A New Motivation

After having this blog for about three months and not really knowing what to do with it, I came up with an idea that may actually give this thing a purpose.

Throughout most of the latter half of my life, I've been extremely critical. I typically hate everything, whether it be "Fight Club", "Glee", "Harry Potter", "The DaVinci Code", anything. You name it, chances are I hate it. I kind of began to realize this snobby "hater" attitude may be a detriment to my character this past holiday. I'm trying to change this and adopt a more positive attitude towards life. The range of this change goes beyond just things I hate in pop culture, but that is beyond the scope of this blogpost.

Last night, I watched two or three episodes of King of the Hill (KOTH) in a row on television (yes, a great thing to be doing on a Saturday night). I then went to my internet forum and discussed the episodes in the KOTH thread. I've been following this thread for about three or four months; and I like that some people are so invested in KOTH that they take the time to actually get into debates about their favorite episodes. This keen analysis and investigation into episodes of KOTH inspired me to do the same, and I decided I wanted to start watching KOTH critically--critiquing what I like and don't like about each episode.

I decided I would start to do this with each episode I watch from this point on; but after mulling it over some more last night, I decided I wanted to expand upon this concept. Why not critique everything I watch and read? From movies, books, tv episodes, even sports games? So...there was the nascent of this idea. And here it is in detail.

The time is 3:46, February 12th. From now on, for the time being at least...every piece of entertainment I take part in will be critiqued and reviewed. This is going to include plays, graduations, church services, tv shows, dinners out to eat (not meals I cook myself, however), movies, video games, sporting events, and books. I will put everything to a 5 star scale, with 1/4 increments. Zero being the worst. I am going to do my best to keep this going as long as I can. The only thing I will not analyze is music because I really do not have the capability to critically analyze that in a way outside of "it was good!" or "it was bad!".

I will try to make my reviews as thorough as possible. Aside from the rating, I will include a synopsis of whatever the event was, high points and low points, and anything else I can add. If I know I am going to take on a reviewable event, I will do my best to take notes to help me with my report.

Wish me luck, I finished a book last night and want to include that as my first review. I will start on that by the end of the evening (and before I complete any other form of entertainment.