#1: TO QUEUE AND COLLECT

"I haven't seen it yet but it's in my 'queue'..."

It's an interesting oddity how the word "queue" has evolved into mainstream familiarity, especially in relation to stateside pop culture and throughout the lexicon of American English. 

The word has seemingly been reinvented as a culturally-inspired product of Netflix, representing our own online film "collection", carefully designed and scheduled, providing an outlet of enthusiasm and sophistication to our practice of pop culture and entertainment.  It's ultimately one of the current media-based sources that steadily siphons and satisfies our passions for cultural reflection, innovation and intrigue. 

In the art of media collecting, disciplined boundaries have been set and quality--often identified based on technology (i.e. Blu-Ray, Downloadable Files, etc) or brand (i.e. ITunes, Kindle, The Criterion Collection, etc)--has completely overrun the appeal of quantity.  While technology has allowed us to be much more minimal in our possessions, it has also influenced a more stylized and showy approach to how we curate our cultural identity through our collections of accessible pop art and media.  Gone are the days of the careless accumulation of clunky DVDs, CDs and disposable paperback books.

Through these modern movements, there is a universal sense of pride when refining a collection of books, films, albums or shows (which can all be defined simply as "experiences"), checking them off as we notate each film we see, each song we hear or each book we read.  Whether worthy of our time or not, each experience is a new strand in the muscle of our cultural perspective, becoming our "own" as well as becoming another connecting element to our social relationships.  While we define our identity through our interests, passions and personal connections, we laterally carry a boundless attraction to see, hear and acquire new experiences, fueling our senses and our expanding ideals.

Leading onto the purpose of THE QUEUE, I hope to provide a simple, streaming source that feeds such interests and curiosity as well as inspires the ongoing maintenance of your own, personal pop culture "queues".

-MTK