{"id":380,"date":"2010-06-22T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-06-22T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T20:29:23","slug":"fan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was a musician in a former lifetime, and playing in bands was a blast \u2014 but it did something kind of sad: It killed my ability to get lost in music and just “be a fan.” I remember listening to records with religious fervor, getting lost in a magical world that inspired me to be a part of it. But doing that for real meant stripping away a lot of the gloss; pretty soon watching even a favorite band live felt more like homework than a magical experience. I played way<\/em> more than I listened, and the bands I loved shrank down to a handful. Then years later when design replaced music for me, I helped publish a local alternative music magazine<\/a>, and the hipsters writing and editing the mag \u2014 including my girlfriend at the time \u2014 turned me on to all kinds of amazing music… We were able to catch many of these acts live and in small venues, and at some point I realized it was back: I was able to be a fan again!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some time after that, a similar sort of inspiration moved me to try my hand at something else: I wanted to be a filmmaker. Many years \u2014 and literally thousands of screenplay pages + several short films later \u2014 here I am with my first feature<\/a>. Getting here involved making a study of film; watching any<\/em> movie (even a “bad” one) was interesting and very often enlightening. My fear, of course, was that the process would render me unable to “just enjoy” movies as I once had.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But fortunately, this has not been the case. Sure, it’s a little more difficult for a film to successfully pull me in, and I have a sharper reaction to crappy (or even un-awesome) filmmaking \u2014 but when it clicks, damn, it clicks even bigger<\/span>. It’s like gaining some idea of just how impossibly difficult it is to scrabble something together that even works a little<\/em> has made it that much more exhilarating when a film actually fires on all cylinders. I have somehow retained the capacity to be utterly blown away by movies. I’m still a fan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a musician in a former lifetime, and playing in bands was a blast \u2014 but it did something kind of sad: It killed my ability to get lost in music and just “be a fan.” I remember listening to records with religious fervor, getting lost in a magical world that inspired me to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}