There was something I forgot to mention about the review sched. I’m going to be doing the movie and book reviews in 2 parts: 1) will be a general review where I don’t discuss any major plot points or give anything away, and 2) will contain spoilers.

So if you haven’t watched a movie or read a book that I’m reviewing, you can watch/listen to/read the first part of my review to get the gist of it. After reading or watching the book or movie in question, you can then move on to the second spoilerific part.

I debated whether I should include spoilers in every review but ultimately decided against it. I figured doing each review in 2 parts would be best so that people can go in fresh if they’re interested in reading or watching whatever I’ve reviewed.

Also, I’ve decided what I’m going to review first. You’ll have to wait until the end of the first week of June to see, that’s the time frame I’m currently shooting for.

Now that I’ve had some time to compile a list of what I’d like to review, I’ve come to the realization that I may have bitten off more than I can chew.

For one thing, it’s difficult to find a complete list of books and albums that are coming out this year. My album list only goes up to September and my book list goes up to October. I had no trouble finding a list of movies, the only trouble is how I’m going to see them. There’s no theatre playing current releases here and the nearest town that shows new movies is a half-hour drive away. There’s also the issue of getting a hold of new books when they come out; I don’t have much in the way of cash so unless I can find a new book at my local library, I probably won’t get to read it.

Another problem is that I came up with this idea last month and we’re nearly halfway through the year so I’m already behind. Do I try and catch up on what I’ve missed this year or just start with the most recently released material forget about January-April?

I’ve chosen an alternate path: I’ll start with the newest stuff and try to work my way back while also moving forward. My biggest concern is that since I’m having a year-end awards show, it would only be fair to include everything from the start of the year rather than leaving out the first 4 months.

Here’s the tentative schedule that I’ve come up with: during the first week of every month, I’ll do my music review. Albums should be the quickest to review so it’ll be easier to start there. In the second week I’ll review movies and in the third or fourth week I’ll review books.

That’s the way it looks right now. The other question is how much material should I review? I’ve got close to 80 things slated for review and it could get up to 100 by year’s end. That’s a lot. Especially considering that I’m already so far behind.

Right now, what I’m thinking is that I’ll only do a video review of one album, book and movie per month and the rest will be written. Video is going to take a long time to do: I’ll have to shoot it, have it edited, rendered and then have it uploaded. That’s going to take a day or two, maybe more. Writing a review can be probably be done and published in less than an hour so I’d favor that approach.

I’ve also considered doing audio reviews, they’ll take longer than written reviews but will be faster to produce than video. Everything is still up in the air at the moment; I’ll figure things out as I go along.

The beauty of all this is that nothing is set in stone; they’re my reviews, I can do them any way I choose. I could do things the way I’ve outlined them here or I could choose to go a whole different direction, I don’t really know. So stick around as I try to decide what I’m going to review first. What will be the lucky thing that sets it all off?

Stay tuned and find out.