And now it's time to take a pause

 

As we are just over three weeks short of our 14th birthday I'm taking time away from Unseen Films... or as much as I can.

What I mean by that is that the site will run into October if I do nothing - but I will be doing something-just not as much-at least for a bit. I'll explain....

There have been changes at the day job and the situation has ceased to be fun. I come home and stare at the walls. It is no longer healthy. Couple that with some things in the personal life that are askew, I find I'm breaking down. While normally I would be chasing films as a distraction, I've kind of taken my foot off the gas and I'm coasting. For example I didn't care that all the Sundance films never showed up.

At this point I don't know what I want to do except drift for awhile.

Looking at what's scheduled I realize that while I have some new films scheduled for February, this is the first time where I have no idea how the month is going to play out...and on some level I don't care. Its amazing because February was always packed with things like the time we reviewed every Zatoichi film.

Yes, I have irons in the fire, Berlin, Rendezvous With French Cinema, NYICFF and some other things, but mostly the month (and beyond) is all wide open...and I'm not freaking out.

This isn't like me...but I don't care.

What is going to happen for a bit is that things will be what they are, I will run new release pieces when I have them and a bunch of older stuff when I need to. I'm going to burn through some of the Netflix/Amazon pieces I've been banking the last few months plus I'm  going to some of the old film reviews that are programmed into October. I'm going to throw things into slots and see what happens.

So don't freak out if Unseen drifts from new releases to older films and back again over the next couple weeks. Nothing is wrong, I'm just getting my head together because I care about the movies and I care about the readers, but mostly I have to care for myself.