GEEK JUICE MEDIA - A FRIENDLY CULTURED WEBSITE

'No man is an island' -- that's a very nifty and poignant saying that is. It's bold. Imaginative. Full of hope. And in many ways it talks of unity, comradeship, togetherness, solidarity, and geeks. Yes. That's correct dear reader. I said 'geeks'. Here, check out a conversation I had just the other day with my blogging buddy, Alex, and in no time at all you know exactly what I mean by this remark. Trust me. It's geekarific.





1) In your own words Alex, how would you describe geekjuicemedia.com?    Well, technically speaking, the site's official description is the one I wrote: "Geek Juice is a collection of writers, artists, critics and filmmakers, with videos, movies, games, comics and more, all dedicated to Geek Culture." A more casual explanation of what Geek Juice Media is, however, is that it is a group of friends on the internet with a shared passion of Geek Culture (whether that be movies, video games, comics or 'more') who want to see each other succeed and share each others work with a shared audience through Geek Juice Media.

2) How did this website come in existence? It’s ‘secret origin’ as it were.    I'd been trying to fund a film project through blogging but found very little success and no audience. I realized one day that a lot of the blogs and sites I regularly follow had originally discovered through their association with a different site. I pitched the idea to other geeky friends that we create "Geek Juice Media" -- as a group of different writers sharing the same audience. The original name for the site I'd come up with was Geek Sauce -- but we settled on Juice because "Juice" was part of an inside joke between Kevin and I.

3) What are your own origins Alex? And when did you decide that blogging was the game for you?    Back in high school, in 1996 to be exact, in the early days of the internet; I ran my own little print 'zine called "Braindead" as an effort to earn a few bucks. I did film reviews and humorous articles. Another friend provided music reviews. Plus another friend did artwork. The first movie I ever wrote a review for was "Anaconda". We only did about 5 issues and made about $7 after printing costs. By then I started film school and was more focused on that. After college and a few years of working dull 9-5, I decided that it was finally time to actively pursue those writing and filmmaking dreams I'd carried since high school.

4) What piece of music, movie, or object, would you say ‘geekjuice’ was like, and why?   The music of Lemon Demon is quite geeky and definately shares the same kind of sense of humor our site has.  Though a movie that would most accuratley describe Geek Juice is "Be Kind Rewind", as it's an uplifting film about a group of friends, nay a community, doing what they love to do and paying homage to what they love with what meager means they have in the best way that they can think of.

5) If there was a smell you could assign to your site, what would that odour be and why?    Well, let's be honest about it - it would smell like geeks. That odor that wafts through the air at any comic book conventions that's a mixture of body odors, plastic, pulp, and dust.

6) If this website was a person, who would that person be, and again, why?    I don't think Geek Juice could be any one person since it is made up of so many others. I guess it would be some sort of patchwork man made out of bits and pieces of other people - like Frankenstein perhaps.

7) Taking in consideration your previous answer, if your website was a ‘singleton’ looking for a ‘date’, who would that date be?    I suppose that a dream girl for the site would be the image of a geeky girl that's always sold to gamers -- a cute girl sitting on a couch with an X-box controller. Or maybe a geeky manic pixie like Zooey Deschanel.

Now taking the previous answer into consideration, Frankenstein dating Zooey Deshanel makes for a very interesting image.

8) What is the most important thing you have learnt whilst being a blogger? The most important thing I've learned whilst being a blogger is how to communicate with others. The easiest and funnest way to get the word out about your own blog is to become part of a community, for me that was the world of film bloggers, so this means reading other people's posts, commenting on them and doing this regularly. People can spot a "oh they're just commenting because they want me to follow them" kind of person a mile away - and nobody likes the empty praise of "follow me" commenters who probably never read the post. I've learned how to become a part of a community, to enjoy everyone's stuff and recommend new blogs and articles to other people. I've learned a lot about people -- plus their interests in film. I've found out about movies I've never known before that have become some of my favorites. Half the fun in blogging comes not from just writing but from reading the opinions and views from others in the blogging community. I've learned how to make new friends and become a LOT more open to criticism.

The second thing I've learned, that I also think is important, is how to be more original. Blogging has inspired my creativity more than anything else. There's plenty of reviews of every movie all over the internet. With each film I review, the fun is going: "Okay, how do I present my opinion of this movie in a way that hasn't been done before."

Got it in one pal. Got it in one. So there you have it dear reader, my blogging buddy, Alex, and his communal site, geekjuicemedia.com. When you have the time you know what to do, right? Facebook -- twittter -- and click, click, click to infinity and beyond.