I held off writing a post about the death of Heath Ledger for a few reasons up to this point, the primary reason being that I wanted to know about his cause of death before throwing my hat into the ring. Using uninformed opinions to jump to illogical conclusions is a job for the associated press which, over the past few days, I’ve come to loathe. Their outright disrespect of the deceased is utterly astounding and incomprehensible. It’s obvious from footage shown over the past few days that he was never one for interviews or press junkets, and it seems to me that the media is compensating for his lack of participating by exploiting him now.
My condolences to his family, especially for his daughter who may only vaguely remember him as she grows up. I’ll admit I was never a huge fan of his career, but I’ve liked what I’ve seen of him. Whether he was regaling A Knight’s Tale or facing off against The Dark Knight, Heath will most probably go down as a talent that was taken from us too soon.
So little to say and so much time… Here goes something….
My name is Andrew to everyone who knows me and nothing to the people who don’t. I rarely feel inclined to write about myself and this small text blurb is no exception. I’m a film maker, of sorts. A designer, of sorts. A musician, of sorts. A photographer, of sorts. An armada of etceteras march behind these four generals.
The point I’m trying to make is that I enjoy art in all of it’s forms, and try my best to creatively express myself in every medium I take a liking towards. As always, things like life get in the way of being a non-stop idea factory, but that life is something that I’m thoroughly enjoying at the moment.
It consists of my beautiful girlfriend who I am very much in love with, a job that pays me well to do work that I would otherwise be doing for free, and a family and friends that I wouldn’t trade the world for. It’s safe to assume that I’m walking on air/over water/atop mountain peaks (pick one… hell, pick all three).
January 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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Nicely written, love.