, it leaves me without a ton to write about with sincerity. I could sample a hundred movies in a month, finish thirty of them, and have less than a paragraph to say about half of those—and maybe a whole article’s worth of things to say about none. It takes a lot of interlocking particularities for me to stop and set discovery aside for the sake of really diving more-deeply into one thing; and so, to me, anything that captivates my sustained interest is insanely special.