My First Blog

Hi, my name's Connor James Pickens, and welcome to the infancy of my blog, wherein hopefully you'll learn a little about me and my ambitions/interests. I'm from Wimberley, which is kind of southwest of Austin. Really, I'm taking this class because I love films and I'd like someday to be a director, which puts me roughly in the same boat as 80% of this class, which is fine with me. I'm certainly hoping to learn more about the structural elements of films, things having to do with storyline and plot devices, and to get a more deep understanding of film history. At this point the idea of screenings is a pleasant novelty, so I'm real excited for the Thursday screening of City of God (although I've seen it three times already), but from RTF friends older than me I understand that by the time I've been made to watch Citizen Kane five or so times I'll feel different about those mandatory screenings. Honestly, I spend a lot of time outside, and blogging has never been high on my priorities. I've never followed one, but here's one I started looking at today. It's a Christian blog honoring Jesus Christ, and I think that it's pretty interesting for people to show this kind of interest and devotion to faith in a digital context, even though personally I don't identify with Christianity or  organized spirituality:http://www.liveinthelightofgrace.blogspot.com/. Oh, another thing about me, I've been learning how to play the sitar, so if anyone's interested in indian music, this is what mine looks like:

Alright, so now I'm the proud father of...a baby blog. Thanks for being here for its christening and baptism!