About

Most of the entries in this blog from August 2007 until June 2008 come from my old blog called The Film School Dropout, which was at blogspot.com. While I may be tempting fate at this point, I don’t feel as if that title reflects me or my interests anymore, and I’ve decided to rename and restart the blog under the title “An Immense Sombrero.” I got the title from Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

It’s still a film blog, but I’m thinking of posting about other things too. I guess to give a hint as to my influences, I really like horror and cult movies, but I really like Orson Welles movies too. I prefer not be held to any particular genre since I tend to pursue films in various genres and subgenres at my own whim. I’m not really an obsessive fangirl since I believe most canonized genres/genders/directors/actors/tv shows/whatever are just as capable as putting out bad movies as good movies. I don’t go see horror movies just because they’re horror movies, for example. I don’t have money to throw around at theatrical releases anyway.

Posts are intermittent at best – sometimes once a month, sometimes one post every other month. As of Fall 2008, I go to school full-time as an English major and work part-time. It is a good weekend if I get to watch a movie at all, much less 3-5 like I used to average on a normal weekend. I also usually end up devoting the upwards of 10 months a year to organizing the Richmond Zine Fest, a yearly event I created 3 years ago. Although this year, due to my course load, I will likely only be designing the website and otherwise be in some sort of consultant position (that sounds too professional for a quasi-punk rock event). I’m aiming to go to grad school for Film Preservation in 2010, so that is why academics and whatnot seem to trump updating my blog as of late.

I have a Twitter page that I update almost daily: mapref37n33w.