Eye of the Beholder

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Everybody who has read my blog knows that I am no serious fan of the "random" blog genre. I think it's honestly more than overdone; I believe the internet is inundated and saturated with random blogs. This is why it is so relieving to find random blogs that are actually good. They usually still have structure, and are less like diaries and journals as they are like blogs centered around the interests of the writer.

Such a rare blog is Eye of the Beholder, a blog penned by the very well-written Patres, a man of distinctive knowledgeable taste. Eye of the Beholder is for whatever Patres wishes to write about, though the articles have a general, background flow to them.

Here's an excerpt from EotB's "Keep your helmets on! 2005 YU55 near pass:"

Great Surf Movies

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes,  "Awww!”

-Jack Kerouac

A pretty crazy quote by a pretty crazy (in a good way) dude. This is the introduction on receives on the blog that is featured for today's Blogographer post. The blog is called Great Surf Movies, and it's a pretty self-explanatory blog -- it's about great surf movies!

Surf movies have begun to make more and more of the cinema, and have even apparently spawned their own genre to which there are awards and followers. I always knew surf movies were becoming more popular, but that they have their own genre? Nice going, surf movies. ;D

The blog is in decent shape, layout-wise. The banner isn't exactly perfect, but it's custom and it's good that he's got some sort of branding happening. Otherwise, it's not too cluttered, the background fits nicely, and the right-side widget with the surf movies tall poster is a nice touch.

Interested in finding the suggestion of someone who does a lot of writing on great surf movies? Then ride the wave over to Great Surf Movies, of course!

JazzCats

Jazz is a respected class of music that everyone recognized as a beautiful art, whether or not they actually like the music itself. It's become tradition to imagine those passionate artists, blowing away at the saxophone with all of their heart in their favorite melodies.

Jazzcats is a blog that reflects that passion - in writing. The writer, Spongeworthy, is particularly enthusiastic about his favorite genre of music, and is sure to make you at least a little more interested in it yourself. You can't ignore the loving descriptions he entwines in his posts.

On the blog itself, I am impressed. The layout is wonderfully done, with six useful post-boxes on the front page that give a short impression of the post, as well as a comment button. There's even a music player on the right-hand side of the page. To add to it, he has his own custom domain, jazzcats.org.

Get jazzed at JazzCats!