Entertainment

One of my New Year's Resolutions this year was "To be involved." (The others were: To be more fiscally responsible, To be healthier, To be nicer, and To write in my journal [real one, not heartless electronic version].) Now, while the others are all fairly self explanatory, Being Involved is a multi-faceted resolution which covers many aspects of my life.
At a recent audition, I was subjected to an hour long lecture about the importance of being aware and involved in the various artistic and cultural activities that take place around us every day - to see plays and movies and concerts and read books and hear lectures and to generally to be a well informed and interesting person, so as to better enrich one's mind and therefore create better art. This made perfect sense to me. Unfortunately, while I generally like to think of myself as a well informed and interesting person, the fact is that I have only seen about four movies in the last twelve months and one of those was Bee Movie. What's worse is that when anyone asks me what good movies I've seen/books I've read recently I tend to go completely blank and wind up mumbling something about "Well, I haven't seen it yet, but I heard Elizabeth is meant to be good..."
Thusly, my Be Involved resolution includes, amongst other things, seeing more good movies and reading more good books and seeing plays and other culturally and academically enriching activities - and probably by association, I should give up giving over huge chunks of my time to watching things like Friends and Gray's Anatomy.
So I don't wind up forgetting everything and embarassing myself at the next audition (having to admit to NIDA that I haven't seen a single Australian film all year was NOT an experience I care to repeat, even if I did try to explain that I wasn't IN the country for nine months) I'm going to write it all down. Here. I'll be like my own little Margaret and David.